House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Two Iloilo City DJ collectives, Them Bang Bros and Cloud Nyt, built house and techno nights out of a bar residency and a deliberately paused one, and a nationwide feature just noticed.
DIAGE skipped 2025 without much explanation. It returns for Halloween weekend with a lineup that pairs Kenya's Slikback and Tzusing against a backdrop of giant LED pillars at Cloud11.
In January, Armin van Buuren surprised Ho Chi Minh City with a DJ set on the roof of a moving bus, teasing A State of Trance's first-ever Vietnam show.
Yogyakarta's Yes No Wave Music has given away more than 80 albums since 2007, including Senyawa's early work, funded by merch sales and voluntary donations instead of record sales, with new Indonesian releases still arriving in 2026.
Vietnam abolished the death penalty for drug trafficking in 2025, ending decades as one of the region's most feared jurisdictions for the offence. What actually changes, country by country, when you cross a border in Southeast Asia's clubbing circuit.
On October 23, Hong Kong's 宀 Club books Brussels producer Ottoman Grüw for its Entropy night, alongside DANLEE and Nanogram.
Di Linh headlines a women-led night at Kuala Lumpur's Pisco Bar on October 24, six days before her Ho Chi Minh City home club, The Observatory, shuts for good.
Bangkok's APT 101 hosts Disco Diaries, now in its tenth chapter, inside a room styled after a 1970s New York penthouse. Indonesia's revival looks different: Munir has spent over a decade re-editing lost Indonesian disco records rather than running a club night around them.
King Puentespina took half a decade to finish Séance, his debut album as crwn. The label he co-founded along the way, Pool Records, was built around a simple idea: an artist's wellbeing matters as much as the release schedule.
Sir Michael Palin's new Channel 5 series took him to budots pioneer DJ Love's studio in Davao City, and he later called the genre 'bewilderingly incomprehensible' in a clip shared to Instagram.
Mindanao's souped-up tricycle sound systems come to Manila, with budots pioneer DJ Love and Japan's OMK collective sharing the bill at Apotheka.
Deep house has a 1986 Chicago blueprint, a reissued 2001 Singapore classic and a Bangkok collective that grew out of a condo party. This is what the genre actually is, and where to hear it in Southeast Asia.