New Releases - Mixmag Asia

‘Mental Sunshine’ is in between the dancefloor and the chillout room

SYEYL’s latest EP, ‘Mental Sunshine’, is out via 17 Steps

Migrant dives into darker territories on new breakbeat single ‘Suppressed’

Nostalgia & forward-thinking club energy mixed in a barrage of sound

Strange Fruit reinvent their sound on new electronic-forward single ‘Iridescent’

“If we kept making guitar-based music like before, this band would have died.”

Manchineel push their live-driven techno forward on ‘Kugelblitz’ EP

The improvisational duo channel their fluid, unpredictable performance style into two fast-paced, tightly-engineered tracks

Dub Container & LeftRight Sound unite on soulful house roller ‘In The Name of Love’

Classic warmth meets club pressure on this collaborative two-version Jakarta release

Dan Nguyen once again revives the forgotten era of Vietnamese new wave

Four projects (an exhibition, art book, t-shirt, & compilation) celebrate the underground scene that gave Vietnamese Americans a voice in the ’80s & ’90s

Jonathan Kusuma sharpens his edge on new EP ‘Bank The Drums’

Four tracks of deep, percussive club music that show just how far his sound has evolved, built for both the floor & the headphones

Blue Ringed Baby & Kamī’s ‘Forever Chemicals’ drifts through genres & feelings

In an age of overstimulation, the duo’s debut LP creates space to breathe with a lush fusion of breakbeats, ambience & glowing vocals

Javanese tradition meets ambient experimentation in ‘Dreaming in Gamelan’

The album features hand-built instruments, soft piano tones & smooth atmospheric details mixed in Dolby Atmos

Rosalía teams up with Björk and Yves Tumor on new track ‘Berghain’

It lands ahead of the release of Rosalía’s fourth studio album ‘LUX’

Taste of Blue returns after studio fire with label’s first release

The Hong Kong-based artist channels renewal through music, with an original track by Domina plus a remix out via Prion Era

Armin van Buuren goes acoustic with new album ‘Piano’

Inspired by his classical background, the project features 15 piano compositions recorded in one take at ConcertLab

Wata Igarashi lands on Dekmantel with the full techno velocity of ‘My Supernova’

Dropping next month, the Dutch label album debut amps up his signature arpeggios & rhythms, led by ‘Shockwave’ & ‘Unleashed’

Uman Therma’s ‘Terracotta’ is a hypnotic solo debut

The half of Seoul duo Salamanda dives into ambient textures & cinematic tension

The Blessed Madonna gives Chicago house-inspired remix to Hikaru Utada’s ‘Mine or Yours’

The GODSQUAD Mix vinyl drops next month, along with Hikaru Utada’s SCIENCE FICTION TOUR 2024 concert film across Taiwan’s Vieshow Cinemas

Long-lost British Asian dance classic, ‘Punjabi Disco’, gets reborn for a new era

Naya Beat revives Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 Punjabi folk–synth–disco gem, with remixes from Peaking Lights, Psychemagik, Mystic Jungle & Baalti

Logic Lost’s ‘Insurgents’ is a ferocious glimpse into forthcoming LP ‘Disposable Gods’

Featuring Senyawa’s Rully Shabara, the track is a punishing yet pleasurable fusion of metal, techno & noise that captures the tension of revolt

Wonderfruit launches Field Tapes, a label born from the spirit of The Fields

The label opens with ‘Solar’—the first track from Tristan Bres’ ‘A Cinematic Journey’ LP which drops next month

The Observatory resident Nic Ford releases dystopian film score-esque EP

‘A Lust For Glory’ is an unsettling, ominous but meticulously executed piece of work

London’s Apron Records spotlights Asia’s underground on ‘Apron East Vol. 2’

The compilation drops October 10 on cassette & digital formats, with release parties in Tokyo & Seoul later this month

DUNIA head honcho Gibs drops latest EP on the outfit

The quintessential house listen is a four-track exploration of the genre; from deep, synth-driven grooves to uplifting, lo-fi jams