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91 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.
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Victoria Yam builds PRIME ENERGY EP from retuned Malaysian and Filipino folk instruments, then co-founds ALIGN.ONLINE to archive Southeast Asia's femme and queer electronic scenes.
Four tracks, no chorus, no streaming push. More Rice Records' newest release is a reminder that Bangkok's best-connected underground label still measures itself in wax, not playlist adds.
Bangkok's digital arts and electronic music festival is back after a year off, and it announced itself with a rebuilt 2005 deep cut instead of a lineup poster.
A Mongolian techno pioneer who has played the Great Wall and ADE spent Saturday night behind the decks of a shophouse-sized bar on Haji Lane, the latest sign that Southeast Asia's smallest rooms are booking some of its most well-travelled names.
In May, Raw Vision Collective put Jeff Mills behind the decks at a small Jakarta club for the 30th anniversary of his most famous mix. In October, the same crew puts Ye on a stage at a 77,000-seat stadium. That jump says something about where Southeast Asian promoters are headed.
Symbiotic III sent one folder of sounds to five producers in Indonesia and Mexico and let them fight it out. The Yogyakarta label built on gamelan and Durban gqom just released the results.
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.
Molam is the storytelling folk music of Thailand's poorest region. For fifteen years Bangkok DJs have been splicing it onto dub, house and techno, and a venue closure this year hasn't slowed the movement down.
Kyle Domingo grew up in Cebu, built his name in Los Angeles, and just released his first single on Insomniac Records. In December, EDC Thailand brings him back within reach of home.
Eighteen 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.
Before Vietnam had a techno scene, it had this: pop songs sped up, chopped and slammed onto a four-on-the-floor kick until the whole street shook. Here's where Vinahouse came from, and why the country's newest DJs are trying to outrun it.
Leo Cheng makes music as FINGERGAP, forcing romantic Cantonese pop ballads into Chicago footwork's 160BPM syncopation. DJ Mag just named him one to watch, on the back of a new single built around Hong Kong's own housing estates.
NotYuTing came up through a Saigon hip-hop club that turned itself into a record label. Her newest single weaves a Vietnamese folk instrument into trance to mark 50 years since reunification, and nobody outside a small SoundCloud page has really noticed yet.
Vu Phuong Thao grew up on an organ in Son La, dropped out of diplomatic training, and built her name in Ho Chi Minh City's underground. This July she became the first Vietnamese woman to play Tomorrowland, and Vietnam's own press called it a Vinahouse homecoming.
DJ Mag put Manila's Ezzrei on a list of six emerging artists worldwide this July, the only Southeast Asian name on it. She got there by seeding a rave scene alone on a surf island, then building the Philippines' first platform for bass music back in the capital.
Nineteen years after co-founding the Korean electro-rock trio Idiotape, Dguru has started his own label, Sangsu Records, built around Seoul's club and live scenes and the sounds that don't fit neatly into either.
The two Colombian-heritage producers built their first extended collaboration from a 2024 meeting in Mexico City. It lands on Domino's Smugglers Way, out now, vinyl remixes due in November.
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.
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.
Zamaera self-funded the first national Malaysian showcase in SXSW's history. The lineup was mostly rap, R&B and indie folk, but the set that closed it belonged to a techno producer nobody outside Malaysia had heard of yet.
As 8110118, Jakarta film composer Hajar Asyura just released Jiwa Krungu, the only Southeast Asian record on Bandcamp Daily's global best electronic list for July.
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.
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.
Korner closed in 2018 and took Taipei's underground techno home with it. The same crew reopened one floor under a gym, called it Pawnshop, and Smoke Machine has been playing there almost every week since.