House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Juan Atkins, who built techno's first blueprint as a Detroit teenager and co-founded the Belleville Three, has died at 64 after being found unresponsive in a Mexico City hotel room.
No alcohol, no 2am set times, just a DJ booth parked next to an espresso machine. This is where Southeast Asia's daytime, caffeine-powered answer to clubbing actually happens, city by city.
A techno promoter merged six Chinatown shophouses into an 800-capacity room with steel I-beams and a Russian-built light rig, then booked everything from Angerfist to Panjabi MC.
Singapore's CHICHI becomes the first local artist signed to HUGEL's Make The Girls Dance, debuting with house single 'She Like It' after HUGEL tested it at Coachella and Tomorrowland.
Young Marco plays Basement Love's Halloween edition at La Brisa in Bali on October 31, 2026, alongside PNNY.
In May, Raw Vision Collective put Jeff Mills behind the decks at a small Jakarta club. In October, the same team staged Ye's only Southeast Asia and Oceania show for 77,000 seats at Gelora Bung Karno, with a 35-person choir in a tunnel as the warm-up act.
EBM stands for electronic body music, a phrase Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter coined in 1977. Forty-odd years later, a Hong Kong label is on its 62nd release of it, and a Bangkok record store pressed its own EP.
HOEST left a software engineering job to DJ Manila's clubs. Hong Kong and China-based Hotpot Records signed him for regional touring and releases, Manila nightlife outlet Midnight Rebels reported in August.
Cevin Fisher, the New Jersey-born producer behind 'The Freaks Come Out' and '(You Got Me) Burnin' Up,' has died at 63 after a brief battle with cancer.
Ohrwurm brings Bpitch Control's Tigerhead to Pisco Bar on November 6, a small-room booking that puts the Berlin label on a Kuala Lumpur lineup.
The Hanoi-based collective's debut compilation blends modern production with traditional sound culture from across Vietnam.
DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs list gave Thailand eight entries, more than any other country in Asia, but the scene that actually built the country's sound runs through Isaan molam, not those clubs.