
The Budots Three Turned Davao City's Most Mocked Sound Into a London Record Deal
DJ Love, DJ Danz and DJ Ericnem spent decades getting laughed at for budots. A London label, a Boiler Room comeback and a joint album later, nobody's laughing.
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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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DJ Love, DJ Danz and DJ Ericnem spent decades getting laughed at for budots. A London label, a Boiler Room comeback and a joint album later, nobody's laughing.

Bandung producer Munir has spent over a decade digging up and re-splicing Indonesia's forgotten 1970s and 80s disco records, from a Cultures of Soul compilation named after Jakarta's first discotheque to his own synth-driven Komputer EP.

Six tracks, zero labels, 356 Spotify listeners. Inner Child is what Manila house sounds like when nobody outside the city is watching.

Tokyo's Hoshina Anniversary spent five years fusing techno with Japanese traditional instruments under the name watechno. His answer to what comes next: remix the whole album himself, label every BPM, and give it away with no label attached.

A Bangkok label samples 90s ghost-show intros and Buddhist chanting over four-to-the-floor drums and calls it Thai house. A UK label is now pressing it to vinyl.

Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon Soul Revival release their third album, Chốn Ta Về, on September 11 via Saigon Supersound.

PNNY has hosted Boiler Room twice and brought HÖR Berlin to Bali for the first time. It took until July 2026, and a four-track EP called Maria Full of Grace, for the collective to release music of its own.

A Yogyakarta-rooted label is taking South Africa's log-drum sound and running it through gendang and Indonesian folk texture. Symbiotic II is the proof, and Mixmag Asia noticed too.

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.

Travy, Elzzz and Fred again.. release the single that started on a Dublin Twitch stream, debuted live before 8,000 people at RDS Simmonscourt, and starred in an Apple TV+ concert special.

Melé pushes house into new territory with So High, bringing in UK rapper Jords and live guitar from Wonky Logic. Out now on Defected, the track blends hip hop energy, jazz influence, and club rhythm into one of the most distinctive releases of 2026 and a strong signal of what is coming on his upcoming album.

Stop everything you are doing. Ruback, Be No Rain and 1Line just dropped Wherever You Are on ERRORR and your speakers deserve this right now. Go listen now.

Meduza, Italy's biggest streaming act of all time and Grammy-nominated trio, released "Don't Wanna Go Home" featuring vocals from Henry Camamile during Miami Music Week on Island Records, March 25, 2026. The final song of the night is always a bittersweet moment – a culmination of energy and togetherness, yet, at the same time, a shared refusal to accept that it has to end. It's this feeling that Meduza seek to capture on "Don't Wanna Go Home".

New Jersey House Icon DJ Dove drops his Third Album 'The Underdog' Celebrates Four Decades In Underground House Music. The third full-length album released on Grind City Recordings in February 2026.

Dutch house sensation Chris Stussy continues his remarkable 2026 run as his latest single "Darkness (Original Mix)" has been featured on Beatport's Best New Deep House: March 2026 chart. The track, released March 13 via his own Up The Stuss imprint, serves as the lead single from his highly anticipated debut album Lost, Found & Forgotten…, due April 3 . Clocking in at 132 BPM with taut percussion and rolling low-end pressure, "Darkness" exemplifies the groove-focused, dance floor-ready sound that has made Stussy one of the most in-demand names in contemporary house music.

Kristin Velvet returns to Mother Recordings with a new remix of “Feel Blessed,” bringing her signature drum-driven house approach to the label’s catalog. The release reinforces the imprint’s ongoing focus on DJ-ready club tools.

David Guetta and Hypaton have released “Walked Away”. The single is available now as a two track package on Apple Music, with an official visualizer on YouTube.

A rare release that is explicitly built for gradual, DJ-friendly tension, with both a full version and a radio edit officially available