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6 articles on Cambodia from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
6 articles
Southeast Asia's Legal Drinking Ages: Where You Can Drink at 18, and Where It's 21
Cambodia has no enforced drinking age at all. Malaysia will fine a bar for serving a 20-year-old. A country-by-country breakdown of where Southeast Asia sets the line, and the law behind each number.
Three-Time DMC World Champion DJ Craze Plays Phnom Penh's Pontoon Club on October 2
DJ Craze, the only DJ to win three straight DMC World titles until 2020 and once Kanye West's tour DJ, plays Phnom Penh's Pontoon Club on October 2, a rare marquee booking for Cambodia's still-rebuilding scene.
LnHD Learned to DJ in Yangon's Underground. Her Techno Now Plays Phnom Penh and Berlin
She learned to DJ from a stranger on the third floor of a family bar in Yangon during blackouts and curfew. Now Lynn Nandar Htoo, known as LnHD, throws femme-led parties on Phnom Penh's Bassac Lane, co-runs a platform for Southeast Asian women producers, and has played Berlin's CTM Festival.
Maggie Tra Turned Her Mother's Death Into a House Record, With Hanoi Still in Its Bones
Maggie Tra's new single 'Holding On' is a house track about losing her Cambodian mother, made by an artist who learned to DJ in Hanoi and now runs her own label, Pho The Girls Records.
Where to Hear House and Techno in Phnom Penh: A Nightlife Guide
Phnom Penh will not hand you a scene the way Bangkok or Bali will. It has one club that used to be an actual floating boat, one alley that actually pulses after midnight, and a handful of people building the rest from nothing. Here is where to go, what it costs, and how to get home.
Phnom Penh's Underground Scene Is Rebuilding Itself From Nothing
Cambodia's dance music culture was erased once already. Now a handful of promoters, one industrial techno DJ and a bar-lane venue are building it back, this time for Cambodians first.