House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Taipei label Over My Body turns five with Koma Vol. 2, an 11-track compilation built entirely from artists it had never worked with before, plus a label-only mix from founder B E N N.
Moon Mountain turns 25 in a Kanchanaburi jungle in February 2027, and Koh Phangan's Halfmoon Festival, founded the same year, now runs every two weeks. Southeast Asia's psytrance scene actually lives in both places, and the rest of the region never built one.
Sara Landry played Kuala Lumpur and Singapore back to back in September. BLAK Arena's first Kuala Lumpur night alone drew 5,500 people. The genre behind Southeast Asia's hardest booking streak of the year, and what's actually driving it.
On opening night, Pontoon's floating dancefloor took on water under the weight of its own crowd and sank into the Mekong. It got hauled out, moved onto dry land, and kept booking international DJs through Phnom Penh's best and worst years, including a three-time DMC world champion this month.
Cakeshop marks 14 years on October 17 with a 12-hour party across Cakeshop and Pistil, headlined by Beijing cloud rap artist Bloodz Boi and more than 20 Seoul DJs and crews.
Midnight Shift started as a reaction against Singapore's EDM-chasing clubs: house and techno parties that refused to announce headliners. More than a decade on, its roster, its Modal nights and its newest tattoo-and-techno crossover are still running.
Savage Hanoi lost its villa to a government redevelopment, and Saigon's longest-running club closes this month too. What's replacing them, and where to actually hear house and techno in Vietnam right now.
Savage shut down on New Year's Day. The Observatory in Saigon closes at the end of this month. Hanoi's Di Linh built her whole career inside those two rooms, and she's still booked.
RASA and Sivilian Affairs bring Hanoi's Ouissam back for Chocolate City's sixth edition on October 16, with Kuala Lumpur's Alam and Shazan leading the Floor inside a 66-storey Singapore office tower.
Diplo filmed himself trading keyboard runs with Habib Gunjat, a wedding-circuit musician from Kendari whose organ tunggal sets had already gone viral across Indonesia, at a charity run afterparty in Bali on October 8.
Southeast Asia's first hyperclub opened in Bangkok with ARTBAT, Kölsch and CamelPhat inside seven weeks. It's been dark since mid-February, with no reopening date given.
Cambodia has no enforced drinking age at all. Malaysia will fine a bar for serving a 20-year-old. A country-by-country breakdown of where Southeast Asia sets the line, and the law behind each number.