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Dancefloor theater: a case study. Watch Despacio's lighting directors evolve "Here Comes the Sun" from good to great over a decade
Featuring The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun (Soulwax Edit for Despacio)"
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A Love Letter to Berghain (Part 1/8): Intro
Mar 24, 2025
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A Love Letter to Berghain (Part 2/8): Getting in
Mar 27, 2025
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A Love Letter to Berghain (Part 3/8): Sweaty Panoramas
Apr 5, 2025
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DVS1 Wall of Sound dominates Los Angeles
Feb 10, 2025
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What we learned when we started our own dancefloor
We haven't yet achieved "magical" status, but we're working on it
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My Last Dance
Five songs to play at my post-cremation wake
Mar 1
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Dancefloor Thunderstorm: A Love Letter to SoCal Rave’s Peak Years
First in a series of book reviews
Jan 12
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When Despacio ate Portola Festival
After 18 months' of agonizing silence, Despacio made its first-ever appearance in San Francisco
Oct 28, 2025
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Danny Rampling rocked Freddie Mercury's magic room at Pike's Ibiza (14 Oct 2024)
The once great DJ showed he's still got it at Manumission Mondays, in Ibiza
Jun 22, 2025
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Nowadays NYC -- magic in the jungle
A club unlike any other. It's a night club. It's a day club. It's indoors. It's outdoors.
Jun 21, 2025
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Cercle fumbles: a cautionary tale of how not to scale a dance music brand
Cercle promised a night to remember. Instead, they gave us screen savers and surveillance, bad sound, and amateur lighting. You can’t fake it with…
May 11, 2025
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Where's the party at? Not on phone-fucked dancefloors.
“They’re watching themselves from the outside, rather than what dancers should be doing, which is being themselves from the inside.”
May 8, 2025
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A Love Letter to Berghain (Part 6/8): Berghain Itself
Happy Birthday, Jane Jacobs! You might've loved Berghain.
May 4, 2025
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