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NIGHTLIFE’S NEW WAVE

It’s Friday night in Hong Kong and the crowds are filling the streets around Lan Kwai Fong. Pushing through the throngs of people, you pass a procession of bars pounding out Top 40 hits and EDM remixes. It’s a lot of fun if you’re 18 years old (the legal drinking age in Hong Kong), but what about the rest of us?

“Hong Kongers are generally more interested in money than music, so we don’t have the really mature scenes you see in other big cities, like London or New York,” says Adam Wright, the longtime entertainment editor of the . Thanks to sky-high

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