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Room One’s bodysonic floor still does something no other club in Britain does: you feel the bass through your feet before you hear it.

FarringdonCathedral$$$Techno, House, Drum & bassNo Instagram signal yet
BasementInstitution
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Tresor

The vault corridor under a decommissioned power station, still the loudest argument for why Berlin sounds the way it does.

MitteCathedral$$Techno, Hard techno, Industrial / EBMNo Instagram signal yet
BasementBrutalist
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Rex Club

The room where French techno was argued into existence, with a sound system maintained like an instrument rather than an amenity.

Sweatbox$$Techno, Minimal, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementInstitution
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Sub Club

A low arched basement on Jamaica Street with a Sunday-night residency older than most of its dancefloor. The best small room in the country.

City CentreSweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
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Corsica Studios

Two small arches under the railway with a booking policy braver than clubs ten times the size.

Elephant and CastleSweatbox$$Techno, Ambient, ExperimentalNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
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Basement

Under the Knockdown Center, the closest thing America has to Berghain’s floor — and it is unusually honest about the debt.

RidgewoodCathedral$$Techno, Hard technoNo Instagram signal yet
BasementAll night
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Shelter

Underneath the A’DAM tower, dark and low-ceilinged, with a door policy that has kept it feeling like a club rather than a landmark.

NoordSweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementAll night
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Heaven

Under the arches at Charing Cross since 1979, and still the front door of queer London for anyone arriving in the city.

Sweatbox$$Commercial, PopNo Instagram signal yet
BasementInstitution
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UNIT

DaikanyamaSweatbox$$Techno, Experimental, Live musicNo Instagram signal yet
BasementSound-system room
10

XOYO

ShoreditchSweatbox$$Techno, House, DiscoNo Instagram signal yet
Basement
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Floyd Miami

The small room under Space. Better for the music, worse for the story you tell afterwards.

DowntownSweatbox$$House, DiscoNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
12

Safe Room

ThonglorSweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
13

Dalston Superstore

A bar upstairs, a basement downstairs, and the most reliable queer night in east London on almost any day of the week.

Sweatbox$House, DiscoNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
14

Musicbox Lisboa

Under an arch on Pink Street, and the most consistently interesting booking in Lisbon — batida one night, live noise the next.

Cais do SodréSweatbox$$Techno, Live music, EclecticNo Instagram signal yet
Basement
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Cakeshop

ItaewonSweatbox$$House, Hip-hopNo Instagram signal yet
BasementInstitution
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La Cheetah Club

City CentreSweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
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Prince Charles

A drained swimming pool in a courtyard basement. Smaller and warmer than the city average, and better for it.

KreuzbergSweatbox$$House, Hip-hop, Funk & soulNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
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Mustache Bangkok

SukhumvitSweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
19

Vurt

ItaewonSweatbox$$Techno, MinimalNo Instagram signal yet
BasementAll night
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La Java

BellevilleSweatbox$House, DiscoNo Instagram signal yet
BasementInstitution
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Fünk Club

JuárezSweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
Basement
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Sub Club Melbourne

CBDSweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementSound-system room
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Solfa

NakameguroSweatbox$$House, Deep houseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
24

Maggie Choo’s

SilomLounge$$$Jazz, Live musicNo Instagram signal yet
BasementOpulent
25

Volt

Porta RomanaSweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementSound-system room
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antiSOCIAL

A basement built for live music that turned into the city’s most important room for local electronic acts.

KharSweatbox$$Techno, House, Live musicNo Instagram signal yet
BasementArt space
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Zinco Jazz Club

A bank vault basement downtown running live jazz six nights a week. Book, or stand.

Centro HistóricoLounge$$Jazz, Live musicNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
28

And Club

BraamfonteinSweatbox$$Techno, House, AmapianoNo Instagram signal yet
Basement
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Aoyama Tunnel

AoyamaSweatbox$$House, DiscoNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
30

Soup

Northern QuarterSweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
31

Untitled Basement

NewtownSweatbox$$House, Amapiano, GqomNo Instagram signal yet
BasementAll night
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Doka

OostLounge$$JazzNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
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Club 77

Sweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
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Death Disco

KeramikosSweatbox$Techno, ElectroNo Instagram signal yet
Basement
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Contra Seoul

ItaewonSweatbox$$Techno, ElectroNo Instagram signal yet
Basement
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Basement Miami

Miami BeachSweatbox$$$House, DiscoNo Instagram signal yet
BasementIntimate
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Lightbox

Sweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
Basement
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Civic Underground

Sweatbox$$Techno, HouseNo Instagram signal yet
BasementSound-system room