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Marmosets Wrote a Song About Bangkok's Curfew. Six Years Later, It Still Applies.
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.
Ho Chi Minh City's Longest-Running Techno Club Is Closing in October
The Observatory has run Ho Chi Minh City's house and techno scene from a rooftop for nearly 13 years. In October 2026, after three addresses and more than 800 guest DJs, it closes.
What a Night Out Actually Costs in Bangkok, Bali and Singapore
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 Just Became the First LGBTQ+ Festival on DJ Mag's Top 100
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.
Illuzion and Club Seen Just Made DJ Mag's Top 100. Defected Played Both in a Weekend.
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.
The Best Time to Go Clubbing in Bali, Season by Season
Dry season fills Uluwatu's clifftop clubs, wet season cuts prices in half, New Year's Eve breaks every rule of the calendar, and one day in March shuts the whole island down. Here's how to time a trip.
Where Southeast Asia's Warehouse and DIY Parties Actually Happen
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.
DJ Harvey Built KLYMAX's Sound System in Bali. The Residents Playing It Are All Indonesian.
DJ Harvey and LA sound engineer George Stavro built KLYMAX's quad-stack rig in Seminyak from off-the-shelf parts. The resident DJs playing it, DITA included, are all Indonesian.
Thugshop Closed Its 10-Year Singapore Club in May. Its Replacement Just Booked a Berghain Regular.
Six weeks after shutting Headquarters, the crew reopened one unit over as Exit Reality. On Saturday it hosts Paula Koski's Singapore debut, in a party series with Hanoi's Unmute that predates the closure by two years.
The Best Techno and House Clubs in Seoul, South Korea
Cakeshop, Faust, Soap and Vurt: what's actually good in Seoul's techno and house scene right now, what it costs, and how you get home after the last train.
RA's 25th Anniversary World Tour Picked a Taipei Basement Over Every Southeast Asian Capital
Resident Advisor is marking 25 years with ten parties worldwide. The only two stops in Asia are Tokyo and a basement club in Taipei called Pawnshop. Not one Southeast Asian capital made the cut.
Bangkok Club Closing Times in 2026: Who Actually Gets to 4AM
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.
Yeti Out Turned a Hong Kong Party Blog Into Boiler Room's Comeback
Yeti Out started as two brothers and a friend blagging free entry to parties by pretending to write about them. Sixteen years later they run a Hong Kong radio station, a record label, and the crew Boiler Room called when it finally came back to the city.
Red Room's SADDAR NO Compilation Put Yangon's Techno Scene on Record
In April 2024, Yangon's Red Room club put its own scene on record: twelve local producers, one compilation, no label behind it. Two years into a civil war, the room that made it is still open.
Seminyak vs Canggu vs Uluwatu: Where to Actually Party in Bali
Bali's house and techno scene is not one scene. It is three, split across a stretch of coastline that traffic turns into an hour or more between any two points. Here is what each area actually offers after dark, and how to pick a base without losing a night of your trip to a taxi.
DJ Wiz, Who Taught Singapore's DJ Booth to Scratch, Is Dead at 63
Andrew Chow, aka DJ Wiz, was Zouk's Phuture resident and a three-time DMC Singapore champion. He died August 3 of stomach cancer, five weeks before a Legacy Award he won't be there to collect.
Thailand's Visa and Nightlife Rules: What Clubbing Tourists Need to Know in 2026
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.
KYO Kuala Lumpur Built a Techno Room Inside a Five-Star Hotel Basement
Three floors under the Mandarin Oriental in Kuala Lumpur, KYO built a concrete DJ booth to survive a tank and blew half its budget on a sound system Seth Troxler called possibly the best in the world. A decade later, its techno room Ren is still running.
A Seoul Techno Club Spends One Sunday a Month as a Six-Hour Reading Room
Once a month, the techno club Undercity turns its dancefloor into rows of bean bags for a silent reading session, DJ included. It's called Reading City, and it's not a gimmick, it's a serious techno room finding a second life.
Pawnshop Is the Basement Where Taipei's Techno Scene Never Stopped
Korner closed in 2018 and took Taipei's underground techno home with it. The same crew reopened one floor under a gym, called it Pawnshop, and Smoke Machine has been playing there almost every week since.
How to Get Into Bangkok's Underground House and Techno Scene
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.
Music On Festival 2026 Brings House Energy to Amsterdam
Amsterdam is gearing up for a house music weeked as Music On Festival takes over Meerpark on 9 and 10 May 2026, with Marco Carola leading a lineup of underground DJs and the celebration carrying on into the night with official afterparties.
Miami's Marathon Sets Go Global: Clubs embrace non-stop house parties
Global clubs steal Miami's house marathon magic. Berlin's Tresor rocks 12 hour house blocks. Tokyo's Womb parties till morning. Ibiza's DC10 stretches to 18 hours. All inspired by Ultra's billion dollar legacy and spots like LIV. Think Carl Cox builds and Jamie Jones journeys keeping floors locked. House's endless rhythm rules the world.
The Visual Identity of House Music in 2026: Culture Aesthetic
Walk into a House music club in Berlin, London, or Mumbai in 2026, and notice something: the posters don't look like they did five years ago. Where designers once made cold, minimalist flyers for underground events, they now embrace drama, 3D textures for techno/house nights, bold typography that jumps off the wall, eerie or surreal imagery that makes you stop and look twice.