House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Since 2018, NON NON NON has been the room Bangkok's queer techno scene didn't have. This June, its founder Mae Happyair spent a month teaching the next generation how to build one too.
Avalon Emerson has never played Southeast Asia. That changes on September 26, when the Amsterdam festival's first regional takeover lands at a beach club in Seminyak.
Between December 3 and December 20, three of the region's biggest electronic festivals go off in three different countries. Here's the whole year, mapped out with actual dates and prices.
Savage, the club that built Hanoi's house and techno scene, closed for an opera house. A nitrous-oxide crackdown followed, and Equation Festival didn't survive the year. The scene didn't stop, it just got harder to find.
Headquarters, Singapore's best-known techno room, closed in May after a decade. Here's where house and techno actually live now, from Zouk's rebuilt Mainroom to Tuff Club's Funktion-One rig, plus what it costs and how to get home.
Bali's dance floors split into two tribes: clifftop superclubs on the Bukit and scrappy beach bars in Canggu. Here's exactly where to go, what it costs, and how to get home.
Cambodia's dance music culture was erased once already. Now a handful of promoters, one industrial techno DJ and a bar-lane venue are building it back, this time for Cambodians first.
A Yogyakarta-rooted label is taking South Africa's log-drum sound and running it through gendang and Indonesian folk texture. Symbiotic II is the proof, and Mixmag Asia noticed too.
Boiler Room finally showed up in November. Kuala Lumpur's house and techno rooms, from TREC's sprawling complex to a basement that's been running for years, didn't need the invitation. A room-by-room guide to getting in and getting home after.
Detroit house legend Kenny Dixon Jr. rarely tours Asia and famously does not do interviews. On August 22 he headlines RASA's new international booking series, in a hall a floor above a bank.
Forget the Bui Vien bucket-cocktail strip. Saigon's real house and techno scene runs through a 500-capacity institution on the 10th floor, a brand-new superclub with a first-in-Vietnam sound rig, and a crew that's been throwing techno parties since December 2012.
Three weeks from now, a Yogyakarta collective called GAUNG will run a festival with no headliner, no ticket price and sixteen collectives sharing the same week. Here's why that's the point.