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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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A Johor Bahru DJ who started out spinning his own house parties because he couldn't afford to book anyone else was picked through a highly-competitive open call to play Amsterdam Dance Event's CLUB Lab.
Kenny Wee, Callen and Alam have run Kuala Lumpur's underground night Ohrwurm since 2010.
Singapore's listening bar boom covers roughly ten addresses. Only Offtrack and its new sibling Earworm were built by the city's own house music scene.
Two Iloilo City DJ collectives, Them Bang Bros and Cloud Nyt, built house and techno nights out of a bar residency and a deliberately paused one, and a nationwide feature just noticed.
Deep house has a 1986 Chicago blueprint, a reissued 2001 Singapore classic and a Bangkok collective that grew out of a condo party. This is what the genre actually is, and where to hear it in Southeast Asia.
Cova, Manila's pioneering micro-club, runs resident nights Hump, Cherish the Night and Moan plus rotating Saturday sets.
ARTBAT was booked to headline Pasir Panjang Power Station on 17 October for its first Singapore show. Dom Dolla plays the same former power station on 27 November.
What actually happens between walking in and getting home at a Southeast Asian house or techno club: dress codes, door policy, tipping rules, set times and the transport cutoffs nobody mentions.
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, 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Above a surf shop, Barbosa's wall of donated vinyl and its Friday night called Bread and Butter opened in 2023.