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Cova Is Running Manila's House and Techno Scene Four Nights a Week
Cova, Manila's pioneering micro-club, runs resident nights Hump, Cherish the Night and Moan plus rotating Saturday sets.
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Club Culture, Page 3
Club culture in Asia: residencies, door policies, sound systems, the economics of a night out and the people who run the rooms.
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ARTBAT Was Booked to Headline Pasir Panjang Power Station for Its Singapore Debut, and Dom Dolla Follows in November
ARTBAT was booked to headline Pasir Panjang Power Station on 17 October for its first Singapore show. Dom Dolla plays the same former power station on 27 November.
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TASHASAN Shut Down Her Own Singapore Collective, Then Built Two More to Replace It
Natasha Hassan closed North East Social Club when she felt its work was done. She didn't stop: Huru-Hara and a Singapore chapter of Keep Hush followed.
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What to Expect at Your First House or Techno Night Out in Southeast Asia
What actually happens between walking in and getting home at a Southeast Asian house or techno club: dress codes, door policy, tipping rules, set times and the transport cutoffs nobody mentions.
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WOMB's Techno Night Session Turns 25 in Tokyo, and Bart Skils Is Headlining
Session, the long-running techno residency at Shibuya's WOMB, hits its 25th year tonight with Drumcode's Bart Skils on the main floor and three stages running until 4:30am.
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Pontoon Sank on Its Opening Night in the Mekong, and Phnom Penh Is Still Dancing There
On opening night, Pontoon's floating dancefloor took on water under the weight of its own crowd and sank into the Mekong. It got hauled out, moved onto dry land, and kept booking international DJs through Phnom Penh's best and worst years, including a three-time DMC world champion this month.
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Seoul's Cakeshop Turns 14 With a 12-Hour Takeover of Two Itaewon Venues
Cakeshop marks 14 years on October 17 with a 12-hour party across Cakeshop and Pistil, headlined by Beijing cloud rap artist Bloodz Boi and more than 20 Seoul DJs and crews.
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Midnight Shift Has Spent Over a Decade Resisting Singapore's EDM Boom, One Party at a Time
Midnight Shift started as a reaction against Singapore's EDM-chasing clubs: house and techno parties that refused to announce headliners. More than a decade on, its roster, its Modal nights and its newest tattoo-and-techno crossover are still running.
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Vietnam's House and Techno Scene, Explained: What's Happening in Hanoi and Saigon Right Now
Savage Hanoi lost its villa to a government redevelopment, and Saigon's longest-running club closes this month too. What's replacing them, and where to actually hear house and techno in Vietnam right now.
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Di Linh Has Lost Two Home Clubs in One Year, and She's Still DJing in Hanoi
Savage shut down on New Year's Day. The Observatory in Saigon closes at the end of this month. Hanoi's Di Linh built her whole career inside those two rooms, and she's still booked.
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Ouissam Returns to RASA's Chocolate City as Kuala Lumpur's Alam and Shazan Take Over the Floor
RASA and Sivilian Affairs bring Hanoi's Ouissam back for Chocolate City's sixth edition on October 16, with Kuala Lumpur's Alam and Shazan leading the Floor inside a 66-storey Singapore office tower.
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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.
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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.
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Where Southeast Asia's DJs Actually Buy House and Techno Vinyl
Bangkok's most famous record shop sells molam and luk thung. Singapore's best-known vinyl bar closed in 2020. Here is where Southeast Asia's house and techno DJs actually dig, city by city.
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Brooklyn's Jadalareign and Tokyo's FU Bring Their Soul Night to Manila's Nokal Tonight
Before flying to headline Circus Tokyo on October 16, Nowadays booker Jadalareign and Tokyo selector FU make a Friday stop in a Makati mall basement that used to be a cinema.
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MI/EN Took a Sold-Out London Techno Night and Brought It Home to Kuala Lumpur
Justine Mei Ern built her name on London dancefloors and a Pioneer DJ training programme. Mixmag Asia just named her one of 2026's artists to watch, and she's back in Kuala Lumpur running a sold-out psychedelic techno night and teaching the next generation on open decks nights.
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Snug's Queer Night Takes Over The Observatory for One of Its Last Saturdays Before Ho Chi Minh City's Techno Landmark Closes
The Observatory, Ho Chi Minh City's 13-year house and techno club, closes at the end of October. On the 10th, it hands the night to Snug, a queer party with a drag set from Peach.
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Pattaya's Clubs: World House and Republic Made DJ Mag's Top 100
Pattaya has a reputation built on Walking Street's beer bars and go-go clubs. It also has two venues on DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100, and one room that actually plays house and techno.
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Rostarr Wraps Bali's Potato Head Beach Club in His Biggest Mural Yet
On October 16, Desa Potato Head unveils a 1,644 square metre mural covering the Beach Club's entire facade, timed to an open-air party with Archie, Eric Duncan and a live gamelan ceremony.
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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.
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Singapore's Electronic Music Scene, Explained: Zouk's Rise and Thugshop's Shrinking Underground
HQ, Singapore's underground club on Boat Quay, shut its doors on its own terms after a decade.
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DJ WAAI's Người Nhà Collective Built Saigon's House Music Home on a Rooftop
Twenty-six floors above District 3, DJ WAAI, Dekay and Fanglanx turned a sky bar called HỢP 合 into Ho Chi Minh City's steadiest house music residency, and WAAI is already running a second room.
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Peels Records & Bar Is Where Bandung's House and Techno Scene Actually Lives
Bandung has produced disco archivists, Berlin-booked producers and the first Indonesian woman to DJ Panorama Bar, but it still doesn't have a dedicated house and techno club. The city's real scene runs through an orange-lit record bar, a handful of labels, and warehouse parties nobody advertises.
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Darker Than Wax's Decade-Old Day Party Brew Finds a Third Singapore Home at Ida's Bar
Darker Than Wax's long-running daytime party Brew has outgrown a hardware store courtyard and a Dempsey lawn. On October 24 it tries a cocktail bar in Gillman Barracks instead.