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Bangkok's electronic music scene: clubs on RCA and Sukhumvit, day parties, festival stops and the residents who define the city's sound.
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FVTURE Bangkok's Hyperclub Has Been Dark Since February
Southeast Asia's first hyperclub opened in Bangkok with ARTBAT, Kölsch and CamelPhat inside seven weeks. It's been dark since mid-February, with no reopening date given.
Bangkok Named World's Best City by Condé Nast Traveller, Weeks After Topping Time Out's Nightlife Ranking
Condé Nast Traveller put Bangkok first in its 2026 Readers' Choice Awards, a city that wasn't even in the top 20 a year ago. Time Out had already called its nightlife the best on the planet.
Savage, Studio Lam and Thugshop: Why Southeast Asia's Clubs Keep Closing
Hanoi's Savage lost its site to a government opera-house project. Bangkok's Studio Lam closed on its own terms. A city-by-city look at why Southeast Asia's most important clubs keep disappearing, and what replaces them.
NOTEP Turns Coral Reef Conservation Into a Six-Track Electronic EP
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.
Southeast Asia's Drum and Bass Scene Lives in Bangkok's Jungle Jam BKK and Bali's Locus Festival
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.
Berlin BKK Put Bangkok's Newest Techno Room on the Fifth Floor of a Japanese Discount Store
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.
Carl Cox Headlines Savaya's New Year's Eve in Bali While the Rest of Southeast Asia Stays Quiet
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.
The UK Foreign Office Names Bali and Lombok in Its Nightlife Warnings, Not Zouk Singapore
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.
Boiler Room and Keep Hush Have Only Filmed Four Southeast Asian Cities So Far
Boiler Room has broadcast from Southeast Asia four times total: Manila in 2017 and 2023, Bangkok's Maho Rasop festival in 2022 and 2023. Keep Hush has quietly filmed more cities with less reach. Here's where to actually watch the region's DJ culture for free, and where nobody has pointed a camera yet.
Bangkok, Bali, Singapore: How to Actually Plan a Two-Week Southeast Asia Clubbing Trip
Bangkok, Bali and Singapore sit close enough for a real two-week clubbing trip: the order that works, the visas you need, and what each leg actually costs.
What B2B Means in a DJ Lineup, and Why Bangkok's 808 Festival Booked Three of Them
B2B stands for back-to-back: two DJs sharing one set instead of two solo hours. Bangkok's 808 Festival has booked three exclusive pairings for October, and one of them already produced a Wu-Tang-sampling single.
Going Solo in Southeast Asia's Clubs Means Knowing Subwerk From Tuff Club
A lot of Southeast Asia's best clubs are built around groups that arrive already knowing each other. Here is where that structurally works against a solo visitor, and where it genuinely doesn't.
Southeast Asia's Silent Disco Scene Is Mostly a Novelty Act. BEAM Ran the Real One, Then Closed.
Search "silent disco Southeast Asia" and you get a banned jogging club, a Singapore corporate-events supplier and a dead website. Bangkok's BEAM had the real one, three DJs, real house and techno bookings, and it closed for good in October 2025.
Clutch Built a Museum-Grade Hi-Fi Bar in Bangkok. A Few Nights a Year, RomRom Turns It Into a Rave.
Inside a 900-square-metre former warehouse in Talat Noi, a listening bar built around JBL speakers and McIntosh amps shares a roof with tattoo studios, a flea market and, a few times a year, a genre-hopping rave that spills across four floors.
Kangkao Spent Four Years Building Bangkok's Rawest Techno Room. Now DUAL Runs It Most Weekends.
The DIY collective that turned a 900-square-meter concrete shell in Trinity Complex into Bangkok's most honest techno night just turned four. Its old room now belongs to a new club most Friday and Saturday nights.
How to Spend a Full Night Clubbing in Bangkok: Sing Sing Theater, Mustache and the 4AM Rule
Bar Marco opens at 6pm with a wall of vinyl and nowhere to dance. Nine hours later, on the far side of town, Elsewhere is still going. Here's the route between them, hour by hour.
Idris Elba's House Music Alias IDRIS Made Its Bangkok Debut at Cloud 11
Idris Elba's house music alias IDRIS played a one-off set at Bangkok's Cloud 11 Theatre on September 26, sharing the booth with two of the city's own DJs, Wildealer and Elaheh, as his label Sound International made its Thailand debut.
Rekids Just Hit Release No. 300. Robert Hood and Radio Slave Made It a First-Ever Collab.
"Radio Hood," out October 16, marks Rekids' 20th anniversary and 300th release, the first-ever team-up between Robert Hood and label boss Radio Slave, who has already played Bangkok's Sing Sing Theater and Singapore's Ritual series.
Charlotte de Witte's New EP Funds a Global Fight for Club Culture. Southeast Asia Already Knows the Stakes.
Every euro from Charlotte de Witte's new EP goes to a nonprofit fighting to keep clubs open worldwide. Its own research points straight at Bangkok and Vietnam.
Marcel Dettmann Announces His First Album in Four Years. Bangkok Had to Wait a Decade for a First Set.
My Own Shadow – Album lands November 13 on !K7, Marcel Dettmann's first full-length since 2022. The Berghain resident spent years skipping Thailand entirely before his first Bangkok set in 2019.
BOTCASH Fuses Thai Pin Guitar With EDM. Tomorrowland Thailand Just Gave Him the Main Stage.
The Bangkok producer built a following by wiring the pin, a three-stringed Isan lute, into festival-scale EDM. In December, Tomorrowland's first Thailand edition puts that sound next to Martin Garrix and Swedish House Mafia.
Busan's Ovantgarde Got Shut Down for Letting Its Crowd Dance. Bangkok Runs on the Exact Same Law.
Officials in Busan shut down the live venue Ovantgarde for two months after watching its audience dance under a restaurant license that forbids it. The same legal trap is written into Thailand's Entertainment Places Act, and Bangkok's small clubs live inside it every night.
ALESSA Dies at 33. Kryder Remembers the Friend Behind Japan's First DJ-and-Orchestra Show.
ALESSA, the classically trained Japanese pianist who became one of her country's most distinctive DJs, has died at 33. Sosumi Records founder Kryder is remembering a decade of friendship that ran through Bangkok, Amsterdam and a landmark orchestra show in Tokyo.
How to Learn to DJ in Southeast Asia, Starting at Bangkok's InEarBeat
You don't need a residency to start, or famous friends. You need about eight hours, a laptop and, in Bangkok, 10,000 baht. Here's where Southeast Asia actually teaches people to DJ.