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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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Bangkok's APT 101 hosts Disco Diaries, now in its tenth chapter, inside a room styled after a 1970s New York penthouse. Indonesia's revival looks different: Munir has spent over a decade re-editing lost Indonesian disco records rather than running a club night around them.
Istoria's 2026 edition takes over Lombok's Living Asia Resort for four days of electronic music, sound healing and Balinese craft workshops, with its First Release limited to 20 passes.
In 2020, Indonesian duo Random Brothers built a track around the Indonesian word for slave. By 2024, they were on REVOLT, the compilation that got Charlotte de Witte and Joseph Capriati watching Indonesia's techno scene.
RAMPAK G put out a single and a full album in six weeks. The album, Sanjonas's Ngelmu Tirakat, turns a Javanese spiritual vow into deconstructed gqom, marawis and lion dance percussion.
Pavilion East, a full-day Mixmag Asia takeover at Amsterdam Dance Event on October 22, puts Jakarta techno producer Ecilo and Bali's Gibs on a panel about why Southeast Asian artists still struggle to get booked in Europe.
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.
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 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, the Bali duo who fused gabber with gamelan, got a beat credit on Björk's Fossora, plus a solo record that followed.
Thailand arrested an American DJ in Chiang Mai for working without a permit.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.