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ELECTRIC PICKLE MIAMI, USA CAPACITY: 300
ELECTRICPICKLEMIAMI.COM
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IT’S easy to find yourself in a pickle at this jewel in downtown Miami’s hobo crown, lost in the late-night hours amongst the city’s most party-ready crowd. Home to the deepest and dopest house, techno and disco, it’s most notably host to Crosstown Rebels’s sprawling annual Get Lost party at WMC, which occupies all the venue’s sun-pounded backyard, and upstairs and downstairs dancefloors. Despite — or more likely because of — its down and dirty vibe, it’s also a regular pull throughout the year for passing talent like Dixon, Lee Foss, Metro Area and Joy Orbison, who recently played his Miami debut there. And having recently celebrated its fourth birthday with a three-parter topped off by Seth Troxler, the Electric Pickle is showing no signs of dimming.
57 58 TAO BEACH CLUB/
NIGHTCLUB LAS VEGAS, NV, US
TAOLASVEGAS.COM
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THE ongoing US dance music resurgence isn’t showing any sign of abating, so the year-on-year rise of Tao Beach Club & Nightclub is no shock to the system. XS, Marquee and Encore/Surrender have also all fared well, once and for all implicating Las Vegas as the undisputed epicentre of the EDM storm. Reverting to the formula shared by pretty much all Sin City’s clubs (big sound, big production, even bigger DJs), in all its glory, Tao is an indoor club with outdoor “beach” club attached (basically, meaning it has a pool) connected to an enormous self-sustained entertainments-slash-hotel-slash-shopping centre-slash-you-name-it centre. Tao’s exterior is Gran Canal Shoppes, a Venetian-themed complex under which the nightclub sits screaming with list-and-bottle chic, while above bikini-clad bombshells soak up the sun (and beats) on cabanas by the pool.
56 55 NEW ENTRY FOUNDATION SEATTLE
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, US CAPACITY: 550
A phoenix from the ashes of former club Venom, located in downtown Seattle’s Belltown district, Foundation may be only a few months old (launching in September 2012), but it’s got big ambitions. The brainchild of USC Events, one of north-west America’s foremost festival production companies, the club is conceived as a plush, luxury space aiming to put Seattle on the dance music map. With Art Deco detailing, an undulating LED wall, KV2 Audio System and plenty more impressive features, the wow factor is this joint’s modus operandi, and the booking policy is centred squarely on the biggest wigs in trance and commercial electro house, with the occasional cooler name slipped in for good measure, like Sasha, Gesaffelstein and DJ
SANKEYS MANCHESTER, UK CAPACITY: 130
SANKEYS.INFO
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STARTINGlife as Sankeys Soap in 1994, this heritable venue is probably Manchester’s most crucial still alive. Carrying the baton held previously by The Haçienda, it shortened its name to Sankeys in 2000, continuing to keep the torch of the Manchester scene roaring throughout the mid-’00s, laying the foundations for the city to become the haven for all-night partying we know it as today. Located just beyond the Northern Quarter, this rugged gem is an ex-soap factory set amid a scattering of derelict warehouses and industrial nooks. Once inside, however, there is nothing scruffy about its enormous Phazon soundsystem, state-of-the-art lighting and stunning LED visuals. The natural (UK) home for Steve Lawler’s ViVa Warriors and Heidi’s Jackathon parties, flagship night Carnival, which migrated to the club’s thriving Ibiza sibling last summer, has been replaced by house/garage pioneers Recentes and Fiesta on Fridays and Saturdays — yet another episode in the ongoing soap opera that is Sankeys.
DIGITAL NEWCASTLE NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND CAPACITY: 1200
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Amuch loved retreat for clubbers escaping Newcastle’s many glamour spots sporting chandeliers, attended by dolly birds in shiny short-shorts, we have Digital Newcastle at #56. The living quarters of a roster of locally famed promotions — Turbulence, Jukebox, ZAP!, LOVE Saturdays, Rebel Thursdays — this club is a haven for most things dance-y, from techno/house through to d&b and big-room EDM. Always the first stop for the prominent names in the game visiting the city, Dave Stone’s Digital, the elder sibling to the Brighton club with the same name, is still one of the UK’s best loved.
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GUENDALINA LECCE, ITALY CAPACITY: 4000
GUENDALINACLUB.COM NEW ENTRY
SWATHED by luscious green hills, a pebble’s throw from the crystal blue sea, Italy’s Guendalina sits proudly in the rustic surroundings of Santa Cesarea Terme, located on the south-east heel of Italy. Built as a series of bars, a pool and a terrace around an open-air arena fit for thousands, the action takes place as a chaotic cauldron of activity below a neck-creaking main stage fit for SW4. David Guetta may have made his presence known over the years, but Guendalina is more concerned with top-tier underground talent, the likes of Luciano, Jamie Jones and Seth Troxler blowing the non-existent roof in recent months. Running from May to September, this club truly is one of the Italian greats, stepping it up in recent times and scoring as a whopping new entry to the poll despite opening back in 1997.
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