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10 articles on Darker Than Wax 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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Offtrack's Second Singapore Bar Opens Friday With Bangkok's Maft Sai Behind the Decks
Offtrack's team is opening a sister venue called Earworm on Boat Quay, and launching it with a Bangkok crate-digging institution instead of a resident DJ.
Darker Than Wax's Decade-Old Day Party Brew Finds a Third Singapore Home at Ida's Bar
Darker Than Wax's long-running daytime party Brew has outgrown a hardware store courtyard and a Dempsey lawn. On October 24 it tries a cocktail bar in Gillman Barracks instead.
UNOS Reconnected With Her Filipino Roots Through a Singapore Record Label, Not a Plane Ticket
Brussels-raised DJ and producer UNOS had almost no connection to her father's home province in the Philippines until she signed to Darker Than Wax, the Singapore label that introduced her to Manila's underground and inspired her debut EP, Boodle Fight.
Ice Cream Sundays Turned 10 This Year. Its Birthday Present Is Japan's Rainbow Disco Club.
A decade after two schoolmates threw a house party with a soundsystem, Ice Cream Sundays is Singapore's longest-running dance collective. Its 10th anniversary gift to itself: bringing Japan's Rainbow Disco Club to a Tanjong Pagar carpark.
Super Enjoy Started as a Lockdown Skate Crew. Its Ninth Release Mourns Singapore's Empty Strata Malls.
Singapore's Super Enjoy went from a no-plan lockdown DJ crew to a nine-record label. Its new Submersible EP is a dub techno love letter to the city's dying neighbourhood strata malls.
The Southeast Asian Record Labels You Should Know Right Now
Five Southeast Asian labels doing distinct, verifiable work in 2026: Singapore's veteran Darker Than Wax, Jakarta's House Cartel, Bangkok's vinyl-first More Rice Records, Manila's cross-border Twelve Points, and Yogyakarta's gqom experimenters RAMPAK G.
Pam Anantr Built Bangkok's Own Sound Room. Then Darker Than Wax Came to Her.
Pam Anantr spent five years absorbing New York's disco and jazz underground, then came home to Bangkok and built her own room and her own festival. This past Friday she shared the decks with Darker Than Wax co-founder Marco Weibel for the label's 15th anniversary.
Beatport Bans Fully AI-Generated Tracks, a Quiet Win for Southeast Asia's DIY Labels
Beatport will now reject tracks ruled fully or mostly AI-generated before they ever reach the store. The policy is aimed at the flood on Spotify and Deezer, but it also protects shelf space for the small human-run labels this site covers every week.
Rainbow Disco Club Leaves Japan for the First Time, Landing in Singapore This October
The rural Izu institution that Japanese ravers plan whole years around is finally leaving the country, teaming up with Singapore's Ice Cream Sundays for a two day, three session takeover.
Darker Than Wax Turns 15, and It Still Hasn't Chased a Hit
Fifteen years after two friends got tired of watching visiting DJs get the credit, Darker Than Wax has built Singapore's most quietly respected house and jazz label, with a Brooklyn radio residency and a roster nobody else has.