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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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A beach city known for seafood restaurants and package tours has had a real techno collective throwing weekly nights since 2019. This August a radio festival with Ken Ishii on the bill finally noticed.
"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.
Every euro from Charlotte de Witte's new EP goes to a nonprofit fighting to keep clubs open worldwide. Its own research points straight at Bangkok and Vietnam.
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.
My Own Shadow – Album lands November 13 on !K7, Marcel Dettmann's first full-length since 2022. The Berghain resident spent years skipping Thailand entirely before his first Bangkok set in 2019.
Resident Advisor's 25th-anniversary tour lands at Tokyo club HVEN on October 3rd, with DJ MARIA. topping a bill five days ahead of the tour's Taipei stop.
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.
Richie Hawtin has left WME after fifteen years for Dixon's artist-owned TS Agency, a bet on independent structure over conglomerate scale. He'd already made a similar bet on Southeast Asia: Bangkok's More Rice Records and Singapore's Nino Blink.
In a Chiang Mai workshop, Pete Wallis builds the only Eurorack modular synthesizers made in Thailand, and performs the results live as Red Drum.
Nine days before its debut, KAJE has its lineup, its ticket prices and a pitch nobody else in Bali is making: house and techno with a view of Mount Agung instead of the sea.
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.
Hong Kong doesn't have a techno neighborhood or much room for one. Shanda built a sold-out party series there anyway, then left for the city that has both, and hasn't stopped looking back.
The Japanese techno veteran pulled the fader down mid-set after fans grabbed his USBs and wrapped their arms around him for photos. As Southeast Asia's own rooms start booking artists of his stature, the incident is a warning shot.
Thailand's own techno pioneer heads home for EDC Thailand's December 18-20 edition after a Phase 2 update that also adds Kaskade, Tiesto and a wave of regional talent.
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 Mongolian techno pioneer who has played the Great Wall and ADE spent Saturday night behind the decks of a shophouse-sized bar on Haji Lane, the latest sign that Southeast Asia's smallest rooms are booking some of its most well-travelled names.
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.
808 Festival's Phase 2 lineup adds hardware-only Italian duo 999999999 and live artist Giorgia Angiuli to a Bangkok bill that already has Illenium and W&W. October 2-3 at BITEC.
In May, Raw Vision Collective put Jeff Mills behind the decks at a small Jakarta club for the 30th anniversary of his most famous mix. In October, the same crew puts Ye on a stage at a 77,000-seat stadium. That jump says something about where Southeast Asian promoters are headed.
The Greek producer behind "Tataki" and "Sierra" headlines Zouk's Mainroom on October 9, the Friday of Singapore's F1 weekend, as The Circuit series pairs the Grand Prix with a serious techno booking for once.
Marcus L started with illegal rooftop raves he was tired of packing up after every party. Twelve years later, his Itaewon club has residents who stayed a decade and its own night at Amsterdam's Radion.
Taipei's scene is small, specific and doesn't advertise itself. Here's where the city's house and techno actually happens in 2026: a Funktion-One basement, a spectacle-driven megaclub, a 200-capacity room built on its own label, and a free party in a public park.
In 2020, Bangkok producer Marmosets turned a complaint every promoter in the city has muttered at 1:45am into a spoken-word techno single. Six years and one high-profile raid later, Krungthep Ratree hasn't dated a day.
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.