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Bangkok's electronic music scene on Loopliner — the clubs, festivals and DJs shaping house and techno in Thailand.
Djakarta Warehouse Project borrowed the word for a stadium-sized festival. The actual warehouse and DIY scene is smaller, scrappier, and scattered across converted shophouses, a former cinema, and a small club above a Poblacion sidewalk.
Kyle Domingo grew up in Cebu, built his name in Los Angeles, and just released his first single on Insomniac Records. In December, EDC Thailand brings him back within reach of home.
Hong Kong's Shi Fu Miz festival marks a decade with Chez Damier headlining a new site on Nov 14-15, after today's warm-up party put Singapore and Jakarta selectors on the main stage.
Berghain and Bassiani in the same tour, a DJ Mag nod, and a brand-new track written with Bangkok's Sunju Hargun. Tokyo's psychedelic techno export is having a very good year.
From a studio on Bangkok's Charoen Krung to the inside of an actual Manila jeepney, community radio has quietly become Southeast Asia's cheapest, most durable piece of nightlife infrastructure.
Bangkok doesn't have one closing time, it has four, and which one applies to the club you're standing outside of depends on a street name most tourists have never heard of. Here's how the zoning actually works in 2026.
There's a stone quarry on the festival grounds that turns into a minimal house and techno room after dark. Here's what a first-timer actually needs to know about dates, tickets, camping and where the electronic music lives at Thailand's biggest arts and music festival.
Thai vocalist Chucheewa Cheepchoke and producer Vichaya Vatanasapt wrote a stripped-back love song called Galactic Love. Their new label Soundkoh Collective's first release turns it into six versions, remixed across Thailand, Korea and Germany.
Before you book a flight to dance in Bangkok, Phuket or Chiang Mai: how many visa-free days you actually get, why the digital arrival card matters, and what's changed about closing times, drinking hours and cannabis since 2025.
Techno's most influential label boss is going back to Thailand's biggest commercial EDM weekender, this time paired with the producer behind Anyma's arena hit 'Consciousness'.
Chiang Mai's electronic scene doesn't live on a strip. It's scattered across a converted shophouse, a top-floor room above Huay Kaew Road, and a hillside outside Mae Rim where the party runs until 6am.
Bangkok has dozens of sky bars selling a view. Very few of them book a DJ who actually plays house. Here's how to tell the difference, floor by floor.
Beatport will now reject tracks ruled fully or mostly AI-generated before they ever reach the store. The policy is aimed at the flood on Spotify and Deezer, but it also protects shelf space for the small human-run labels this site covers every week.
Phuket's clubbing scene isn't Bangla Road neon. It's four rooms spread across the west coast: a sunset beach club, an Ibiza import with a real booking policy, one underground bar in Rawai, and a 5,000-capacity room if you want the big room instead.
Southeast Asia doesn't really have record shops built for house and techno the way Berlin or London does. What it has instead, city by city, is more interesting: soul, funk and reissue specialists who happen to stock the electronic stuff too.
No DJ booth, no dance floor, just a serious hi-fi rig and a wall of records. A guide to the listening bars and record bars actually worth the taxi fare in Bangkok and Tokyo.
The best nights in Bangkok don't advertise. Here's where a newcomer actually starts, from a 120-capacity bar with a lit sign that just says BAR TEMP to a weekly hard techno ritual at RCA.
A Bangkok label samples 90s ghost-show intros and Buddhist chanting over four-to-the-floor drums and calls it Thai house. A UK label is now pressing it to vinyl.
Since 2018, NON NON NON has been the room Bangkok's queer techno scene didn't have. This June, its founder Mae Happyair spent a month teaching the next generation how to build one too.
Between December 3 and December 20, three of the region's biggest electronic festivals go off in three different countries. Here's the whole year, mapped out with actual dates and prices.
Bangkok lost half its landmark clubs in three years and came out stronger. From the Decho Road axis to Old Town's vinyl listening bars, here is where the city actually dances in 2026.
Around 90 percent of Sunju Hargun's music is built from Thai sounds. The Bangkok DJ, Siamese Twins Records co-founder and Karma Klique organiser has spent a decade proving Southeast Asian club music does not need to imitate anyone.
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The Electric Daisy Carnival returns to Rhythm Park, Laguna Phuket for a third edition. December 18–20, serving as the global grand finale of EDC's 30th anniversary year. The full lineup is here, and tickets go on sale June 11 at 10AM ICT.