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Bandung's Peels Records & Bar Takes Its Sound to India for the First Time
The Bandung record store, sound room and cocktail bar plays Mumbai, Delhi and Goa this October, its first shows outside Indonesia.
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Rekids Just Hit Release No. 300. Robert Hood and Radio Slave Made It a First-Ever Collab.
"Radio Hood," out October 16, marks Rekids' 20th anniversary and 300th release, the first-ever team-up between Robert Hood and label boss Radio Slave, who has already played Bangkok's Sing Sing Theater and Singapore's Ritual series.
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Charlotte de Witte's New EP Funds a Global Fight for Club Culture. Southeast Asia Already Knows the Stakes.
Every euro from Charlotte de Witte's new EP goes to a nonprofit fighting to keep clubs open worldwide. Its own research points straight at Bangkok and Vietnam.
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Sanjonas Made a Vow to Keep Making Music. RAMPAK G Releases the Proof on October 15.
Sanjonas' second album fuses gqom, marawis and lion dance music into a nine-track meditation on Javanese self-discipline. It lands October 15 on his own Yogyakarta label RAMPAK G.
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Pamcy Named Her New House Album After a Fictional Filipino Supermarket. She Launched It at a Jollibee.
Manila producer Pamcy scored a fictional Filipino supermarket chain across 11 house tracks named after grocery staples, from quail eggs to mosquito coils, then launched it inside a real Jollibee.
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Singapore Will Fine You S$500 for Loud Music on the Bus. Zouk Will Still Sell You a S$20,000 Table.
From this Wednesday, playing loud audio on a Singapore bus can cost S$500. Fifteen minutes away at Zouk, a table still costs up to S$20,000 and nobody calls that a public nuisance.
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Klasse Wrecks Named Its Debut EBM Duo Comply. The Opening Track Quotes RoboCop's Riot Robot.
Hong Kong label Klasse Wrecks' 62nd release is a debut EBM duo called Comply, and its opening track lifts ED-209's boardroom warning from RoboCop word for word.
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Calvin Harris Played to 1.6 Million People. Southeast Asia's Biggest Festival Doesn't Come Close.
Guinness World Records has confirmed it: nobody has ever DJed to a bigger crowd than Calvin Harris did from a carnival float in São Paulo. The number makes even Southeast Asia's biggest festivals look like club nights.
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Marcel Dettmann Announces His First Album in Four Years. Bangkok Had to Wait a Decade for a First Set.
My Own Shadow – Album lands November 13 on !K7, Marcel Dettmann's first full-length since 2022. The Berghain resident spent years skipping Thailand entirely before his first Bangkok set in 2019.
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Asia Music Event Picks Hong Kong's Soho House for Its First Edition. Jakarta's DWP Booker Has a Seat at the Table.
A new two-day conference wants to be Asia's answer to IMS Ibiza. Its first confirmed speaker list already includes the woman who books Jakarta's biggest festival.
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BOTCASH Fuses Thai Pin Guitar With EDM. Tomorrowland Thailand Just Gave Him the Main Stage.
The Bangkok producer built a following by wiring the pin, a three-stringed Isan lute, into festival-scale EDM. In December, Tomorrowland's first Thailand edition puts that sound next to Martin Garrix and Swedish House Mafia.
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Busan's Ovantgarde Got Shut Down for Letting Its Crowd Dance. Bangkok Runs on the Exact Same Law.
Officials in Busan shut down the live venue Ovantgarde for two months after watching its audience dance under a restaurant license that forbids it. The same legal trap is written into Thailand's Entertainment Places Act, and Bangkok's small clubs live inside it every night.