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New releases: tracks, EPs and albums from Asian producers and the international names shaping the region's dance floors.
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Yogyakarta's RAMPAK G Just Had Its Busiest Six Weeks Yet, From Pecinan Stroll to Sanjonas's New Album
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.
Limebócx Keeps Turning Classical Vietnamese Poetry Into Electronic Singles From Hanoi
Hanoi duo Limebócx and the label Thang Long Records have spent two years turning 19th-century Vietnamese poems and folk songs into electronic singles, the latest out October 2 on Bandcamp.
Taiwan's Over My Body Marks Five Years With Koma Vol. 2, an 11-Track Search for New Producers
Taipei label Over My Body turns five with Koma Vol. 2, an 11-track compilation built entirely from artists it had never worked with before, plus a label-only mix from founder B E N N.
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.
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.
NOTEP Turns Coral Reef Conservation Into a Six-Track Electronic EP
The Bangkok musician's 'Pakarang' trades club hooks for field recordings, Thai instruments and a working partnership with Coral Gardeners, named after the Thai word for coral.
Myrne: How Singapore's First Mad Decent Signee Rebuilt His Sound After His Father's Death
Diplo's Mad Decent signed Myrne off a SoundCloud page in 2015. Nine years, a Tomorrowland debut and a family loss later, the Singapore producer makes quieter, more personal electronic music instead.
Bani Haykal's New Album Turns 1950s Malay Film Comedy Into a Study of Colonial Violence
bani haykal's new album industri kelakar seram, out this week on Bandcamp, rebuilds dialogue from 1950s-80s Malay cinema over Moog synthesizers, a record built entirely at home around a Malay phrase for behaviour that's funny and threatening at once.
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.
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.
Rekids Just Hit Release No. 300. Robert Hood and Radio Slave Made It a First-Ever Collab.
"Radio Hood," out October 16, marks Rekids' 20th anniversary and 300th release, the first-ever team-up between Robert Hood and label boss Radio Slave, who has already played Bangkok's Sing Sing Theater and Singapore's Ritual series.
Sanjonas Made a Vow to Keep Making Music. RAMPAK G Releases the Proof on October 15.
Sanjonas' second album fuses gqom, marawis and lion dance music into a nine-track meditation on Javanese self-discipline. It lands October 15 on his own Yogyakarta label RAMPAK G.
Klasse Wrecks Named Its Debut EBM Duo Comply. The Opening Track Quotes RoboCop's Riot Robot.
Hong Kong label Klasse Wrecks' 62nd release is a debut EBM duo called Comply, and its opening track lifts ED-209's boardroom warning from RoboCop word for word.
BOTCASH Fuses Thai Pin Guitar With EDM. Tomorrowland Thailand Just Gave Him the Main Stage.
The Bangkok producer built a following by wiring the pin, a three-stringed Isan lute, into festival-scale EDM. In December, Tomorrowland's first Thailand edition puts that sound next to Martin Garrix and Swedish House Mafia.
Bandung's Bottlesmoker Once Played a Concert for Plants. Cahaya Proves They're Still Weird After 20 Years.
Twenty years after they started making electronic pop with toy instruments in Bandung, Bottlesmoker's new single Cahaya arrives as the second preview of a seventh album, still stubbornly self-released on Bandcamp.
Stargazing Records Turned a Vietnamese Pilgrimage Poem Into a House Hit. Damian Lazarus Played It in Ibiza.
The Ho Chi Minh City label just quietly dropped release number 23. Its earlier fusion of Vietnamese folk poetry and house music has already reached Buddha-Bar compilations and Damian Lazarus's Ibiza sets.
DJ Click Recorded Two Monks Praying Over Ambient Grooves Inside a Laos Temple
Two monks, a khen player and a French producer with a mobile studio made an album inside a working Vientiane temple. It's ambient, not techno, and it's the first Laos story this magazine has ever run.
Super Enjoy Started as a Lockdown Skate Crew. Its Ninth Release Mourns Singapore's Empty Strata Malls.
Singapore's Super Enjoy went from a no-plan lockdown DJ crew to a nine-record label. Its new Submersible EP is a dub techno love letter to the city's dying neighbourhood strata malls.
Dirty K Named Taiwan's Banned Rave Sound Taikebeat. DJ Love Remixed It.
A Nanjing producer just coined a name for the sound Taiwan's police raids tried to erase. A Filipino Budots pioneer signed on to remix it, and the pairing says more about Eastern Margins than any press release could.
Carl Cox Is Closing CÉ LA VI Singapore's Race Week. He'll Bring a Days-Old Remix With Him.
The techno veteran headlines CÉ LA VI's three-night Race Week programme on October 11, and he's already previewed the track he's likely to drop: his remix of Vikthor & Pianoalani's 'Legacy', out days ago on Intec.
Jun Regalado and Thandii Blend Manila Sound and UK Alt-Soul on Coco Okayo
The Philippines' most recorded drummer, credited on some 400 records since the 1970s, spent a January session in his home studio with a Margate duo. The result, Coco Okayo, landed on Sama Sama Records this month.
The Southeast Asian Record Labels You Should Know Right Now
Five Southeast Asian labels doing distinct, verifiable work in 2026: Singapore's veteran Darker Than Wax, Jakarta's House Cartel, Bangkok's vinyl-first More Rice Records, Manila's cross-border Twelve Points, and Yogyakarta's gqom experimenters RAMPAK G.
Bangkok's BEAM WONG AND FRIENDS Just Made Bandcamp Daily's Global Best-Of List
A four-piece from Bangkok just shared a Bandcamp Daily list with acts from Bristol, Kyiv and Sofia. The EP that got them there was recorded off a trip to a Japanese mountain town and a 1985 Thai film.
Bangkok's More Rice Records Drops a New EBM EP From DZ
Four tracks, no chorus, no streaming push. More Rice Records' newest release is a reminder that Bangkok's best-connected underground label still measures itself in wax, not playlist adds.