House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Tokyo's Hoshina Anniversary spent five years fusing techno with Japanese traditional instruments under the name watechno. His answer to what comes next: remix the whole album himself, label every BPM, and give it away with no label attached.
TELETECH's first Malaysia show lands at XOX Arena on September 25, with hard techno's biggest global draw headlining a night built around Kuala Lumpur's own scene.
A Bangkok label samples 90s ghost-show intros and Buddhist chanting over four-to-the-floor drums and calls it Thai house. A UK label is now pressing it to vinyl.
Fifteen years after two friends got tired of watching visiting DJs get the credit, Darker Than Wax has built Singapore's most quietly respected house and jazz label, with a Brooklyn radio residency and a roster nobody else has.
Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon Soul Revival announce Chốn Ta Về, out September 11 on Saigon Supersound, with lead single Trúc Xinh headed for a Brotha Lok remix built for the dancefloor.
Five courses, three tequila pours and a DJ lineup pulled from Jakarta, Bangkok and Bali: The Pursuit debuts at Le Cirque on August 26, the first of a recurring series from Mixmag Asia and Patrón Tequila.
PNNY has hosted Boiler Room twice and brought HÖR Berlin to Bali for the first time. It took until July 2026, and a four-track EP called Maria Full of Grace, for the collective to release music of its own.
Manila's house and techno scene runs through five small rooms in Poblacion and Makati Cinema Square, from Apotheka's split-level policy to The Void's no-frills basement. Here's where to go, what it costs, and how to get home after.
While XX:XX, TIME, Today x FUTURE and Pineapple Lab all shut their doors, one Manila collective kept moving from room to room until it didn't need a room at all. Ten years and one 16-hour anniversary party later, UNKNWN is the closest thing the city's underground has to an institution.
Since 2018, NON NON NON has been the room Bangkok's queer techno scene didn't have. This June, its founder Mae Happyair spent a month teaching the next generation how to build one too.
Avalon Emerson has never played Southeast Asia. That changes on September 26, when the Amsterdam festival's first regional takeover lands at a beach club in Seminyak.
Between December 3 and December 20, three of the region's biggest electronic festivals go off in three different countries. Here's the whole year, mapped out with actual dates and prices.