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5 articles on Bandung from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
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Peels Records & Bar Is Where Bandung's House and Techno Scene Actually Lives
Bandung has produced disco archivists, Berlin-booked producers and the first Indonesian woman to DJ Panorama Bar, but it still doesn't have a dedicated house and techno club. The city's real scene runs through an orange-lit record bar, a handful of labels, and warehouse parties nobody advertises.
BUTO BAYANG Named Itself After an Indonesian Ghost. Now Bandung and Hanoi Are Getting Booked in Berlin.
A Berlin party turned label turned two-person mission, run by a half-Indonesian producer and a Vietnamese-German DJ, put Bandung's Ambrukt and Amsterdam's TWIENA on the same compilation as Hong Kong's Shanda. The founders spent 2025 touring Bali, Bangkok and Hanoi and came back with a complaint: European DJs keep flying to Southeast Asia to play, and the region's own DJs still can't get a booking back.
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.
Bandung's Bottlesmoker Once Played a Concert for Plants. Cahaya Proves They're Still Weird After 20 Years.
Twenty years after they started making electronic pop with toy instruments in Bandung, Bottlesmoker's new single Cahaya arrives as the second preview of a seventh album, still stubbornly self-released on Bandcamp.
Munir Spent a Decade Splicing Indonesia's Lost Disco Records Back Together in Bandung
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.