
Offtrack Is the Only Listening Bar in Singapore Built by Its House Music Scene
Singapore's listening bar boom covers roughly ten addresses. Only Offtrack and its new sibling Earworm were built by the city's own house music scene.
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Singapore's listening bar boom covers roughly ten addresses. Only Offtrack and its new sibling Earworm were built by the city's own house music scene.

Thailand landed eight clubs on DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs this year, more than any other country in Asia.

Jonathan Kusuma splits his time between Jakarta and Singapore. He's released music on Glasgow's Optimo Music. His latest EP, Bank The Drums, is out via Bless You, Sound Metaphors' sub-label.

RASA names Patrice Bäumel in the title of its Halloween event, Temple of Dance, on Friday, October 30, 2026, alongside 54B, AAAZR, Josh M x Yukun and SYEDSAVAGE69.

DJ EZ turned a Todd Edwards record into speed garage in 1994. Three decades on, Singapore's TASHASAN is still playing it.

Réjizz raps in Thai and English over jazz chords and Isaan molam rhythms, a sound he calls Thai-Funk. In July, it made him the first Thai artist on Marshall Records.

Nick Dwyer has spent years documenting Japan's ongaku kissa, the listening cafés where talking over the record isn't allowed. The companion photobook, shot by Lee Chapman, launches on Kickstarter October 23.

Feed the Dragon, the Hong Kong crew founded in January 2023, welcomes guests from Seoul's Planet Turbo for an all-vinyl night at Social Room on October 24.

Above & Beyond bring their Anjunabeats Warehouse club night to Asia for the first time, with December 4 and 5 dates at Kuala Lumpur's XOX Arena and Singapore's Pasir Panjang Power Station.

Meta House is a Phnom Penh arts center that doubles as a German language school by day and, on weekends, turns into the Berlin Bar, a DJ night run by Tommy Schultz and comrades.

DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs put three Bali venues on the list and one in the global top five. Jakarta's only entry isn't a house club at all.

Robert Hood stripped techno down to drums, a bassline and almost nothing else in 1994. Thirty-two years later, Bangkok's Culture Cafe is the one place in Southeast Asia still playing it that way, on vinyl, for free.