Thailand · Electronic music scene
Bangkok's electronic music scene on Loopliner — the clubs, festivals and DJs shaping house and techno in Thailand.
Bangkok has a bar built for exactly this gap. Singapore has a law against it. A city-by-city look at what actually happens once Southeast Asia's clubs turn the lights on.
A four-piece from Bangkok just shared a Bandcamp Daily list with acts from Bristol, Kyiv and Sofia. The EP that got them there was recorded off a trip to a Japanese mountain town and a 1985 Thai film.
A sparkler-lit bottle lands on your table and everyone looks at you. Here's what actually gets tipped at clubs in Bangkok, Bali, Singapore, KL, Manila and Saigon, and what's already on the bill.
The bottle arrives on fire and the minimum spend is bigger than it looks. Here's what a VIP table actually costs in Singapore, Bangkok and Bali, and when it's worth it.
Thailand's own techno pioneer heads home for EDC Thailand's December 18-20 edition after a Phase 2 update that also adds Kaskade, Tiesto and a wave of regional talent.
Four tracks, no chorus, no streaming push. More Rice Records' newest release is a reminder that Bangkok's best-connected underground label still measures itself in wax, not playlist adds.
Bangkok's digital arts and electronic music festival is back after a year off, and it announced itself with a rebuilt 2005 deep cut instead of a lineup poster.
Twelve Points Records turns two with Pathways II, a homeward-leaning follow-up to the compilation that once pulled Bangkok and Hanoi into its Manila catalogue.
808 Festival's Phase 2 lineup adds hardware-only Italian duo 999999999 and live artist Giorgia Angiuli to a Bangkok bill that already has Illenium and W&W. October 2-3 at BITEC.
The age you need to get in, the tip you're expected to leave, whether your phone gets a sticker over the camera: none of it is the same from one Southeast Asian country to the next. Here's what actually holds.
Full Moon Party pulls up to 30,000 people to Haad Rin every month for 200 baht and a bucket of rum. But Koh Phangan's more interesting nights happen two weeks later, in a jungle, or on a rock ledge above a beach you can only reach by boat.
Pam Anantr spent five years absorbing New York's disco and jazz underground, then came home to Bangkok and built her own room and her own festival. This past Friday she shared the decks with Darker Than Wax co-founder Marco Weibel for the label's 15th anniversary.
The Skytrain closes around 1am. Standard clubs close at 2am, and RCA, Thonglor and Khao San run to 4am. Here's what actually gets you home in between, and what to watch for.
The eight-time Grammy nominee's new Asia deal runs through Pacific Music Group, the Hong Kong company whose electronic music imprint is led by Thailand's first-ever DJ Mag Top 100 entrant.
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 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.
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.
In 2020, Bangkok producer Marmosets turned a complaint every promoter in the city has muttered at 1:45am into a spoken-word techno single. Six years and one high-profile raid later, Krungthep Ratree hasn't dated a day.
A Bintang at a Canggu warung costs less than a bag of chips. A sofa at Savaya can run past $600 before anyone's ordered a drink. Here's what a night out actually costs across the region's three most different door policies.
White Party Bangkok has voted its way into DJ Mag's Top 100 Festivals at No. 73, the first dedicated LGBTQ+ event ever to make the list. Its 10th anniversary runs Paragon Hall this New Year.
Defected played Phuket's Illuzion and Koh Samui's Club Seen on back-to-back nights in August, the same year both sat inside DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs. Here's how two very different Thai venues got there.