House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
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.
You don't need a residency to start, or famous friends. You need about eight hours, a laptop and, in Bangkok, 10,000 baht. Here's where Southeast Asia actually teaches people to DJ.
Bangkok floods in August, Bali has its best month, and the Philippines braces for typhoons. Here's how the region's promoters actually plan around three overlapping monsoon systems.
A Nanjing producer just coined a name for the sound Taiwan's police raids tried to erase. A Filipino Budots pioneer signed on to remix it, and the pairing says more about Eastern Margins than any press release could.
Richie Hawtin has left WME after fifteen years for Dixon's artist-owned TS Agency, a bet on independent structure over conglomerate scale. He'd already made a similar bet on Southeast Asia: Bangkok's More Rice Records and Singapore's Nino Blink.
The Dutch trio posted their breakup on September 17, 2019. On September 17, 2026, they posted again: they're playing Amsterdam's Melkweg in December. No album, no five-year plan, just a show.