DIAGE Festival's Bangkok Calling Lineup Pairs Kenya's Slikback With Tzusing at Cloud11

DIAGE skipped 2025 without much explanation. It returns for Halloween weekend with a lineup that reads less like a comeback and more like a statement: Kenya's Slikback, Taiwan's Tzusing and the UK's Evian Christ, who co-produced a track on Kanye West's Yeezus, all booked for the same two nights at Cloud11.

Dates: October 31 to November 1, 2026 Venue: Cloud11, Phra Khanong, Bangkok Tickets: Early bird two-day pass ฿1,990 via Eventpop, through diagefestival.com

The festival debuted at TBA Show DC in 2023 with a bill that included Pangaea, Batu and Peter Van Hoesen, plus an audiovisual program built around Nosaj Thing and Daito Manabe. The 2024 follow-up, DIAGE Degree, moved to Unformat Studio with Caterina Barbieri and Ryoichi Kurokawa. Then it went quiet. Loopliner covered the comeback announcement when organizers confirmed the dates but not a single artist. Cloud11, the creative complex on Sukhumvit, was designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with A49 Architects. That gap is now filled, all at once, with more than 40 acts across four zones.

A Lineup That Travels

Slikback doesn't need much of an introduction if you've followed Nyege Nyege's rise out of Kampala. He co-founded the label's Hakuna Kulala offshoot. His latest full-length, Attrition, is his debut for Planet Mu. He put out a joint track with Skrillex, "Kixa," in 2025. His sets sit closer to noise than house, and booking him to headline says something about where DIAGE wants to sit on the spectrum. Not safe, not big room.

Tzusing is a different kind of statement: a DJ born in Malaysia and raised partly in Taiwan. He's billed alongside Kim Laughton. NONOTAK, the French audiovisual duo known for turning light into architecture, rounds out a headline bill where the visuals aren't a backdrop, they're the other half of the show.

Local names get real billing too, not a line at the bottom. Montonn Jira headlines alongside the international bookings. Cyndi Seui and Koichi Shimizu are also on the bill: Shimizu rebuilt Seui's 2005 track as "Continental Affair (DIAGE Deconstruction)," with vocals from Pod of Moderndog, the reworked track Loopliner covered when the comeback was first announced. Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective plays the Main Stage.

Four Zones, One Premise

DIAGE splits its site into a Main Stage, an Audiovisual Stage, a DJ Stage and an Exhibition Zone featuring Fabrizio Di Salvo's work. Daytime hours carry live coding sessions and workshops before the music takes over after dark. The DJ Stage alone carries sixteen names, mostly Bangkok regulars nobody outside Thailand has heard of yet, among them Civic Boys, Mae Happyair and Sub Control.

If You Go

Gates open at midday both days; the festival restricts night hours to ages 20 and up. Early bird two-day passes run ฿1,990 through Eventpop, linked from diagefestival.com, with later tiers priced higher. Cloud11 sits on Sukhumvit near Phra Khanong. IDRIS made its Bangkok debut at the same complex in September 2026.

Cover image: DIAGE Festival, official 2026 key art. Figures: DIAGE Festival, via Time Out Bangkok.