If you want my musical vote for what will work in the current Patong climate and keep a large % of patrons happy..
Vocal style funky (garage'y) house.. This is mainstream enough that from there the DJ can work lots of different angles while still keeping a main theme thats pretty middle of the roads club sounds wise.. You can go very soul vocal, Sarah Washington style, piano and acceplla garage'y.. You can work to old school crowd pleasers (can even mine his seam as far as Soul II Soul and C&C music factory if the DJ knows what hes doing and doesnt slip into Vanilla Ice cheese territory) some hands in the air style house anthems.. You can build it a little funkier / harder house without losing the way.. You can even go to hip hop influenced club tunes, Nu Soul clubbier stuff.. You can edge towards the modern discoesque club tunes.. Possible to work electro funk threads into that tapestry.. All while staying around this fairly broad remit.
Its a very versatile sound that is both hard not to at least tolerate, and as such is going to appeal to quite a broad base of punters without really offending the eardrums of anyone, you can push slightly into the more adventerous sounds and still not be too far from mainstream..
Your club will have a much more diverse set of patrons than clubland back in Europe, your not going to be able to really push the edge too much and as great as I think it would be to have themed nights of harder, funkier deep sounds, or two step and modern garage, or a old school club classics night etc.. You will really need a large following than I think patong can give right now..
Just my 2 satang on how I would try the musical landscape to fill the place as a business choice rather then a stylistic choice...