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SPREAD in Shimokitazawa covered its dancefloor in carpet for Jucy Book Rave on September 26th. A video of the event went viral on Reddit days later, and the club's regular club nights run on the same floor.
A brand-new four-day trade summit just claimed December 7-10 in Chonburi, Thailand, with no organizer, venue or speakers named yet. What is confirmed: it wraps four days before Tomorrowland opens its first Asian edition down the road.
The Observatory closes at the end of October after nearly thirteen years and three addresses in Ho Chi Minh City, but not before letting Barcelona's John Talabot headline one of its last parties on October 2nd.
Dekmantel's first Southeast Asia show ran fifteen hours across Potato Head Bali and Klymax on September 26, ending with Avalon Emerson's first Southeast Asian set.
Idris Elba's house music alias IDRIS played a one-off set at Bangkok's Cloud 11 Theatre on September 26, sharing the booth with two of the city's own DJs, Wildealer and Elaheh, as his label Sound International made its Thailand debut.
The Bandung record store, sound room and cocktail bar plays Mumbai, Delhi and Goa this October, its first shows outside Indonesia.
Every euro from Charlotte de Witte's new EP goes to a nonprofit fighting to keep clubs open worldwide. Its own research points straight at Bangkok and Vietnam.
From this Wednesday, playing loud audio on a Singapore bus can cost S$500. Fifteen minutes away at Zouk, a table still costs up to S$20,000 and nobody calls that a public nuisance.
Guinness World Records has confirmed it: nobody has ever DJed to a bigger crowd than Calvin Harris did from a carnival float in São Paulo. The number makes even Southeast Asia's biggest festivals look like club nights.
Asia Music Event's first confirmed speaker list includes Ayudita Hariadi, Ismaya/DWP's Head of Artist Bookings and the booker behind Jakarta's Djakarta Warehouse Project.
Officials in Busan shut down the live venue Ovantgarde for two months after watching its audience dance under a restaurant license that forbids it. The same legal trap is written into Thailand's Entertainment Places Act, and Bangkok's small clubs live inside it every night.
ALESSA, the classically trained Japanese pianist who became one of her country's most distinctive DJs, has died at 33. Sosumi Records founder Kryder is remembering a decade of friendship that ran through Bangkok, Amsterdam and a landmark orchestra show in Tokyo.