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The eight-time Grammy nominee's new Asia deal runs through Pacific Music Group, the Hong Kong company whose electronic music imprint is led by Thailand's first-ever DJ Mag Top 100 entrant.
While RA's anniversary tour picked Taipei over every Southeast Asian capital, Hanoi's Unmute booked a Smoke Machine-affiliated techno DJ for a normal Friday night, no world tour required.
Resident Advisor is marking 25 years with ten parties worldwide. The only two stops in Asia are Tokyo and a basement club in Taipei called Pawnshop. Not one Southeast Asian capital made the cut.
Savaya Group, operator of Asia's top-ranked club, has opened a second Bali venue on the Kuta coast. Zumana's Grand Opening Weekend on September 25-26 brings the Martinez Brothers and Satori to a beachfront space built around a 10-metre wooden sculpture.
House Cartel spent over a decade as outsiders fighting Jakarta's big room dominance from the DJ booth. Now the collective has quietly turned itself into a label, House Cartel Records, two EPs deep and counting.
Andrew Chow, aka DJ Wiz, was Zouk's Phuture resident and a three-time DMC Singapore champion. He died August 3 of stomach cancer, five weeks before a Legacy Award he won't be there to collect.
Jordan Glick, who produces as Dexter Colt and helps run Darker Than Wax and Super Enjoy, has opened Lifted Trax, a vinyl shop on Lorong Telok stocking dance music, jazz and soul for Singapore's DJs and diggers.
Beatport will now reject tracks ruled fully or mostly AI-generated before they ever reach the store. The policy is aimed at the flood on Spotify and Deezer, but it also protects shelf space for the small human-run labels this site covers every week.
Da Nang Community Radio spent four days in August turning its city into a decentralized festival built from a dozen Asian radio stations, with Ken Ishii and Red Pig Flower playing their first Vietnamese shows.
Technics filmed its SL-1200 55th anniversary set 250 metres above Tokyo, with Yousuke Yukimatsu on decks and not a laptop in sight. It premiered free on Resident Advisor's YouTube channel on August 18, and the full set is up there now.
Five courses, three tequila pours and a DJ lineup pulled from Jakarta, Bangkok and Bali: The Pursuit debuts at Le Cirque on August 26, the first of a recurring series from Mixmag Asia and Patrón Tequila.
Avalon Emerson has never played Southeast Asia. That changes on September 26, when the Amsterdam festival's first regional takeover lands at a beach club in Seminyak.