House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Lil Louis slowed 'French Kiss' down to a near dead stop and the BBC banned it anyway. The track still hit number two in the UK. On October 10, house music's founding father plays Jakarta for the first time, headlining Le Cirque's first anniversary in SCBD.
Twenty-six floors above District 3, DJ WAAI, Dekay and Fanglanx turned a sky bar called HỢP 合 into Ho Chi Minh City's steadiest house music residency, and WAAI is already running a second room.
Savaya broke into DJ Mag's top five, Thailand landed a record eight clubs, and Zouk Singapore keeps climbing. Every Southeast Asian name on the 2026 list, and who's missing from it.
Bandung has produced disco archivists, Berlin-booked producers and the first Indonesian woman to DJ Panorama Bar, but it still doesn't have a dedicated house and techno club. The city's real scene runs through an orange-lit record bar, a handful of labels, and warehouse parties nobody advertises.
The Bangkok musician's 'Pakarang' trades club hooks for field recordings, Thai instruments and a working partnership with Coral Gardeners, named after the Thai word for coral.
Singapore's Triangle Group just closed a $15 million raise and hired ex-Live Nation APAC chief Roger Field as it tries to connect Asia's city-by-city club and festival scenes into routes artists can actually tour.
Darker Than Wax's long-running daytime party Brew has outgrown a hardware store courtyard and a Dempsey lawn. On October 24 it tries a cocktail bar in Gillman Barracks instead.
EDC Thailand's third edition in two years lands at Rhythm Park, Phuket, December 18-20, 2026. What tickets actually cost, who's confirmed to play, the age limit, the bag policy, and whether Hotel EDC is worth booking.
Singapore built Southeast Asia's biggest drum and bass night in the 2000s, then lost it when Home Club closed in 2014. The genre didn't die, it just relocated to a five-year-old Bangkok promoter, a 1999 Jakarta soundsystem crew and a four-day festival on a Bali beach.
Bangkok's techno scene keeps colonizing buildings nobody designed for it. The latest is the fifth floor of a Donki discount mall in Ekkamai, where Berlin BKK runs hard techno past the instant noodles.
999999999 and Fatima Hajji headlined BLAK's second Kuala Lumpur edition at Xox Arena on October 3, Evolution Events Asia's hard techno night that drew roughly 5,500 people to its first run last November.
Savaya's cliffside club in Uluwatu has published its full nine-day New Year's Eve lineup, led by Carl Cox b2b Nic Fanciulli on December 31. Zouk Singapore and Mustache Bangkok, checked the same week, haven't posted a December date yet.