Richie Hawtin
MANNHEIM MISSION
IF 16 hours of cutting-edge techno and massive and includes two nights in a four-star hotel, coach
warehouses sounds like your bag, then London’s Lost travel and a ticket to the event itself.
Souls are running another roadtrip to Timewarp “We try and get everyone involved rather than just
Mannheim which takes place at Maimarkthalle on sticking everyone on the coach and taking their
Saturday 27th March. money,” explains Anthony Difranceso, from Lost Souls.
Arguably the defi nitive European techno rave of recent “We’ll be running competitions on each coach and
years, Laurent Garnier, Richie Hawtin, Ricardo there’ll be a chance to win an all-expenses trip with us
Villalobos, Loco Dice, Magda and Dubfi re are just a to Timewarp Rotterdam later in the year. It’s a good
fraction of those playing. opportunity to go over in a big group and meet a lot of
The deal with Lost Souls comes with a £220 price tag people into the same music.”
timewarpuk.com
,
WMC COUNTDOWN
Jamie Lidell
MIAMI CREW get your disco diaries out. The Opium of their famous back-to-back sets on Thursday 25th
Group have given us the inside-track on their March, while Cameo opens its doors to the French
programme for WMC 2010 and there’s some sessions Invasion on Wednesday 24th March — Busy P, DJ
in there. Starting with their chic Set venue on Mehdi, Surkin, Joakim, Feadz, Breakbot and Krazy
Lincoln Road, highlights include the Saved party Baldhead all bring the electro noise here.
with Joris Voorn and Nic Fanciulli (Tuesday 23rd And last stop on the Opium trail is Louis nightclub
March), Dubfi re’s Sci + Tec (Wednesday 24th March) at The Gansevoort South on Miami Beach, the
and a closing event with Pryda (Sunday 28th biggies here are the Turbo party with Proxy on
March). Wednesday 24th March, and the Boysnoize Records
Dubfi re
Over on Washington Avenue, the epic Mansion party the night after.
theopiumgroup.com
venue has locked Sasha and Digweed down for one
PASSPORT CONTROL
Your delve into the millionaire’s playground of Moscow
RUSSIA’S CAPITAL might not be door tax is between 400-800 Open since October 2009,
the most accessible place to Rubles (about £10-20). Discoteque has already featured
spread your clubbing wings, but Originally based in building 17 of nights with Sander Kleinenberg,
there’s a serious glut of quality the Arma Factory, Arma 17 (Nijniy Funkagenda and Danny Tenaglia,
clubbing options for those that Susainly Lane) was forced to take the New York icon returning to
make the effort to get there. up another space within the same Moscow after a decade’s absence.
Clubbing etiquette in Moscow complex when their old home Somewhat bizarrely it is located Sanchez, all help boost the club’s
surrounds the potentially burned down last year. in a warehouse right next door to fortunes.
humiliating concept of ‘Feis A colossal converted warehouse, Arma 17, having poached former Understandably trading on the
Kontrol’ (face control to you and it has regularly hosted nights for Arma 17 brands like Matinee, brand, Pacha Moscow regularly
me!). The trade-off for running Cocoon, Renaissance and Viva, Toolroom and Salvation. has Ibiza themed or related
the gauntlet of eagle-eyed while Ricardo Villalobos just Away from the grandiose, parties, such as Defected.
bouncers is that most Moscow played New Year here. It eschews Solyanka (11 Solyanka Ulista) is Situated fi ve minutes walk from
clubs don’t charge for entry. Moscow’s love of glamorous decor an intimate techno club with a the famous Red Square, it also
Exceptions to this are Arma17, and large VIP sections, offering a fun vibe that counts the likes of has perhaps the strictest door
Discoteque and Solyanka, where more low-key vibe. Superfreq and secretsundaze as policy in town. Here Moscow’s
visiting brands. The three areas most famous door enforcer,
add to the charm of the venue coincidentally named Pasha, is
and the ‘Face Control’ policy here the one seeing if your face fi ts.
is simple; free for regulars, For the best after-parties head to
otherwise you pay. Krysha Mira (Naberezhnaya
With a name that means ‘heaven’, Tarassa Shevchenko), which gets
Rai (9a Bolotnaya Naberezhnaya) busiest from 5 – 9am. With a
is the city’s most fl amboyant soundtrack of serious techno, it
venue and encompasses all that tends to fi nish later — especially
comes with that; beautiful in the summer when the large
women, big VIP area, dancers, outdoor, rooftop terrace comes
acrobats, pyrotechnics and into its own. Whilst the door
Ibiza-esque drink prices. A strong policy is strict, this is more about
summer in 2009 saw serious clubbers than those that
SupermartXe, The Face Of Ibiza, look ‘bling’.
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