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69 articles on Electronic Music from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
69 articles
Diplo Jammed With Habib Gunjat, Indonesia's Viral One-Man-Band Keyboardist, at a Bali Afterparty
Diplo filmed himself trading keyboard runs with Habib Gunjat, a wedding-circuit musician from Kendari whose organ tunggal sets had already gone viral across Indonesia, at a charity run afterparty in Bali on October 8.
Gabber Modus Operandi Fused Gabber With Balinese Gamelan, and Björk Put Kasimyn on Fossora
Gabber Modus Operandi, the Bali duo who fused gabber with gamelan and jathilan trance, got the beat credit on four Björk Fossora tracks, plus a solo record that followed.
Surabaya's ANTI.TRUST Records Turned Dangdut Koplo and Breakcore Into a Genre Called Kenjeran Slap
ANTI.TRUST Records has run out of Surabaya since 2018, pressing breakcore, amen-break splits and dangdut koplo samples into a sound its roster now calls Kenjeran Slap, named after the city's working-class coastal district.
NOTEP Turns Coral Reef Conservation Into a Six-Track Electronic EP
The Bangkok musician's 'Pakarang' trades club hooks for field recordings, Thai instruments and a working partnership with Coral Gardeners, named after the Thai word for coral.
Southeast Asia's Drum and Bass Scene Lives in Bangkok's Jungle Jam BKK and Bali's Locus Festival
Singapore built Southeast Asia's biggest drum and bass night in the 2000s, then lost it when Home Club closed in 2014. The genre didn't die, it just relocated to a five-year-old Bangkok promoter, a 1999 Jakarta soundsystem crew and a four-day festival on a Bali beach.
Myrne: How Singapore's First Mad Decent Signee Rebuilt His Sound After His Father's Death
Diplo's Mad Decent signed Myrne off a SoundCloud page in 2015. Nine years, a Tomorrowland debut and a family loss later, the Singapore producer makes quieter, more personal electronic music instead.
Malaysia's Electronic Music Scene, Explained: How a 2014 Festival Tragedy Built Today's Club-First Scene
A stadium festival death scare in 2014 never got replaced. Malaysia's house and techno scene now runs through Zouk Genting's casino-zone exception and a handful of KL and Penang clubs instead of festival grounds.
Bani Haykal's New Album Turns 1950s Malay Film Comedy Into a Study of Colonial Violence
bani haykal's new album industri kelakar seram, out this week on Bandcamp, rebuilds dialogue from 1950s-80s Malay cinema over Moog synthesizers, a record built entirely at home around a Malay phrase for behaviour that's funny and threatening at once.
Muttiah Ashnim Built Underground Techno Scenes in Six Southeast Asian Countries, Then Left for Germany
For years, Muttiah Ashnim's collective Into The Deep built techno dancefloors in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. In 2024 she shut it down, moved to Germany, and started over as a solo producer.
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.
Ritual Cafe Lost Its George Town Space to a Leaky Roof. It Reopened Inside a 128-Year-Old Temple.
Penang's closest thing to a dedicated home for underground electronic music lost its lease to roofing bills in June 2026. Two months later its crew threw a rave inside a Cantonese clan temple built in 1898.
Rekids Just Hit Release No. 300. Robert Hood and Radio Slave Made It a First-Ever Collab.
"Radio Hood," out October 16, marks Rekids' 20th anniversary and 300th release, the first-ever team-up between Robert Hood and label boss Radio Slave, who has already played Bangkok's Sing Sing Theater and Singapore's Ritual series.
Sanjonas Made a Vow to Keep Making Music. RAMPAK G Releases the Proof on October 15.
Sanjonas' second album fuses gqom, marawis and lion dance music into a nine-track meditation on Javanese self-discipline. It lands October 15 on his own Yogyakarta label RAMPAK G.
Klasse Wrecks Named Its Debut EBM Duo Comply. The Opening Track Quotes RoboCop's Riot Robot.
Hong Kong label Klasse Wrecks' 62nd release is a debut EBM duo called Comply, and its opening track lifts ED-209's boardroom warning from RoboCop word for word.
Asia Music Event Picks Hong Kong's Soho House for Its First Edition. Jakarta's DWP Booker Has a Seat at the Table.
A new two-day conference wants to be Asia's answer to IMS Ibiza. Its first confirmed speaker list already includes the woman who books Jakarta's biggest festival.
BOTCASH Fuses Thai Pin Guitar With EDM. Tomorrowland Thailand Just Gave Him the Main Stage.
The Bangkok producer built a following by wiring the pin, a three-stringed Isan lute, into festival-scale EDM. In December, Tomorrowland's first Thailand edition puts that sound next to Martin Garrix and Swedish House Mafia.
Bandung's Bottlesmoker Once Played a Concert for Plants. Cahaya Proves They're Still Weird After 20 Years.
Twenty years after they started making electronic pop with toy instruments in Bandung, Bottlesmoker's new single Cahaya arrives as the second preview of a seventh album, still stubbornly self-released on Bandcamp.
DJ Click Recorded Two Monks Praying Over Ambient Grooves Inside a Laos Temple
Two monks, a khen player and a French producer with a mobile studio made an album inside a working Vientiane temple. It's ambient, not techno, and it's the first Laos story this magazine has ever run.
How to Learn to DJ in Southeast Asia, Starting at Bangkok's InEarBeat
You don't need a residency to start, or famous friends. You need about eight hours, a laptop and, in Bangkok, 10,000 baht. Here's where Southeast Asia actually teaches people to DJ.
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.
Noisia Split on September 17, 2019. They Just Reunited on the Same Date, Seven Years Later.
The Dutch trio posted their breakup on September 17, 2019. On September 17, 2026, they posted again: they're playing Amsterdam's Melkweg in December. No album, no five-year plan, just a show.
Inside Siam Modular, the Chiang Mai Workshop Where Red Drum Builds Thailand's First Eurorack Synths
In a Chiang Mai workshop, Pete Wallis builds the only Eurorack modular synthesizers made in Thailand, and performs the results live as Red Drum.
ThaiBeats: Thailand's Ministry of Culture Just Backed a Vinyl Record for Sunju Hargun and 11 Producers
Thailand's government has spent years enforcing curfews on underground parties. This year it wrote checks to twelve of the producers who play them, and pressed the results onto vinyl bound for six countries.
BuwanBuwan Built a Nightclub Inside Minecraft. Now Its Founder Runs a Real One.
Manila producer Jorge Wieneke built Club Matryoshka, a working nightclub inside a private Minecraft server, in 2019. Four years later the same instinct opened Apotheka, a real one in Poblacion.