House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Manila-based collective OMK traced Philippine budots soundsystem culture through Davao and Toril this August. The photos and footage are on a gallery wall in Seoul through October 17.
Inside a 900-square-metre former warehouse in Talat Noi, a listening bar built around JBL speakers and McIntosh amps shares a roof with tattoo studios, a flea market and, a few times a year, a genre-hopping rave that spills across four floors.
Marquee Singapore's October calendar opens October 2 with hard techno specialist Nico Moreno, then runs through FISHER, Diplo, Anyma, Martin Garrix and two Halloween nights at Marina Bay Sands.
A brand-new four-day trade summit just claimed December 7-10 in Chonburi, Thailand, with no organizer, venue or speakers named yet. What is confirmed: it wraps four days before Tomorrowland opens its first Asian edition down the road.
GCash and Maya dominate everyday spending in the Philippines, QRIS covers most of Bali's bar tabs, and Singapore's clubs are nearly cashless. So why do Bangkok, Manila and Saigon's doors still want cash? A country by country guide to what to actually carry on a night out.
The DIY collective that turned a 900-square-meter concrete shell in Trinity Complex into Bangkok's most honest techno night just turned four. Its old room now belongs to a new club most Friday and Saturday nights.
A Berlin party turned label turned two-person mission, run by a half-Indonesian producer and a Vietnamese-German DJ, put Bandung's Ambrukt and Amsterdam's TWIENA on the same compilation as Hong Kong's Shanda. The founders spent 2025 touring Bali, Bangkok and Hanoi and came back with a complaint: European DJs keep flying to Southeast Asia to play, and the region's own DJs still can't get a booking back.
The Observatory closes at the end of October after nearly thirteen years and three addresses in Ho Chi Minh City, but not before letting Barcelona's John Talabot headline one of its last parties on October 2nd.
Dekmantel's first Southeast Asia show ran fifteen hours across Potato Head Bali and Klymax on September 26, ending with Avalon Emerson's first Southeast Asian set.
No government-sanctioned drug-checking service operates at any Southeast Asian festival. Here's what the region's death penalty laws, Wonderfruit's own rulebook and the 2024 Vang Vieng methanol deaths actually mean for anyone going out.
Ecilo's 2021 album on Jeff Mills' Axis Records was the easy part. What he built afterward, a Jakarta label and booking agency called Underradar, is the harder story.
Nhạc Gãy means "broken" in Vietnamese. The Saigon collective built a non-profit label, an unpaid five-person crew and a mental health podcast on that word, and its Bandcamp catalog is still growing.