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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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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, 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.
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.
Richie Hawtin has left WME after fifteen years for Dixon's artist-owned TS Agency, a bet on independent structure over conglomerate scale. He'd already made a similar bet on Southeast Asia: Bangkok's More Rice Records and Singapore's Nino Blink.
The Dutch trio posted their breakup on September 17, 2019. On September 17, 2026, they posted again: they're playing Amsterdam's Melkweg in December. No album, no five-year plan, just a show.
White Party Bangkok just became the first LGBTQ+ festival on DJ Mag's Top 100. The region's actual queer house and techno underground is smaller, harder to Google, and runs through Bangkok, Manila, Saigon and Singapore instead.
Thailand's government has spent years enforcing curfews on underground parties. This year it wrote checks to twelve of the producers who play them, and pressed the results onto vinyl bound for six countries.
Three of Southeast Asia's biggest club cities, put head to head on the things that actually decide a night out: what it costs, what time it ends, and who's on the decks.
A dorm bed near Bangkok's clubs costs less than a cocktail inside one. Here's where to actually stay, what it costs, and how far you'll really be from the music in Bangkok and Bali.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.