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I joined the scene a lot later than most TA's i think in 2005. Club Space was the first club I EVER went to, and it was to see PVD and George Acosta in the main room in November 05. It was even 18+ that night because it was a Friday night(how I got in lol), but I remember being it a magical moment in my life. Space was the place back then, awesome bookings and awesome residents. I agree with Em and nfekted, OG was Space, no matter how many ppl may not like his style or W/E he was the best resident I have ever heard at a club and ppl went for him.

IMO Space lost big time in putting the Hip Hop on the first floor, its OK to go to a club to get fucked up, we all do it, but it seems more and more ppl just go to Space to do drugs and dont even know who is playing....

well space like other clubs at times in my opinion has just become extremely complacent. LP knows no matter what his club will be packed week in/week out and brings in the same monotonous DJs. im not saying the DJs he brings arent good, because i love them all (boris,calderone, chus n ceballos, roger sanchez, etc), but its always the same rotation and there is never trance anymore and trance sounds fuckin incredible in that main room!! there is absolutely no variety to who space brings anymore like there was years ago. while that club is still in my top 3 of all time and have had nothing but amazing nights/mornings/afternoons at that place, i think a change of ownership will be so good to bring new DJs to such an amazing venue, or older ones who have stopped coming due to bad relations. i just hope the new owner doesnt go changing much about the overall appearance of how it looks, but time will tell.

I for one am excited to see what will come of this club...as long as new management sticks with the 3 basic elements of EDM (Trance, Techno, & House)and leaves out hip hop they should be in good shape...also imo they should install a rectractable roof in the terrace instead of the fake sky painted on the ceiling...lol...the terrace was better when it was open

really miss the old venue "Space34"--- winter\spring of 2004-2005
grand moments right there!

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Originally posted by arturob winter\spring of 2004-2005 grand moments right there!

+freakingONE Artyyy <3

Best times I had at Space were those same 2 years!

heh. yea!
PVD@mansion? d0 it!

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Originally posted by EDM-head I for one am excited to see what will come of this club...as long as new management sticks with the 3 basic elements of EDM (Trance, Techno, & House)and leaves out hip hop they should be in good shape...also imo they should install a rectractable roof in the terrace instead of the fake sky painted on the ceiling...lol...the terrace was better when it was open

the appeal of the terrace is definitely all about the open air. its not the same closed off

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Originally posted by arturob really miss the old venue "Space34"--- winter\spring of 2004-2005 grand moments right there!

+1

lol they had like 33443 closeing party's already
i remember seeing they were haveing one with eric morillo a few years ago, then the club was back open a few weeks later

i only been to space once and it was during this wmc for pvd
and to be honest i was not blown away by it, i heard sooo many good stories about it but then my friend was showing me the older layout and how it used to look before they made the dancefloor smaller and added all those tables so yea it could have been an epic room
altho the system and terrace were nice

the main room used to be so sick looking when you could go upstairs on the mezzanine and look down on the whole crowd on the dancefloor and then they went and closed it off unfortunately

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Originally posted by FallingMoon Best times I had at Space were those same 2 years!

Agreed!!!!!

I think after that PVD nov 2005 i stopped having that much fun

Yea I know all about the DT situation. It's fucked up. I love DT and have had some epic nights when he has been on the decks but in the same breathe I'll say fuck DT because he did us very dirty this year and fucked things up for us big time earlier in the year.

I do know its bs because I just told you guys its a remodel and is going to be closed for 3 to 4 weeks. There are also other things that leaked and had to erase because they weren't supposed to be out in public yet, but I know a lot of what is going on over there with what is about to happen.

I'm not disagreeing with anyone about the lack of talent lately but I'm also saying that the loft has been bringing some great and more underground djs. I used to be on the terrace every Sunday for years until the past couple months because the venue changed and it just isn't the same, that's why I don't go anymore unless its for someone I really want to see. I'll say it again Liebing was insane. The loft was busy but the vip wasn't full at all. I think I had everyone that was in the VIP last Saturday. Also the bars in the loft are never ever busy, that's why the bartenders fight to be on the terrace or mainroom. I always head to the loft to get a drink if I don't have a bottle. When I left at 6.30 Saturday though the Terrace was pretty busy but nothing like if Patrick would of been playing that morning.

There was nothing better than OG in that mainroom and those were magical nights that stayed slammed in there till the early hours of the morning. A lot of you on here were giving me shit when I was defending OG in a different thread sometime back but he made that old mainroom and no one can take that away from him. I would love for OG to come back to Space but that just isn't going to happen anytime soon, since he just signed a 2 year contract with Opium Group.

Fact of the matter is, I think a facelift will be good for the venue. I didn't really get into details about the renovation because I was twisted and didn't feel like getting into all but I hope the mainroom comes back. I do know about some of the future bookings coming later in the year and I must say they are very very good and will be something completely different than the normal down here. When the time gets closer I let some of them out of the bag.

I'm not defending the slack bookings at all but I can see the coin from two sides when it comes to the business aspect. Go ahead and blame LP you want for the bookings but at the end of the day it is a business and why the hell is he going to spend 15,000 to 20,000 on booking these huge names and turn less profit when he can book 4 local guys or smaller names for less money and at the end of the day triple his profits. It's a business and LP knows whoever he books that the club is going to be packed and make money. Everyone also forgets that a lot of these guys you used to see at other places around town are on EXCLUSIVE contracts, not much club owners can do when it comes to that. Also when you have to go through agencies to get a lot of these bigger names, the agency will make you book 2 or 3 of their smaller names, that are still very pricey, to be able to book who you want.

