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Electronic music in Indonesia: Jakarta's warehouses, Bali's clubs, DWP and the producers redefining the archipelago's sound.
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Diplo Jammed With Habib Gunjat, Indonesia's Viral One-Man-Band Keyboardist, at a Bali Afterparty
Diplo filmed himself trading keyboard runs with Habib Gunjat, a wedding-circuit musician from Kendari whose organ tunggal sets had already gone viral across Indonesia, at a charity run afterparty in Bali on October 8.
Southeast Asia's Legal Drinking Ages: Where You Can Drink at 18, and Where It's 21
Cambodia has no enforced drinking age at all. Malaysia will fine a bar for serving a 20-year-old. A country-by-country breakdown of where Southeast Asia sets the line, and the law behind each number.
Weird Genius Turned a Vanishing Sumba Instrument Into Their Next International Single
Weird Genius spent two weeks on the Indonesian island of Sumba recording a disappearing traditional instrument for their new single, "Your Side." It's the same instinct that got 2020's "Lathi" signed to Astralwerks as the label's first act from Asia.
Gabber Modus Operandi Fused Gabber With Balinese Gamelan, and Björk Put Kasimyn on Fossora
Gabber Modus Operandi, the Bali duo who fused gabber with gamelan and jathilan trance, got the beat credit on four Björk Fossora tracks, plus a solo record that followed.
Thailand Arrested a DJ for Working Without a Permit, and Singapore Stopped Issuing Them at All
Thailand arrested an American DJ in Chiang Mai in June 2026, Singapore quietly stopped issuing its performer work pass, and Indonesia raided a Canggu nightclub over the same paperwork. This is the visa and work permit law for foreign DJs, country by country.
Where Southeast Asia's DJs Actually Buy House and Techno Vinyl
Bangkok's most famous record shop sells molam and luk thung. Singapore's best-known vinyl bar closed in 2020. Here is where Southeast Asia's house and techno DJs actually dig, city by city.
Thailand Still Sells Legal Weed With a Doctor's Prescription, While the Rest of Southeast Asia Bans It Outright
Thailand's weed shops are still open, but a 2025 law now requires a doctor's prescription to buy legally, and the rules get far stricter the moment you cross into a neighboring country.
Thailand and Vietnam Ban Vaping Outright: What You Can (and Can't) Smoke in Southeast Asia's Clubs
Southeast Asia's six biggest clubbing countries split evenly on vaping: Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore ban it outright, and Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines sell it legally. The law, country by country.
Thailand Scrapped Its Decades-Old Afternoon Alcohol Ban: What You Can (and Can't) Legally Drink Across Southeast Asia
For decades, 7-Eleven clerks across Thailand covered the beer fridge every afternoon at 2pm. That law is gone now. Here is what still applies, country by country, if you're planning a night out anywhere in Southeast Asia.
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.
Rostarr Wraps Bali's Potato Head Beach Club in His Biggest Mural Yet
On October 16, Desa Potato Head unveils a 1,644 square metre mural covering the Beach Club's entire facade, timed to an open-air party with Archie, Eric Duncan and a live gamelan ceremony.
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.
Logic Lost's Disposable Gods Pulls Senyawa Into Jakarta's Darkest Techno Record
Jakarta producer Dylan Amirio recruited Senyawa's Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi for Disposable Gods, the bleakest record of his decade-long Logic Lost project, released on the Bristol noise label Avon Terror Corps.
Surabaya's ANTI.TRUST Records Turned Dangdut Koplo and Breakcore Into a Genre Called Kenjeran Slap
ANTI.TRUST Records has run out of Surabaya since 2018, pressing breakcore, amen-break splits and dangdut koplo samples into a sound its roster now calls Kenjeran Slap, named after the city's working-class coastal district.
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.
Illuzion, Savaya and Zouk Singapore Rewrote DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs for 2026
Savaya broke into DJ Mag's top five, Thailand landed a record eight clubs, and Zouk Singapore keeps climbing. Every Southeast Asian name on the 2026 list, and who's missing from it.
Peels Records & Bar Is Where Bandung's House and Techno Scene Actually Lives
Bandung has produced disco archivists, Berlin-booked producers and the first Indonesian woman to DJ Panorama Bar, but it still doesn't have a dedicated house and techno club. The city's real scene runs through an orange-lit record bar, a handful of labels, and warehouse parties nobody advertises.
The H Club Jakarta Cracks DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs With NOAH and Agnez Mo, Not House DJs
The H Club debuts at No. 55 on DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs 2026, one of three new entries this year for owner Holywings Group. Its grand-opening month booked a rock band, a pop star and exactly one house DJ, which says something about what global recognition actually measures.
House Cartel Jakarta Gives Sunmantra's Jonathan Pardede a Solo Live Debut as Ugomo
Jonathan Pardede has spent a decade behind a wall of hardware as one third of Sunmantra. On October 2 at Le Cirque, House Cartel gives him the room alone, under a new name.
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.
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.
Ecilo Signed to Jeff Mills' Axis Records. Then He Built Indonesia a Techno Label of Its Own.
Ecilo's 2021 album on Jeff Mills' Axis Records was the easy part. What he built afterward, a Jakarta label and booking agency called Underradar, is the harder story.
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.
Manila vs Jakarta: Boiler Room Picked One City. DWP Built the Other.
Boiler Room has broadcast from Manila's underground twice. It has never officially broadcast from Jakarta. Jakarta, meanwhile, built the region's biggest dance festival. Two capitals, two very different bets on what a scene is for.