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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Scottish DJ who cut his teeth at a Glasgow basement club has spent the last year turning Singapore's underground into a launchpad. Richie Hawtin, Pan-Pot, Dax J and Paco Osuna all played the same record.
Twelve Points Records turns two with Pathways II, a homeward-leaning follow-up to the compilation that once pulled Bangkok and Hanoi into its Manila catalogue.
A New Jersey producer built two EPs out of Filipino gongs, budots swing and East Coast jersey club, and opened the credits by naming the Davao DJ who invented the sound he's borrowing.
Symbiotic III sent one folder of sounds to five producers in Indonesia and Mexico and let them fight it out. The Yogyakarta label built on gamelan and Durban gqom just released the results.
The German techno DJ's first release under her new Universal Music and Island Berlin deal is out now. Her only confirmed Southeast Asia show this year so far was Marquee Singapore, in January.
Jongmin Lee has run Oslated from Jeju Island since 2016, no club scene required. The label's 10th anniversary compilation, split across two volumes, pairs Korean and international artists in ambient, dub and organic techno.
Leo Cheng makes music as FINGERGAP, forcing romantic Cantonese pop ballads into Chicago footwork's 160BPM syncopation. DJ Mag just named him one to watch, on the back of a new single built around Hong Kong's own housing estates.
Funtime's debut EP names every track after a nightclub from Eurobeat's golden age, and closes on Akasaka, the Denpasar mega-club that stayed shuttered for seven years over a drug trafficking bust before reopening in 2024.
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.
bani haykal's new record turns bicycle frames into more than 90% of its sound. Every sale of the Strange Weather Dunia cassette goes to Palestine solidarity groups.
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.
Nineteen years after co-founding the Korean electro-rock trio Idiotape, Dguru has started his own label, Sangsu Records, built around Seoul's club and live scenes and the sounds that don't fit neatly into either.
Thai vocalist Chucheewa Cheepchoke and producer Vichaya Vatanasapt wrote a stripped-back love song called Galactic Love. Their new label Soundkoh Collective's first release turns it into six versions, remixed across Thailand, Korea and Germany.
The two Colombian-heritage producers built their first extended collaboration from a 2024 meeting in Mexico City. It lands on Domino's Smugglers Way, out now, vinyl remixes due in November.
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.
On Book of Spells, New Jersey producer WILHELMINA folds tikbalang mythology, Bisaya vocals and a Filipino illustrator's occult artwork into jersey club and techno, then goes further on a new pan-Southeast Asian club compilation.
Maggie Tra's new single 'Holding On' is a house track about losing her Cambodian mother, made by an artist who learned to DJ in Hanoi and now runs her own label, Pho The Girls Records.
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.