Artists exciting us in 2025 / November

Asia's underground scene continues to flourish, a testament to its boundless creativity and ever-expanding influence.

With a treasure trove of talent scattered across the region and its diaspora, we’re thrilled to keep discovering fresh faces that might not be on your radar...yet.

In the spirit of sharing, Mixmag Asia will be featuring a number of arguably under-the-radar artists who are currently making exciting noise in—and freshly out of—their respective scenes.

Get ready to mark those calendars and upgrade those playlists; you’ll thank us later.

Eulalie has been quietly bending reality at the edges, weaving her own vocals, production, and hardware performances into a soft-lit, introspective universe that’s earned love from BBC Radio 6, NTS, InterFM897, plus collaborators across Europe and Asia. From the lo-fi pulse of ‘Car Blinker’ to the cinematic ‘A Day at the Videodrome’ and her cross-border collab ‘Dreaming Machines’, she’s built a catalogue where dreampunk shimmer, leftfield pop hooks, and Björk-meets-Portishead atmospherics collide in all the right ways. She’s also known for her immersive live performances that highlight Japanese pop culture and create dreamlike worlds, plus runs an independent web radio, Somnyan. Her latest release comes in the for of ‘Escapism’, her debut on French label Ano Ano. It’s a four-track trip that leans even deeper into her transportive, world-melting vibe, teeming with delicate electronica.

Embodying the contemporary multidisciplinary artist, OKTAPUSS is an Indonesian photographer, DJ and promoter based in Bali. Whether it’s through his glossy sex-positive photography (which boasts some of the best AI use we’ve seen) or via various music scene endeavours, imagination and representation are the heart of this creative. When it comes to OKTAPUSS’ music style, expect genres with a harder edge like breaks, ghetto-tech and acid, which the DJ often brings to his REACTOR sets, the underground collective he is a founding member of. And how is OKTAPUSS wrapping up the year? With an India tour in December that just got confirmed. Nice.

Organ Tapes (also known in clubland as DJ Corpmane) is a London- and Shanghai-rooted artist whose sound blends layered guitars, MIDI glimmer, field-recorded grit, and tender autotuned vocals into something both intimate and slyly dance-adjacent. With acclaimed releases like ‘唱着那无人问津的歌谣 / Chang Zhe Na Wu Ren Wen Jin De Ge Yao’, the self-released ‘Plenty Wine In The Cup’ EP, and earlier records on TT and Genome 6.66mbp, he’s carved out a catalogue that electronic-music heads speak about with quiet reverence. His DJ Corpmane edits and monthly NTS show only extend the world he’s building, flipping between club pressure and soft-focus introspection. With a new EP dropping early 2026 and a long-tuned-up album set to follow (plus a rare upcoming live set in Singapore next month), he’s gearing up for an even heavier next chapter.

Bangkok’s Tanat Teeradakorn is about as multi-disciplinary as it gets. A musician, DJ, designer and researcher, his work sprawls across performance, text, print, installation and design, often making the audience an integral part of whatever he’s creating. He’s taking it beyond Thailand, and he’s gearing up for an art residency in Shanghai next year with CHERUBY, followed shortly after by another in Paris alongside a European tour. On the music front, his recent LP on Chinabot, ‘NATIONAL OPERA COMPLEX’ is a standout. Originally conceived for a solo exhibition in London under the same name, the record is structured as a five-act opera, drawing from five seminal songs pivotal to Thailand’s activist history. It’s a madhouse…in all the right ways.

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