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A rare surrealist audio / visual experience.
90s rave meets 60s psych in Vietnam.
Stay psyched as we unravel the next journey soon 🌀

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As the final two stages closed - we had hinted there would be another small surprise, however, we didn’t allude to any information about it. The two stages on which we had worked so hard and were above ground, was the main experience, and our schedule technically finished there. However, our team had been preparing a subterranean experience for those who still had energy as both stages and their program came to an end.

We programmed it like this for two reasons:
• firstly, the secret tunnel to the underground space was quite small, and therefore we didn’t want to overcrowd the unique dwelling. Even we had laid out bamboo carpets and asked guests to remove their shoes, as it was quite an intimate space, and we’d prefer not to overcrowd or over publicize this Easter egg treat at the end of long wild journey, to ensure it was more enjoyable for all.
• secondly, out of respect for another beautiful event which happens in a cave and is orchestrated by friends of ours - we didn’t want to lead with this concept or lead with this idea to be the reason people came to our event.
In general, we have always programmed and placed our event a healthy distance from other wonderful events in Vietnam, so has to allow success for everyone to thrive, in such a small intimate and meaningful scene.

That being said, the surprise was so much more worth it when we got to see the look on people’s faces when they had entered our secret space. Equipped with professional sound, dynamic lighting, and the hard work of our teams, and experiment residency artists visions, it was the perfect ending to what was already such a special, mind expanding weekend.

We gave space for many of the artists who followed us through this journey to play together b2b, and while we couldn’t see the sunrise, we had played well into it although being multiple feet underground.

In a way it was a great metaphor for how the scene operates when dynamics shift in the operations of an environment - artists gather and organize deeper underground, creating new worlds, pathways, and experiences often out of the light.

In the end, despite all that happened, our commitment was with those who believed and joined! taken in Some Where Secret by @outlandish.vn

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3 days ago

A stunning reflection on our Saturday experience.
Hosted at @sunmayretreathn • our team designed a sequenced three stage blend of live music, workshops, and a secret all night show for those who persisted through into the AM. Absolute blessings to the wonderful artists who performed through the weekend and our incredible healing workshops focused on revitalizing the mind and body. @outlandish.vn was made up of many alternative communities that don’t often find themselves all on one lineup - and even the bands were wondering before if it would all gel together - but a mix of experimental, hyperpop, funk, psych, electro, and techno sounds alongside ambient experiences allowed us all a window into other worlds that soothed our souls and blessed our brains.

We’d like to thank every artist who trusted our vision, traveled, performed, workshopped, setup, connected and collaborated to deliver the incredible experience that it was, and I think we all recall the way nature edged us closer together • and our dancers importantly for cruising through the journey with the best attitude of any crowd we’ve had!

@olsvanger • @darrenroachdj • @unpuristx • @tile_shop_monologue • @liam_lijero • @lightcityfunk • @tranuyduc • @thewakaband • @hella_funk • @groove.vault • @mekongrecords • @dan_bmusik • @der_simon_felix • @_____musleter • @zemyynak • @matsacre • @useph0 • @coletteb.met • @walker_walker_aust • @summers.vinyl • @vitro_710
+ our wonderful workshop @la_stell_la • @xoxo_shop_vn • @nd_calisthenics & more!

Big thanks to @sunmayretreathn for their support on such a small timeframe & the team there, and our artists again who decorated the spaces @roman_vrai @lamponuh • @korakorakora_ • @_isasis • @sodowy • @dasha_from_kasha • @shanti_tries_to_thrive • @katia.cutropia • @lilac_fish for her contributions !
@hoabloom.vn • @experimentresidency

Couldn’t have asked for a more perfect amalgamation of souls in one space 💚📡

📸: @yoitztd • @tom.blacksheep.ug taken in Sun May Boutique Retreat by @outlandish.vn

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4 days ago

It’s hard to find the right words to say, especially after 6 months since this unique boutique program, we had found ourselves 10 days away from our biggest and most beautiful Outlandish Festival - only for the venue to pull out due to new regulations and restrictions around their space.
Without that iconic Gam Troi Valley we didn’t feel it was fair to call the experience we were about to embark on outlandish.

With that being said, it was one of the most beautiful events we had ever done and for the 150 people who decided to follow us further we don’t think it will be an experience most people easily forget.

In no time we orchestrated a three stage event over two venues - and our most inspired program of kindred artists, workshops, and artists on board.

To those that followed us into the abyss - we appreciate so much the dedication and support. It wasn’t easy, smooth, or profitable for us to go the way we did - and yet we felt support every step of the way. The community came together - as we felt she shift happening and yet we truly believed in the purpose of our party. It isn’t to escape reality but instead to create a new one - and together we shaped an incredible new world, program and concept.

