A Halloween Party Is a Trauma

From Hong Kong to Manila to Seoul, suffocating and chaotic club nights on Halloween reveal how the region’s urban culture has been terraformed by…

Oct 22 • Patrick Kho

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Decay Is How Culture Grows

While the mainstream mourns the “death” of culture, “dark forests” are sprouting new creative scenes out of the rot—from niche online subcultures to…

Oct 13 • Patrick Kho

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Why Do the 2020s Have No Defining Music Genre? Geopolitics

How the global shift toward multipolarity can help us understand why there’s no sound of the 2020s.

Oct 1 • Patrick Kho

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September 2026

The Future Is Edible

Seeking escape from AI and a return to real life, a new wave of avant-garde artists is throwing sensory dinner parties. What do they reveal about the…

Sep 22 • Patrick Kho

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The First Looksmaxxer Was a Raver

Zyzz, the “world’s first looksmaxxer,” was shaped by Sydney’s 2000s trance scene—and its raver politics gave him a strangely utopian legacy.

Sep 8 • Patrick Kho

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August 2026

A Sperm Race-cum-Party for the World’s Least Fertile Economy

In which a city spending billions to increase its birth rate takes fertility advice from a man named “Dick Gay.”

Aug 18 • Patrick Kho

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The New Hong Kong Underground

First-person reporting from inside the city's next generation of culture

Published on Welcome Magazine • Aug 12

July 2026

Seven Ways Electronic Music is *Still* Imagining a New Future

From “Why the Future Was Never Lost”: Global music culture is evolving in ways we’re only beginning to realize. And it’s starting to reflect our…

Jul 30 • Patrick Kho

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Mapping the International Internet Gothic

Reporting from a Nu China club night: “Goth” is shedding old definitions, reshaping across borders into an emerging “alt” internet aesthetic. We can’t…

Jul 21 • Patrick Kho

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June 2026

Inside Shanghai’s Gamer Nightclub

A gonzo-style review of INS Land, Shanghai’s famous six-story nightclub. (And the rise of gamer nightlife?)

Jun 30 • Patrick Kho

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Dreamcore: A New Aesthetic for the Turbulent Twenties

In Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms” and GOLD's “dreamedcore,” the dream-like and the uncanny navigate a world in transition.

Jun 16 • Patrick Kho

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“Chinese Manufacturing” is the New “Zero Interest Rates”

Reporting from a nightclub in Shenzhen: Travel to China is recreating habits and fantasies of the Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) era.

Jun 2 • Patrick Kho

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