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Pawnshop Events!!
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| StereoPrincess |
Heard a few of live sets from The Pawnshop. Checked out the pictures, place looks great!
Here are the events going on:
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| kabelicious |
Richie Hawtin
Strike that - Howells if Morillo @ Space dosen't win out. But Howells' extended sets are sublime. :) |
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| Vero |
last year i went to the Digweed Fabric20 release party at pawnshop on tuesday. It was my first night in miami and by far my favorite party of my whole WMC week. The club had the weirdest and yet best stmosphereive seen yet.
we get there and there is a flamming door guy dressed in a full on crocodile hunter outfit with a camo canteen and a bullhorn. who do we see standing in line? Armin Van Buren. let me repeat that: armin was WAITING IN LINE. we get in and the club was just amazing. with a back patio with lots of comfy places to relax and a full on halfpipe with a big red couch in the middle of it. WTF? oh, and did i mention the crazy psychodelic spidermen?
best night of my WMC '05. i highly recomend this club!!! and ill be there for digweed @ the pawn shop pt2. here is a full review from virginmegamagazine.com:
John Digweed: The Don of WMC 2005
Winter Music Conference kicked off in Miami with an unlikely party to remind movers and shakers what dance music and clubs should be like.
The backdrop for this year's Winter Music Conference in Miami (from March 22-26), as ever, is the dramatic Florida coast, tropical weather (which this year includes a few unexpected thunder showers), posh hotel pools and numerous clubs throughout South Beach and beyond. This year there is a more relaxed vibe as movers and shakers in dance music's global community maneuver the area's alluring local culture, which finds itself defined by the underlying passion of Cuban immigrants contrasted by business and fashion types who come from all over the world to enjoy its sexy vibe and abundance.
As with every year at Winter Music Conference, there is a new buzz club in town. This one is called Pawn Shop and it's located in a less-desirable (yet changing) area of downtown. In Miami, it's always a risk to take a $20 cab ride to such a destination because even if you're on a list, you might not get in the door. Or, if the club sucks, you're in the middle of nowhere (which means no cabs going the other way) in a bad neighborhood. But to see John Digweed spin at the record release party for his latest mix album, Fabric20, we decide to risk it.
It's a good omen to be greeted warmly at the rope by John himself, who is standing next to a gregarious door guy with crazy hair, chopped off khaki pants and a bullhorn. The guy is watching our every move. John greets us with a warm smile and handshake, then leans in to hand us drink tickets while quietly informing us that it's a little quirky in there.
Once inside the door, we are elated by the vibe and atmosphere that includes remnants of the old pawn shop the club took its name from - the least of which are various styles of old chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, overblown erotic photography perched high on the walls above bars, tables and the dancefloor. An abandoned bus sits in the middle of the club dividing its two rooms, where VIP tables are situated in a well-lit place.
As we enter, Nic Fanuciulli is on the decks. He looking happy yet intent as he seamlessly weaves a set of everything from the latest bootlegs in progressive house to New Order. It feels like the old days at the End Up in San Francisco where you could dance from Saturday night straight through to Monday morning in a mixed crowd of misfits. The sound system at the Pawn Shop is, of course, impeccable. We all feel like we have come home once again to a place where our musical souls can celebrate all that is good about the music and the lifestyle we lead around it.
Just when you think things can't get any better, they sometimes do. And that's what happened after we discovered an outdoor Moroccan patio at the back of the club, where we could connect with old and new friends from around the globe. This area had an even friendlier bar staff than inside the club (and they were nothing to complain about!).
Once John Digweed got into the full-blown groove of his set, it was all about situating ourselves in the center of the dancefloor where we danced with the mixed crowd until 4:30am (time flies in Miami!). John's hard-driving set didn't necessarily possess much of the techy, stark sounds that are so defining in his Fabric20 mix, the thing we were all there to celebrate (a set he threw together out of tracks from his crates, or more likely hard-drive, in record time according to the DJ). But the passionate, up-for-it Winter Music crowd added to the Pawn Shop locals commanded a darker journey full of Underworld-sounding backing tracks, the deep trance from Digweed's past and all that is new and exciting about progressive dance music.
As ever, the sign of an A-list DJ (and Digweed may be the best), is playing a set tailored to what that night commands not turning up with any preconceived ideas. The crowd matched with the feel of the club and the eclectic music felt like the seminal birthday parties Danny Tenaglia use to throw at Space at conferences past. As anyone who has been to one knows, those nights went down in dance music history like no others.
After thanking our crazy, adorable door man, and getting in a cab to go back to South Beach, we all agree that if the rest of the conference is terrible, this night makes all of it worth the trip and effort to get to this wild and wonderful destination. It was a night of reconnecting to what made us fall in love with the music, the people and settings in the first place.
Stay tuned to find out what pool the coolest DJs are hanging out at
what went down at the Virgin-sponsored Buzzin' Fly party
what are Ben Watt and Hernan Catteneo thinking about and what's the finest accessory at Winter Music Conference 2005.
- Kim Taylor
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