We couldn’t have done it without our unreal team and the eccentric collectives and artists who shared in our vision - even we had given the vision for others to lead - as we had such little time to make alternate realities, in a situation that was rapidly changing, we understood then that @outlandish.vn isn’t one venue, one crew, one party, but a common collective designing an environment of love, expression, safety and dedication in mutual harmony towards being an outsider dedicated deeply to crafting a home away from home - without judgement, without dictating how to be from any direction. Trust one another to create blissful state - and we need not much else than the music and the art to guide us through the night. A truly ecstatic experience we hardly could bring ourselves to put back into words for so long - with a sensation of not knowing how it will be interpreted by outside forces - we kept quiet - and now we are focused deeper to revive this spirit. taken in Lương Sơn, Hoà Bình by @outlandish.vn

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5 days ago

@shankeddoucrecords release party!

A few months into our first release, and we’ve managed to make movements to preserve our creative critter the Red Shanked Douc of Vietnam!

What’s a label to do without a little gathering, surely we can’t produce in our studios much longer ~ so we brought together few of the releases most kindred spirits to celebrate psychetronics sounds of @shankeddoucrecords !

This one’s going late ye olde @miragehanoi !
With a listening session earlier at @geistcreate !

Vietnam’s finest residents on board for pre—post—afters. Harkening to a day when Hanoi heads were connected at the hip, and supported by our cosmic home base of @outlandish.vn.

@____congnguyen
@der_simon_felix
@devinelectronica
@steve.obi.dj
@matsacre
@kh.cbt

Check out our release - link in bio - for a preview of the psychedelic frequencies we plot to emit, and join us for the marathon of music. taken in Mirage by @outlandish.vn

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a month ago

We are stoked to announce that ‘A Message From Khanh’ has started its festival run.

‘A Message From Khanh’ is an intimate documentary portrait of Vietnamese surrealist artist Dao Anh Khanh, a sculptor, painter, musician, performance artist, and environmentalist whose extraordinary life has challenged artistic and political convention for decades. Once responsible for censoring art and music as a police officer, Khanh abandoned that life entirely in pursuit of creative freedom, becoming one of Southeast Asia’s most uncompromising contemporary artists.

The film was born from a chance encounter at Outlandish Festival in Northern Vietnam. After briefly meeting Khanh in 2024, I knew there was a much deeper story waiting to be told. Returning a year later with co-creator Ali Vann, we travelled by motorbike through Northern Vietnam, embedding ourselves within Khanh’s world. Rather than constructing a traditional biographical documentary, we chose to follow his rhythm, which meant sharing meals, conversations, long silences, and moments of spontaneous creativity as they unfolded.

Though this film touches on Khanh as an artist, it studies his way of living via meditation on freedom, reinvention, and what it means to live authentically in a world that often rewards conformity. Khanh’s philosophy is deeply human, encouraging us to reject fear and embrace curiosity.

Interested in a further sneak peak? Please DM for more information :)

Directed & Cinematography by @shane.mov @alivannfilm
Edit by @shane.mov
Colour by @alivannfilm
Sound Design by @steve_nossiter
Original Composing by @_tito.son
Production Assistant @dan_bmusik
Prod Co @sonik_ino
Special Thanks to @outlandish.vn & @style_motorbikes by @outlandish.vn

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2 months ago

‘A Message From Khanh’ by @shane.mov & @alivannfilm

Last year, filmmakers Shane Crosland and Ali Vann travelled to Gam Troi Arts Valley in the midst of @outlandish.vn music festival to meet Dao Anh Khanh, an ex censorship cop turned surrealist mixed medium artist. A man of many hats and of much knowledge to spread.

Coming soon…

Directed & Cinematography by @shane.mov @alivannfilm
Edit by @shane.mov
Colour by @alivannfilm
Sound Design by @steve_nossiter
Original Composing by @_tito.son
Production Assistant @dan_bmusik
Special Thanks to @outlandish.vn & @style_motorbikes

#short #shortfilm #travel #art #vietnam by @outlandish.vn

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3 months ago

📢RELEASE INFO🔈

Infinite Douc

@shankeddoucrecords premiere release is coming this July 12 • with an incredible roster of Asia pacific based producers emitting psychedelic frequencies.

Exclusively released on @bandcamp - and proceeds going to the Doug Langur Foundation of Viet Nam!

All tracks crafted with love - built for Asian dance floors!
Appreciation to the contributors. Believers in conservation and creation!
@music.vell - @jessie_belters - @____congnguyen - @smev_music - @lavilleindy - @devinelectronica - @jozef_k_dreaming_forever - @rowansteeleuk - @planetphantasy_ - @lightcityfunk - @der_simon_felix - @justfin.music - @matsacre - @despiertemusic - @steve.obi.dj - @ianzwing - @thefakevalentin__ - @barajas.flmx - @khcbt_hn

A community spread across the world but united by Vietnam’s bouncey sounds of house, prog, dub, bass, techno, trance, ambient, and tech-house.

