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Features The vinyl straw: Why the vinyl industry is at breaking point The industry is at its strongest since the advent of the CD disk, so why has it become near-impossible to get music pressed onto wax?
Features The new sound of Taipei’s underground: Our Muzik selects 10 genre-fluid DJs coming up in the community From local talents to international transplants, a new generation of artists are working with Our Muzik to further Taiwan’s burgeoning house & techno scene
Features How your favourite genre got its name Explaining the origins of house, techno, dubstep and more
Features Highs & Lows: A successful career in dance music isn’t as easy as you think DJs tell us what happens when the hype dies or becomes too overwhelming
Features "We do exist": How virtual band Gorillaz sparked the live music industry back to life When music events returned, Gorillaz stole the show with two star-studded gigs. 20 years in, the Gorillaz cast of characters and collaborators epitomises music's power to inspire collective joy
Tech The Beosound A1 portable speaker adorns a bright metallic red as a tribute to Chinese heritage CLOT taps into their music roots on collab with Bang & Olufsen
Features Meet Afra Kane, the alternative voice of soul that’s taking over Café Carlyle Hong Kong for the holidays The Italian-Nigerian singer helms the stage behind the city's very special velvet curtain
Features A tropical peninsular with a hard sound: How Bass Agents created a home for hardstyle in Malaysia A genre that hides in the darkness of electronic music, with its heavy kicks & reverse bass — this is hardstyle
Fashion Herschel Supply x Yardbird collab on a winning formula: the perfect bag for your records & cold beverages The collab is the love child of a 20-year affair that started in Calgary & now born in Hong Kong
Features Nocturnal & neon: Photographer Greg Girard spent 30 years immortalizing Asia at night Arriving in Asia in 1974, his photographs offer a starry-eyed look into the early days of club culture & are currently on display in Hong Kong
Features Snug celebrates 5 years as Hanoi's queerest club night With a home base at Savage, the party welcomes the fabulous, the dancers, the kissers, the huggers, the homos, the queers, the posers & the bitches
Fashion Subversion met manga on the runway at Shanghai Fashion Week with SHUSHU/TONG's SS22 collection Designers Liushu Lei & Yutong Jiang took inspiration from 70s manga series Aim for the Ace!
The Guest List The Guest List: Felipe Gordon's top 11 "non-house bassline that influenced my sound" The deep house scene's man of the moment shares his most inspiring bass-heavy sounds
Features Quarantine in 10 questions: Xiaolin has landed in China The Hong Kong artist makes her China debut this weekend after 14 days in a state hotel
Features Cure yourself of Tarantism with Junoy Manalo Meet the Filipino psychedelic funk musician whose latest release nods to Daft Punk, St. Germain, Disclosure, Joey Negro/Dave Lee, Saint Guel, Chic, Khruangbin & more
Interviews Fuelled by freedom: Nightmares on Wax has made the soulful soundtrack to a reopening world Ralph Moore flew to Ibiza to meet George Evelyn in his natural habitat to talk soundsystem culture, the impact of a cancer scare, and why his latest LP may be his best yet
Features Listen to a playlist of women & non-binary artists shaping the face of dance music in 2021 Curated by all-female record label SOS Music
The Guest List The Guest List: Flight Facilities reveal 10 tracks that inspired their new album, Forever The Aussie duo found their ideas in Daft Punk, Madonna, Loose Joints & Underworld