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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.
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.
Diskonnected Plays Hanoi's Cuốn Club This Friday, No RA World Tour Needed
While RA's anniversary tour picked Taipei over every Southeast Asian capital, Hanoi's Unmute booked a Smoke Machine-affiliated techno DJ for a normal Friday night, no world tour required.
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.
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.
Forget the Club: Southeast Asia's Underground Now Lives on Community Radio
From a studio on Bangkok's Charoen Krung to the inside of an actual Manila jeepney, community radio has quietly become Southeast Asia's cheapest, most durable piece of nightlife infrastructure.
Hanoi's House and Techno Guide: Unmute, Mirage and the Scene Holding On Through the Raids
House and techno in Hanoi now runs through Unmute and Mirage, and a handful of bars and burger counters doing a club's job, as the scene adapts to a nitrous oxide ban and near-routine police raids.
DITA Learned to DJ in Bandung. Earlier This Month, She Played Panorama Bar.
DJ Harvey handpicked her to lead Klymax Discotheque's resident roster in Bali. Three weeks ago, DITA was behind the decks at Panorama Bar in Berlin.
A Singapore Artist Turned Bicycle Frames Into Instruments. Every Sale Goes to Gaza.
bani haykal's new record turns bicycle frames into more than 90% of its sound. Every sale of the Strange Weather Dunia cassette goes to Palestine solidarity groups.
Savaya's New Bali Club Comes With a 10-Metre Wooden Goddess and a Martinez Brothers Booking
Savaya Group, operator of Asia's top-ranked club, has opened a second Bali venue on the Kuta coast. Zumana's Grand Opening Weekend on September 25-26 brings the Martinez Brothers and Satori to a beachfront space built around a 10-metre wooden sculpture.
After a Decade of Singles, Jakarta's Cyda Finally Gets His Debut Album
Eri Septian has been releasing tracks under the name Cyda since 2016, scattered across half a dozen small labels. It took a Paris imprint called Minitel to finally give him a full album: nine tracks of 90s progressive house dressed up as a fake in-flight announcement.
ZoukOut Explained: History, Tickets and What to Expect at Singapore's Beach Festival
ZoukOut turned one nightclub's beach party into Asia's biggest dusk-to-dawn festival. Here's the real history, what 2023's tickets cost, how to actually get to Siloso Beach and why the 2026 dates still aren't out.
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.
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.
ARTBAT Are Playing Their First Singapore Show Inside a Dead Power Station
The Ukrainian duo behind Upperground make their long-overdue Singapore debut on October 17, inside a decommissioned power station Collective Minds is turning into a venue for the night.
Wonderfruit 2026: The First-Timer's Guide to Tickets, Camping and the Lineup
There's a stone quarry on the festival grounds that turns into a minimal house and techno room after dark. Here's what a first-timer actually needs to know about dates, tickets, camping and where the electronic music lives at Thailand's biggest arts and music festival.
Jakarta's House Cartel Turn Their Decade-Old DJ Crew Into a Record Label
House Cartel spent over a decade as outsiders fighting Jakarta's big room dominance from the DJ booth. Now the collective has quietly turned itself into a label, House Cartel Records, two EPs deep and counting.
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.
Cebu and Boracay Nightlife: A House and Techno Guide to the Philippines' Party Islands
Cebu's underground fits in one converted pizza-building basement. Boracay's four stations each pick a different kind of night. Real venues, real prices, and what to skip on the Philippines' two biggest party islands.
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.
Singapore's Newest Record Store Comes From the Man Behind Darker Than Wax
Jordan Glick, who produces as Dexter Colt and helps run Darker Than Wax and Super Enjoy, has opened Lifted Trax, a vinyl shop on Lorong Telok stocking dance music, jazz and soul for Singapore's DJs and diggers.
Zouk Singapore Merged Its Rooms Into One for a 35th Birthday
Singapore's most storied nightclub reopened its rebuilt Mainroom in June and marks 35 years on Friday, August 21, with the resident DJs who built the room, not a flown-in headliner.
The Best House and Techno Clubs in Chiang Mai, 2026 Edition
Chiang Mai's electronic scene doesn't live on a strip. It's scattered across a converted shophouse, a top-floor room above Huay Kaew Road, and a hillside outside Mae Rim where the party runs until 6am.
The Best Rooftop Bars for House Music in Bangkok
Bangkok has dozens of sky bars selling a view. Very few of them book a DJ who actually plays house. Here's how to tell the difference, floor by floor.