ON THE FLOOR The on-the-pulse guide to the deep, down and dirty gyrations of global clubland Clubbed out! The DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs poll is back! Get ready to vote again for your favourite church of dance in the world’s biggest clubs chart... scenes are strongest and why? Last year, Green Valley in Brazil reclaimed the top spot nother chance to celebrate the diversity made by the public, with around 400,000 of you from Space Ibiza once again, as the appearance of nine of club-land — from small darkened submitting your favourite rooms via Facebook last year. Brazilian clubs in the poll served to reflect the ongoing rooms to huge, spellbinding auditoriums And on 11th December, voting starts again, with results dance explosion in South America. Berlin, Ibiza and A — the DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs poll is the announced in the April issue of the magazine. Providing London were all heavily represented once again, with a biggest survey of the dance venues ruling the world. an open-lens snapshot of clubs globally, the poll few new territories — China, India, Philippines and Now in its sixth year as a public vote, the list originated provides the most definitive list of its kind, giving us the Vietnam — emerging too. as a top 50 chosen by DJ Mag staff back in the ‘00s with opportunity to draw analytical conclusions about the Head over to our Facebook page and “like” us to register the likes of Space Ibiza and Ministry of Sound making dynamics of the dance industry today. Where are clubs for your vote and keep your eyes peeled for the results the cut. Since 2010, however, the decisions have been forming or closing? Which clubs are popular? Which in our April issue! THE CORONET TO CLOSE IN 2017 ANDY C ALL-NIGHT AT ALLY PALLY LOVE INTERNATIONAL TO SET SAIL IN Historic club-in-a-theatre given date to close Ram records boss announces biggest UK show yet CROATIA Successor to The Garden Festival reveals first acts AFTER 138 years as a much-loved entertainment venue THE first solo D&B DJ to perform at London’s Alexandra and clubbing destination, The Coronet will close its Palace for an entire evening, Andy C will bring his DUBBED by organisers as “the spiritual successor to doors for the very last time on 5th January, 2017. popular All Night show to Ally Pally next year. the revered Garden Festival”, Love International is the Based in Elephant and Castle in the heart of South Having previously hosted huge performances from latest boutique fest to line up in Croatia, kicking off at London, The Coronet started its life as a theatre, before Rudimental, Led Zeppelin and Blur, plus stadium EDM The Garden Tisno from 29th June to 6th July next year. morphing into a cinema and then a nightclub, hosting acts including Axwell ^ Ingrosso, the Ram Records boss The first set of names have now been revealed and everything from dance music all-nighters to fetish will spin for the whole night on Easter Thursday, 24th includes Dixon, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Ben UFO, parties within its walls. March 2016. Gerd Janson, Craig Richards, Joy Orbison, Midland, The venue is the latest nightclub to fall under threat Before he heads to London, you can catch Andy C at Horse Meat Disco, Prosumer, Hunee, Tama Sumo, Job from property developers and urban gentrification, Motion in Bristol, Birmingham and Cardiff throughout Jobse, Fort Romeau, Felix Dickinson, Red Axes, Lord Of joining the likes of Glasgow’s The Arches and London’s November, plus dates in Newcastle and Manchester in The Isles, Khruangbin, with many more to come. Plastic People that both sadly closed over the last 12 December. With successful festival Love Saves The Day and months. Last month, Mayor Boris Johnson backed a Pre-sale tickets to Andy C’s Alexandra Palace show went respected record label Futureboogie already under campaign to help protect London’s music venues after on sale on 3rd November. their belt, there’s little doubt Dave Harvey and Tom the capital lost 35% of its grassroots haunts since 2007. Paine’s new Love International will be another not-to-be-missed adventure for house fans. 070 djmag.com One club promotion kicking it BOOTIN’ OFF! this month... For richer, for poorer! For 22 years, good music has always been key for Hard Times. One of the first clubs with its own label, for example. This isn’t about putting on classics nights and reliving memories, the most legendary parties in the north is going from strength to it’s about making a worthy contribution to the scene strength again... again, otherwise I wouldn’t bother. “The line up for the 22 party