Privilege Ibiza

Privilege Ibiza is the "world's largest nightclub" according to the Guinness Book of Records, with a capacity of 10.000 people. It is located not far from San Rafael, Ibiza, and is a true experience and a unique place on earth. For fourteen years, Privilege hosted Manumission, one of the island's most famous events. After a dispute between the club owner and Manumission's organizers, the event moved to Amnesia.

Privilege was first called Club Rafael and started life in the early '70s as a community swimming pool with a small bar that served mainly the San Rafael locals. The club was later known as Ku club and during the '80s, it was Europe's greatest disco. Outrageous and hedonistic, it was Ibiza’s open-air version of New York's Studio 54. In 1978, it was sold to three Basques, one of whom was the famous Spanish footballer Jose Antonio Santamaria. They changed its name from Club Rafael to Ku after the nightclub they already ran in the Spanish town San Sebastian.

Privilege holds the Guinness world record for 'Biggest club in the world'. It is huge - you need more than one night to see everything the club has to offer. When you enter the main room you are surrounded by colorful lights and an extraordinary sound system. You don't believe your eyes when you see the huge swimming pool and one-of-a-kind stage with erotic and artistic shows. Our garden is the right place to chill, the dome gives you spectacular views of Ibiza in the fresh air and our restaurant offers top-quality Mediterranean cuisine. But Privilege is also a bit like a chameleon - expendable decorations change the face-off the club every night.

Privilege attracts clubbers from all over the planet that keep travelling from place to  place in search of the real spirit of House Music. In many occasions, tourists and locals mingle with celebrities such as Puff Daddy, Jean-Paul Gautier, Jade Jagger and Madonna to celebrate the wild nights in the club.

DC-10

DC10 is a nightclub in Ibiza, located in a converted former airplane hangar and is well known for its underground spirit and the warehouse party vibe. The club’s terrace has a capacity of 1.500 people. DC-10 opened in 2000 by two Italian guys, Antonio and Andrea Pelino, and in its original format, party sessions began at 6 am. In 2002, the club's reputation began to take off, with its roster including both European and British DJs such as Danny Tenaglia, Sasha, Steve Lawler and Pete Tong.

The club's reputation grew rapidly along with the resurgence of the popularity of the minimal techno genre with many of the club's residents at the forefront of this, including Tania Vulcano, Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Cirillo, Loco Dice, Jose De Divina and later, the Romanian trio Arpiar, Zip, Matthias Tanzmann, Jamie Jones , Clive Henry, Cirillo, Dyed Soundorom, Dan Ghenacia, Sossa, Damian Lazarus. The club also attracted high profile regular guests such as Richie Hawtin, Josh Wink, Magda and Dinky.

The club's popularity also rested on its perceived existence outside the established group of Ibiza superclubs. Run by two Italians, it did not conform to the huge, polished, purpose-built corporate identities of the larger clubs, and in terms of music and atmosphere was far closer to the warehouse and open-air raves of the acid house era. Originally, with a completely uncovered terrace, until it was covered completed in 2006, and spartan appearance, it was the antithesis of many of the rest of the island's clubs. With planes flying low over the club and clubbers of a more European make-up than bigger venues, it had a hedonistic outlook and attitude. After all it is the only club that once had a plane on its roof.

The history of the club is indelibly intertwined with that of its flagship Monday parties, CircoLoco and Pandemonium, which began in 1999. CircoLoco is a techno party with all kind of genres and has become the driving force behind keeping the club going. Dedicated clubbers from all around the world are still travelling to Ibiza just to be there for the famous  CircoLoco in DC-10.

Sankeys Soap

Sankeys first opened its doors in Manchester as Sankeys Soap in June 1994. It was so-called Sankeys Soap due to its residence inside Beehive Mill, Ancoats that was once used to manufacture soap.

After nearly going bankrupt just 6 months after opening, things started to take shape, BuggedOut! was born, and became the regular Friday night. Golden was every Saturday, but one particular weekend stood out as the real turning point. Carl Cox came and spent the weekend at Sankeys Soap.The club was sold-out the whole weekend, and everyone started talking. During this first golden period at the club, it not only saw debut performances from the likes of Daft Punk and The Chemical Brothers, but also live shows from luminaries such as Bjork, Gill Scott Heron, Jurassic 5 and Moby.

