House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
NotYuTing came up through a Saigon hip-hop club that turned itself into a record label. Her newest single weaves a Vietnamese folk instrument into trance to mark 50 years since reunification, and nobody outside a small SoundCloud page has really noticed yet.
A London DJ with Malaysian roots just launched a reissue label built for Asia-Pacific record collectors, and started with a 46-year-old Manila jazz-funk record nobody outside crate-digging circles had heard.
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.
From a studio on Bangkok's Charoen Krung to the inside of an actual Manila jeepney, community radio has quietly become Southeast Asia's cheapest, most durable piece of nightlife infrastructure.
House and techno in Hanoi now runs through Unmute and Mirage, and a handful of bars and burger counters doing a club's job, as the scene adapts to a nitrous oxide ban and near-routine police raids.
DJ Harvey handpicked her to lead Klymax Discotheque's resident roster in Bali. Three weeks ago, DITA was behind the decks at Panorama Bar in Berlin.
bani haykal's new record turns bicycle frames into more than 90% of its sound. Every sale of the Strange Weather Dunia cassette goes to Palestine solidarity groups.
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.
Eri Septian has been releasing tracks under the name Cyda since 2016, scattered across half a dozen small labels. It took a Paris imprint called Minitel to finally give him a full album: nine tracks of 90s progressive house dressed up as a fake in-flight announcement.
A year after selling out Mega Star Arena, Evolution Events Asia's hard techno festival returns with Italian duo 999999999 headlining The Arch Galeries on October 3.
ZoukOut turned one nightclub's beach party into Asia's biggest dusk-to-dawn festival. Here's the real history, what 2023's tickets cost, how to actually get to Siloso Beach and why the 2026 dates still aren't out.
Bangkok doesn't have one closing time, it has four, and which one applies to the club you're standing outside of depends on a street name most tourists have never heard of. Here's how the zoning actually works in 2026.