House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
bani haykal's new album industri kelakar seram, out this week on Bandcamp, rebuilds dialogue from 1950s-80s Malay cinema over Moog synthesizers, a record built entirely at home around a Malay phrase for behaviour that's funny and threatening at once.
Boiler Room turned a webcam in a London basement into a global stamp of approval, and getting picked for one still isn't a matter of sending a good mix to an inbox. This explains what the platform is actually looking for, and the two real routes artists have used to get on it.
For years, Muttiah Ashnim's collective Into The Deep built techno dancefloors in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. In 2024 she shut it down, moved to Germany, and started over as a solo producer.
Nearly every working club in Southeast Asia runs the same Pioneer CDJs found everywhere else. Vinyl hasn't disappeared, it just moved to a different kind of room.
B2B stands for back-to-back: two DJs sharing one set instead of two solo hours. Bangkok's 808 Festival has booked three exclusive pairings for October, and one of them already produced a Wu-Tang-sampling single.
Brussels-raised DJ and producer UNOS had almost no connection to her father's home province in the Philippines until she signed to Darker Than Wax, the Singapore label that introduced her to Manila's underground and inspired her debut EP, Boodle Fight.
House and techno get used interchangeably by people who should know better. This piece breaks down what separates Chicago's groove from Detroit's machine, and where to hear the split done right in Southeast Asia.
Jonathan Pardede has spent a decade behind a wall of hardware as one third of Sunmantra. On October 2 at Le Cirque, House Cartel gives him the room alone, under a new name.
A lot of Southeast Asia's best clubs are built around groups that arrive already knowing each other. Here is where that structurally works against a solo visitor, and where it genuinely doesn't.
Miko Naiko taught herself to DJ off YouTube tutorials in Ipoh, Malaysia's 'City of Music.' A Southeast Asian women's network got her onto the bill at Pestapora, Jakarta's biggest festival.
In three years, a Cebu house party built around vinyl and instinct grew into a regional network reaching Manila, Bali and Sydney, with its founder now on Mixmag Asia's watchlist.
Search "silent disco Southeast Asia" and you get a banned jogging club, a Singapore corporate-events supplier and a dead website. Bangkok's BEAM had the real one, three DJs, real house and techno bookings, and it closed for good in October 2025.