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Originally posted by hadi ****** they do have funktion one. i went for a friends bday. it was asian night and wack. check the pictures http://www.facebook.com/album.php?a...70163381&page=7 ugliest bunch of clubbers i've seen and the pictures are terrible too.

these girls are better than la trance girls. la trance girls are fugly.

trance in la is gay, it is not for straight guys.

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Originally posted by Cool1g i'm sure if there is a well known dj spinning at the Exchange, it should do fine... a weekly is a different matter but I think people will follow the dj talent there if its good enough. i can't imagine anyone on TA saying they'd skip seeing DJ XXX in downtown because its there instead of in Hollyowood.

Exactly people will go to see the talent wherever it is.

I hope this club does well I've been in there almost everyday for the past 2 years I don't have anything but time invested in the venue which is absolutely gorgeous. I really mean it the venue is amazing everyone should go there at least once!

If anyone is in downtown anytime soon hit me up they're pretty cool with me walking people through there

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Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal I personally think that downtown LA has a lot of potential BUT it has to be done properly. What properly is, well... I have no clue. Whats everyones opinion on events taking place in downtown LA? Can it be successful?

Stock Exchange in mid 90's was bomb even though the music was
trash. It escalated the casual/jeans tshit vibe into a more upscale ambiance. The only negative I can recall on the venue was a severe restroom shortage.
Oh ya.. and parking was a bitch.

I think San Diego can give a little insight. IMO.

Spin, which is not in downtown is where Giant went. It did okay at first, but over time it started to fizzle away because everyone kept on going to downtown because of many more choices/convenient factor.

In this case downtown SD = hollywood and Spin/Exch are elsewhere.

Spin had to figure out the hard way. Just because it's not in downtown, it's going to suffer a big hit crowd wise. And over time it will go under if it stays strictly EDM.

Now, they do Latin night and Gay nights etc. Not much EDM at Spin anymore, if any.

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Originally posted by hadi ****** they do have funktion one. i went for a friends bday. it was asian night and wack. check the pictures http://www.facebook.com/album.php?a...70163381&page=7 ugliest bunch of clubbers i've seen and the pictures are terrible too.

LOL!!! its cuz the promo companies that throw it usually cater to the asian crowd, unfortunately most of them are fobby.

other than that, the venue is dope!

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One of the negative things about the layout is that the DJ booth is so far away from the dance floor. It's like when Avalon has the DJ on the 2nd floor balcony sometimes. When you are on the dance floor at the Exchange it's just kind of weird because you feel like you are just listening to a CD player or something because the DJ is so high up and you don't really see anything if you are looking straight ahead. They might have changed the layout but from the pictures it looks the same as when I went there earlier in the year for some house music night.

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Originally posted by trance_seeker One of the negative things about the layout is that the DJ booth is so far away from the dance floor. It's like when Avalon has the DJ on the 2nd floor balcony sometimes. When you are on the dance floor at the Exchange it's just kind of weird because you feel like you are just listening to a CD player or something because the DJ is so high up and you don't really see anything if you are looking straight ahead. They might have changed the layout but from the pictures it looks the same as when I went there earlier in the year for some house music night.

I get what you're saying.
It felt like being on the bottom tier of a cruise ship with the music on deck. I do recall a nice (but small) VIP area with pretty cool bar. Is it still there?

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Originally posted by chlola I get what you're saying. It felt like being on the bottom tier of a cruise ship with the music on deck. I do recall a nice (but small) VIP area with pretty cool bar. Is it still there?

I'm not sure. I just stayed on the lower deck

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so is the dj booth in that window cutout in the back of the room?

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ehh gonna check it out been wanting to see Calderone forever.

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Originally posted by Cool1g so is the dj booth in that window cutout in the back of the room?

I think so, unless they moved it.

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DJ booth is on the second floor overlooking the main floor. The booth placement is not optimal but now they have a giant LED wall in front of it so there's no way to put it at crowd level or, below the LED wall I don't think. My advice to them before they bought the wall was to move the booth on the floor or drop it down like 5 feet but that didn't happen. When I DJ'ed there it wasn't the most intimate feeling all the way up there. Fill it with people that wanna hear good music and I think the vibe would still be there though.

The booth sits directly above the LED wall



That space up top used to be a room overlooking the main room but now is boarded up with a doorway that leads to some hallways that run through the space. You can walk out onto a small balcony there but not much room.

Opposite end you have the like super VIP or green room, cocaine room LOL whatever you wanna call it. Not boarded up. (Older picture)



It has 1 booth in it and it's the largest VIP booth I have ever seen. Like 14 feel long orgy leather couch that they had to pull it up from the outside of that window. I don't have a pic of that. Red lighting and a private bar in the room.

Sound system is funktion 1 and it's on point in that main room. They recently added a second bar opposite the other to make double the money and that was a good decision for them. Opened the space up some too with bar crowd being on both sides. Middle is dancefloor not alot of traffic.

The movie the social network, that nightclub scene when Timberlake says I'm CEO bitch that was filmed there http://www.vodkaster.com/Films/The-Social-Network/21292

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