The Bangkok musician's 'Pakarang' trades club hooks for field recordings, Thai instruments and a working partnership with Coral Gardeners, named after the Thai word for coral.
Singapore's Triangle Group just closed a $15 million raise and hired ex-Live Nation APAC chief Roger Field as it tries to connect Asia's city-by-city club and festival scenes into routes artists can actually tour.
Darker Than Wax's long-running daytime party Brew has outgrown a hardware store courtyard and a Dempsey lawn. On October 24 it tries a cocktail bar in Gillman Barracks instead.
EDC Thailand's third edition in two years lands at Rhythm Park, Phuket, December 18-20, 2026. What tickets actually cost, who's confirmed to play, the age limit, the bag policy, and whether Hotel EDC is worth booking.
Singapore built Southeast Asia's biggest drum and bass night in the 2000s, then lost it when Home Club closed in 2014. The genre didn't die, it just relocated to a five-year-old Bangkok promoter, a 1999 Jakarta soundsystem crew and a four-day festival on a Bali beach.
Bangkok's techno scene keeps colonizing buildings nobody designed for it. The latest is the fifth floor of a Donki discount mall in Ekkamai, where Berlin BKK runs hard techno past the instant noodles.
999999999 and Fatima Hajji headlined BLAK's second Kuala Lumpur edition at Xox Arena on October 3, Evolution Events Asia's hard techno night that drew roughly 5,500 people to its first run last November.
Savaya's cliffside club in Uluwatu has published its full nine-day New Year's Eve lineup, led by Carl Cox b2b Nic Fanciulli on December 31. Zouk Singapore and Mustache Bangkok, checked the same week, haven't posted a December date yet.
Mikelis Yu grew up in California, came home to Cebu to run a family hotel, and started a radio project instead. Mixmag Asia's September watchlist is the first time the outside world put a name to what Cradio Radio built.
Argy and Adam Beyer turned Ho Chi Minh City's Independence Palace, the building a tank crashed through to end the Vietnam War, into a 4,000-person dancefloor on October 2, the only Southeast Asian date on Argy's NEWORLD tour.
SPREAD in Shimokitazawa covered its dancefloor in carpet for Jucy Book Rave on September 26th. A video of the event went viral on Reddit days later, and the club's regular club nights run on the same floor.
The UK Foreign Office publishes travel advice for Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, and the nightlife-specific warnings in it differ sharply from country to country. This guide lays out what each advisory actually says about drink spiking, assault risk and getting home safely.