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What Is Ballroom Culture, Explained: Manila's House of Mizrahi Turns 10 This Year
Manila's House of Mizrahi turns ten this year, ten years after Xyza Mizrahi brought international ballroom culture to the Philippines.
Clubs and nightlife
Asian Clubs & Nightlife: Venues, Residencies and Club Nights
Where house and techno actually happen in Asia: venue guides, residencies, opening nights and closures, from Bangkok's RCA to Bali's cliff-top decks, Singapore's Zouk and the warehouses of Manila and Saigon.
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Indonesia's Electronic Music Scene, Explained: DWP's Police Scandal, and the Underground It Doesn't Touch
Djakarta Warehouse Project draws the headlines and, in 2024, saw 18 of its own police officers investigated for extorting attendees. Bali's Savaya cracked DJ Mag's Top Five. Jakarta's underground signs to European labels. None of it is the same scene.
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Seoul Scores 50.0 in ADE and VibeLab's First Nighttime Culture Index
A new six-city index from Amsterdam Dance Event and VibeLab puts Seoul in the middle of the pack, strong on creative ecology, weak on sustainability, and still legally tangled in clubs zoned as restaurants.
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Bangkok's Hotel Pools Run a House Music Circuit Almost Every Saturday of the Month
SO, amBar and the Westin turn their rooftop pools into house-music parties almost every Saturday, a monthly circuit no other city in Southeast Asia matches.
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Salon Kiku Outlasted Bangkok's Most Famous Molam Bar From One Floor Up
Studio Lam closed its Sukhumvit 51 shophouse in February after twelve years. Salon Kiku, the wine bar built one floor up by four friends including DJ Pam Anantr, never stopped.
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What a Night Out Costs From Bangkok to Singapore's Clubs
Bangkok's door is simple, no fuss. Singapore's isn't. A city-by-city look at what it takes to get into Southeast Asia's best house and techno rooms, from Mustache to Marquee to a club that keeps its door policy to itself.
Music
Bangkok's More Rice Records Turns Nine With a Rooftop Halloween Takeover at Aether
More Rice Records launched in Bangkok in 2017 on a mission to make underground dance music as much a staple as rice itself. Nine years later, the label takes over the 44th floor for Halloween.
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Unmute Turns Three in Hanoi With a Three-Day Anniversary Across Two Stages This November
Hanoi's spring-loaded club Unmute marks three years with a three-day, two-stage anniversary from November 5 to 7, with lighting by Wonderfruit's Jiro Endo.
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Malaysia's VKANG Makes His International DJ Debut at Amsterdam Dance Event
A Johor Bahru DJ who started out spinning his own house parties because he couldn't afford to book anyone else was picked through a highly-competitive open call to play Amsterdam Dance Event's CLUB Lab.
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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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Rickey Shannon's INTER Marks Four Years in Tokyo With DJ EMMA's Rare Techno Set
Japan's "King of House" DJ EMMA played a rare techno set at WOMB Tokyo as Rickey Shannon's INTER marked its fourth anniversary, with Shinichi Osawa, the producer behind Mondo Grosso, co-headlining.
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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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Patrice Bäumel Plays RASA Singapore's Halloween Party Temple of Dance on October 30, 2026
RASA names Patrice Bäumel in the title of its Halloween event, Temple of Dance, on Friday, October 30, 2026, alongside 54B, AAAZR, Josh M x Yukun and SYEDSAVAGE69.
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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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Hong Kong's Feed the Dragon Goes All Vinyl With Seoul's Planet Turbo on October 24
Feed the Dragon, the Hong Kong crew founded in January 2023, welcomes guests from Seoul's Planet Turbo for an all-vinyl night at Social Room on October 24.
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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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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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Southeast Asia's Drug Laws for Clubbers, Country by Country
Vietnam abolished the death penalty for drug trafficking in 2025, ending decades as one of the region's most feared jurisdictions for the offence. What actually changes, country by country, when you cross a border in Southeast Asia's clubbing circuit.
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Hong Kong's 宀 Club Books Brussels' Ottoman Grüw for Entropy on October 23
On October 23, Hong Kong's 宀 Club books Brussels producer Ottoman Grüw for its Entropy night, alongside DANLEE and Nanogram.
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Di Linh Plays Kuala Lumpur Days Before Saigon's The Observatory Shuts for Good
Di Linh headlines a women-led night at Kuala Lumpur's Pisco Bar on October 24, six days before her Ho Chi Minh City home club, The Observatory, shuts for good.