Due to dance music’s much publicized problems, in 1998 Sankeys Soap closed and customers assumed that it was the way it was going to stay. Between 1998 and 2000, several people tried to re-open Sankeys Soap, but to no avail. David Vincent came along in 2000 to try to re-kindle the Sankeys magic and managed to reopen Sankeys Soap. Tribal Sessions, the new Friday night slowly created a completely new scene in the city. The dance scene was rather neglected since the big clubs had closed, and there was a whole generation of music lovers gagging to get involved.

Slowly through the weekly Tribal Sessions, the community at the club was growing strong and the Sankeys Soap crowd was the most passionate anywhere. In 2001, David Vincent decided to bring back Tribal Gathering, another name that many thought had been in the history books. Tribal Gathering was a massive warehouse party for 11.000 people in two colossal adjoining warehouses situated just 100 yards from Sankeys Soap. This was seen by many, as the best UK event in over a decade, it won countless awards and won Event of the Year 2003, and the next year was heralded by Mixmag as the second best dance event of all time.

In 2004 Sankeys Soap celebrated its 10th Anniversary with 10 weeks of parties plus the release of their one and only ever Sankeys Soap compilation to celebrate the occasion. At the same time, Sankeys Soap wins best UK Mixmag club. A rift between management in 2005 causes David Vincent to leave Sankeys Soap. With dwindling numbers and a dying club, David Vincent is asked by management to come back to help the club out, but it is too late. A deal is struck for David to take full control of Sankeys Soap. In May 2006, David announces Sankeys Soap will close once and for all.

Later that summer David Vincent decides to open a new space in the Beehive Mill on Radium Street. David drops the word soap and re-opens the space as Sankeys as they use the Soap to clean up the club. The space gets a completely stripped out and starts from scratch again.

The new Sankeys takes a whole new look taking inspiration from some of the best clubs around the world. Brand new LED lighting techniques, the Basement, a white inspired Boutique and a Peruvian inspired Terrace.

The club celebrates its 15th Anniversary in 2009 with 15 weeks of parties and 15 new changes to the club and they even build a beach with 50 tones of Bahamas Sand. In 2010 a dream comes true with Sankeys winning the first position in DJ Mag Top 100 Club Awards and continues with this year’s seventh position.
 

Following the success of 2010, David Vincent announced the “Seven Sankeys of the World” project. He is planning to create one Sankeys in each one of the 7 cities that inspired the original Sankeys. Along with major digital advertising promotions and campaigns, David has managed to make this plan take life. The first step is already been made with Sankeys Ibiza and the second step is ready to be announced officially with Sankeys Ney York. What more could anyone expect…?

fabric club

Fabric is a nightclub in London. The club was founded by Keith Reilly and Cameron Leslie and opened its doors on 29 October 1999. It was voted number 2 in DJ Magazine's "Top 100 Clubs in the World" poll in 2011, 2010 and 2009 and number 1 in 2008. It is located in the renovated space of the Metropolitan Cold Stores on Charterhouse Street on the southern boundary of the London Borough of Islington.

Fabric has three separate rooms with independent sound systems. Two of the rooms feature stages for live acts. A feature of the club is its vibrating floor in Room One, known as a "Bodysonic" dancefloor. This is because sections of the floor are attached to 400 bass transducers emitting bass frequencies of the music being played.

 

The musical genres played there vary. FabricLive is a Friday-night with hip hop, breakbeat, dubstep, drum and bass and electro music. Fabric's Saturday nights include house and techno music. Craig Richards and Terry Francis are the club's resident DJs and Richards is also one of the Directors of Music Programming, selecting the lineups for Saturday nights. There have been great  appearances on the club by DJs such as Ricardo Villalobos, Carl Craig, Ellen Allien, and many others. Sundays at Fabric are promoted by Wetyourself, a Polysexual event that has been running since February 2009. The music policy is underground house and techno.

 In 2010, Fabric briefly went into administration after its sister club Matter, with whom it had a cross-guaranteed loan, announced it would close for the summer due to financial difficulties. Fabric was put on the market on 1 June 2010 and, defying those who bet on its closure, on 24 of June it was announced that the club had been bought by Fabric Life Limited.

Matter is a 2.600-capacity venue built under the dome of the O2 Arena by the team which runs Fabric. When Leslie and Fabric’s founder Keith Reilly subsequently visited the site in 2006, what really enticed them was the chance to design and purpose build a venue which would have none of the problems associated with converting an existing location. Leslie emphasizes that Matter is not the “Son of Fabric”. Whereas Fabric is a 1.500-capacity nightclub which occasionally hosts different events, Matter is designed to operate as a live venue, a club, a performing arts space or a VIP club, with its own separate entrance, possibly fulfilling all of those functions within the same night.

