House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
ShiShi fell from #25 to #47 on DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs list this year. The Seminyak mega-venue is still there, still booking Indonesian and Korean DJs alongside its own residents, and still worth asking what the slide actually means.
A New Jersey producer built two EPs out of Filipino gongs, budots swing and East Coast jersey club, and opened the credits by naming the Davao DJ who invented the sound he's borrowing.
The age you need to get in, the tip you're expected to leave, whether your phone gets a sticker over the camera: none of it is the same from one Southeast Asian country to the next. Here's what actually holds.
Full Moon Party pulls up to 30,000 people to Haad Rin every month for 200 baht and a bucket of rum. But Koh Phangan's more interesting nights happen two weeks later, in a jungle, or on a rock ledge above a beach you can only reach by boat.
In May, Raw Vision Collective put Jeff Mills behind the decks at a small Jakarta club for the 30th anniversary of his most famous mix. In October, the same crew puts Ye on a stage at a 77,000-seat stadium. That jump says something about where Southeast Asian promoters are headed.
The Greek producer behind "Tataki" and "Sierra" headlines Zouk's Mainroom on October 9, the Friday of Singapore's F1 weekend, as The Circuit series pairs the Grand Prix with a serious techno booking for once.
Symbiotic III sent one folder of sounds to five producers in Indonesia and Mexico and let them fight it out. The Yogyakarta label built on gamelan and Durban gqom just released the results.
Pam Anantr spent five years absorbing New York's disco and jazz underground, then came home to Bangkok and built her own room and her own festival. This past Friday she shared the decks with Darker Than Wax co-founder Marco Weibel for the label's 15th anniversary.
The Skytrain closes around 1am. Standard clubs close at 2am, and RCA, Thonglor and Khao San run to 4am. Here's what actually gets you home in between, and what to watch for.
The eight-time Grammy nominee's new Asia deal runs through Pacific Music Group, the Hong Kong company whose electronic music imprint is led by Thailand's first-ever DJ Mag Top 100 entrant.
Flip-flops get you rejected almost everywhere in the region, but the rest of the rulebook changes by city, by room, and sometimes by night. A door-by-door guide to dressing right in Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Bali.
From death-penalty drug laws to tourism boards co-producing the lineup, Southeast Asia's festival business runs on different rules than Europe's. Here's what actually changes, and what it means if you're going.