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DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 DJs poll puts Charlotte de Witte at No. 6, her best finish since she entered the list in 2019 at No. 74. She and fellow climber Mau P both have December dates locked in at EDC Thailand's Phuket edition.
For decades, 7-Eleven clerks across Thailand covered the beer fridge every afternoon at 2pm. That law is gone now. Here is what still applies, country by country, if you're planning a night out anywhere in Southeast Asia.
Carl Cox, Peggy Gou and Nina Kraviz all played Epizode's eleven-day beach festival on Phu Quoc. Its last edition ran in January 2020, and nobody ever said why it didn't come back.
Pattaya has a reputation built on Walking Street's beer bars and go-go clubs. It also has two venues on DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100, and one room that actually plays house and techno.
Tyla's Grammy-winning "Water" made amapiano a global search term. In Southeast Asia's house and techno scene, it still has exactly one standing weekly night.
Jakarta producer Dylan Amirio recruited Senyawa's Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi for Disposable Gods, the bleakest record of his decade-long Logic Lost project, released on the Bristol noise label Avon Terror Corps.
Hanoi's Savage lost its site to a government opera-house project. Bangkok's Studio Lam closed on its own terms. A city-by-city look at why Southeast Asia's most important clubs keep disappearing, and what replaces them.
HQ, Singapore's underground club on Boat Quay, shut its doors on its own terms after a decade.
ANTI.TRUST Records has run out of Surabaya since 2018, pressing breakcore, amen-break splits and dangdut koplo samples into a sound its roster now calls Kenjeran Slap, named after the city's working-class coastal district.
Twenty-six floors above District 3, DJ WAAI, Dekay and Fanglanx turned a sky bar called HỢP 合 into Ho Chi Minh City's steadiest house music residency, and WAAI is already running a second room.
Savaya broke into DJ Mag's top five, Thailand landed a record eight clubs, and Zouk Singapore keeps climbing. Every Southeast Asian name on the 2026 list, and who's missing from it.
Bandung has produced disco archivists, Berlin-booked producers and the first Indonesian woman to DJ Panorama Bar, but it still doesn't have a dedicated house and techno club. The city's real scene runs through an orange-lit record bar, a handful of labels, and warehouse parties nobody advertises.