House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
"Radio Hood," out October 16, marks Rekids' 20th anniversary and 300th release, the first-ever team-up between Robert Hood and label boss Radio Slave, who has already played Bangkok's Sing Sing Theater and Singapore's Ritual series.
Every euro from Charlotte de Witte's new EP goes to a nonprofit fighting to keep clubs open worldwide. Its own research points straight at Bangkok and Vietnam.
Sanjonas' second album fuses gqom, marawis and lion dance music into a nine-track meditation on Javanese self-discipline. It lands October 15 on his own Yogyakarta label RAMPAK G.
Manila producer Pamcy scored a fictional Filipino supermarket chain across 11 house tracks named after grocery staples, from quail eggs to mosquito coils, then launched it inside a real Jollibee.
From this Wednesday, playing loud audio on a Singapore bus can cost S$500. Fifteen minutes away at Zouk, a table still costs up to S$20,000 and nobody calls that a public nuisance.
Hong Kong label Klasse Wrecks' 62nd release is a debut EBM duo called Comply, and its opening track lifts ED-209's boardroom warning from RoboCop word for word.
Guinness World Records has confirmed it: nobody has ever DJed to a bigger crowd than Calvin Harris did from a carnival float in São Paulo. The number makes even Southeast Asia's biggest festivals look like club nights.
My Own Shadow – Album lands November 13 on !K7, Marcel Dettmann's first full-length since 2022. The Berghain resident spent years skipping Thailand entirely before his first Bangkok set in 2019.
Asia Music Event's first confirmed speaker list includes Ayudita Hariadi, Ismaya/DWP's Head of Artist Bookings and the booker behind Jakarta's Djakarta Warehouse Project.
The Bangkok producer built a following by wiring the pin, a three-stringed Isan lute, into festival-scale EDM. In December, Tomorrowland's first Thailand edition puts that sound next to Martin Garrix and Swedish House Mafia.
Officials in Busan shut down the live venue Ovantgarde for two months after watching its audience dance under a restaurant license that forbids it. The same legal trap is written into Thailand's Entertainment Places Act, and Bangkok's small clubs live inside it every night.
Twenty years after they started making electronic pop with toy instruments in Bandung, Bottlesmoker's new single Cahaya arrives as the second preview of a seventh album, still stubbornly self-released on Bandcamp.