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)"

Mar 22 • Magical Dancefloors

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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

Mar 8 • Magical Dancefloors

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My Last Dance

Five songs to play at my post-cremation wake

Mar 1 • Magical Dancefloors

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January 2026

Dancefloor Thunderstorm: A Love Letter to SoCal Rave’s Peak Years

First in a series of book reviews

Jan 12 • Magical Dancefloors

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October 2025

When Despacio ate Portola Festival

After 18 months' of agonizing silence, Despacio made its first-ever appearance in San Francisco

Oct 28, 2025 • Magical Dancefloors

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June 2025

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 • Magical Dancefloors

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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 • Magical Dancefloors

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May 2025

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 • Magical Dancefloors

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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 • Magical Dancefloors

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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 • Magical Dancefloors

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April 2025

Learning to DJ deepened my understanding of how dancefloors work

Understanding how dance music is put together and mixed made my dancefloor experiences richer. If you love dancing to modern dance music, learning to DJ…

Apr 24, 2025 • Magical Dancefloors

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A Love Letter to Berghain (Part 5/8): the Main Floor

Orthodox mass in the world's techno mecca

Apr 22, 2025 • Magical Dancefloors

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