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13 articles on Vinyl 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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Where Southeast Asia's DJs Actually Buy House and Techno Vinyl
Bangkok's most famous record shop sells molam and luk thung. Singapore's best-known vinyl bar closed in 2020. Here is where Southeast Asia's house and techno DJs actually dig, city by city.
Barbosa Is Turning a Siargao Surf Shop Into the Philippines' Best Vinyl Bar
Above a surf shop in General Luna, a record collection built from donated crates and a Friday night called Bread and Butter are trying to make Siargao a destination for more than waves. Three years in, it's working.
Vinyl vs Digital DJing: What Southeast Asia's Clubs Actually Expect
Nearly every working club in Southeast Asia runs the same Pioneer CDJs found everywhere else. Vinyl hasn't disappeared, it just moved to a different kind of room.
Bandung's Peels Records & Bar Takes Its Sound to India for the First Time
The Bandung record store, sound room and cocktail bar plays Mumbai, Delhi and Goa this October, its first shows outside Indonesia.
Klasse Wrecks Named Its Debut EBM Duo Comply. The Opening Track Quotes RoboCop's Riot Robot.
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.
ThaiBeats: Thailand's Ministry of Culture Just Backed a Vinyl Record for Sunju Hargun and 11 Producers
Thailand's government has spent years enforcing curfews on underground parties. This year it wrote checks to twelve of the producers who play them, and pressed the results onto vinyl bound for six countries.
The Southeast Asian Record Labels You Should Know Right Now
Five Southeast Asian labels doing distinct, verifiable work in 2026: Singapore's veteran Darker Than Wax, Jakarta's House Cartel, Bangkok's vinyl-first More Rice Records, Manila's cross-border Twelve Points, and Yogyakarta's gqom experimenters RAMPAK G.
Bangkok's More Rice Records Drops a New EBM EP From DZ
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.
Sama Sama Records Just Gave a Lost 1980 Manila Jazz Record Its Second Life
A London DJ with Malaysian roots just launched a reissue label built for Asia-Pacific record collectors, and started with a 46-year-old Manila jazz-funk record nobody outside crate-digging circles had heard.
Soundkoh Collective's Debut Sent One Bangkok Love Song to Korea and Germany
Thai vocalist Chucheewa Cheepchoke and producer Vichaya Vatanasapt wrote a stripped-back love song called Galactic Love. Their new label Soundkoh Collective's first release turns it into six versions, remixed across Thailand, Korea and Germany.
Habibi Funk Went Looking for Malaysian Gambus. It Found a Buried State Radio Jazz Archive Instead.
Habibi Funk's new sister label Audible Beauty has debuted with two reissues pulled from Radio Television Malaysia's 1960s and 70s jazz archive, Alfonso Soliano's Tiga Trombone and Johari Salleh's Jazz Dari Angkasapuri, licensed with help from Kuala Lumpur's Sputnik Rekordz.
The Best Record Stores for DJs in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia doesn't really have record shops built for house and techno the way Berlin or London does. What it has instead, city by city, is more interesting: soul, funk and reissue specialists who happen to stock the electronic stuff too.
The Best Listening Bars and Record Bars in Bangkok and Tokyo
No DJ booth, no dance floor, just a serious hi-fi rig and a wall of records. A guide to the listening bars and record bars actually worth the taxi fare in Bangkok and Tokyo.