Tag
DJ Love
6 articles on DJ Love from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
6 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.
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.
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.
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.