RA25 Confirms Its Tokyo Date. DJ MARIA. Headlines HVEN, Weeks After Her DJ Mag Watchlist Nod.

Resident Advisor spent August teasing nine tour stops with no lineups attached. On September 15th, according to Resident Advisor, all of them landed at once: city-by-city bills for the full RA25 world tour, confirmed over 70 artists and ten dates running from late September through early December. October is the busiest month, five shows deep, and it opens at Tokyo club HVEN on Saturday, October 3rd, with DJ MARIA. and DJ Healthy topping the bill.

This is the same tour Loopliner covered last month, when RA picked Taipei's Pawnshop over every Southeast Asian capital for its own leg of the schedule, before the rest of the dates existed. The fuller picture is in now. HVEN goes first, on the 3rd. Pawnshop follows five days later, on the 8th, with Tzusing and mad miran. Sugar Free plays both nights, the only headliner routed through both East Asian dates on a tour that also stops in London, New York, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Dublin, Paris, Berlin and Sydney, each show curated by RA's own team to reflect what actually shapes a city's underground rather than who tours cheapest.

A Hometown Headline Set

DJ MARIA. topping her own city's flagship RA25 stop is not a coincidence of timing. Loopliner profiled her three weeks ago, after DJ Mag named her to its 2026 Watchlist on the strength of 'Gensou,' a co-write with Bangkok's Sunju Hargun released on The Third Room. HVEN is not handing her an easy room, either: Mari Sakurai, a Tokyo native whose own Boiler Room set has circulated since 2022, and Kombé round out the bill alongside Sugar Free.

None of RA's other nine stops has a Southeast Asian date on the calendar, HVEN included; Tokyo sits outside the region by any map. But the clearest regional fingerprint on RA25 so far is not a city, it's a production credit. Hargun and MARIA.'s collaboration is barely two months old, and it is already the reason a Tokyo DJ walks into her hometown's biggest booking of the year with a Bangkok co-sign attached to her name. For a region that still gets treated as a footnote on most global tour routings, that is worth more than a city on the schedule: it means Bangkok's underground is shaping what Tokyo's own scene sounds like on its own night, without RA or anyone else needing to add a Southeast Asian tour stop to make the point.

RA25 also carries a book, a merch line and a run of community-focused UNLOCKED panels alongside the parties, none of them routed through Southeast Asia yet. The tour itself runs through Sydney on December 5th, the city where RA was founded 25 years ago. Tickets for HVEN go through Resident Advisor's own listings. Pawnshop's, five days later, are separate. Whether the two rooms end up trading more than a shared headliner is the part nobody, RA included, has announced yet.

Cover photo: DJ MARIA., via Sónar Barcelona.