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1. Attached to Green Valley is a second
club that usually plays traditional
Brazilian music. When opened together,
however, there is a total capacity of
20,000 throughout both venues!
2. Bucking any demographic sense, a
3:1 ratio of gorgeous women to men
makes Green Valley a haven for visiting
male DJs and clubbers, helps ensure a
Sultan
packed dancefl oor all night and makes
compliment fi ve nights of conference week anything vocal go down a storm.
parties with back-to-back nightly
Buddha Bar and Rodrigo Baretto (aka Rod breaking point. With dawn creeping performances from Erick Morillo, Armin 3. The owners of Green Valley also own
B), another Miami-based Brazilian whose through, the techno master is chalking up Van Buuren, Steve Angello (with his Green the beachfront club — Enjoy — which at
Teggno label has been gaining props from a cool three hours with the aid of a man Valley mix included free with the ticket), a 300-capacity operates on a much more
Cox. passing him glasses of freshly poured Bob Sinclar and Kaskade. modest scale and showcases the talents
Also watching are Josh Abrahams and champagne. As the sun seeps across the of domestic DJs.
Davide Carbone, ex-members of Future landscape, we’re fi nally able to see the Two days later, we’re in Rio ourselves, and
Sound of Melbourne (who pre-date The green canopy of vegetation that joining Carl Cox for a totally contrasting 4. Properties in Balneário Camboriú,
Future Sound of London in case you’re surrounds the valley walls around the club experience. Tonight, Cox is playing at the town closest to Green Valley, have
wondering), who are both working with club. Sunglasses begin to appear on the Boox, an exclusive restaurant and club now become so desirable that they cost
Cox on his awaited, fourth artist album. faces, but the crowd holds strong with where a chichi crowd of less than 200 will more per square metre than an
Listening eagerly as their production nobody moving an inch from their little squeeze in to hear him in the confi nes of a apartment on the beachfront in Rio.
cohort roadtests a new track, the patch of dancefl oor. cosy, exclusive venue.
unswerving enthusiasm of the assembled It’s a chance for him to return to his roots, 5. Other clubs to visit in the area
masses bodes well. But you can almost see As we approach 8am, Cox fi nally hands digging out classic house tracks and include Djunn, Green Valley’s biggest
the mental cogs turning as the pair make over to Sultan whose opening progressive playing a more intimate sound than his rival Warung, who’ve played host to
silent notes on what to tweak in their next vocal assault sends a visible pulse of global status normally allows. But for now Booka Shade and King Unique in recent
studio session. renewed energy through the crowd. With he’s still buzzing from Green Valley’s months, and beach clubs Dreams and
an assembled throng of girls now dancing second birthday. Kiwi.
Changing Face around the stage, smudged eye-liner “I’ve seen it grow from a conceptual idea
As we discuss the changing face of hidden behind black lenses, the party into what it’s turned into now,” Cox says,
Brazilian dance music with some local spirit is undaunted by the morning. For recalling the amazing transformation he’s
DJs, talk turns to Jesus Luis. Who, in case the locals, the prospect of dancing witnessed over three visits.
you’ve been hiding under a rock the size outside in the daylight is clearly as much a “I think the biggest thing is that it’s a club
of Green Valley itself, is the latest prey of part of Green Valley’s appeal as Panorama that Brazil can feel proud about. Privilege
celebrity cougar Madonna. Bar’s infamous shutters. in Ibiza is as big but it’s all broken up
Currently reinventing himself as a DJ, a Come 10am, the party still shows no sign there. At Green Valley you have one great
booking at Green Valley heard his set of abating. But with phones and atmosphere in one great place with
drowned out by the excited screams of sunglasses lost in the melee, we head enough room for people from all around.
on-looking women. Which is something back to Praia do Estaleiro for more It’s open-air so everyone also makes the
he might have been glad for given the champagne, breakfast, a morning swim effort to look and feel good. As a
subsequent rumours he was actually and, fi nally, our much-needed bed. performer it’s fantastic to have an
playing mix CDs. A Brazilian TV show even audience like that. The experience of
went so far as to suggest there was a With plans for taking the club on tour Green Valley is like nowhere else in the
midget mixing below the decks. around Brazil, Green Valley’s presence at world. ”
No such accusations can be levied at Cox, Rio’s Music Conference in February is sure We’ll second that. JOE ROBERTS
Party ‘til the cows come home
mind, who still has the heaving mass at to spread the word further, as well as
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