Transformation Through Depoliticization
When house music first emerged out of disco and soul in the 1980s, its message was remarkably different from that…
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Atmosphere
An Atmosphere needs a room. A room is a strange concept. In fact, to create an A today there is…
Zizek
A group of people dance ceaselessly. They rub against each other. They also rub against the walls and the floor.…
Mamba Negra
It’s 2013 in downtown São Paulo. On the rooftop of an iconic building on the margins of the infamous elevated…
N.A.A.F.I
A few days prior to New York Fashion Week last September, I came across an article in The New Yorker…
Wildness
What is Wildness? Literally, it is the state of being wild, undomesticated, untamed, as with animals or plants found in…
GHE20G0TH1K
New York and its nightlife often exist in a state of “remember when?” In a city and scene that evolve…
Asian Dope Boys
Sporting a gown adorned with images of Russian prison tattoos, slang words, a pair of large Japanese manga-style weeping eyes…
Dudesweet
Pongsuang Kunprasop lied. Dudesweet’s founder and creative director told a landlord that he wished to use a small restaurant on…
Skotoboynia / VV17CHOU7
An extremely loud, happy-hardcore remix of a cult classic by Russian suicidal-psychedelic-punk-band Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense) animates the dance floor.…
Príncipe
At a few minutes past 1:00 AM I enter the dark cave of MusicBox, a club under the bridge in…
Progresso / Club Adriatico
On a mild winter night I was sitting on a stoop outside of a club, in Milan, with a friend…
House of Mixed Emotions
Hanging outside Zurich’s trashy but steadily gentrifying Langstrasse the other night, an older artist, who had grown up in the…
Bliss
Ever since my first night out I have felt butterflies in my stomach when approaching club doors. For me…
The Cha Cha Club
In 1981 my engagement with the culture of counter-consciousness, self-organization and DIY was stimulated by an accidental meeting on the…
Tropical Waste
Down a flight of stairs, beneath an unremarkable, noisy pub in Stoke Newington, North London, lies a basement club called…