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10 articles on Budots from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
10 articles
ILLIT's New K-Pop Single Has Filipino Fans Hearing Budots, the Sound DJ Love Pioneered in Davao
BELIFT LAB's teaser for ILLIT's comeback single has Filipino listeners hearing Budots, the whistle-and-snap genre DJ Love built from Davao street noise two decades ago. Nobody at HYBE has said a word about it.
OXGN's Final 2026 Drop Centers on a Budots Tribute to DJ Love
The Philippine streetwear brand closes its three-part 2026 campaign with a budots-themed capsule, built around a Sgamo and Jarreau Vandal tribute track to Davao's DJ Love.
Cebu's Clubs Were Karaoke Bars and Budots. Cradio Radio Rented an Art Gallery Instead.
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.
OMK Turns a Seoul Gallery Into a Shrine for Philippine Soundsystem Culture
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.
Dirty K Named Taiwan's Banned Rave Sound Taikebeat. DJ Love Remixed It.
A Nanjing producer just coined a name for the sound Taiwan's police raids tried to erase. A Filipino Budots pioneer signed on to remix it, and the pairing says more about Eastern Margins than any press release could.
WILHELMINA Fuses Kulintang and Budots Into Jersey Club. His Liner Notes Thank Davao's DJ Love.
A New Jersey producer built two EPs out of Filipino gongs, budots swing and East Coast jersey club, and opened the credits by naming the Davao DJ who invented the sound he's borrowing.
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.
Budots Pioneer DJ Love Beat Heart Failure. Now He's Playing London's Margins United
Fourteen months after a Davao City hospital stay with no diagnosis and a community-funded heart surgery, Sherwin Tuna is back on Eastern Margins' biggest stage, booked for Margins United 2026 in London this September.
A New Jersey Producer Is Turning Tikbalang Myths Into Jersey Club Records
On Book of Spells, New Jersey producer WILHELMINA folds tikbalang mythology, Bisaya vocals and a Filipino illustrator's occult artwork into jersey club and techno, then goes further on a new pan-Southeast Asian club compilation.
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.