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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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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 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.
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 ran fifteen hours across Potato Head Bali and Klymax on September 26, ending with Avalon Emerson's first Southeast Asian set.
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 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.
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.
The Bandung record store, sound room and cocktail bar plays Mumbai, Delhi and Goa this October, its first shows outside Indonesia.
Manila producer Pamcy scored a fictional Filipino supermarket chain across 11 house tracks named after grocery staples, from quail eggs to mosquito coils, then launched it inside a real Jollibee.
The Ho Chi Minh City label just quietly dropped release number 23. Its earlier fusion of Vietnamese folk poetry and house music has already reached Buddha-Bar compilations and Damian Lazarus's Ibiza sets.
Five friends built Myanmar's leading house music collective out of a coup, a curfew and an empty dance floor. Groove Culture's parties, including a 1,000-person rave on an abandoned office floor, are proof Yangon's scene never needed the tourists to come back.
Five Southeast Asian labels doing distinct, verifiable work in 2026: Singapore's veteran Darker Than Wax, Jakarta's House Cartel, Bangkok's vinyl-first More Rice Records, Manila's cross-border Twelve Points, and Yogyakarta's gqom experimenters RAMPAK G.
In 2014, Dipha Barus got tired of Jakarta's EDM-dominated nights and started ripping SoundCloud edits for his own parties. This July, that party took over four floors of a Blok M building for Underblok Festival.
Twelve Points Records turns two with Pathways II, a homeward-leaning follow-up to the compilation that once pulled Bangkok and Hanoi into its Manila catalogue.
Dom Dolla has never played a headline show in Singapore. That changes on 27 November, inside a decommissioned power station that will host ARTBAT's own city debut six weeks earlier. Presale opens today.
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.
Taipei's scene is small, specific and doesn't advertise itself. Here's where the city's house and techno actually happens in 2026: a Funktion-One basement, a spectacle-driven megaclub, a 200-capacity room built on its own label, and a free party in a public park.
He closed the Mixmag Lab's debut Jakarta showcase in January. Two months later Resident Advisor put his mix on their homepage. In between, he's back in the booth at KLYMAX, the Bali club DJ Harvey built, next to guests who were mixing records before he was born.
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.
In 2020, Bangkok producer Marmosets turned a complaint every promoter in the city has muttered at 1:45am into a spoken-word techno single. Six years and one high-profile raid later, Krungthep Ratree hasn't dated a day.
The Observatory has run Ho Chi Minh City's house and techno scene from a rooftop for nearly 13 years. In October 2026, after three addresses and more than 800 guest DJs, it closes.
A British label put Bali on a house compilation in 2010. The scene it captured was actually built in Jakarta, by a DJ crew that spent a decade playing to rooms nobody outside Indonesia was watching.
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.
Hong Kong's Shi Fu Miz festival marks a decade with Chez Damier headlining a new site on Nov 14-15, after today's warm-up party put Singapore and Jakarta selectors on the main stage.