Music
Junoy Manalo's Inner Child Is Manila Deep House With No Label Behind It
Six tracks, zero labels, 356 Spotify listeners. Inner Child is what Manila house sounds like when nobody outside the city is watching.
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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Features
How to Get Into Bangkok's Underground House and Techno Scene
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.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Jakarta, 2026 Edition
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.
Music
How a Bangkok Label Turned Buddhist Chants and 90s Ghost Shows Into a House Genre
A Bangkok label samples 90s ghost-show intros and Buddhist chanting over four-to-the-floor drums and calls it Thai house. A UK label is now pressing it to vinyl.
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Darker Than Wax Turns 15, and It Still Hasn't Chased a Hit
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.
Music
Saigon Soul Revival Return With a New Album, and Brotha Lok Takes It to the Club
Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon Soul Revival announce Chốn Ta Về, out September 11 on Saigon Supersound, with lead single Trúc Xinh headed for a Brotha Lok remix built for the dancefloor.
Music
PNNY Spent 12 Years Throwing Bali's Best Parties Before Releasing a Single Track
PNNY has hosted Boiler Room twice and brought HÖR Berlin to Bali for the first time. It took until July 2026, and a four-track EP called Maria Full of Grace, for the collective to release music of its own.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Manila, 2026 Edition
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.
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UNKNWN Turns Ten: The Party That Outlasted Half of Manila's Clubs
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.
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NON NON NON Built Bangkok's Queer Techno Underground From Nothing. Now It's Teaching the Next One
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.
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Southeast Asia's House and Techno Festival Calendar: 2026 into 2027
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.
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Hanoi's Most Important Club Is Gone. The Underground Found New Rooms Anyway
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.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Singapore, 2026 Edition
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.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Bali, 2026 Edition
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.
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Phnom Penh's Underground Scene Is Rebuilding Itself From Nothing
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.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Kuala Lumpur, 2026 Edition
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.
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Ho Chi Minh City Nightlife: Where House and Techno Actually Live in Saigon
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.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Bangkok, 2026 Edition
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.
Events
Josh Baker is Bringing You & Me Home to Manchester
You & Me x Warehouse Project 2026. Josh Baker headlines his biggest ever Manchester show with one of the most stacked house lineups of the year. October 3. Don't miss out on 12 hours of underground house.
Events
The Warehouse Project Just Made Manchester Essential
Solomun. Overmono. Tiësto's first Manchester show in 13 years. James Blake b2b Joy Orbison. The Warehouse Project 20th season just dropped and it is massive.
Events
Ibiza 2026: The House Music Acts Worth Flying Out For This Summer
Ibiza 2026 is stacked with house-driven lineups, from John Summit and Dom Dolla to classic house flags like Defected and Glitterbox. If you're planning a trip this summer, this is your guide to the house acts that make the flight worth it.
News
John Summit is taking over Ibiza's biggest club UNVRS
John Summit is taking over the world's number one club every Monday this summer and the lineup he built around it is just as wild as he is. Nine weeks. No breaks. No bad nights. Ibiza is not ready.
Events
Music On Festival 2026 Brings House Energy to Amsterdam
Amsterdam is gearing up for a house music weeked as Music On Festival takes over Meerpark on 9 and 10 May 2026, with Marco Carola leading a lineup of underground DJs and the celebration carrying on into the night with official afterparties.
Events
UNVRS Season 2: Grand Opening in April 26 at San Rafael Ibiza
UNVRS Season 2 launches with an epic opening party on April 26 at San Rafael, Ibiza, featuring Black Coffee, Carl Cox, Deer Jade, Miss Monique, Paco Osuna, and more in a multi headliner extravaganza. As the world's first hyperclub, it blends stadium scale production, luxury hospitality, immersive tech like AI lights and the wild Wilde Comet restroom DJ zones, earning #1 in DJ Mag's 2026 Best Clubs poll. Tickets start at €70, don't miss this Ibiza season kickoff!