Rainbow Disco Club Leaves Japan for the First Time, Landing in Singapore This October

Dates / Venue / Tickets

Saturday 3 October (Day and Night sessions) and Sunday 4 October (Recovery session), 2026. Day Session at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Night Session at Cargo39, Recovery Session at RASA. Tickets via Tessera, early bird pricing started from S$35 per session and S$80 for bundles; check the link for current Category 1 availability.

A Rice Field Rave Goes on Tour

For twelve years, Rainbow Disco Club has meant one specific thing: a sold out weekend on a hillside in Izu, on Japan's rural Shizuoka coast, where a generation of Tokyo diggers and their favourite international guests play through sunrise to a crowd that books flights the day tickets drop. We wrote about the Japan mothership edition back in April. The festival has taken its format on the road before, to Bali, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Lisbon and Paris. Singapore is next, and it's the first Southeast Asian city outside Bali to get one.

The local partner is Ice Cream Sundays, the Singapore collective known for slow, warm, record bag focused parties rather than big room spectacle, which is exactly the kind of house it takes to co-host something this specific without flattening it into a generic international booking.

Three Sessions, Two Days

Rather than one long night, the Singapore edition splits the RDC formula into three distinct rooms. The Day Session runs the Tanjong Pagar Distripark carpark from 1pm to 10:15pm on the Saturday, open air, with a live set from Japanese ambient and house producer Kuniyuki, a DJ set from Rush Hour's Antal, and a slot for Daryl Knows, the Darker Than Wax co-founder whose label we profiled on its 15th anniversary just yesterday. Ice Cream Sundays' Tokyo based resident Muto rounds out the daytime lineup.

When the sun goes down, the party moves indoors to the Cargo39 warehouse for a Night Session built for exactly two names: DJ Nobu, the Future Terror founder who has spent three decades being the Japanese DJ other Japanese DJs mention first, and Xiaolin, back for a DJ set after her afternoon slot. Doors run 10pm to 3am.

Sunday flips the mood entirely. The Recovery Session at RASA, from 4pm to 8pm, is billed as a first: Kuniyuki, Xiaolin and Singapore's own ambient producer Kin Leonn playing a three way live collaboration together for the first time, with a supporting set from Kindergarchy. If the Day Session is the party and the Night Session is the peak, this is the room built for the walk home, or in RASA's case, the walk downstairs, since it sits inside a converted Chinese clan association building that's already hosted Moodymann this year.

Why It Matters Here

Southeast Asia's festival calendar has no shortage of imported brands chasing scale, headline DJs stacked on a single stage for one enormous night. Rainbow Disco Club does the opposite: it's a format built around pacing, mixing live sets with DJ sets, day with night, peak with comedown, across a roster that skews deep and unhurried rather than famous. Getting Ice Cream Sundays to co-host it, instead of a large events company, is the detail that suggests the organisers actually understand what they're exporting.

Whether it holds up outside a Japanese hillside, in a Tanjong Pagar carpark and a converted clan hall, is the real test. Early bird tickets moved fast enough in July that the promoters are now selling Category 1 passes, so book ahead if the three session format appeals; single day tickets for events like this tend to sell out the room they're built for, not the one next door.

No word yet on whether this becomes an annual fixture or a one off, and neither Rainbow Disco Club nor Ice Cream Sundays has said so publicly. For now, it's a two day window to hear four decades of combined Japanese club history play a Singapore carpark and a converted clan hall, which is more than reason enough to show up.

Cover: official event poster, via Rainbow Disco Club.