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4 articles on Yangon from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
4 articles
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.
Groove Culture Is Teaching Yangon to Love House Music, Curfew and All
Five friends built Myanmar's leading house music collective out of a coup, a curfew and an empty dance floor. Groove Culture's parties, including a 1,000-person rave on an abandoned office floor, are proof Yangon's scene never needed the tourists to come back.
Red Room's SADDAR NO Compilation Put Yangon's Techno Scene on Record
In April 2024, Yangon's Red Room club put its own scene on record: twelve local producers, one compilation, no label behind it. Two years into a civil war, the room that made it is still open.
LnHD Learned to DJ in Yangon's Underground. Her Techno Now Plays Phnom Penh and Berlin
She learned to DJ from a stranger on the third floor of a family bar in Yangon during blackouts and curfew. Now Lynn Nandar Htoo, known as LnHD, throws femme-led parties on Phnom Penh's Bassac Lane, co-runs a platform for Southeast Asian women producers, and has played Berlin's CTM Festival.