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Techno in Asia: warehouse parties, hard and melodic strands, label news and the crews building the scene in Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Tokyo and Seoul.
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WOMB's Techno Night Session Turns 25 in Tokyo, and Bart Skils Is Headlining
Session, the long-running techno residency at Shibuya's WOMB, hits its 25th year tonight with Drumcode's Bart Skils on the main floor and three stages running until 4:30am.
Random Brothers Turned a Protest Track About Modern Slavery Into a Place on Indonesia's First Techno Compilation
In 2020, Indonesian duo Random Brothers built a track around the Indonesian word for slave. By 2024, they were on REVOLT, the compilation that got Charlotte de Witte and Joseph Capriati watching Indonesia's techno scene.
Jakarta's Ecilo and Bali's Gibs Take Southeast Asia's Underground to Amsterdam Dance Event
Pavilion East, a full-day Mixmag Asia takeover at Amsterdam Dance Event on October 22, puts Jakarta techno producer Ecilo and Bali's Gibs on a panel about why Southeast Asian artists still struggle to get booked in Europe.
Sofi Airlines Turns Boeing and Airbus Cockpit Controls Into Musical Instruments at Tokyo's Intergalactic Festival
SOFI AIRLINES, a live performance built from upcycled Boeing and Airbus cockpit hardware, makes its Japan premiere on October 17, 2026 at INTERGALACTIC: PLANETFALL, a three-day forest festival in the mountains west of Tokyo.
What Is Hard Techno? Sara Landry, BLAK Arena and the Genre Southeast Asia Can't Stop Booking
Sara Landry played Kuala Lumpur and Singapore back to back in September. BLAK Arena's first Kuala Lumpur night alone drew 5,500 people. The genre behind Southeast Asia's hardest booking streak of the year, and what's actually driving it.
Midnight Shift Has Spent Over a Decade Resisting Singapore's EDM Boom, One Party at a Time
Midnight Shift started as a reaction against Singapore's EDM-chasing clubs: house and techno parties that refused to announce headliners. More than a decade on, its roster, its Modal nights and its newest tattoo-and-techno crossover are still running.
Vietnam's House and Techno Scene, Explained: What's Happening in Hanoi and Saigon Right Now
Savage Hanoi lost its villa to a government redevelopment, and Saigon's longest-running club closes this month too. What's replacing them, and where to actually hear house and techno in Vietnam right now.
Petar Dundov Headlines a Tokyo Techno Night With Hanoi's Yanes on the Bill
Hanoi party series HUM's co-founder Yanes joins Croatian techno veteran Petar Dundov on VENT Tokyo's October 17 bill, a small but concrete sign that Vietnam's underground scene is starting to travel.
Inside Southeast Asia's Club Sound System Arms Race: KYO's Void Rig, Zouk Singapore's New L-Acoustics Install
Seth Troxler called KYO Kuala Lumpur's Void Acoustics rig the best sound system in the world. Here is how it compares to Zouk Singapore's new L-Acoustics install, Savaya's unpublicized system and Illuzion Phuket's Vegas-style Outline rig.
Gabber Modus Operandi Fused Gabber With Balinese Gamelan, and Björk Put Kasimyn on Fossora
Gabber Modus Operandi, the Bali duo who fused gabber with gamelan and jathilan trance, got the beat credit on four Björk Fossora tracks, plus a solo record that followed.
Xhin Is One of the Only Asian Artists to Have Played Berghain, and Singapore Still Barely Knows His Name
Xhin has released on Stroboscopic Artefacts and CLR, been remixed by Surgeon, and is one of only a handful of Asian artists to have played Berghain, Tresor and Paris's Concrete. In Singapore, almost nobody knows his name.
MI/EN Took a Sold-Out London Techno Night and Brought It Home to Kuala Lumpur
Justine Mei Ern built her name on London dancefloors and a Pioneer DJ training programme. Mixmag Asia just named her one of 2026's artists to watch, and she's back in Kuala Lumpur running a sold-out psychedelic techno night and teaching the next generation on open decks nights.
Epizode, the Festival That Made Phu Quoc Vietnam's Biggest Dance Floor, Has Been Dark for Six Years
Carl Cox, Peggy Gou and Nina Kraviz all played Epizode's eleven-day beach festival on Phu Quoc. Its last edition ran in January 2020, and nobody ever said why it didn't come back.
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.
Berlin BKK Put Bangkok's Newest Techno Room on the Fifth Floor of a Japanese Discount Store
Bangkok's techno scene keeps colonizing buildings nobody designed for it. The latest is the fifth floor of a Donki discount mall in Ekkamai, where Berlin BKK runs hard techno past the instant noodles.
BLAK's Second Edition Brought 999999999 and Fatima Hajji to a Kuala Lumpur Arena
999999999 and Fatima Hajji headlined BLAK's second Kuala Lumpur edition at Xox Arena on October 3, Evolution Events Asia's hard techno night that drew roughly 5,500 people to its first run last November.
Argy and Adam Beyer Turned Vietnam's Independence Palace Into a Dancefloor
Argy and Adam Beyer turned Ho Chi Minh City's Independence Palace, the building a tank crashed through to end the Vietnam War, into a 4,000-person dancefloor on October 2, the only Southeast Asian date on Argy's NEWORLD tour.
Muttiah Ashnim Built Underground Techno Scenes in Six Southeast Asian Countries, Then Left for Germany
For years, Muttiah Ashnim's collective Into The Deep built techno dancefloors in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. In 2024 she shut it down, moved to Germany, and started over as a solo producer.
What B2B Means in a DJ Lineup, and Why Bangkok's 808 Festival Booked Three of Them
B2B stands for back-to-back: two DJs sharing one set instead of two solo hours. Bangkok's 808 Festival has booked three exclusive pairings for October, and one of them already produced a Wu-Tang-sampling single.
House Music vs. Techno: What Sunju Hargun and Dipha Barus Actually Sound Like
House and techno get used interchangeably by people who should know better. This piece breaks down what separates Chicago's groove from Detroit's machine, and where to hear the split done right in Southeast Asia.
House Cartel Jakarta Gives Sunmantra's Jonathan Pardede a Solo Live Debut as Ugomo
Jonathan Pardede has spent a decade behind a wall of hardware as one third of Sunmantra. On October 2 at Le Cirque, House Cartel gives him the room alone, under a new name.
Miko Naiko Learned to DJ From YouTube Tutorials in Ipoh. ALIGN.ONLINE Got Her to Pestapora Jakarta.
Miko Naiko taught herself to DJ off YouTube tutorials in Ipoh, Malaysia's 'City of Music.' A Southeast Asian women's network got her onto the bill at Pestapora, Jakarta's biggest festival.
Marquee Singapore Books Hard Techno's Nico Moreno to Open Its Biggest October Yet
Marquee Singapore's October calendar opens October 2 with hard techno specialist Nico Moreno, then runs through FISHER, Diplo, Anyma, Martin Garrix and two Halloween nights at Marina Bay Sands.
Kangkao Spent Four Years Building Bangkok's Rawest Techno Room. Now DUAL Runs It Most Weekends.
The DIY collective that turned a 900-square-meter concrete shell in Trinity Complex into Bangkok's most honest techno night just turned four. Its old room now belongs to a new club most Friday and Saturday nights.