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SIMILAR to how a Hoover is called a Hoover, even though it’s really a vacuum cleaner, Yello is not the club but in actual fact its leading club night. The venue is Mynt, but those in the know in Belfast, a city with no shortage of madcap mentalists with a penchant for parties, only have one word on their lips every Saturday night. Huxley, Sean Brosnan and Ralph Lawson were all penciled in for March, so no doubt its diverse crowd, made up of serious ravers and sexually-liberated clubbers, had a Mynt time. We mean Yello. No Mynt. Sorry!


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MOTION


BRISTOL, ENGLAND CAPACITY: 1450 motionbristol.com


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“IT ain’t the size of the ship,” so the saying goes, “it’s also the motion of the ocean”. Fortunately Bristol’s flagship club is packing on both counts, making huge waves with its armada-sized line-ups. Held in Motion skatepark, its youthful crowd and all-encompassing booking policy is certainly part of the reason that the city is surrounded by so much hype at the moment. Amongst its chief assets is Just Jack having, at the time of writing, just played host to hype-man Seth Troxler back-to-back with Craig Richards, following Joy Orbison teaming up with Ben UFO the month before, and In:Motion which welcomed Radio One’s Essential Mix at the end of last year for the debut of Eats Everything, just one of the local homegrown artists helping to mutate house into new vital forms.


MYNT BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND


CAPACITY: 750 thisisyello.com


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IT says a lot about a club scene if its venues stand the test of time. Along with fellow countryman, Antwerp’s Cafe d’Anvers (No.84 in this poll), Fuse has survived over 15 years of beat supremacy without compromising in the slightest. Born in 1993 and still dedicated to the tenets of house and techno engrained into the same music scene that gave birth to R&S Records all those years ago, it’s continued to move with the times. Last month it invited Nina Kraviz, Seth Troxler and Ricardo Villalobos into this recently redesigned dungeon of rave, now kitted out with enough lasers and LEDs to convince ET he’s finally made it home.


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SURRENDER/ENCORE BEACH CLUB LAS VEGAS, NV, USA


CAPACITY: 3000 encorebeachclub.com


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ONCE a career graveyard for crooners like the Rat Pack, Vegas has had a personality overhaul. Sure, there are more slots and card tables than you can shake a stick at, but the non-casino entertainment is now all about those repetitive beats (hence the 58 place hike in this poll!). Encore Beach Club, as it is called by day (before it turns into Surrender after sundown), is connected to the luxurious Wynn Hotel and is host to some of the hottest DJ talent on the strip. Everyone from Pete Tong, Afrojack, Calvin Harris and Chuckie have been seen smashing out beats to the bikini-clad beauties who gyrate in the pools, frolic on the floating beds and group in numbers among the champagne-fuelled cabanas that surround this epic venue. Large, loud and proud, Encore is an archetypal symbol of the Vegas transformation.


FOR a mini club wedged in a circuit constantly overshadowed by the neighbouring Berlin, Munich’s Harry Klein has fared remarkably well, against the odds scoring consecutive placements in our top 40. But as the old saying goes, size isn’t everything. The clued-up techno heads that religiously visit this 300-capacity nook will agree. Partly because the demure décor here is achingly smart, the arty visuals are trippy and the sound is so crisp it puts most high- powered rigs to shame. Then there’s the on-the-pulse booking policy collating only the most exquisite names in techno from home and abroad, ensuring those through the door each night know exactly why they are there. Harry Klein is a delightfully small package that certainly packs a punch.


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OBSESSION THE CLUB CLUJ NAPOCA, ROMANIA


CAPACITY: 1800 obsessionclub.ro


MOST people associate pointy teeth and wooden stakes with Transylvania, not cutting-edge club culture. But Romania’s second city Cluj Napoca hides a not-so-secret portal with a mysterious pulling power more magnetic than even that of ol’ Vlad Dracul himself. More of a multi-purpose venue than a strictly dance music space, bizarre bookings for male strip act The Chippendales notwithstanding, Obsession has brought megastars like Tiësto to North-Western Romania, and attracts more credible and cool names like James Zabiela and Hernan Cattaneo. It’s a vital electronic music lifeline for Romanian dance fans not based in the capital Bucharest.


FUSE BRUSSELS, BELGIUM


CAPACITY: 1200 fuse.be


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HARRY KLEIN MUNICH, GERMANY


CAPACITY: 300 harrykleinclub.de


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