Asia

Epizode have revealed the second wave of artists joining this year's festival line-up.

Taking place on Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam, the festival will run from the 27th December 2019 until the 7th January 2020, showcasing the best in arts and music across the New Year period.

Alongside previously announced acts like Anja Schneider, Apollonia, Loco Dice, Ricardo Vilalobos and Sofia Rodina, Ben UFO, Carl Craig, Moodymann and Nastia have now been announced to perform at the festival.

ZoukOut, Asia’s only dusk-to-dawn dance festival, will be returning once more this December to Siloso Beach in Sentosa, Singapore. The continent’s longest running dance music festival has never been one to do things in half measures, and so it is that their 17th edition features some of the scene’s foremost names. 

Acadia Spectactular and its 50-tonne mechanical Spider is heading to Asia and Australia this autumn having wowed crowds in Bangkok, Miami and Glastonbury this year already.

The Spider has now been packed up for another 9000 mile voyage across the world to break new ground and explore new countries.

On Friday 2nd September to Saturday 3rd September, Arcadia Korea will see Seoul’s historic Olympic Stadium transformed into an immersive world of mechanical creatures, flying aliens, and giant fireballs.

SHANGHAI
We kick proceedings off in glitzy Shanghai. I’m launching a promo campaign for my radio show The Selector on the side of buses across the country for #UKmusiconthego. I play at Haven, a garish club in a converted church with floor-to-ceiling visuals and my own swimming pool, with a silver horse in my dressing room (?!). I’ll return to Shanghai come Monday for Disco Buffet in Jing’an, a mash-up vinyl night broadcast weekly on U-Dance radio.

International Music Summit (IMS) is an educational, inspirational and motivational thought leadership platform dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, electronic music, the artistry related to DJ-ing and all related popular artforms, primarily through the presentation of summits and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of the genre to art and culture worldwide.

Earlier this month we put the spotlight on Latin America, and asked why only two DJs from the region made the 2014 Top 100 DJs poll, despite the quantity of votes, and quality of nightlife within Latin America.

Today we focus on Asia, another underrepresented region, and find a similar story. In fact in 2014 there was not a single Asian-born DJ who made the final 100 DJs.

Before the results of this year’s Top 100 Clubs poll, powered by Miller Genuine Draft the speculation was rife! One of the key debates centred around Asia - a region that perhaps more than anywhere outside of the USA has been bitten by the ‘EDM’ bug.

The resulting appetite for electronic music in the region has seen new, technologically advanced superclubs spring up, challenging the old guard. But what was the impact?

“I think with electronic music and modern day ideas about mastering and all these processes, people want to get rid of the background noise and the life, the depth of stuff, they want to clean it all up, and just have air,” believes Mauritian-English producer Mo Kolours. “But there's no such thing for me. It feels richer when there's more in there.