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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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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, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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, the Bali duo who fused gabber with gamelan, got a beat credit on Björk's Fossora, plus a solo record that followed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 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'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.
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.
Dekmantel's first Southeast Asia show ran fifteen hours across Potato Head Bali and Klymax on September 26, ending with Avalon Emerson's first Southeast Asian set.
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.