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18 articles on Ho Chi Minh City from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Argy and Adam Beyer Turned Vietnam's Independence Palace Into a Dancefloor
Argy and Adam Beyer turned Ho Chi Minh City's Independence Palace, the building a tank crashed through to end the Vietnam War, into a 4,000-person dancefloor on October 2, the only Southeast Asian date on Argy's NEWORLD tour.
The Digital Nomad's Guide to Southeast Asia's House and Techno Scene: Canggu, Chiang Mai and Saigon
Thailand's Destination Thailand Visa, Indonesia's E33G and Vietnam's 90-day e-visa grey zone each come with a different idea of how long you can stay and how you're allowed to live. Here is where the laptop crowd actually goes out once the cafes close, from Canggu's bar-hop sprawl to Chiang Mai's scattered basement rooms to Saigon's ask-around scene.
John Talabot Plays One of the Last Nights at Saigon's Observatory
The Observatory closes at the end of October after nearly thirteen years and three addresses in Ho Chi Minh City, but not before letting Barcelona's John Talabot headline one of its last parties on October 2nd.
Nhạc Gãy Named Itself "Broken." Its Saigon Raves Now Fund Vietnam's Mental Health Awareness.
Nhạc Gãy means "broken" in Vietnamese. The Saigon collective built a non-profit label, an unpaid five-person crew and a mental health podcast on that word, and its Bandcamp catalog is still growing.
Stargazing Records Turned a Vietnamese Pilgrimage Poem Into a House Hit. Damian Lazarus Played It in Ibiza.
The Ho Chi Minh City label just quietly dropped release number 25. Its earlier fusion of Vietnamese folk poetry and house music has already reached Buddha-Bar compilations and Damian Lazarus's Ibiza sets.
Ho Chi Minh City's Observatory Closes in October. Hanoi Gets One Last Night With It on September 25.
The Observatory, one of Ho Chi Minh City's longest-running clubs, shuts for good at the end of October. Five weeks out, founding resident Dan Lo takes its sound north for a takeover at Hanoi's Unmute.
Bung L0n Turned Saigon's Most Mocked Music Into a Queer Safe Space
A Ho Chi Minh City collective started out playing techno like everyone else. Then it decided the wedding-tent, TikTok-background music its parents' generation looks down on was exactly what its queer dancefloor needed.
CINÉ Saigon Turned a 60-Year-Old Cinema Into One of DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs
A former Saigon movie theatre just landed at #68 on DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs, and it isn't the only Vietnamese venue on the list. Something is happening in Ho Chi Minh City nightlife, and it isn't where the old guard expected it.
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 Is Vinahouse? Vietnam's Homegrown Dance Music, Explained
Before Vietnam had a techno scene, it had this: pop songs sped up, chopped and slammed onto a four-on-the-floor kick until the whole street shook. Here's where Vinahouse came from, and why the country's newest DJs are trying to outrun it.
NotYuTing Turned Vietnam's Reunification Into a Trance Record, From a Saigon Hip-Hop Club
NotYuTing came up through a Saigon hip-hop club that turned itself into a record label. Her newest single weaves a Vietnamese folk instrument into trance to mark 50 years since reunification, and nobody outside a small SoundCloud page has really noticed yet.
mess. Is the First Vietnamese Woman to Play Tomorrowland
Vu Phuong Thao grew up on an organ in Son La, dropped out of diplomatic training, and built her name in Ho Chi Minh City's underground. This July she became the first Vietnamese woman to play Tomorrowland, and Vietnam's own press called it a Vinahouse homecoming.
Saigon Soul Revival Return With a New Album, and Brotha Lok Takes It to the Club
Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon Soul Revival announce Chốn Ta Về, out September 11 on Saigon Supersound, with lead single Trúc Xinh headed for a Brotha Lok remix built for the dancefloor.
Ho Chi Minh City Nightlife: Where House and Techno Actually Live in Saigon
Forget the Bui Vien bucket-cocktail strip. Saigon's real house and techno scene runs through a 500-capacity institution on the 10th floor, a brand-new superclub with a first-in-Vietnam sound rig, and a crew that's been throwing techno parties since December 2012.