B2B stands for back-to-back: two DJs sharing one set instead of two solo hours. Bangkok's 808 Festival has booked three exclusive pairings for October, and one of them already produced a Wu-Tang-sampling single.
Brussels-raised DJ and producer UNOS had almost no connection to her father's home province in the Philippines until she signed to Darker Than Wax, the Singapore label that introduced her to Manila's underground and inspired her debut EP, Boodle Fight.
House and techno get used interchangeably by people who should know better. This piece breaks down what separates Chicago's groove from Detroit's machine, and where to hear the split done right in Southeast Asia.
Jonathan Pardede has spent a decade behind a wall of hardware as one third of Sunmantra. On October 2 at Le Cirque, House Cartel gives him the room alone, under a new name.
A lot of Southeast Asia's best clubs are built around groups that arrive already knowing each other. Here is where that structurally works against a solo visitor, and where it genuinely doesn't.
Miko Naiko taught herself to DJ off YouTube tutorials in Ipoh, Malaysia's 'City of Music.' A Southeast Asian women's network got her onto the bill at Pestapora, Jakarta's biggest festival.
In three years, a Cebu house party built around vinyl and instinct grew into a regional network reaching Manila, Bali and Sydney, with its founder now on Mixmag Asia's watchlist.
Search "silent disco Southeast Asia" and you get a banned jogging club, a Singapore corporate-events supplier and a dead website. Bangkok's BEAM had the real one, three DJs, real house and techno bookings, and it closed for good in October 2025.
Manila-based collective OMK traced Philippine budots soundsystem culture through Davao and Toril this August. The photos and footage are on a gallery wall in Seoul through October 17.
Inside a 900-square-metre former warehouse in Talat Noi, a listening bar built around JBL speakers and McIntosh amps shares a roof with tattoo studios, a flea market and, a few times a year, a genre-hopping rave that spills across four floors.
Marquee Singapore's October calendar opens October 2 with hard techno specialist Nico Moreno, then runs through FISHER, Diplo, Anyma, Martin Garrix and two Halloween nights at Marina Bay Sands.
A brand-new four-day trade summit just claimed December 7-10 in Chonburi, Thailand, with no organizer, venue or speakers named yet. What is confirmed: it wraps four days before Tomorrowland opens its first Asian edition down the road.