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Legendary Club Nights Near YOU
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| SYSTEM-J |
Tonight I went to Back To Basics for the very first time. If you don't know, Basics is the longest running weekly club night in the world, a true institution of the Leeds club scene (only erstwhile techno club The Orbit can rival it). And it was absolutely ing wicked. A sweaty grimey basement with smoke, strobes, perspiration literally dripping back off the ceiling and top quality house music delivered to a mad-for-it and uber-friendly crowd. It reminds me of another legendary club night - Tangled in Manchester, almost as old as Basics and arguably even better for crowd and musical policy. Had the pleasure of seeing Hybrid tear it up there with an utterly gnarly dark breaks set a couple of months back.
So... what legendary nights are near you? We sit here and bitch about the good old days all the time, so let's celebrate the stuff still happening now, those special confluences of music, people and promoters.
(Sorry Austin.) |
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| Scoops |
I'm hoping this becomes one for NYC
Marco Carola Residency
Otherwise nothing going on in NYC |
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| Woony |
| Doesn't Carola play mediocre big room tech house these days? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Woony, you live in ing Berlin. Tell us what it's really like in all these legendary techno clubs. |
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| Guest |
| Not so much a club night, but every Sunday in the summer, for as long as I can remember, is a beach party. Top-notch talent from 3pm-11pm, every Sunday, and I haven't met a better crowd or better people anywhere else in the city. |
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| enydo |
| I'm trying to track down some of the trillest fliers from the metro Atlanta area. |
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| Woony |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Woony, you live in ing Berlin. Tell us what it's really like in all these legendary techno clubs. |
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The thing is that there nothing left of the legendary berlin 90's techno clubs. They all closed down in the late 90's and early 2000s. After the old Tresor closed down in 2005 the last sliver of 90's berlin techno had vanished. Pretty much all of the current clubs opened within the last decade, many only within the last five or six years. |
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| Sand Leaper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
BERGHAIN |
I guess Berghain sort of counts, considering how long Ostgut was around before Berghain kicked off in 2004, and the kind of rep the club has now. Not a patch on places like E-Werk and Bunker, though, let alone places like Omen and Dorian Gray in Frankfurt.
edit: I was WAY too young to catch Darren Emerson, Fatboy Slim and loads of others playing for about 12 people at Markens Brød & Sirkus in my hometown in the early 90s. Same goes for the legendary, annual and borderline illegal outdoor raves hosted in connection to the Quart Festival, which among other things included The Aloof performing on a pirate ship at the local zoo that was crammed full of speakers, and also had a stoned as Tricky doing vocals while hanging off one of the sails. |
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| Woony |
I wouldn't really count Berghain since Ostgut was a different club in a different location. Same with the old Tresor.
Berghain is still going though. When they close down eventually they'll have a pretty legendary history. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| To be clear, I don't just mean 20 year old nights/clubs. I mean those nights where you can turn up almost irrespective of the line-up and know it'll be a full house, a great atmosphere and a party that runs on into the daylight. |
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| Woony |
| Oh right. Berghain is pretty crazy in that regard. Sundays aren't really afterhours, it's more like a second, more intense saturday. |
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