House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Contact is a parking structure and ageHa is closed. A room-by-room, honest guide to where Tokyo's house and techno scene actually lives in 2026: WOMB, Vent, Circus Tokyo and Forestlimit.
Once a month, the techno club Undercity turns its dancefloor into rows of bean bags for a silent reading session, DJ included. It's called Reading City, and it's not a gimmick, it's a serious techno room finding a second life.
Jordan Glick, who produces as Dexter Colt and helps run Darker Than Wax and Super Enjoy, has opened Lifted Trax, a vinyl shop on Lorong Telok stocking dance music, jazz and soul for Singapore's DJs and diggers.
Singapore's most storied nightclub reopened its rebuilt Mainroom in June and marks 35 years on Friday, August 21, with the resident DJs who built the room, not a flown-in headliner.
Maggie Tra's new single 'Holding On' is a house track about losing her Cambodian mother, made by an artist who learned to DJ in Hanoi and now runs her own label, Pho The Girls Records.
Chiang Mai's electronic scene doesn't live on a strip. It's scattered across a converted shophouse, a top-floor room above Huay Kaew Road, and a hillside outside Mae Rim where the party runs until 6am.
Bangkok has dozens of sky bars selling a view. Very few of them book a DJ who actually plays house. Here's how to tell the difference, floor by floor.
Zamaera self-funded the first national Malaysian showcase in SXSW's history. The lineup was mostly rap, R&B and indie folk, but the set that closed it belonged to a techno producer nobody outside Malaysia had heard of yet.
As 8110118, Jakarta film composer Hajar Asyura just released Jiwa Krungu, the only Southeast Asian record on Bandcamp Daily's global best electronic list for July.
Beatport will now reject tracks ruled fully or mostly AI-generated before they ever reach the store. The policy is aimed at the flood on Spotify and Deezer, but it also protects shelf space for the small human-run labels this site covers every week.
Phuket's clubbing scene isn't Bangla Road neon. It's four rooms spread across the west coast: a sunset beach club, an Ibiza import with a real booking policy, one underground bar in Rawai, and a 5,000-capacity room if you want the big room instead.
Southeast Asia doesn't really have record shops built for house and techno the way Berlin or London does. What it has instead, city by city, is more interesting: soul, funk and reissue specialists who happen to stock the electronic stuff too.