
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.