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7 articles on Boiler Room 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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Boiler Room and Keep Hush Have Only Filmed Four Southeast Asian Cities So Far
Boiler Room has broadcast from Southeast Asia four times total: Manila in 2017 and 2023, Bangkok's Maho Rasop festival in 2022 and 2023. Keep Hush has quietly filmed more cities with less reach. Here's where to actually watch the region's DJ culture for free, and where nobody has pointed a camera yet.
What Is a Boiler Room Set, and How Do You Actually Get Booked for One?
Boiler Room turned a webcam in a London basement into a global stamp of approval, and getting picked for one still isn't a matter of sending a good mix to an inbox. This explains what the platform is actually looking for, and the two real routes artists have used to get on it.
Bung L0n Turned Saigon's Most Mocked Music Into a Queer Safe Space
A Ho Chi Minh City collective started out playing techno like everyone else. Then it decided the wedding-tent, TikTok-background music its parents' generation looks down on was exactly what its queer dancefloor needed.
The Philippines' Electronic Music Scene, Explained: Budots, Manila's Underground and What Comes Next
Budots came from the streets of Davao and went viral on Boiler Room. Manila's DIY underground keeps losing venues and rebuilding anyway. And a scattered new generation is getting picked up abroad with nothing connecting them but a passport.
Yeti Out Turned a Hong Kong Party Blog Into Boiler Room's Comeback
Yeti Out started as two brothers and a friend blagging free entry to parties by pretending to write about them. Sixteen years later they run a Hong Kong radio station, a record label, and the crew Boiler Room called when it finally came back to the city.
The Budots Three Turned Davao City's Most Mocked Sound Into a London Record Deal
DJ Love, DJ Danz and DJ Ericnem spent decades getting laughed at for budots. A London label, a Boiler Room comeback and a joint album later, nobody's laughing.
PNNY Spent 12 Years Throwing Bali's Best Parties Before Releasing a Single Track
PNNY has hosted Boiler Room twice and brought HÖR Berlin to Bali for the first time. It took until July 2026, and a four-track EP called Maria Full of Grace, for the collective to release music of its own.