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House music across Asia: new releases, club nights, festival stages and the DJs carrying the four-four from Bangkok to Tokyo. Loopliner's most-read tag.
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What Is Tech House? Dom Dolla Is Giving Southeast Asia Two Dates in Three Weeks
Tech house explained: the BPM range, where it came from, how it differs from house and techno, and why Dom Dolla is playing Singapore and EDC Thailand Phuket three weeks apart.
Sofi Airlines Turns Boeing and Airbus Cockpit Controls Into Musical Instruments at Tokyo's Intergalactic Festival
SOFI AIRLINES, a live performance built from upcycled Boeing and Airbus cockpit hardware, makes its Japan premiere on October 17, 2026 at INTERGALACTIC: PLANETFALL, a three-day forest festival in the mountains west of Tokyo.
Midnight Shift Has Spent Over a Decade Resisting Singapore's EDM Boom, One Party at a Time
Midnight Shift started as a reaction against Singapore's EDM-chasing clubs: house and techno parties that refused to announce headliners. More than a decade on, its roster, its Modal nights and its newest tattoo-and-techno crossover are still running.
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.
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.
DJ Hydra Returns to Hong Kong's Soho House on October 17
The Nigerian Afro house DJ headlines Hydra's House at Soho House Hong Kong on October 17, back in the city where he held a residency at The Trilogy.
Epizode, the Festival That Made Phu Quoc Vietnam's Biggest Dance Floor, Has Been Dark for Six Years
Carl Cox, Peggy Gou and Nina Kraviz all played Epizode's eleven-day beach festival on Phu Quoc. Its last edition ran in January 2020, and nobody ever said why it didn't come back.
Amapiano, Explained: The Sound Behind Tyla's Grammy, and Southeast Asia's Only Weekly Home for It
Tyla's Grammy-winning "Water" made amapiano a global search term. In Southeast Asia's house and techno scene, it still has exactly one standing weekly night.
Desa Potato Head Books Eric Duncan and Alex From Tokyo to Celebrate Bali's Biggest New Mural
Desa Potato Head's Beach Club spent months behind a Rostarr mural wrapping its entire oceanfront facade. On October 16, it throws the wall a day-into-night party, with Eric Duncan and Alex From Tokyo on the lineup.
Lil Louis, House Music's Founding Father, Plays His First Jakarta Show on October 10
Lil Louis slowed 'French Kiss' down to a near dead stop and the BBC banned it anyway. The track still hit number two in the UK. On October 10, house music's founding father plays Jakarta for the first time, headlining Le Cirque's first anniversary in SCBD.
DJ WAAI's Người Nhà Collective Built Saigon's House Music Home on a Rooftop
Twenty-six floors above District 3, DJ WAAI, Dekay and Fanglanx turned a sky bar called HỢP 合 into Ho Chi Minh City's steadiest house music residency, and WAAI is already running a second room.
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.
Moni-Moni's Crate-Digging Turned Cebu Into a Philippine Underground Hub, and Mixmag Asia Noticed
Mikelis Yu grew up in California, came home to Cebu to run a family hotel, and started a radio project instead. Mixmag Asia's September watchlist is the first time the outside world put a name to what Cradio Radio built.
EDC Thailand Finalizes Its December Lineup, and Phuket Gets a New Beach Pre-Party
Charlotte de Witte, Jamie Jones and Vintage Culture join EDC Thailand's third Phuket edition, plus a new Hotel EDC beach pre-party added in October for the night before gates open.
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.
Barbosa Is Turning a Siargao Surf Shop Into the Philippines' Best Vinyl Bar
Above a surf shop in General Luna, a record collection built from donated crates and a Friday night called Bread and Butter are trying to make Siargao a destination for more than waves. Three years in, it's working.
What B2B Means in a DJ Lineup, and Why Bangkok's 808 Festival Booked Three of Them
B2B stands for back-to-back: two DJs sharing one set instead of two solo hours. Bangkok's 808 Festival has booked three exclusive pairings for October, and one of them already produced a Wu-Tang-sampling single.
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.
House Music vs. Techno: What Sunju Hargun and Dipha Barus Actually Sound Like
House and techno get used interchangeably by people who should know better. This piece breaks down what separates Chicago's groove from Detroit's machine, and where to hear the split done right in Southeast Asia.
Clutch Built a Museum-Grade Hi-Fi Bar in Bangkok. A Few Nights a Year, RomRom Turns It Into a Rave.
Inside a 900-square-metre former warehouse in Talat Noi, a listening bar built around JBL speakers and McIntosh amps shares a roof with tattoo studios, a flea market and, a few times a year, a genre-hopping rave that spills across four floors.
Dekmantel's First Southeast Asia Show Closed With Avalon Emerson's Bali Debut
Dekmantel's first Southeast Asia show ran fifteen hours across Potato Head Bali and Klymax on September 26, ending with Avalon Emerson's first Southeast Asian set.
Amapiano's Southeast Asian Scene Starts and Mostly Ends at Jakarta's Vault
Amapiano put a South African soloist on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 55 years. In Southeast Asia, the genre has one dedicated weekly slot, Saturdays at Jakarta's Vault, and a scattering of Singapore parties that treat it as one flavor among several.
Idris Elba's House Music Alias IDRIS Made Its Bangkok Debut at Cloud 11
Idris Elba's house music alias IDRIS played a one-off set at Bangkok's Cloud 11 Theatre on September 26, sharing the booth with two of the city's own DJs, Wildealer and Elaheh, as his label Sound International made its Thailand debut.
NOVA, CÉ LA VI and Kinki Are the Singapore Rooftop Bars That Actually Book House DJs
Most Singapore rooftop lists rank sunset views and cocktails. This one only counts venues that actually book house DJs: NOVA's 63rd-floor dance floor, CÉ LA VI's Saturday Elevate nights, and Kinki's low-key terrace sets, with real prices, dress codes and what to skip.