Yumla

So the new name means Cantonese ‘cheers’? Ahhhh, I still have a crash on previous one, Midnight&Co., matches the digital scene!
I am hungry for techno, house and other electro in Hong Kong’s nightlife till Midnight&Co. got renovated three years ago. The DJ who used to pay in Drop transferred to this industrial basement. Other local DJ like Wendy Wenn also wax here to make some noise. If I did not get it wrong, the current boss is Japanese and he also DJing there sometimes. A few nights have some signature sake cocktails recently.
They spare every efforts to remain the down-​to-​earth gallery style for a local club, refusing membership, entry (except guest DJ set), and any other sophistication. You do need to squeeze to dance. But how can that bother you in the right beats. Friday and Saturday nights are the big days. Enjoying dance to sweat there, then a bit chill at the garden outside (all the hilarious stories).
Here is for the right music. No commercial. No mainstrain. Nice crowd. More than friendly social vibe outside near the park. It is sarcastic that upper-​class member-​only Boujis is secretly located on the other side of Pottinger Street. And here we are celebrating the underground loud.

If you’re ever tired of hearing the same club 100 hits in main LKF, you should consider taking a detour to 79 Wyndham, near the amphitheater steps. Midnight & Co. was once the old and most cherished Yumla, which closed in 2011 after 8 years of service to Hong Kong’s growing house and techno scene. Midnight is the newly renovated space, and has a Funktion One sound system. This essentially means you won’t be able to hear a word your friend next to you is saying once inside, and your ears feel like they’re buzzing.
But once inside, there’s not much to talk about by way of décor anyway; everything is stripped-​back, completely bare concrete dotted with strobe lights. It is meant to resemble the underground bunkers in East Berlin and Detroit apparently, and reinforces their philosophy that one should appreciate a pure unadulterated emission of music, without the bells and whistles, so to speak. There is a two-​man bar, a DJ booth, and three toilet stalls that always seem to be crammed full of people. Many stand or sit on the benches outside Midnight too, for that breath of fresh non-​perspiring air. If you’re more into the sit back, laid back kind of vibe, Midnight might not be for you. But if you’re looking to hear some of the best house and tech DJs that Hong Kong has to offer, step on in.
Midnight has open deck nights on Tuesdays, but I usually swing by on Fridays or Saturdays which features tech house and deep house resident DJs, as well as a rotation of local guest DJs, including DJ Vissall and DJ Doctrove.