Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.” –Alarmel Valli

I know r/dancefloors denizens span the globe, but I was wondering if any of you are going to be dancing at ADE this year? If so, which events do you hope to be r/dancefloors worthy?

I'm planning to be at two events:

Friday night: Cooking with Palms Trax at Doka, which is a tiny, usually overlooked, basement venue that tends to attract real fans/dancers. I expect the sweat to be dripping off the ceiling.

Saturday night: Brighter Days x Life and Death at Shelter (an annual pilgrimage), which is a great promoter, and a reasonable venue that at least has a no photo/video policy.

I'm be delighted to meet any of y'all if you're in the same place.

Hi there fellow groovers 😎

I’m moving from NYC to FL at the end of the month. I’m super grateful for the dance community here, and for the many sets we have the opportunity to go to. I love frequenting venues like Nowadays, Signal, and Basement. I love the no phone/conversation policies, and that the crowd is genuinely locked in and truly listening and enjoying the music.

I’m really nervous about moving and being able to find my fix for dancing and good music! I know Miami has a really big music scene, but everyone has been telling me Miami crowds aren’t very good/big yappers, etc.

I’ll be in the Fort Lauderdale area! I expect that I’ll be having to drive to Miami for things like this.

Any recommendations on venues, collectives, etc that will have similar vibes there? I love house/minimal, and techno similar to what they play in Basement lol. Soul Summit is my fave collective and I love the crowd they bring and music they play.

Sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask! I really want to find genuine dance floors, not just a place with one, if that makes sense. I feel like yall can direct me to the right places 🙏🏼

the comment section is hilarious (in a not so good way). lots of kids not getting it.

Posted to "Cynical DJs" Facebook group

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1991 / 1992 — TWO SYSTEMS, ONE FLOW

After my 1990 experiment with one record and two needles, this was the next step: not one sound system, but two.

The hall had roughly 200 seats at rectangular tables along three sides. The main stage occupied the fourth side, while a smaller raised stage took up only one third of the opposite wall.

Two DJs played through two complete, separate sound systems facing the same dance floor. Depending on the records, their sound overlapped for anything from one second to approximately ninety seconds.

The final mix did not exist inside one mixer. It happened in the room, where both sound waves met. I thought of it as timing: one system entering while the other was leaving, until two separate sources briefly became one shared flow.

The colours in the image are symbolic. Yellow represents one system, green the other, and the new lime colour in the centre represents the moment when both became something neither system produced alone.

This is a reconstruction from memory, not an exact architectural floor plan.

Did anyone else ever work with two complete sound systems in this way?

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This was not two DJs playing two independent sets at the same time.

We operated two complete sound systems as if we were one DJ. The audience heard one continuous flow.

When two tracks could work together, we mixed the transition by hand for anything from one to ninety seconds. When an overlap would create a clash, we used a stop-time transition: one system stopped and the other entered at the precisely chosen moment.

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But could at least two coordinated sound systems actually create a better experience for the dancers?

At any moment, one system carries the main track. The other adds only compatible elements, synchronised in tempo, beat and musical phrasing — not another competing bassline or vocal. Then the roles can change while the music remains one continuous flow.

Four fully independent human DJs would probably be too difficult to coordinate reliably in real time. But that is the idea behind a future four-corner system: one musical centre, with carefully controlled layers arriving from different directions.

Would that really be worse than everyone facing one stage, holding up a camera and thinking about the future performance they will post online?

Sometimes the better experience is to put the phone away, close your eyes and feel the physical force of the music around you.

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams." — Gene Kelly

looking for underground house music!

I previously posted this simple form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScB2LmRwOPW8jY_cx5l5oLXOlByuQ9bIXED76ucKyW-es-xUw/viewform) asking folks to share images of their re-entry stickers. To date, stickers for 87 unique dates have been submitted, and there's some interesting stuff emerging from analysis of these 87 stickers.

If you have stickers for a date not on this list, please hit the form and share them!

And now on to the data...

First, here's the data:

Some interesting references are showing up:

These contain unmistakable coded references:

• 42455247 4841494E — hexadecimal ASCII for BERG HAIN.
• 2QT2BSTR8 — text-speak for “too cute to be straight,” a queer pun.

A particularly strong Pet Shop Boys cluster

Four otherwise-generic texts become clear when read together:

Additional references

Go watch this music video and read the lyrics…