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BOOTSHAUS COLOGNE, GERMANY CAPACITY: 1200
BOOTSHAUS.TV
NEW ENTRY
MORE known for grotty riverside shacks, ex-munition factories and gritty tower block squat parties, the German scene is less associated with high-octane production. Cologne’s Boothaus, however, is an exception to the rule. Renovated last June, this 1200-capacity ex-boat repair warehouse is a bat cave armed to the teeth with state-of-the-art HD Visual Mapping, CO2 cannons and flaming pyrotechnics, all supported with first-class Funktion One sound. Its gnarly DJ selection policy also bucks the trend. Straying from the fold with the likes of Mat Zo, Boys Noize and Skrillex, you won’t catch any po-faced stomping in this big room — Bootshaus is always bootin’ off.
MANSION’S role as Miami’s most prestigious venue was overshadowed recently by news of the premature ejection of turntable legend DJ Shadow from its decks at the end of last year. Coming less than a year after Dennis Ferrer was also shown the booth door, the debacle left Shadow slamming Mansion as a “rich kid club” on Twitter, while a woeful clubland pondered a world where one of the most influential DJs ever is chastised for being “too future”. Still, it’s not Mansion’s fault. The booker merely booked a quality DJ. The fact Miami Beach’s Grey Goose guzzling glitterati didn’t get it is more a gauge of where the “EDM” bar is now set. These days, probably more than ever, the mainstream US club scene knows what it likes and won’t think twice about letting the DJ know. We’ll give you a clue; it ain’t avant-garde footwork. Hence, Mansion stuck to big-room electro mammoths Porter Robinson, Sharam and ZEDD this March, and has fared all the better for it.
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CLUB SPACE MIAMI, FL, US CAPACITY: 2500
CLUBSPACE.COM
XS LAS VEGAS, NV, US CAPACITY: 5000
XSLASVEGAS.COM
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PART of Las Vegas’ mega-complex Wynn — the building containing Surrender/Encore Beach Club — XS is so big it requires its own entry in this poll. With capacity for 5000 and a giant golden chandelier hanging from its elephantine main room, the phonetic letters of its title spell out exactly what’s in store from this massive digital beast, equipped with all the flashing screens, CO2 cannons and brostep fist-pumping you’d expect from the entertainment capital of the world. Those after subtle 4/4s and deep hypnotic techno, look away now. XS played host to Avicii, Steve Aoki and Tiestö in 2012, while (All Gone) Pete Tong presented a rare 125bpm treat with Eats Everything last November.
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CASTLE CLUB AYIA NAPA, CYPRUS CAPACITY: 3000
THECASTLECLUB.COM
HAVING been operating since the turn of the Millennium, Miami’s Club Space is no relation to its Ibiza namesake, yet has built a similar reputation for the complete club experience. Forging its early buzz via residents such as Murk’s Oscar G and the support of DJs like Danny Tenaglia, who played a massive 20-hour set there in 2000, something made possible by the club’s 24-hour licence, today its three rooms play host to a mixture of trance, techno and house. So far this year, The Martinez Brothers, Loco Dice and Jay Lumen & Christian Smith are amongst those to have ventured into its Dynacord serviced old warehouse surrounds and partied into the next afternoon as the sun floods in through the roof.
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MANSION MIAMI, FL, US CAPACITY: 2,500
MANSIONMIAMI.COM
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CASTLE CLUB— its exterior, a series of faux-stone walls — houses 3000 locals and holiday makers. Pleasing the eager crowd storming it most nights a week, the club’s curators pick from all over the dance spectrum — anything from house, techno, trance, urban fusion, dancehall, dubstep, glitch hop, r&b, nu disco, pop, even classics (according to its website). A self-proclaimed one-stop-shop for music, this funky fortress, now with its own TV and radio station (broadcasters include: Mark Knight, Thomas Gold, Stonebridge, Yousef to name a few) isn’t going anywhere.
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djmag.com
TENAX FLORENCE, ITALY CAPACITY: 1200
TENAX.ORG
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FLORENCE is the romantic birthplace of the renaissance, the place that brought us visionaries such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, so don’t expect some rickety warehouse where the bogs don’t work when you go to Tenax. Started in the ‘80s, a cult hangout that brought the city New Order and new wave art-rock group Bauhaus, this tall dark room of hi-tech head fuckery has refused to get stuck, booking Daft Punk along its path, snagging nu-skool talent like George Fitzgerald and Kyle Hall more recently. Saying that, classic forms of house and techno remain at its core, with Villalobos, Hawtin and Väth regular offenders, ensuring this Italian club holds true to its roots, while it keeps at least one eye on the future.
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