Tag
Club culture in Asia: residencies, door policies, sound systems, the economics of a night out and the people who run the rooms.
149 articles / Page 2
Fono built an eight-year weekly night around vintage hi-fi gear inside Kuala Lumpur's Zhongshan Building. In February 2026, its founders closed the series at full strength, on their own terms, rather than let it run down.
Bangkok party collective Transport turns 10 by bringing Japan's Rainbow Disco Club to Chang Chui for a 12-hour party on November 7, with Pam Anantr among the names on the bill.
Curfews and a financial crisis pushed Kuala Lumpur's dance parties into bungalows and rooftops after 1997. A new exhibition at Bookmark @ APW finally puts that scrappy, undocumented era on the record.
Manila's House of Mizrahi turns ten this year, ten years after Xyza Mizrahi brought international ballroom culture to the Philippines.
A new six-city index from Amsterdam Dance Event and VibeLab puts Seoul in the middle of the pack, strong on creative ecology, weak on sustainability, and still legally tangled in clubs zoned as restaurants.
Studio Lam closed its Sukhumvit 51 shophouse in February after twelve years. Salon Kiku, the wine bar built one floor up by four friends including DJ Pam Anantr, never stopped.
More Rice Records launched in Bangkok in 2017 on a mission to make underground dance music as much a staple as rice itself. Nine years later, the label takes over the 44th floor for Halloween.
Hanoi's spring-loaded club Unmute marks three years with a three-day, two-stage anniversary from November 5 to 7, with lighting by Wonderfruit's Jiro Endo.
A Johor Bahru DJ who started out spinning his own house parties because he couldn't afford to book anyone else was picked through a highly-competitive open call to play Amsterdam Dance Event's CLUB Lab.
Three Bangkok clubs made DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100. Manila has none. The number says less about which city's nightlife is better than it looks like it does.
Khaosan Road sells bucket cocktails and knockoff tank tops. The Club Khaosan, on that same strip, climbed to #71 on DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100, run by a Swede who worked a dairy-factory job back home before building his career in Thai nightlife.
Kenny Wee, Callen and Alam have run Kuala Lumpur's underground night Ohrwurm since 2010.
Japan's "King of House" DJ EMMA played a rare techno set at WOMB Tokyo as Rickey Shannon's INTER marked its fourth anniversary, with Shinichi Osawa, the producer behind Mondo Grosso, co-headlining.
Thailand landed eight clubs on DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs this year, more than any other country in Asia.
RASA names Patrice Bäumel in the title of its Halloween event, Temple of Dance, on Friday, October 30, 2026, alongside 54B, AAAZR, Josh M x Yukun and SYEDSAVAGE69.
DJ EZ turned a Todd Edwards record into speed garage in 1994. Three decades on, Singapore's TASHASAN is still playing it.
Feed the Dragon, the Hong Kong crew founded in January 2023, welcomes guests from Seoul's Planet Turbo for an all-vinyl night at Social Room on October 24.
Meta House is a Phnom Penh arts center that doubles as a German language school by day and, on weekends, turns into the Berlin Bar, a DJ night run by Tommy Schultz and comrades.
DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs put three Bali venues on the list and one in the global top five. Jakarta's only entry isn't a house club at all.
Two Iloilo City DJ collectives, Them Bang Bros and Cloud Nyt, built house and techno nights out of a bar residency and a deliberately paused one, and a nationwide feature just noticed.
On October 23, Hong Kong's 宀 Club books Brussels producer Ottoman Grüw for its Entropy night, alongside DANLEE and Nanogram.
Di Linh headlines a women-led night at Kuala Lumpur's Pisco Bar on October 24, six days before her Ho Chi Minh City home club, The Observatory, shuts for good.
Bangkok's APT 101 hosts Disco Diaries, now in its tenth chapter, inside a room styled after a 1970s New York penthouse. Indonesia's revival looks different: Munir has spent over a decade re-editing lost Indonesian disco records rather than running a club night around them.
Mindanao's souped-up tricycle sound systems come to Manila, with budots pioneer DJ Love and Japan's OMK collective sharing the bill at Apotheka.