As for the roof on the Terrace thank the 18 people that live in the condos around the area for that. It's for sound proofing so they could keep it going without being hassled and shut down on Sunday mornings. It's just not the same all closed off now.

To some it up, all I'm saying is they don't give two shits if there's 25 of us sitting here saying the bookings suck because there is 3,000 other people that will be in the venue every weekend spending money.

End of rant. Now I'm looking for to August 21st with Alex Kenji on the Terrace and I'm really looking forward to November 20th

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Originally posted by FallingMoon Thank you!! I don't get why some people keep defending Space like if it's paying their bills. Seriously. The loft being packed? The loft is fucking small of course it's easy to pack that shit. I guess I can see someone who just recently got into the scene defending it because I guess this crap is all they know? Whatever the club is shit which is why I don't go. And yes, they do just fine without my money but I can say whatever the fuck I want about it because I was once a regular. Now, I don't need to ever step a foot in there again and I'd be perfectly content. This goes for a lot of old school regulars that know how good it once was to the shit it has come to. The club I remember where I had so many good times and memories ceases to exist. I'm thankful to have had those good times and have met many TA's there (as Spacemasters said) but the reality now is that the club is a total waste of space

I was never defending Space all I was saying was that the loft IMO has had some great bookings as of late. Do you know who paying my bills? No, so don't say shit about things you don't know

And no I haven't just recently got into the scene been in it for a long time now. I already got into this discussion with Av1 and don't need to do it again.

I'll agree with you though I think Space is shit now and the crowd is weird and creepy which is exactly why I don't go there anymore besides when someone really catches my eye that I haven't seen or haven't seen in a while.

I don't know why you keep bitching about Space bookings since you don't go there anymore and next door at Nocturnal they have been bringing some solid bookings the last couple weeks and will continue too for the next couple months. Take yourself next door and have a good night with an open Terrace

no matter what they do to the place its pretty obvious it'll only ever be a shell of its former self.

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Originally posted by gimmebeatz the main room used to be so sick looking when you could go upstairs on the mezzanine and look down on the whole crowd on the dancefloor

yea space used to be the shit.

^^^^^^ thanks for posting the pics...thats the club space i used to know and love!

Best times for me there were when it opened all up until 2004 early 2005. Most of you on here wouldnt know what good times are until you visited that place in those years It was a whole other world trully deserving the name Space.

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Originally posted by arturob heh. yea! PVD@mansion? d0 it!

I'm considering it
but you better actually go! don't do a disappearing act on us!

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Originally posted by koky69 Best times for me there were when it opened all up until 2004 early 2005. Most of you on here wouldnt know what good times are until you visited that place in those years It was a whole other world trully deserving the name Space.

+1

Trancemission Friday Nights and also afterhours Saturday/Sunday with Edgar V from the opening in March 2000 through mid 2001 = best music & best times ever @ Space. Period, end of story, nothing else compares to those nights, forget about it ...

I'd also agree that up through 2005 their bookings were very solid, but have significantly continued to fall off since 2007. In fact 2004 may have been Space's best year for guest bookings: Tiesto (3 or 4 times), Picotto (twice I believe), PVD (at least 3 times), Fanciulli (a few times), Corsten (4 times), Deep Dish (multiple times), and many more that year. Almost every week there were great guest DJs and a bunch of Friday Night special trance bookings that year ...

i think markus as the resident every saturday is up there as some of the best times space ever saw.

also the sander kleinenberg shows in 2005 that were every two months where he would play the mainroom starting at 4am until like 6 then switch to the terrace until god knows when. the train of people following sander k up to the terrace was always a sight to be seen.

so does anyone know or have any insider info as to how much the club was actually sold for? very curious to know

when did the remodel and close the mezzanine and put in a billion baby disco balls like it is now in the main room? only started going to space around 2007

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Originally posted by entro when did the remodel and close the mezzanine and put in a billion baby disco balls like it is now in the main room? only started going to space around 2007

i remember being at ferry in june 2005 and you could still go upstairs and look down. for pvd in august 2005 there was a roof above our heads and if you went upstairs you were in what is now called the "loft." so sometime then.

wow Space was much better back then , I recently spent 2 weeks in Miami (got home like 36h ago) and I were really looking to be in THE Space after all of the rave reviews that I have read before planning my trip to Miami. Too badd when I were in Space during the 4th of July morning it is kinda meh as a TA. 2 huge hip hop rooms such a turn off and then that upstairs minimal techno room, torture. The saving grace was the terrace but the DJ would play some nice proggy stuff then back to the same thing as the loft again, meh.

from the pic and reviews from TA man I really wish I were there during Markus resident and other massive DJ booking, too bad I am about 5 years late

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Originally posted by Mgz wow Space was much better back then , I recently spent 2 weeks in Miami (got home like 36h ago) and I were really looking to be in THE Space after all of the rave reviews that I have read before planning my trip to Miami. Too badd when I were in Space during the 4th of July morning it is kinda meh as a TA. 2 huge hip hop rooms such a turn off and then that upstairs minimal techno room, torture. The saving grace was the terrace but the DJ would play some nice proggy stuff then back to the same thing as the loft again, meh. from the pic and reviews from TA man I really wish I were there during Markus resident and other massive DJ booking, too bad I am about 5 years late

What's wrong with minimal Techno? This kind of attitude from all sides is what slowly ruined the music scene, fun times at all clubs and nightlife in general in Miami. You either like one and if u like the other as well you dont know squat about music attitude sucks ass. Why cant all music be good? What makes mine better than yours or vise versa? Oh well. Ignorance will always be plentifull in this world i guess Me? Im living life enjoying great tunes no matter what it is

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