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Where Southeast Asia's Warehouse and DIY Parties Actually Happen
Djakarta Warehouse Project borrowed the word for a stadium-sized festival. The actual warehouse and DIY scene is smaller, scrappier, and scattered across converted shophouses, a former cinema, and a small club above a Poblacion sidewalk.
999999999 Headline BLAK Arena's Return to Kuala Lumpur
A year after selling out Mega Star Arena, Evolution Events Asia's hard techno festival returns with Italian duo 999999999 headlining The Arch Galeries on October 3.
KYO Kuala Lumpur Built a Techno Room Inside a Five-Star Hotel Basement
Three floors under the Mandarin Oriental in Kuala Lumpur, KYO built a concrete DJ booth to survive a tank and blew half its budget on a sound system Seth Troxler called possibly the best in the world. A decade later, its techno room Ren is still running.
Habibi Funk Went Looking for Malaysian Gambus. It Found a Buried State Radio Jazz Archive Instead.
Habibi Funk's new sister label Audible Beauty has debuted with two reissues pulled from Radio Television Malaysia's 1960s and 70s jazz archive, Alfonso Soliano's Tiga Trombone and Johari Salleh's Jazz Dari Angkasapuri, licensed with help from Kuala Lumpur's Sputnik Rekordz.
Malaysia Got Its First-Ever Stage at SXSW, and a Techno Producer Closed the Night
Zamaera self-funded the first national Malaysian showcase in SXSW's history. The lineup was mostly rap, R&B and indie folk, but the set that closed it belonged to a techno producer nobody outside Malaysia had heard of yet.
Sara Landry Headlines TELETECH's Kuala Lumpur Debut on September 25
TELETECH's first Malaysia show lands at XOX Arena on September 25, with hard techno's biggest global draw headlining a night built around Kuala Lumpur's own scene.
The Best House and Techno Clubs in Kuala Lumpur, 2026 Edition
Boiler Room finally showed up in November 2025. Kuala Lumpur's house and techno rooms, from TREC's megaclub sprawl to a basement that's been running since 2014, didn't need the invitation. A room-by-room guide with real prices and how to get home.
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.