New Releases Hinako Omori’s latest album combines inner healing & natural landscapes into ambient electronica “I’m very interested in sound therapy, brain entrainment & how certain frequencies can put our brain in certain states - alpha, beta, theta, delta,"
Asia News Bangkok collective UNSTๆ are calling all space cadets on new compilation Featuring artists from Thailand & beyond with ties that bind
Asia News A pop-up museum in Taipei pokes fun at everyday cultural objects — like bubble tea The made-for-Instagram exhibition is called ‘Gaki Hip’ & aims to shatter cultural sterotypes in Taiwan
Asia News The Philippines may soon ease restrictions again, but can nightlife businesses hang on until then? The Omicron surge has peaked in the capital but what remains of local clubs & bars continue to face waves of challenges
Global A new encyclopaedia is spotlighting 90s & 00s trance music The book is also accompanied by a triple LP
Mixes Mixmag Asia Radio 082: Hard techno & a splash of trance with HER 他 & SPEED 速度 founder Cloudy Ku “I play based on a background & feeling from techno music then add everything else into the mix"
New Releases Shifting Gears fuses dextrous jazz with deviant house on the unmissable 'Drum Nation' EP The artist better known as Hoshina Anniversary serves two heads-down jams via Toucan Sounds
Asia News 22Bullets teams up with Fedde Le Grand & K-Pop sensation JAMIE 'Wouldn't Be Me' is WHET Records' first music drop of the year
Asia News “There's a lot of reworking & questioning that happens”: Shrugs on traversing the cloverleaf of his DJ/designer world Beyond the booth, the Filipino DJ flourishes as the co-founder of eco-conscious, unisex brand, ec.mnl
Asia News Netflix attempts to capture Asia’s late-night food, drink & music scenes in a new docuseries Midnight Asia: Eat. Dance. Dream. highlights the weird, wacky & wonderful bits of Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai, Taipei, Manila & Bangkok after dark
Interviews Cats on Crack is fighting for arts in Singapore by paying a dollar per smile “I went down a rabbit hole, poring through books and research papers on the subject of happiness”
New Releases The elusive Shinichi Atobe releases a 6th studio album, 'Love of Plastic' 9 tracks of dubby house are now available vinyl & digital on Distort Decay Sustain (DDS)
Global Reviews are in for the the metaverse ‘rave’ — they are not good “I think we need to gatekeep the term ‘rave’”