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11 articles on Hanoi 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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Vietnam's House and Techno Scene, Explained: What's Happening in Hanoi and Saigon Right Now
Savage Hanoi lost its villa to a government redevelopment, and Saigon's longest-running club closes this month too. What's replacing them, and where to actually hear house and techno in Vietnam right now.
Di Linh Has Lost Two Home Clubs in One Year, and She's Still DJing in Hanoi
Savage shut down on New Year's Day. The Observatory in Saigon closes at the end of this month. Hanoi's Di Linh built her whole career inside those two rooms, and she's still booked.
Ouissam Returns to RASA's Chocolate City as Kuala Lumpur's Alam and Shazan Take Over the Floor
RASA and Sivilian Affairs bring Hanoi's Ouissam back for Chocolate City's sixth edition on October 16, with Kuala Lumpur's Alam and Shazan leading the Floor inside a 66-storey Singapore office tower.
Petar Dundov Headlines a Tokyo Techno Night With Hanoi's Yanes on the Bill
Hanoi party series HUM's co-founder Yanes joins Croatian techno veteran Petar Dundov on VENT Tokyo's October 17 bill, a small but concrete sign that Vietnam's underground scene is starting to travel.
Savage, Studio Lam and Thugshop: Why Southeast Asia's Clubs Keep Closing
Hanoi's Savage lost its site to a government opera-house project. Bangkok's Studio Lam closed on its own terms. A city-by-city look at why Southeast Asia's most important clubs keep disappearing, and what replaces them.
BUTO BAYANG Named Itself After an Indonesian Ghost. Now Bandung and Hanoi Are Getting Booked in Berlin.
A Berlin party turned label turned two-person mission, run by a half-Indonesian producer and a Vietnamese-German DJ, put Bandung's Ambrukt and Amsterdam's TWIENA on the same compilation as Hong Kong's Shanda. The founders spent 2025 touring Bali, Bangkok and Hanoi and came back with a complaint: European DJs keep flying to Southeast Asia to play, and the region's own DJs still can't get a booking back.
Ho Chi Minh City's Observatory Closes in October. Hanoi Gets One Last Night With It on September 25.
The Observatory, one of Ho Chi Minh City's longest-running clubs, shuts for good at the end of October. Five weeks out, founding resident Dan Lo takes its sound north for a takeover at Hanoi's Unmute.
Diskonnected Plays Hanoi's Cuốn Club This Friday, No RA World Tour Needed
While RA's anniversary tour picked Taipei over every Southeast Asian capital, Hanoi's Unmute booked a Smoke Machine-affiliated techno DJ for a normal Friday night, no world tour required.
Hanoi's House and Techno Guide: Unmute, Mirage and the Scene Holding On Through the Raids
House and techno in Hanoi now runs through Unmute and Mirage, and a handful of bars and burger counters doing a club's job, as the scene adapts to a nitrous oxide ban and near-routine police raids.
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.
Hanoi's Most Important Club Is Gone. The Underground Found New Rooms Anyway
Savage, the club that built Hanoi's house and techno scene, closed for an opera house. A nitrous-oxide crackdown followed, and Equation Festival didn't survive the year. The scene didn't stop, it just got harder to find.