House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
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.
ALESSA, the classically trained Japanese pianist who became one of her country's most distinctive DJs, has died at 33. Sosumi Records founder Kryder is remembering a decade of friendship that ran through Bangkok, Amsterdam and a landmark orchestra show in Tokyo.
The Ho Chi Minh City label just quietly dropped release number 25. Its earlier fusion of Vietnamese folk poetry and house music has already reached Buddha-Bar compilations and Damian Lazarus's Ibiza sets.
The Observatory, one of Ho Chi Minh City's longest-running clubs, shuts for good at the end of October. Five weeks out, founding resident Dan Lo takes its sound north for a takeover at Hanoi's Unmute.
Zouk Singapore just climbed to No. 17 on DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs. No Malaysian club made the 2026 list at all. Here's how Kuala Lumpur and Singapore actually compare, room by room, price by price.
Wonderfruit tells you to bring a mallet. DWP tells you to bring cash, a lot of it. Here's what Southeast Asia's biggest house and techno festivals actually require you to pack, straight from their own FAQs.
On September 19, Bali collective Laundromat and four partner crews turn a night at Amplitude Skatepark into a donation-only benefit for communities hit by the magnitude 7.7 Flores earthquake.
Two monks, a khen player and a French producer with a mobile studio made an album inside a working Vientiane temple. It's ambient, not techno, and it's the first Laos story this magazine has ever run.
Resident Advisor's 25th-anniversary tour lands at Tokyo club HVEN on October 3rd, with DJ MARIA. topping a bill five days ahead of the tour's Taipei stop.
Singapore's Super Enjoy went from a no-plan lockdown DJ crew to a nine-record label. Its new Submersible EP is a dub techno love letter to the city's dying neighbourhood strata malls.