Running parallel to the American EDM explosion has been a similarly transformative awakening across Asia.
Nowhere better typifies this renaissance than South Korea, and its capital city of Seoul.
Seoul is a sprawling metropolis, that has has developed through recent economic boom years into a major world player – now sitting pretty as the world’s 4th largest metropolitan economy.
Trance music is having a hard time right now. The sound has dwindled in popularity in the wake of the EDM explosion, with many of its main characters moving away from the scene and into more commercial spheres.
However there is no doubting the passion of trance fans around the globe and the core of artists who are still representing the sound at the world’s biggest events. For that reason, we would back it to return stronger than ever!
When it comes to nightclubs, there are many factors that seperate the incredible from the woeful. Size however certainly isn’t one of them. Many people prefer their clubs intimate. Small clubs may not have the awe-inspiring wonder of their huge counterparts, but you will usually find a raw and genuine atmosphere that can be missing in the impersonal superclub experience.
Here are five of our favourite intimate party locations, from around the planet.
Jack Eye Jones is a name we have been hearing with increasing regularity of late. Very much a modern dance music success story, the Scotsman has used new media to build a loyal following – most notably through his Ibiza Sessions Radio Show – which has topped the iTunes podcast charts and had over one million downloads to date.
For 25 years, and the early days of the Winter Music Conference, Miami has been an important testing ground for new electronic music. The tracks that make an impact in Miami during Music Week inevitably go on to become the anthems that soundtrack the summer.
Here are 5 cuts that you are going to hear plenty of in Miami this month!
Kill The Noise the anarchic, party-starting DJ & producer from New York who is smashing clubs and festival’s worldwide. Now based in LA, he produces twisted electro, thumping brostep and complextro rhythms that get those college kids oh so excited.
In these ‘Vegas’ days you could be forgiven for thinking that nightclubs were all created fresh and unique in the grounds of 5 star hotels.
However there are numerous clubs around the planet that started out as something quite different – things that you may not expect.
Here are 5 of our favourites club history tales
Clubbing is a competitive business – especially when dance music is booming worldwide. A whole series of new and exciting clubs and venues have been popping up across the planet over the last 12 months – all determined to challenge the old guard and provide a new experience for the world’s clubbers.
Over the last couple of years South Korea – and Seoul in particular – has been at the forefront of an Asian dance music revolution – and believe us, there is a lot more to it than ‘Gangnam Style’!
This year Top 100 Clubs is powered by Miller Genuine Draft. Throughout the voting period, we will be shining a light on some of the key contenders for the 2014 crown.
One of the most successful, climbing clubs of the last few years is one that also polarises opinion. BCM, based in the resort of Magaluf in Mallorca is often written-off by serious dance music fans for it’s 18–30’s style foam parties and open-bar.
