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known Christian for a long time. My dad has known his dad for a long time - they were both mobile DJs and they knew each other. My dad runs b&k Braun, my cousin - Udo Kuenzler - he runs GLP. We are based about 25 miles away from here, where the headquarters are. “Christian came up with the idea of the new club and we said, ‘hey, it’s a good opportunity for us to bring in our stuff’ and also for the other company we have to bring in all the interior and exterior fixtures. “Christian had the ideas, and we looked at what type of products we could offer that perfectly suit the look and feel, and give the customers a great experience.” Codex is split into various areas, each with its own style and appeal. There are two outdoor spaces - a large open concrete expanse that is used for special events and an outdoor smoking terrace. Indoors, between the entrance and the Main Hall, there is a bar with a rustic aesthetic yet modern dancefloor called Black Forest, a gaming bar known as Wii Lounge, where customers can play games consoles within the atmosphere of the club, and a Bacardi Cocktail Lounge. For those looking for a relaxed, café environment, there is N8Cafe, and from there Sky Lounge, which overlooks the Main Hall, can be
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accessed. While the variety offered by the different areas broadens the club’s overall appeal, the spectacle of the Main Hall has a magnetising effect. As soon as you walk into the space, the visual concoction of moveable, interlinked Global Truss circles, GLP moving heads, Varytec Vipa LED screen and G-LEC Phantom Frames has an intoxicating effect. It really is a visually invigorated environment. The focus of the room is an oversized DJ booth, which sits on a raised stage, below a Varytec Vipa screen measuring 12 sq metres. Within the DJ box there resides a host of DJ tools and gadgets. A Pioneer DJM-800 or DJM-2000 DJ mixer can be linked to Pioneer CDJ-2000 CD decks and Technics SL1200 turntables. Traktor Audio DJ 8 and Scratch Pro 2 from Native Instruments and Serato Scratch Live are available for DJs to use. Controllers include the EKS Otus MIDI DJ controller, Korg’s Kaoss Pad and the Roland SP404 SX effects module. One of the most dynamic elements of the room is the dual- doughnut trussing configuration, which consists of two Global Truss circles made up of square F34 truss curved into circular arcs. The three metre circle is made up of four segments and the six metre circle with eight segments. They are suspended on hoists that can
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