reflects the vision for ard Times should need no introduction. Swindle, Kenny Dope, Robert Owens, CJ Mackintosh, where we want to take Hard Times again. Obviously, we Founded in Yorkshire circa 1993, it was and original resident Elliot Eastwick to Mint Warehouse want to pay homage to the people who helped make us about booking the finest US house and in Leeds on Saturday 5th December. Meanwhile, plans what we were — Kenny Dope made a massive H garage DJs, cultivating a loyal crowd are in place for a host of sessions throughout 2016. contribution. But at the same time, Detroit Swindle are through a love for those sounds, and providing “We are established in some ways, but it feels a bit like a perfect for us today. There’s always been a strict music welcome Saturday night escapism from the trials of Rolls Royce that’s been in the garage. I brought it out policy, that’s what makes it unique, people know what normal life. That mantra remains true today. on a Sunday but didn’t really drive it round,” Raine they’re going to get, and that’s the only way you create To list all the institution’s accolades here would be explains, referring to the first parties that re-ignited his the euphoria and atmosphere. When a club’s full of impossible. As the story progressed there were regular brainchild. “I loved bringing it out on Sundays, but people connecting at the same time, that’s when magic bashes across the county, not least in Leeds, and after doing that a few times I’ve realised it should be happens. That’s what we’re about, always were and further afield, including a mammoth who’s who take back to where it was. We were at the forefront — one of always will be.” MARTIN GUTTRIDGE HEWITT over of Bagley’s in London (run in conjunction with DJ Mag). And, perhaps most famously, on one evening in 1995 the mix compilation was re-thought via the dancefloor, with Todd Terry recorded live and direct from a sweaty DJ booth. Copies of the resulting album are cemented in clubbing folklore. Skip forward two decades, with Steve Raine still at the helm, Hard Times is again going from strength to strength as both label and club night, showcased recently by a live stream soiree for DJ Mag TV at Work bar (London). Releases include work by Mat Playford, Todd Terry, and Angel Moraes (remixing Karen Pollard’s anthemic ‘Reach Out To Me’). Bookings have seen Roger Sanchez and Kerri Chandler play to old regulars and young newcomers in England, with a residency at Ibiza’s Club Vista during summer. And this month will see the Hard Times 22 Years soiree bring Detroit THE BIG GIG If you only book tickets for one live gig this month, make it this… MATTHEW HERBERT SATURDAY 5TH DECEMBER, ELECTRIC BRIXTON, LONDON OVER THE PAST DECADE, Matthew Herbert has become one of the most well-known figures in the world of avant-garde music. His projects include using pigs bones as instruments (‘One Pig’) and crafting a whole album from a five-second sample of an exploding bomb (‘The End Of Silence’). This June, Herbert returned to his dancefloor roots with his first album for almost a decade, titled ‘The Shakes’. In support of his eighth album, the pioneering producer will headline London’s Electric Brixton this December. Joining him will be Night Slugs co-founder L-Vis 1990 and Tim Exile, who’s work has appeared on Warp and Planet Mu; both will be performing special live sets for the occasion. Additional DJ sets will come from Leeds producer Eliphino and Hyperdub’s Ossie. djmag.com 071 ADE, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ON THE FLOOR Amsterdamaged! We love Amsterdam, especially when essential industry conference ADE — the 20-year-old Amsterdam Dance Event — and our mega-enormo Top 100 DJs party are taking place there every mid-October. A sizeable part of the DJ Mag crew decamped to the Dutch capital to network, party and staff our own events out at ADE this year. Here’s what happened... hether industry hack, die-hard outside the building attracting attention, as accents dance fan or something in from all around the globe ripple gently through the between, there’s little doubt waiting throng. W that Amsterdam Dance Event is a There’s no time to stop and chat (we spot EDM DJ must-do. Kicking off every October in the pristine Dannic, radio host B.Traits and MIDI inventor Dave Dutch capital, ADE celebrated its 20th year in 2015, Smith as we push our way through the crowd), as touting their biggest and best programme yet. we’re off to catch one of the most important panels Industry bigwigs turned out in droves over the of the week — AFEM Presents: Protect The five-day event, as did swarms of devoted clubbers Dancefloor.