Mastered by: @no.era.music of @looklisten.co &
@justfin.music of @superhowting @geistcreate

IFYKYK taken in Vietnam by @outlandish.vn

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3 months ago

Long Live the Douc • Infinite Douc

@shankeddoucrecords premieres our charity compilation dedicated to the preservation of the infamous Red Shanked Douc creature of Vietnam, and the quality bouncey sounds of house, prog, downtempo, dub, bass, ambient and techno of producers in the region of Asia Pacific.

All tracks crafted with love - and developed for Asian dance floors. From creators living , from/based or toured in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand of which the Douc inhabits.
Developed for the psychedelic jungle utopia put forth by @outlandish.vn in our hearts, minds and third eye. Body music with a dash of heady experimentalism by Asia Pacific’s movers.

Shanked Douc emits psych sounds with a purpose - encouraging fresh producers to create with a cause - release their inner workings while supporting the conservation of the Shanked Douc family of Monkeys of which there are less than 2000 left - while simultaneously morphing club culture creators to focus on their studio projects - while Vietnam changes heavily towards party culture - and developing ever expanding cities.

All proceeds go to Douc Langur Foundation for conservation efforts. Released exclusively on @bandcamp - July
Tracks mastered by:
@no.era.music of @looklisten.co
& @justfin.music
@geistcreate studio
Hanoi & Melbourne

Art: @sacrementality taken in Vietnam by @outlandish.vn

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4 months ago

Long Live the Douc • Infinite Douc

Shanked Douc Records premieres our charity compilation dedicated to the preservation of the infamous Red Shanked Douc creature of Vietnam, and the quality bouncey sounds of house, prog, downtempo, dub, bass, ambient and techno of producers in the region of Asia Pacific.

All tracks crafted with love - and developed for Asian dance floors. From creators living , from/based or toured in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand of which the Douc inhabits.
Developed for the psychedelic jungle utopia put forth by @outlandish.vn in our hearts, minds and third eye. Body music with a dash of heady experimentalism by Asia Pacific’s movers.

Shanked Douc emits psych sounds with a purpose - encouraging fresh producers to create with a cause - release their inner workings while supporting the conservation of the Shanked Douc family of Monkeys of which there are less than 2000 left - while simultaneously morphing club culture creators to focus on their studio projects - while Vietnam changes heavily towards party culture - and developing ever expanding cities.

All proceeds go to Douc Langur Foundation for conservation efforts. Released exclusively on @bandcamp - July
Tracks mastered by:
@no.era.music of @looklisten.co
& @justfin.music
@geistcreate studio
Hanoi & Melbourne

Art: @sacrementality taken in Hanoi, Vietnam by @outlandish.vn

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4 months ago

@outlandish.vn x @gumi.and.the.mushroom
A psychedelic night lands in Korea @bbcb_seoul
with our trippy soul selectors:

• FRI 22 MAY
[GUMI & THE MUSHROOM X OUTLANDISH WITH OLSVANGÈR (DE)]
OLSVANGÈR (TOFISTOCK / BERLIN) / SACRE (OUTLANDISH / CANADA) / GUMI / IIGONG
여러 갈래의 Psychedelic 음악을 다루는 Gumi & The Mushroom과 베트남의 페스티벌 Outlandish가 함께한다.
이번 초대 아티스트는 베를린 기반의 DJ/프로듀서 OlIsvanger.
Oldskool House와 Techno를 바탕으로 실험적이고 트리피한 사운드를 펼쳐내며, 예측할 수 없는 흐름과 유포릭한 에너지로 밤을 채울 예정이다.
OPEN: 22:00-END
ENTRANCE FEE: 20,000KRW taken in Itaewon by @outlandish.vn

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5 months ago

@outlandish.vn pop up: @miragehanoi

Our Outsider series has been re-born in a strange twist of circumstances - and to celebrate we’re having a pop up baby shower for our little Outsider gremlin

It might be easier to phrase that as the Outsider afterparty - but for us it’s a precious decompression of all the tracks and vibes of last weekend & the last 8 months of jet setting around the world , spreading the good word of @outlandish.vn.

Now we will make a musical mashup from the lovely residents of mirage & outlandish and honor the fact that we still were able to birth this new / old concept within a week and haphazardly create something new, so forgive the last minute beckoning to mirage and enter the realms of these gremlin selectors:

@matsacre
@der_simon_felix
@_____musleter
@roastporkroll
@useph0

Symbolic entry fee to support the rebuilding of our space ship so we can keep the satellite turning towards home. taken in Mirage by @outlandish.vn

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5 months ago

@outlandish.vn meets @le.maquis.club

For all of us who won’t be joining the outdoor fun - there’s still a chill lily pad worth hopping onto - and that’s our warmup pond party.

It’s been a blessing having so many familiar frogs hopping through Hanoi - we had to give people a place to express - and where’s Better than combing the chaos of the old Quarter with the beating party heart of Hà Nội with friends at @le.maquis.club

Bloops and Bleeps by:

@lightcityfunk
@dan_bmusik
@e.motep
@useph0

Don’t be an Outsider - join us for a boogie ! taken in Le Maquis Club by @outlandish.vn

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6 months ago