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Southeast Asia Nightlife, Page 2
Nightlife across Southeast Asia: venue openings and closures, licensing, after-hours culture and where the dance floors actually are.
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Pam Anantr Built Bangkok's Own Sound Room. Then Darker Than Wax Came to Her.
Pam Anantr spent five years absorbing New York's disco and jazz underground, then came home to Bangkok and built her own room and her own festival. This past Friday she shared the decks with Darker Than Wax co-founder Marco Weibel for the label's 15th anniversary.
How to Get Home After Clubbing in Bangkok: BTS, MRT and Grab After Closing Time
The Skytrain closes around 1am. Standard clubs close at 2am, and RCA, Thonglor and Khao San run to 4am. Here's what actually gets you home in between, and what to watch for.
Kaskade Signs With Pacific Music Group. Its Dance Arm Is Run By Bangkok's 22Bullets.
The eight-time Grammy nominee's new Asia deal runs through Pacific Music Group, the Hong Kong company whose electronic music imprint is led by Thailand's first-ever DJ Mag Top 100 entrant.
What to Wear to Clubs in Southeast Asia (And What Gets You Turned Away)
Flip-flops get you rejected almost everywhere in the region, but the rest of the rulebook changes by city, by room, and sometimes by night. A door-by-door guide to dressing right in Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Bali.
How Southeast Asian Festivals Are Actually Different From European Ones
From death-penalty drug laws to tourism boards co-producing the lineup, Southeast Asia's festival business runs on different rules than Europe's. Here's what actually changes, and what it means if you're going.
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.
Durian Radio Built Thailand's First Streaming Station in a Pandemic. Now It Sells Tuk-Tuk T-Shirts From a Weed Shop.
A pandemic streaming experiment that started with masked crowds at Commons Saladaeng now broadcasts four DJs a night, every weekend, from a raw concrete room above a legal weed shop on RCA. Nobody's complained about the noise yet.
How to Go Clubbing Alone in Southeast Asia: A Safety Guide for Bangkok, Bali and Singapore
Solo clubbing in Southeast Asia isn't the horror story travel forums make it out to be, but the real risks aren't where most warnings point. Here's what actually matters, from counterfeit spirits to getting home at 4am.
Marmosets Wrote a Song About Bangkok's Curfew. Six Years Later, It Still Applies.
In 2020, Bangkok producer Marmosets turned a complaint every promoter in the city has muttered at 1:45am into a spoken-word techno single. Six years and one high-profile raid later, Krungthep Ratree hasn't dated a day.
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 a Night Out Actually Costs in Bangkok, Bali and Singapore
A Bintang at a Canggu warung costs less than a bag of chips. A sofa at Savaya can run past $600 before anyone's ordered a drink. Here's what a night out actually costs across the region's three most different door policies.
The Rise of Indonesian House Music: From Jakarta's Underground to Bali's Booths
A British label put Bali on a house compilation in 2010. The scene it captured was actually built in Jakarta, by a DJ crew that spent a decade playing to rooms nobody outside Indonesia was watching.
White Party Bangkok Just Became the First LGBTQ+ Festival on DJ Mag's Top 100
White Party Bangkok has voted its way into DJ Mag's Top 100 Festivals at No. 73, the first dedicated LGBTQ+ event ever to make the list. Its 10th anniversary runs Paragon Hall this New Year.
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.