Da Nang Community Radio spent four days in August turning its city into a decentralized festival built from a dozen Asian radio stations, with Ken Ishii and Red Pig Flower playing their first Vietnamese shows.
No DJ booth, no dance floor, just a serious hi-fi rig and a wall of records. A guide to the listening bars and record bars actually worth the taxi fare in Bangkok and Tokyo.
Technics filmed its SL-1200 55th anniversary set 250 metres above Tokyo, with Yousuke Yukimatsu on decks and not a laptop in sight. It premiered free on Resident Advisor's YouTube channel on August 18, and the full set is up there now.
The rural Izu institution that Japanese ravers plan whole years around is finally leaving the country, teaming up with Singapore's Ice Cream Sundays for a two day, three session takeover.
Korner closed in 2018 and took Taipei's underground techno home with it. The same crew reopened one floor under a gym, called it Pawnshop, and Smoke Machine has been playing there almost every week since.
Phnom Penh will not hand you a scene the way Bangkok or Bali will. It has one club that used to be an actual floating boat, one alley that actually pulses after midnight, and a handful of people building the rest from nothing. Here is where to go, what it costs, and how to get home.
Finns, Potato Head's Klymax, Mrs Sippy and Karma Beach: Bali's real house music scene now happens in daylight, feet in the sand, hours before the island's night clubs even open.
Bandung producer Munir has spent over a decade digging up and re-splicing Indonesia's forgotten 1970s and 80s disco records, from a Cultures of Soul compilation named after Jakarta's first discotheque to his own synth-driven Komputer EP.
Six tracks, zero labels, 356 Spotify listeners. Inner Child is what Manila house sounds like when nobody outside the city is watching.
The best nights in Bangkok don't advertise. Here's where a newcomer actually starts, from a 120-capacity bar with a lit sign that just says BAR TEMP to a weekly hard techno ritual at RCA.
Jakarta's house and techno rooms are real, they're just hiding in office towers and mall basements. A working guide to Vault, Le Cirque, Zodiac and the mega-clubs, with what's actually still open in 2026.
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.