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Beat Boat Bali and Bangkok Island Are Southeast Asia's Real House and Techno Boat Parties
Bali's Beat Boat and Bangkok's Bangkok Island keep Southeast Asia's boat party scene on the water.
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House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
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Hanoi's ling:chi Built Pound Town to Give Vietnam Its First Ghetto House Night
Hanoi selector ling:chi built Pound Town to bring Chicago ghetto house to Vietnam, then got a remix from genre pioneer DJ Slugo on her debut production, 'Hotel Suite.'
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Jakarta's Batavia Collective Turn Jazz Into Club Music on a New Live Session Video
Jakarta trio Batavia Collective just announced a new live session video, Spiritual Jazz, Sinful Bass, with three of its four tracks drawn from their CODED EP.
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What Is Gqom, Explained: Durban Invented It, Yogyakarta's RAMPAK G Gave It a Gendang Accent
Gqom went from Durban's townships to Beyoncé's The Lion King album in less than a decade. A decade later, a small Yogyakarta label is running the same log drum through Indonesian gendang, and nowhere else in Southeast Asia has really picked it up.
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Bangkok vs Jakarta: DJ Mag Picked Three Bangkok Clubs, DWP Got a Police Scandal
DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 found three clubs worth ranking in Bangkok and one in Jakarta, whose biggest night out spent December fending off a bribery investigation. The two capitals built very different scenes, and neither one tells the whole story by itself.
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Fono Closed Its Weekly Series After 8 Years in Kuala Lumpur's Zhongshan Building, On Purpose
Fono built an eight-year weekly night around vintage hi-fi gear inside Kuala Lumpur's Zhongshan Building. In February 2026, its founders closed the series at full strength, on their own terms, rather than let it run down.
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What Time Do Clubs Actually Close in Southeast Asia, Country by Country
Every country in the region regulates when a club can serve its last drink. Almost none of them enforce it the same way twice. A country-by-country look at Southeast Asia's real closing times, law versus practice.
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Transport Turns 10 and Brings Japan's Rainbow Disco Club to Bangkok's Chang Chui on November 7
Bangkok party collective Transport turns 10 by bringing Japan's Rainbow Disco Club to Chang Chui for a 12-hour party on November 7, with Pam Anantr among the names on the bill.
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Night Shift Puts Kuala Lumpur's Lost 1997-2003 Clubbing Era on Gallery Walls This November
Curfews and a financial crisis pushed Kuala Lumpur's dance parties into bungalows and rooftops after 1997. A new exhibition at Bookmark @ APW finally puts that scrappy, undocumented era on the record.
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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.
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Whisnu Santika Took Indonesian Bounce to Dim Mak and Back to Tomorrowland
The producer who built Indonesian Bounce for beach stages and water guns spent 2026 signing to Steve Aoki's Dim Mak and returning to Tomorrowland in Belgium.
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KSHMR Headlined Borderland 2026 at Sarawak's Cultural Village, and March 2027 Tickets Are Already on Sale
KSHMR headlined Borderland Music Festival's 2026 edition at Sarawak's Cultural Village.