Fabric’ s success has come due to its people love and loyalty in music and their desire to push it further not only to new kinds but also evolve the whole music scene. You can realize that just by their motto. “No Formulas, No Branding and No Bullshit”…

Ministry of Sound

Ministry of Sound, commonly referred as MoS, is a club based in London and an associated record label. It was ranked fourth in the 2010 DJ Magazine top 100 clubs poll 2010 and eighth in 2011. As well as the club in London, there is another in Egypt and Malaysia. The Ministry of Sound brand also includes various other products such as dance music compilations and clothing. Ministry of Sound is owned by MSHK Group Limited, whose Chairman is James Palumbo. The company also owns the Hed Kandi, Euphoria, and Hard2Beat brands.

The club opened on 21 September 1991. Berkmann partnered with James Palumbo and Humphrey Waterhouse to bring the concept to life on a bus garage, located in Elephant and Castle in London.
Opening sets from American house DJs such as  David Morales, C+C Music Factory, Roger Sanchez and Tony Humphries, the UK’s first 24-hour dance license, and a greatly power consumption needy sound-system of 150db, led Ministry of Sound to grow in popularity, despite the lack of an alcohol license for the first three years and the notoriously strict door policies.

It has five main areas. The Bar, the Baby Box, the VIP and the Loft. Today, the club remains at the forefront of the global dance music scene, with DJs playing mix sets every Friday and Saturday night. Since 2008, Fridays have been hosted by The Gallery, with sets from leading hard house and trance DJs.

Southwark Council has a policy for the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle area. Ministry of Sound has run a campaign to prevent the residential development of sites near to it. In October 2011 Southwark council refused permission for a 41 floors tower, but the following month the council approved a nearby proposal for a 22 floors tower ,which the club had also opposed.

Ministry of Sound record label was established in 1995 along with the release of The Annual, a compilation album of various dance music tracks mixed by UK DJs Boy George and Pete Tong. Ministry of Sound also delivers albums and singles via its compilation brands including The Annual, Clubber's Guide and Anthems. In 2006, the company purchased record label Hed Kandi.

In 2005, Ministry of Sound expanded its network of own-brand venues with nightclub franchises starting with the Ministry of Sound Egypt. Aside from this, Ministry of Sound runs 600 international events per year across The UK, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Europe.

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Zouk Club

Zouk is one of the oldest and most popular nightclubs in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.The club is named after the French Creole word for 'party'. It has won the Singapore Tourism Board's "Best Nightspot Experience" award 6 times, between 1996 to 2007. Zouk is also ranked number 10 on DJ Magazine's list of Top 100 clubs in the world in 2006, 2007, 2010 and number 9 in 2011.

The three old warehouses that make up the original Zouk were built in 1919 on the Singapore River. Thoroughly renovated, the houses now feature four interconnected clubs. Zouk, with a large dance floor and state-of-the-art sound and lighting, catering to a variety of artists - Velvet Underground, a quieter, more relaxed lounge that plays house and soul music - Phuture, a more avant-garde bar specializing in broken beats and hip-hop/RnB – Wine Bar, where people enjoy their drinks before entering to the main stage.

In 2004, Zouk opened a sister club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Zouk KL features four rooms: Zouk and Velvet Underground styled on the original, plus the Loft and Terrace bars.The clubs have proven popular with Singapore's party-going crowd and regularly attract performers, travelling from all over the world.

Its famous Mambo Jambo theme nights are considered a must-go for a beginning clubber. Mambo Jambo, is a theme clubbing night held every Wednesday at Zouk in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. It is highly popular among the younger segment of the clubbing crowd in Singapore, and a Mambo experience is often regarded as an initiation ritual for many beginners into the local clubbing scene.

ZoukOut is an annual music dance festival held in Singapore since 2000.One of Asia's biggest music dance festivals, it is organized by Zouk Singapore. DJs that have performed at ZoukOut include Paul Van Dyk, 2ManyDJS, Masters at Work, Gilles Peterson, Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Peter Kruder, James Lavelle, Armin Van Buuren and Stereo MCs.

After great efforts from Zouk’s people, the club has established a great name in the dance scene and many consider it as one of the best clubs around the world. Its success comes after not only the great terrace and sound system but after the real party times people experience in Zouk. What more to say but “well done and keep up the spirit Zouk”…

Enjoy the God of Progressive House, John Digweed in one of his sets in Zouk...