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Article cover: OXGN's Final 2026 Drop Centers on a Budots Tribute to DJ Love
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OXGN's Final 2026 Drop Centers on a Budots Tribute to DJ Love

The Philippine streetwear brand closes its three-part 2026 campaign with a budots-themed capsule, built around a Sgamo and Jarreau Vandal tribute track to Davao's DJ Love.

Article cover: Epizode, the Festival That Made Phu Quoc Vietnam's Biggest Dance Floor, Has Been Dark for Six Years
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Epizode, the Festival That Made Phu Quoc Vietnam's Biggest Dance Floor, Has Been Dark for Six Years

Carl Cox, Peggy Gou and Nina Kraviz all played Epizode's eleven-day beach festival on Phu Quoc. Its last edition ran in January 2020, and nobody ever said why it didn't come back.

Article cover: Pattaya's Clubs: World House and Republic Made DJ Mag's Top 100, and Club Insomnia Is Where the House and Techno Actually Plays
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Pattaya's Clubs: World House and Republic Made DJ Mag's Top 100, and Club Insomnia Is Where the House and Techno Actually Plays

Pattaya has a reputation built on Walking Street's beer bars and go-go clubs. It also has two venues on DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100, and one room that actually plays house and techno.

Article cover: Amapiano, Explained: The Sound Behind Tyla's Grammy, and Southeast Asia's Only Weekly Home for It
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Amapiano, Explained: The Sound Behind Tyla's Grammy, and Southeast Asia's Only Weekly Home for It

Tyla's Grammy-winning "Water" made amapiano a global search term. In Southeast Asia's house and techno scene, it still has exactly one standing weekly night.

Article cover: Rostarr Wraps Bali's Potato Head Beach Club in His Biggest Mural Yet
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Rostarr Wraps Bali's Potato Head Beach Club in His Biggest Mural Yet

On October 16, Desa Potato Head unveils a 1,644 square metre mural covering the Beach Club's entire facade, timed to an open-air party with Archie, Eric Duncan and a live gamelan ceremony.

Article cover: Desa Potato Head Books Eric Duncan and Alex From Tokyo to Celebrate Bali's Biggest New Mural
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Desa Potato Head Books Eric Duncan and Alex From Tokyo to Celebrate Bali's Biggest New Mural

Desa Potato Head's Beach Club spent months behind a Rostarr mural wrapping its entire oceanfront facade. On October 16, it throws the wall a day-into-night party, with Eric Duncan and Alex From Tokyo on the lineup.

Article cover: Logic Lost's Disposable Gods Pulls Senyawa Into Jakarta's Darkest Techno Record
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Logic Lost's Disposable Gods Pulls Senyawa Into Jakarta's Darkest Techno Record

Jakarta producer Dylan Amirio recruited Senyawa's Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi for Disposable Gods, the bleakest record of his decade-long Logic Lost project, released on the Bristol noise label Avon Terror Corps.

Article cover: Savage, Studio Lam and Thugshop: Why Southeast Asia's Clubs Keep Closing
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Savage, Studio Lam and Thugshop: Why Southeast Asia's Clubs Keep Closing

Hanoi's Savage lost its site to a government opera-house project. Bangkok's Studio Lam closed on its own terms. A city-by-city look at why Southeast Asia's most important clubs keep disappearing, and what replaces them.

Article cover: Singapore's Electronic Music Scene, Explained: Zouk's Rise and Thugshop's Shrinking Underground
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Singapore's Electronic Music Scene, Explained: Zouk's Rise and Thugshop's Shrinking Underground

Zouk got evicted by its own neighbors and came back as a DJ Mag top-20 club. Thugshop's HQ closed on its own terms after a decade. Singapore's house and techno scene actually splits in two.

Article cover: Surabaya's ANTI.TRUST Records Turned Dangdut Koplo and Breakcore Into a Genre Called Kenjeran Slap
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Surabaya's ANTI.TRUST Records Turned Dangdut Koplo and Breakcore Into a Genre Called Kenjeran Slap

ANTI.TRUST Records has run out of Surabaya since 2018, pressing breakcore, amen-break splits and dangdut koplo samples into a sound its roster now calls Kenjeran Slap, named after the city's working-class coastal district.

Article cover: Offtrack's Second Singapore Bar Opens Friday With Bangkok's Maft Sai Behind the Decks
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Offtrack's Second Singapore Bar Opens Friday With Bangkok's Maft Sai Behind the Decks

Offtrack's team is opening a sister venue called Earworm on Boat Quay, and launching it with a Bangkok crate-digging institution instead of a resident DJ.

Article cover: Lil Louis, House Music's Founding Father, Plays His First Jakarta Show on October 10
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Lil Louis, House Music's Founding Father, Plays His First Jakarta Show on October 10

Lil Louis slowed 'French Kiss' down to a near dead stop and the BBC banned it anyway. The track still hit number two in the UK. On October 10, house music's founding father plays Jakarta for the first time, headlining Le Cirque's first anniversary in SCBD.