House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
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.
Weird Genius spent two weeks on the Indonesian island of Sumba recording a disappearing traditional instrument for their new single, "Your Side." It's the same instinct that got 2020's "Lathi" signed to Astralwerks as the label's first act from Asia.
Condé Nast Traveller put Bangkok first in its 2026 Readers' Choice Awards, a city that wasn't even in the top 20 a year ago. Time Out had already called its nightlife the best on the planet.
Hanoi party series HUM's co-founder Yanes joins Croatian techno veteran Petar Dundov on VENT Tokyo's October 17 bill, a small but concrete sign that Vietnam's underground scene is starting to travel.
Seth Troxler called KYO Kuala Lumpur's Void Acoustics rig the best sound system in the world. Here is how it compares to Zouk Singapore's new L-Acoustics install, Savaya's unpublicized system and Illuzion Phuket's Vegas-style Outline rig.
Gabber Modus Operandi, the Bali duo who fused gabber with gamelan, got a beat credit on Björk's Fossora, plus a solo record that followed.
A crypto trading platform and a Web3 collective brought Slovenian techno DJ Brina Knauss to a Cecil Street office tower for TOKEN2049 Week, RaveDAO's third year doing exactly this.