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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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Charlotte de Witte, Jamie Jones and Vintage Culture join EDC Thailand's third Phuket edition, plus a new Hotel EDC beach pre-party added in October for the night before gates open.
Inside a 900-square-metre former warehouse in Talat Noi, a listening bar built around JBL speakers and McIntosh amps shares a roof with tattoo studios, a flea market and, a few times a year, a genre-hopping rave that spills across four floors.
A brand-new four-day trade summit just claimed December 7-10 in Chonburi, Thailand, with no organizer, venue or speakers named yet. What is confirmed: it wraps four days before Tomorrowland opens its first Asian edition down the road.
The DIY collective that turned a 900-square-meter concrete shell in Trinity Complex into Bangkok's most honest techno night just turned four. Its old room now belongs to a new club most Friday and Saturday nights.
No government-sanctioned drug-checking service operates at any Southeast Asian festival. Here's what the region's death penalty laws, Wonderfruit's own rulebook and the 2024 Vang Vieng methanol deaths actually mean for anyone going out.
Bar Marco opens at 6pm with a wall of vinyl and nowhere to dance. Nine hours later, on the far side of town, Elsewhere is still going. Here's the route between them, hour by hour.
Idris Elba's house music alias IDRIS played a one-off set at Bangkok's Cloud 11 Theatre on September 26, sharing the booth with two of the city's own DJs, Wildealer and Elaheh, as his label Sound International made its Thailand debut.
Every euro from Charlotte de Witte's new EP goes to a nonprofit fighting to keep clubs open worldwide. Its own research points straight at Bangkok and Vietnam.
Guinness World Records has confirmed it: nobody has ever DJed to a bigger crowd than Calvin Harris did from a carnival float in São Paulo. The number makes even Southeast Asia's biggest festivals look like club nights.
My Own Shadow – Album lands November 13 on !K7, Marcel Dettmann's first full-length since 2022. The Berghain resident spent years skipping Thailand entirely before his first Bangkok set in 2019.
The Bangkok producer built a following by wiring the pin, a three-stringed Isan lute, into festival-scale EDM. In December, Tomorrowland's first Thailand edition puts that sound next to Martin Garrix and Swedish House Mafia.
Officials in Busan shut down the live venue Ovantgarde for two months after watching its audience dance under a restaurant license that forbids it. The same legal trap is written into Thailand's Entertainment Places Act, and Bangkok's small clubs live inside it every night.
ALESSA, the classically trained Japanese pianist who became one of her country's most distinctive DJs, has died at 33. Sosumi Records founder Kryder is remembering a decade of friendship that ran through Bangkok, Amsterdam and a landmark orchestra show in Tokyo.
Wonderfruit tells you to bring a mallet. DWP tells you to bring cash, a lot of it. Here's what Southeast Asia's biggest house and techno festivals actually require you to pack, straight from their own FAQs.
Bangkok floods in August, Bali has its best month, and the Philippines braces for typhoons. Here's how the region's promoters actually plan around three overlapping monsoon systems.
The Dutch trio posted their breakup on September 17, 2019. On September 17, 2026, they posted again: they're playing Amsterdam's Melkweg in December. No album, no five-year plan, just a show.
In a Chiang Mai workshop, Pete Wallis builds the only Eurorack modular synthesizers made in Thailand, and performs the results live as Red Drum.
Thailand's government has spent years enforcing curfews on underground parties. This year it wrote checks to twelve of the producers who play them, and pressed the results onto vinyl bound for six countries.
Wonderfruit's first-ever international edition caps attendance at 100 people and moves the festival's philosophy from a Thai rice field to private temples and villas around Kyoto this October.
A four-piece from Bangkok just shared a Bandcamp Daily list with acts from Bristol, Kyiv and Sofia. The EP that got them there was recorded off a trip to a Japanese mountain town and a 1985 Thai film.
Thailand's own techno pioneer heads home for EDC Thailand's December 18-20 edition after a Phase 2 update that also adds Kaskade, Tiesto and a wave of regional talent.
Four tracks, no chorus, no streaming push. More Rice Records' newest release is a reminder that Bangkok's best-connected underground label still measures itself in wax, not playlist adds.
Bangkok's digital arts and electronic music festival is back after a year off, and it announced itself with a rebuilt 2005 deep cut instead of a lineup poster.
808 Festival's Phase 2 lineup adds hardware-only Italian duo 999999999 and live artist Giorgia Angiuli to a Bangkok bill that already has Illenium and W&W. October 2-3 at BITEC.