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Electronic music in Thailand: Bangkok, Phuket and Koh Phangan scenes, EDC Thailand, Wonderfruit, S2O and the local crews behind them.
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DIAGE skipped 2025 without much explanation. It returns for Halloween weekend with a lineup that pairs Kenya's Slikback and Tzusing against a backdrop of giant LED pillars at Cloud11.
Vietnam abolished the death penalty for drug trafficking in 2025, ending decades as one of the region's most feared jurisdictions for the offence. What actually changes, country by country, when you cross a border in Southeast Asia's clubbing circuit.
Bangkok's APT 101 hosts Disco Diaries, now in its tenth chapter, inside a room styled after a 1970s New York penthouse. Indonesia's revival looks different: Munir has spent over a decade re-editing lost Indonesian disco records rather than running a club night around them.
Deep house has a 1986 Chicago blueprint, a reissued 2001 Singapore classic and a Bangkok collective that grew out of a condo party. This is what the genre actually is, and where to hear it in Southeast Asia.
FVTURE Bangkok has not opened its doors since mid-February. The next date on its calendar belongs to Klangkuenstler's arena-scale OUTWORLD show, announced as the only Southeast Asia stop on the project's 2027 run.
The six-piece has folded Isaan folk instruments into dub and psychedelic rock since 2012, playing Glastonbury, Boiler Room, Cafe Oto and Berlin's Humboldt Forum along the way. The Bangkok bar built around the same revival closed this year; the band predates it and never depended on it for bookings.
Moon Mountain turns 25 in a Kanchanaburi jungle in February 2027, and Koh Phangan's Halfmoon Festival, founded the same year, now runs every two weeks. Southeast Asia's psytrance scene actually lives in both places, and the rest of the region never built one.
Southeast Asia's first hyperclub opened in Bangkok with ARTBAT, Kölsch and CamelPhat inside seven weeks. It's been dark since mid-February, with no reopening date given.
Cambodia has no enforced drinking age at all. Malaysia will fine a bar for serving a 20-year-old. A country-by-country breakdown of where Southeast Asia sets the line, and the law behind each number.
Condé Nast Traveller put Bangkok first in its 2026 Readers' Choice Awards, a city that wasn't even in the top 20 a year ago. Time Out had already called its nightlife the best on the planet.
Seth Troxler called KYO Kuala Lumpur's Void Acoustics rig the best sound system in the world. Here is how it compares to Zouk Singapore's new L-Acoustics install, Savaya's unpublicized system and Illuzion Phuket's Vegas-style Outline rig.
Thailand arrested an American DJ in Chiang Mai for working without a permit.
Bangkok's most famous record shop sells molam and luk thung. Singapore's best-known vinyl bar closed in 2020. Here is where Southeast Asia's house and techno DJs actually dig, city by city.
Thailand's weed shops are still open, but a 2025 law now requires a doctor's prescription to buy legally, and the rules get far stricter the moment you cross into a neighboring country.
Southeast Asia's six biggest clubbing countries split evenly on vaping: Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore ban it outright, and Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines sell it legally. The law, country by country.
DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 DJs poll puts Charlotte de Witte at No. 6, her best finish since she entered the list in 2019 at No. 74. She and fellow climber Mau P both have December dates locked in at EDC Thailand's Phuket edition.
For decades, 7-Eleven clerks across Thailand covered the beer fridge every afternoon at 2pm. That law is gone now. Here is what still applies, country by country, if you're planning a night out anywhere in Southeast Asia.
Pattaya has a reputation built on Walking Street's beer bars and go-go clubs. It also has two venues on DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100, and one room that actually plays house and techno.
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.
Savaya broke into DJ Mag's top five, Thailand landed a record eight clubs, and Zouk Singapore keeps climbing. Every Southeast Asian name on the 2026 list, and who's missing from it.
The Bangkok musician's 'Pakarang' trades club hooks for field recordings, Thai instruments and a working partnership with Coral Gardeners, named after the Thai word for coral.
EDC Thailand's third edition in two years lands at Rhythm Park, Phuket, December 18-20, 2026. What tickets actually cost, who's confirmed to play, the age limit, the bag policy, and whether Hotel EDC is worth booking.
Bangkok's techno scene keeps colonizing buildings nobody designed for it. The latest is the fifth floor of a Donki discount mall in Ekkamai, where Berlin BKK runs hard techno past the instant noodles.
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.