Electronic music, festivals, and nightlife
On Book of Spells, New Jersey producer WILHELMINA folds tikbalang mythology, Bisaya vocals and a Filipino illustrator's occult artwork into jersey club and techno, then goes further on a new pan-Southeast Asian club compilation.
Maggie Tra's new single 'Holding On' is a house track about losing her Cambodian mother, made by an artist who learned to DJ in Hanoi and now runs her own label, Pho The Girls Records.
As 8110118, Jakarta film composer Hajar Asyura just released Jiwa Krungu, the only Southeast Asian record on Bandcamp Daily's global best electronic list for July.
DJ Love, DJ Danz and DJ Ericnem spent decades getting laughed at for budots. A London label, a Boiler Room comeback and a joint album later, nobody's laughing.
Six tracks, zero labels, 356 Spotify listeners. Inner Child is what Manila house sounds like when nobody outside the city is watching.
Tokyo's Hoshina Anniversary spent five years fusing techno with Japanese traditional instruments under the name watechno. His answer to what comes next: remix the whole album himself, label every BPM, and give it away with no label attached.
A Bangkok label samples 90s ghost-show intros and Buddhist chanting over four-to-the-floor drums and calls it Thai house. A UK label is now pressing it to vinyl.
Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon Soul Revival announce Chốn Ta Về, out September 11 on Saigon Supersound, with lead single Trúc Xinh headed for a Brotha Lok remix built for the dancefloor.
PNNY has hosted Boiler Room twice and brought HÖR Berlin to Bali for the first time. It took until July 2026, and a four-track EP called Maria Full of Grace, for the collective to release music of its own.
A Yogyakarta-rooted label is taking South Africa's log-drum sound and running it through gendang and Indonesian folk texture. Symbiotic II is the proof, and Mixmag Asia noticed too.
Manila producer Alinep, a survivor of the club raids that gutted the city's nightlife in 2018, drops a new EP on Berlin's OFF Recordings and lands on Mixmag Asia's 2026 essential listening list.
Kairos lands July 17 on Panthus. Fifteen tracks. Three years in the making. Field recordings, crate dug samples, and a Swordman Kitala feature. O Flynn is back and he brought his whole life with him.