The Beat spoke with MOJI, who started a new, weekly event at Black Box, Gate 88 on Wednesdays, called Terminus and it’s powering. If you are into high energy electronic music, or just looking for something different, this could be your next port of call.
What is Terminus about?
Terminus is Bali’s home of Hard Techno. It’s a weekly gathering built for people who want something darker, heavier, and real — no VIP energy, no bottle girls, no dress code, just a steel cage on a raw dance floor and proper sound every Wednesday.
Tell me more about you and your connection with Terminus?
I’m MOJI — founder of Unchained, which started as a series of underground events across Asia and has grown into a full label and community. Terminus is a sub-brand of Unchained, created as a weekly base in Bali to give hard techno a consistent home. It’s not just another party; it’s part of a bigger movement we’ve been building across Asia and now into Europe.
What’s so good about hard techno?
It’s honest. No fake smiles, no commercial pressure — just energy and release. It connects people in a way that’s hard to explain unless you’ve been in it. It’s about pushing limits, sweating it out, and leaving everything on the dance floor.
How long has Unchained and hard techno as a music genre been a thing and when you say, ‘it’s part of a bigger movement we’ve been building across Asia and now into Europe’ do you mean you are building that, or the community is building it?
The first Unchained event took place in November 2024. We started in Jakarta and have since hosted multiple shows there, as well as in Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Germany. Hard Techno as a sound has been around since the early 2000s, originally referred to as early hardcore. In the past 3–4 years, it’s made a strong comeback with younger generations and is now gaining huge momentum across Asia and the rest of the world.
Techno of course has been around forever, but do you think hard techno is just another genre of that music, or its resurgence is some kind of reaction to the bland, homogenised state of commercial nightlife that has appeared since Covid in particular?
Yeah, I think it’s 100% a reaction. After Covid, nightlife got kinda bland — all about tables, influencers, and the same commercial sound everywhere. Hard Techno brings the chaos back. It’s raw, fast, and emotional — it feels real. People are tired of pretending to have fun; they want to actually feel something again.
What can people expect at Black Box on Wednesdays?
They can get a proper underground experience. Strictly hard techno, hardcore, industrial, and rawstyle — nothing else. It’s a small, dark room with the DJ inside a steel cage wrapped in chains at the centre of the floor. The crowd surrounds it, Boiler Room style. It’s loud, sweaty, and chaotic.
What’s the BPM? And is there a dress code?
150 – 170. No dress code, that’s actually one of our main points, people can express themselves however they like. Shirt on or off no one cares.
Hell yeah. See you there next week!