House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Eighteen months after a Davao City hospital stay with no diagnosis and a community-funded heart surgery, Sherwin Tuna is back on Eastern Margins' biggest stage, booked for Margins United 2026 in London this September.
Before Vietnam had a techno scene, it had this: pop songs sped up, chopped and slammed onto a four-on-the-floor kick until the whole street shook. Here's where Vinahouse came from, and why the country's newest DJs are trying to outrun it.
Central Vietnam isn't a clubbing capital, and it doesn't pretend to be. But between one red-lit techno bar in Da Nang and a sunset DJ set on An Bang Beach, there's a real, small scene worth knowing before you land.
DJ Harvey's Bali club KLYMAX keeps its resident DJ booth Indonesian-only.
While RA's anniversary tour picked Taipei over every Southeast Asian capital, Hanoi's Unmute booked a Smoke Machine-affiliated techno DJ for a normal Friday night, no world tour required.
Berghain and Bassiani in the same tour, a DJ Mag nod, and a brand-new track written with Bangkok's Sunju Hargun. Tokyo's psychedelic techno export is having a very good year.
Leo Cheng makes music as FINGERGAP, forcing romantic Cantonese pop ballads into Chicago footwork's 160BPM syncopation. DJ Mag just named him one to watch, on the back of a new single built around Hong Kong's own housing estates.
Funtime's debut EP names every track after a nightclub from Eurobeat's golden age, and closes on Akasaka, the Denpasar mega-club that stayed shuttered for seven years over a drug trafficking bust before reopening in 2024.
Drop has closed. Volar has closed too. FLY didn't survive under its own name either.
Cakeshop, Faust, Soap and Vurt: what's actually good in Seoul's techno and house scene right now, what it costs, and how you get home after the last train.
NotYuTing came up through a Saigon hip-hop club that turned itself into a record label. Her newest single weaves a Vietnamese folk instrument into trance to mark 50 years since reunification, and nobody outside a small SoundCloud page has really noticed yet.
A London DJ with Malaysian roots just launched a reissue label built for Asia-Pacific record collectors, and started with a 46-year-old Manila jazz-funk record nobody outside crate-digging circles had heard.