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Beam
A Funktion-One room on Thonglor Soi 55 that books internationally without behaving like a tourist club. The best sound in the city.
Corsica Studios
Two small arches under the railway with a booking policy braver than clubs ten times the size.
VENT
A basement with a custom system and a strictly music-first policy. If you only have one night in Tokyo and you care about techno, come here.
Do Not Sit On The Furniture
A tiny, dark, deliberately unglamorous room on the Beach that books better than clubs twenty times its size.
Studio Lam
A custom sound system built by the Zudrangma Records crew, playing molam and Thai funk to people who came specifically for it.
Good Room
House of Yes
Circus, cabaret and a dancefloor, run on an explicit consent policy that other clubs should have copied years ago.
Phonox
A single dark room built around long residencies rather than guest bookings, which is why the Saturday crowd actually knows each other.
Pikes
A hotel with a tennis court, a folkloric guest list and the best small parties on the island. Freddie Mercury’s birthday happened here; the room still behaves accordingly.
12x12
Bossa Nova Civic Club
A tiny tropical-dark room that has outlasted every club that opened around it. Cheap, sweaty, permanently correct.
Yu Yu
A small hi-fi room in Roma with a bar programme as considered as the sound. The most consistently good night in the city.
Garage Noord
Floyd Miami
The small room under Space. Better for the music, worse for the story you tell afterwards.
Bonobo
A terraced Bandra house that has been the reliable centre of Mumbai’s underground for over a decade. Small, unpretentious, consistently the best booking in the city.
Circus Tokyo
Licorería Limantour
Jazz Cafe
Safe Room
Dalston Superstore
A bar upstairs, a basement downstairs, and the most reliable queer night in east London on almost any day of the week.
Badaboum
M.N.Roy
A woven-timber pyramid of a room hidden behind an unmarked door. Small, expensive, and genuinely beautiful.
Paragon
La Cheetah Club
Riviera Bar
Bar Martha
Tannoy Autographs, a wall of vinyl and a rule against raising your voice. The archetype of the Tokyo listening bar.
Djoon
A small warm room that has kept its faith in deep house for two decades while the rest of the city chased the harder thing.
Rabbit Hole
Silencio
David Lynch designed the basement. Members-only until midnight, then a door that decides whether your evening improves.
The Pickle Factory
Forestlimit
JBS
Bar Secreto
Prince Charles
A drained swimming pool in a courtyard basement. Smaller and warmer than the city average, and better for it.
Mustache Bangkok
Hoppetosse
A moored ship with a low hull room that does minimal properly, and a deck for when you need to remember what daylight is.
Hanky Panky Cocktail Bar
A speakeasy behind a taquería door, and one of the best cocktail rooms in the Americas. Reserve.
Bonobo
A converted wooden house near Yoyogi-Uehara holding maybe forty people. Take your shoes off upstairs.
Solfa
Rhodesia Club Social
Zinco Jazz Club
A bank vault basement downtown running live jazz six nights a week. Book, or stand.
Aoyama Tunnel
Soup
Havana Social
Berkeley Suite
OHM
The former battery room of the Tresor power station. Small, strange, and where the more interesting bookings hide.