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Bangkok vs Manila: DJ Mag Keeps Picking Bangkok's Clubs, Manila Runs on Rooms Like Cova
Three Bangkok clubs made DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100. Manila has none. The number says less about which city's nightlife is better than it looks like it does.
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The Club Khaosan Cracked DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100, From the Middle of Bangkok's Backpacker Strip
Khaosan Road sells bucket cocktails and knockoff tank tops. The Club Khaosan, on that same strip, climbed to #71 on DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100, run by a Swede who worked a dairy-factory job back home before building his career in Thai nightlife.
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Ohrwurm Has Kept Kuala Lumpur's Underground Scene Dancing Since 2010
Kenny Wee, Callen and Alam have run Kuala Lumpur's underground night Ohrwurm since 2010.
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Offtrack Is the Only Listening Bar in Singapore Built by Its House Music Scene
Singapore's listening bar boom covers roughly ten addresses. Only Offtrack and its new sibling Earworm were built by the city's own house music scene.
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DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Put Eight Thai Clubs on the List, More Than Any Other Country in Asia
Thailand landed eight clubs on DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs this year, more than any other country in Asia.
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Jonathan Kusuma's Jakarta Techno Has Found a Home on Optimo Music and Cocktail d'Amore
Jonathan Kusuma splits his time between Jakarta and Singapore. He's released music on Glasgow's Optimo Music. His latest EP, Bank The Drums, is out via Bless You, Sound Metaphors' sub-label.
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What Is UK Garage, Explained: DJ EZ Sped It Up, and Singapore's TASHASAN Keeps It Alive
DJ EZ turned a Todd Edwards record into speed garage in 1994. Three decades on, Singapore's TASHASAN is still playing it.
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Meta House Is the Phnom Penh Arts Center That Teaches German by Day and Books Techno DJs by Night
Meta House is a Phnom Penh arts center that doubles as a German language school by day and, on weekends, turns into the Berlin Bar, a DJ night run by Tommy Schultz and comrades.
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Jakarta vs Bali: Savaya Cracked DJ Mag's Top Five, Jakarta's Only Entry Lands at No. 55
DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs put three Bali venues on the list and one in the global top five. Jakarta's only entry isn't a house club at all.
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What Is Minimal Techno, Explained: Robert Hood Built It, and Bangkok's Culture Cafe Keeps It on Vinyl
Robert Hood stripped techno down to drums, a bassline and almost nothing else in 1994. Thirty-two years later, Bangkok's Culture Cafe is the one place in Southeast Asia still playing it that way, on vinyl, for free.
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Them Bang Bros and Cloud Nyt Are Turning Iloilo City Into the Philippines' Next House Scene
Two Iloilo City DJ collectives, Them Bang Bros and Cloud Nyt, built house and techno nights out of a bar residency and a deliberately paused one, and a nationwide feature just noticed.
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DIAGE Festival's Bangkok Calling Lineup Pairs Kenya's Slikback With Tzusing at Cloud11
DIAGE skipped 2025 without much explanation. It returns for Halloween weekend with a lineup that pairs Kenya's Slikback and Tzusing against a backdrop of giant LED pillars at Cloud11.