In-depth articles
The best nights in Bangkok don't advertise. Here's where a newcomer actually starts, from a 120-capacity bar with a lit sign that just says BAR TEMP to a weekly hard techno ritual at RCA.
Jakarta's house and techno rooms are real, they're just hiding in office towers and mall basements. A working guide to Vault, Le Cirque, Zodiac and the mega-clubs, with what's actually still open in 2026.
Fifteen years after two friends got tired of watching visiting DJs get the credit, Darker Than Wax has built Singapore's most quietly respected house and jazz label, with a Brooklyn radio residency and a roster nobody else has.
Manila's house and techno scene runs through five small rooms in Poblacion and Makati Cinema Square, from Apotheka's split-level policy to The Void's no-frills basement. Here's where to go, what it costs, and how to get home after.
While XX:XX, TIME, Today x FUTURE and Pineapple Lab all shut their doors, one Manila collective kept moving from room to room until it didn't need a room at all. Ten years and one 16-hour anniversary party later, UNKNWN is the closest thing the city's underground has to an institution.
Since 2018, NON NON NON has been the room Bangkok's queer techno scene didn't have. This June, its founder Mae Happyair spent a month teaching the next generation how to build one too.
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.