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23 articles on Jakarta from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
23 articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
Southeast Asia's Drum and Bass Scene Lives in Bangkok's Jungle Jam BKK and Bali's Locus Festival
Singapore built Southeast Asia's biggest drum and bass night in the 2000s, then lost it when Home Club closed in 2014. The genre didn't die, it just relocated to a five-year-old Bangkok promoter, a 1999 Jakarta soundsystem crew and a four-day festival on a Bali beach.
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.
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.
DWP 2026 Books Axwell Λ Ingrosso and Dimitri Vegas for December's Return to Jakarta
A month after confirming Galantis as its comeback headliner, Djakarta Warehouse Project dropped fourteen more names, from Axwell Λ Ingrosso to Afrojack, for its December return to JIEXPO Kemayoran.
How Dipha Barus's Pon Your Tone Became Underblok Festival
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.
How Clubbing Changes During Ramadan in Malaysia and Indonesia
Jakarta closes its nightclubs by government order for the entire holy month. Bali, a Hindu-majority island in the same country, doesn't change a thing. Malaysia sits somewhere in between, depending entirely on which state you're standing in. Here's the actual rulebook.
Raw Vision Collective Threw Jeff Mills a 30th-Anniversary Show in Jakarta. Then They Booked Ye.
In May, Raw Vision Collective put Jeff Mills behind the decks at a small Jakarta club for the 30th anniversary of his most famous mix. In October, the same crew puts Ye on a stage at a 77,000-seat stadium. That jump says something about where Southeast Asian promoters are headed.
Archie Closed the Mixmag Lab's Jakarta Debut. He's Also a KLYMAX Resident in Bali.
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.
The Rise of Indonesian House Music: From Jakarta's Underground to Bali's Booths
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.
After a Decade of Singles, Jakarta's Cyda Finally Gets His Debut Album
Eri Septian has been releasing tracks under the name Cyda since 2016, scattered across half a dozen small labels. It took a Paris imprint called Minitel to finally give him a full album: nine tracks of 90s progressive house dressed up as a fake in-flight announcement.
Jakarta's House Cartel Turn Their Decade-Old DJ Crew Into a Record Label
House Cartel spent over a decade as outsiders fighting Jakarta's big room dominance from the DJ booth. Now the collective has quietly turned itself into a label, House Cartel Records, two EPs deep and counting.
Hajar Asyura Scores Indonesian Horror Films by Day. His Techno Project Just Beat the World on Bandcamp.
As 8110118, Jakarta film composer Hajar Asyura just released Jiwa Krungu, the only Southeast Asian record on Bandcamp Daily's global best electronic list for July.
The Best House and Techno Clubs in Jakarta, 2026 Edition
Jakarta's house and techno rooms are real, they're just hiding in office towers and mall basements. A working guide to Vault, Le Cirque, Zodiac and the mega-clubs, with what's actually still open in 2026.
Mixmag Asia and Patrón Are Turning a Jakarta Dinner Into a Club Night
Five courses, three tequila pours and a DJ lineup pulled from Jakarta, Bangkok and Bali: The Pursuit debuts at Le Cirque on August 26, the first of a recurring series from Mixmag Asia and Patrón Tequila.
DWP 2026 Returns to Jakarta: Dates, Tickets and First Names Confirmed
Djakarta Warehouse Project heads back to the capital on December 11 to 13, 2026, with Galantis leading the first names, presale tickets from IDR 1.700K and a Bali send-off party at Cafe Del Mar on August 16.
Yousuke Yukimatsu: From Osaka Underground to Opening for The Weeknd
Osaka born DJ and producer Yousuke Yukimatsu rose from the underground to global recognition after a viral Boiler Room Tokyo set and a powerful comeback from serious illness. He now opens for The Weeknd in Tokyo, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur.