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The Best Beach Clubs for House Music in Bali, 2026
Finns, Potato Head's Klymax, Mrs Sippy and Karma Beach: Bali's real house music scene now happens in daylight, feet in the sand, hours before the island's night clubs even open.
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House music across Asia: new releases, club nights, festival stages and the DJs carrying the four-four from Bangkok to Tokyo. Loopliner's most-read tag.
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Munir Spent a Decade Splicing Indonesia's Lost Disco Records Back Together in Bandung
Bandung producer Munir has spent over a decade digging up and re-splicing Indonesia's forgotten 1970s and 80s disco records, from a Cultures of Soul compilation named after Jakarta's first discotheque to his own synth-driven Komputer EP.
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Junoy Manalo's Inner Child Is Manila Deep House With No Label Behind It
Six tracks, zero labels, 356 Spotify listeners. Inner Child is what Manila house sounds like when nobody outside the city is watching.
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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.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Jakarta, 2026 Edition
Jakarta's house and techno rooms are real, they're just hiding in office towers and mall basements. A working guide to Vault, Le Cirque, Zodiac and the mega-clubs, with what's actually still open in 2026.
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How a Bangkok Label Turned Buddhist Chants and 90s Ghost Shows Into a House Genre
A Bangkok label samples 90s ghost-show intros and Buddhist chanting over four-to-the-floor drums and calls it Thai house. A UK label is now pressing it to vinyl.
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Darker Than Wax Turns 15, and It Still Hasn't Chased a Hit
Fifteen years after two friends got tired of watching visiting DJs get the credit, Darker Than Wax has built Singapore's most quietly respected house and jazz label, with a Brooklyn radio residency and a roster nobody else has.
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PNNY Spent 12 Years Throwing Bali's Best Parties Before Releasing a Single Track
PNNY has hosted Boiler Room twice and brought HÖR Berlin to Bali for the first time. It took until July 2026, and a four-track EP called Maria Full of Grace, for the collective to release music of its own.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Manila, 2026 Edition
Manila's house and techno scene runs through five small rooms in Poblacion and Makati Cinema Square, from Apotheka's split-level policy to The Void's no-frills basement. Here's where to go, what it costs, and how to get home after.
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UNKNWN Turns Ten: The Party That Outlasted Half of Manila's Clubs
While XX:XX, TIME, Today x FUTURE and Pineapple Lab all shut their doors, one Manila collective kept moving from room to room until it didn't need a room at all. Ten years and one 16-hour anniversary party later, UNKNWN is the closest thing the city's underground has to an institution.
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Dekmantel Makes Its Southeast Asia Debut at Potato Head Bali, With Avalon Emerson Closing
Avalon Emerson has never played Southeast Asia. That changes on September 26, when the Amsterdam festival's first regional takeover lands at a beach club in Seminyak.
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Southeast Asia's House and Techno Festival Calendar: 2026 into 2027
Between December 3 and December 20, three of the region's biggest electronic festivals go off in three different countries. Here's the whole year, mapped out with actual dates and prices.
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Hanoi's Most Important Club Is Gone. The Underground Found New Rooms Anyway
Savage, the club that built Hanoi's house and techno scene, closed for an opera house. A nitrous-oxide crackdown followed, and Equation Festival didn't survive the year. The scene didn't stop, it just got harder to find.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Singapore, 2026 Edition
Headquarters, Singapore's best-known techno room, closed in May after a decade. Here's where house and techno actually live now, from Zouk's rebuilt Mainroom to Tuff Club's Funktion-One rig, plus what it costs and how to get home.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Bali, 2026 Edition
Bali's dance floors split into two tribes: clifftop superclubs on the Bukit and scrappy beach bars in Canggu. Here's exactly where to go, what it costs, and how to get home.
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Phnom Penh's Underground Scene Is Rebuilding Itself From Nothing
Cambodia's dance music culture was erased once already. Now a handful of promoters, one industrial techno DJ and a bar-lane venue are building it back, this time for Cambodians first.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Kuala Lumpur, 2026 Edition
Boiler Room finally showed up in November. Kuala Lumpur's house and techno rooms, from TREC's sprawling complex to a basement that's been running for years, didn't need the invitation. A room-by-room guide to getting in and getting home after.
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Moodymann Is Playing a Singapore Office Tower, and That's the Whole Story
Detroit house legend Kenny Dixon Jr. rarely tours Asia and famously does not do interviews. On August 22 he headlines RASA's new international booking series, in a hall a floor above a bank.
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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.
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The Best House and Techno Clubs in Bangkok
Not every Bangkok club from a few years ago made it, but the scene rebuilt itself stronger. From the Decho Road axis to Old Town's vinyl listening bars, here is where the city actually dances now.
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Sunju Hargun: The Bangkok Selector Making Thailand Sound Like Itself
Around 90 percent of Sunju Hargun's music is built from Thai sounds. The Bangkok DJ, Siamese Twins Records co-founder and Karma Klique organiser has spent a decade proving Southeast Asian club music does not need to imitate anyone.
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KAJE Bali 2026: Blackout Agency Debuts an Asia-First Festival in the Highlands
Blackout Agency debuts KAJE at Bagus Agro Pelaga this September: three days of house, techno and Indonesian rare groove built around an all-Asian lineup led by Dekadenz, Sunju Hargun and Ouissam.
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The Beautiful Sound: House Music at World Cup 2026
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is here, and while most fans are focused on goals and group stages, a parallel soundtrack is playing out across the host cities.
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Mochakk vs Barry Can't Swim Is The World Cup After-Party
Brazil vs Scotland at the World Cup ends at 6pm. Then Mochakk and Barry Can't Swim go b2b on the Club Space terrace. Miami said Scotland vs Brazil and delivered.