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Between December 3 and December 20, three of the region's biggest electronic festivals go off in three different countries. Here's the whole year, mapped out with actual dates and prices.
Savage, the club that built Hanoi's house and techno scene, closed for an opera house. A nitrous-oxide crackdown followed, and Equation Festival didn't survive the year. The scene didn't stop, it just got harder to find.
Headquarters, Singapore's best-known techno room, closed in May after a decade. Here's where house and techno actually live now, from Zouk's rebuilt Mainroom to Tuff Club's Funktion-One rig, plus what it costs and how to get home.
Bali's dance floors split into two tribes: clifftop superclubs on the Bukit and scrappy beach bars in Canggu. Here's exactly where to go, what it costs, and how to get home.
Cambodia's dance music culture was erased once already. Now a handful of promoters, one industrial techno DJ and a bar-lane venue are building it back, this time for Cambodians first.
Boiler Room finally showed up in November 2025. Kuala Lumpur's house and techno rooms, from TREC's megaclub sprawl to a basement that's been running since 2014, didn't need the invitation. A room-by-room guide with real prices and how to get home.
Forget the Bui Vien bucket-cocktail strip. Saigon's real house and techno scene runs through a 500-capacity institution on the 10th floor, a brand-new superclub with a first-in-Vietnam sound rig, and a crew that's been throwing techno parties since December 2012.
Three weeks from now, a Yogyakarta collective called GAUNG will run a festival with no headliner, no ticket price and sixteen collectives sharing the same week. Here's why that's the point.
Bangkok lost half its landmark clubs in three years and came out stronger. From the Decho Road axis to Old Town's vinyl listening bars, here is where the city actually dances in 2026.
Around 90 percent of Sunju Hargun's music is built from Thai sounds. The Bangkok DJ, Siamese Twins Records co-founder and Karma Klique organiser has spent a decade proving Southeast Asian club music does not need to imitate anyone.