House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Flip-flops get you rejected almost everywhere in the region, but the rest of the rulebook changes by city, by room, and sometimes by night. A door-by-door guide to dressing right in Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Bali.
From death-penalty drug laws to tourism boards co-producing the lineup, Southeast Asia's festival business runs on different rules than Europe's. Here's what actually changes, and what it means if you're going.
A former Saigon movie theatre just landed at #68 on DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs, and it isn't the only Vietnamese venue on the list. Something is happening in Ho Chi Minh City nightlife, and it isn't where the old guard expected it.
Dom Dolla has never played a headline show in Singapore. That changes on 27 November, inside a decommissioned power station that will host ARTBAT's own city debut six weeks earlier. Presale opens today.
Marcus L started with illegal rooftop raves he was tired of packing up after every party. Twelve years later, his Itaewon club has residents who stayed a decade and its own night at Amsterdam's Radion.
Budots came from the streets of Davao and went viral on Boiler Room. Manila's DIY underground keeps losing venues and rebuilding anyway. And a scattered new generation is getting picked up abroad with nothing connecting them but a passport.
Taipei's scene is small, specific and doesn't advertise itself. Here's where the city's house and techno actually happens in 2026: a Funktion-One basement, a spectacle-driven megaclub, a 200-capacity room built on its own label, and a free party in a public park.
A pandemic streaming experiment that started with masked crowds at Commons Saladaeng now broadcasts four DJs a night, every weekend, from a raw concrete room above a legal weed shop on RCA. Nobody's complained about the noise yet.
Mustache and Subwerk, the melodic-techno and hard-techno clubs sharing a building on Bangkok's Decho Road, reopen this week: solo nights Friday, a joint Two Clubs, One Ticket crossover Saturday.
He closed the Mixmag Lab's debut Jakarta showcase in January. Two months later Resident Advisor put his mix on their homepage. In between, he's back in the booth at KLYMAX, the Bali club DJ Harvey built, next to guests who were mixing records before he was born.
Solo clubbing in Southeast Asia isn't the horror story travel forums make it out to be, but the real risks aren't where most warnings point. Here's what actually matters, from counterfeit spirits to getting home at 4am.
Molam is the storytelling folk music of Thailand's poorest region. For fifteen years Bangkok DJs have been splicing it onto dub, house and techno, and a venue closure this year hasn't slowed the movement down.