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Southeast Asia Nightlife, Page 3
Nightlife across Southeast Asia: venue openings and closures, licensing, after-hours culture and where the dance floors actually are.
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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.
Malaysia Got Its First-Ever Stage at SXSW, and a Techno Producer Closed the Night
Zamaera self-funded the first national Malaysian showcase in SXSW's history. The lineup was mostly rap, R&B and indie folk, but the set that closed it belonged to a techno producer nobody outside Malaysia had heard of yet.
The Best Beach Clubs for House Music in Phuket, 2026
Phuket's clubbing scene isn't Bangla Road neon. It's four rooms spread across the west coast: a sunset beach club, an Ibiza import with a real booking policy, one underground bar in Rawai, and a 5,000-capacity room if you want the big room instead.
The Best Record Stores for DJs in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia doesn't really have record shops built for house and techno the way Berlin or London does. What it has instead, city by city, is more interesting: soul, funk and reissue specialists who happen to stock the electronic stuff too.
The Budots Three Turned Davao City's Most Mocked Sound Into a London Record Deal
DJ Love, DJ Danz and DJ Ericnem spent decades getting laughed at for budots. A London label, a Boiler Room comeback and a joint album later, nobody's laughing.
Ken Ishii Made His Vietnam Debut at a Festival Built From a Dozen Radio Stations
Da Nang Community Radio spent four days in August turning its city into a decentralized festival built from a dozen Asian radio stations, with Ken Ishii and Red Pig Flower playing their first Vietnamese shows.
Rainbow Disco Club Leaves Japan for the First Time, Landing in Singapore This October
The rural Izu institution that Japanese ravers plan whole years around is finally leaving the country, teaming up with Singapore's Ice Cream Sundays for a two day, three session takeover.
Where to Hear House and Techno in Phnom Penh: A Nightlife Guide
Phnom Penh will not hand you a scene the way Bangkok or Bali will. It has one club that used to be an actual floating boat, one alley that actually pulses after midnight, and a handful of people building the rest from nothing. Here is where to go, what it costs, and how to get home.
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.
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.
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.
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.