House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
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.
In a Chiang Mai workshop, Pete Wallis builds the only Eurorack modular synthesizers made in Thailand, and performs the results live as Red Drum.
Tuff Club takes reservations by text and nothing else. Savaya's free guest list can be cancelled without warning. Here's how the region's door policies, age limits and guestlists really work, venue by venue.
White Party Bangkok just became the first LGBTQ+ festival on DJ Mag's Top 100. The region's actual queer house and techno underground is smaller, harder to Google, and runs through Bangkok, Manila, Saigon and Singapore instead.
Nine days before its debut, KAJE has its lineup, its ticket prices and a pitch nobody else in Bali is making: house and techno with a view of Mount Agung instead of the sea.
Thailand's government has spent years enforcing curfews on underground parties. This year it wrote checks to twelve of the producers who play them, and pressed the results onto vinyl bound for six countries.
Wonderfruit's first-ever international edition caps attendance at 100 people and moves the festival's philosophy from a Thai rice field to private temples and villas around Kyoto this October.
Five friends built Myanmar's leading house music collective out of a coup, a curfew and an empty dance floor. Groove Culture's parties, including a 1,000-person rave on an abandoned office floor, are proof Yangon's scene never needed the tourists to come back.
Three of Southeast Asia's biggest club cities, put head to head on the things that actually decide a night out: what it costs, what time it ends, and who's on the decks.
The techno veteran headlines CÉ LA VI's three-night Race Week programme on October 11, and he's already previewed the track he's likely to drop: his remix of Vikthor & Pianoalani's 'Legacy', out days ago on Intec.
A dorm bed near Bangkok's clubs costs less than a cocktail inside one. Here's where to actually stay, what it costs, and how far you'll really be from the music in Bangkok and Bali.