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5 articles on Unmute from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
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Ho Chi Minh City's Observatory Closes in October. Hanoi Gets One Last Night With It on September 25.
The Observatory, one of Ho Chi Minh City's longest-running clubs, shuts for good at the end of October. Five weeks out, founding resident Dan Lo takes its sound north for a takeover at Hanoi's Unmute.
Diskonnected Plays Hanoi's Cuốn Club This Friday, No RA World Tour Needed
While RA's anniversary tour picked Taipei over every Southeast Asian capital, Hanoi's Unmute booked a Smoke Machine-affiliated techno DJ for a normal Friday night, no world tour required.
Thugshop Closed Its 10-Year Singapore Club in May. Its Replacement Just Booked a Berghain Regular.
Six weeks after shutting Headquarters, the crew reopened one unit over as Exit Reality. On Saturday it hosts Paula Koski's Singapore debut, in a party series with Hanoi's Unmute that predates the closure by two years.
Hanoi's House and Techno Guide: Unmute, Mirage and the Scene Holding On Through the Raids
House and techno in Hanoi now runs through Unmute and Mirage, and a handful of bars and burger counters doing a club's job, as the scene adapts to a nitrous oxide ban and near-routine police raids.
Hanoi's Most Important Club Is Gone. The Underground Found New Rooms Anyway
Savage, the club that built Hanoi's house and techno scene, closed for an opera house. A nitrous-oxide crackdown followed, and Equation Festival didn't survive the year. The scene didn't stop, it just got harder to find.