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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.
Sama Sama Records Just Gave a Lost 1980 Manila Jazz Record Its Second Life
A London DJ with Malaysian roots just launched a reissue label built for Asia-Pacific record collectors, and started with a 46-year-old Manila jazz-funk record nobody outside crate-digging circles had heard.
Ezzrei Taught Siargao to Rave. DJ Mag Just Named Her One to Watch
DJ Mag put Manila's Ezzrei on a list of six emerging artists worldwide this July, the only Southeast Asian name on it. She got there by seeding a rave scene alone on a surf island, then building the Philippines' first platform for bass music back in the capital.
The Best Record Stores for DJs in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia doesn't really have record shops built for house and techno the way Berlin or London does. What it has instead, city by city, is more interesting: soul, funk and reissue specialists who happen to stock the electronic stuff too.
Junoy Manalo's Inner Child Is Manila Deep House With No Label Behind It
Six tracks, zero labels, 356 Spotify listeners. Inner Child is what Manila house sounds like when nobody outside the city is watching.
The Best House and Techno Clubs in Manila, 2026 Edition
Manila's house and techno scene runs through five small rooms in Poblacion and Makati Cinema Square, from Apotheka's split-level policy to The Void's no-frills basement. Here's where to go, what it costs, and how to get home after.
UNKNWN Turns Ten: The Party That Outlasted Half of Manila's Clubs
While XX:XX, TIME, Today x FUTURE and Pineapple Lab all shut their doors, one Manila collective kept moving from room to room until it didn't need a room at all. Ten years and one 16-hour anniversary party later, UNKNWN is the closest thing the city's underground has to an institution.
Alinep's Rolyo EP Lands Manila Techno on a Berlin Label
Manila producer Alinep, a survivor of the club raids that gutted the city's nightlife in 2018, drops a new EP on Berlin's OFF Recordings and lands on Mixmag Asia's 2026 essential listening list.