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Manila's Twelve Points Records Marks Two Years With Pathways II
Twelve Points Records turns two with Pathways II, a homeward-leaning follow-up to the compilation that once pulled Bangkok and Hanoi into its Manila catalogue.
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House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
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Bangkok's 808 Festival Just Put 999999999 on the Same Bill as Illenium and W&W
808 Festival's Phase 2 lineup adds hardware-only Italian duo 999999999 and live artist Giorgia Angiuli to a Bangkok bill that already has Illenium and W&W. October 2-3 at BITEC.
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ShiShi Bali Dropped 22 Spots on DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs List. It's Still on It.
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.
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WILHELMINA Fuses Kulintang and Budots Into Jersey Club. His Liner Notes Thank Davao's DJ Love.
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.
Features
Southeast Asia Clubbing Etiquette: What Visitors Need to Know Before They Go Out
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.
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Koh Phangan Nightlife: Full Moon Party and the Electronic Scene Beyond It
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.
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Raw Vision Collective Threw Jeff Mills a 30th-Anniversary Show in Jakarta. Then They Booked Ye.
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.
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Argy Brings Melodic Techno to Zouk Singapore for F1 Race Weekend
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.
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RAMPAK G Gave Five Producers the Same Sample Pack. Here's What Yogyakarta's Gqom Label Got Back.
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.
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Pam Anantr Built Bangkok's Own Sound Room. Then Darker Than Wax Came to Her.
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.
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How to Get Home After Clubbing in Bangkok: BTS, MRT and Grab After Closing Time
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.
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Kaskade Signs With Pacific Music Group. Its Dance Arm Is Run By Bangkok's 22Bullets.
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.