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Berghain
A former power plant with the best sound and the hardest door in Europe. The room does not care whether you get in, which is exactly why everyone wants to.
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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.
Tresor
The vault corridor under a decommissioned power station, still the loudest argument for why Berlin sounds the way it does.
D-Edge
Muti Randolph’s LED architecture plus a sound system maintained like a religion. The room that put Brazilian techno on the international map and still the best night in São Paulo.
Nowadays
An outdoor yard, an indoor room with a custom system, and a Nonstop weekend that runs from Saturday night into Monday morning. The most complete club in New York.
Rex Club
The room where French techno was argued into existence, with a sound system maintained like an instrument rather than an amenity.
Lux Frágil
Three floors on a river warehouse with a roof terrace that catches sunrise over the Tejo. The room that put Lisbon on the map and still the hardest door in the city.
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.
Beam
A Funktion-One room on Thonglor Soi 55 that books internationally without behaving like a tourist club. The best sound in the city.
Corsica Studios
Two small arches under the railway with a booking policy braver than clubs ten times the size.
WOMB
Four floors around a mirror-ball atrium in Maruyamachō. The room that most visitors mean when they say they went clubbing in Tokyo, and still a good answer.
Basement
Under the Knockdown Center, the closest thing America has to Berghain’s floor — and it is unusually honest about the debt.
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.
VENT
A basement with a custom system and a strictly music-first policy. If you only have one night in Tokyo and you care about techno, come here.
Ministry of Sound
The Box still has the best purpose-built sound in the country. The rest of the building is a brand; that room is not.
Public Records
A hi-fi room built by people who care more about the speakers than the bar spend. Come early and actually listen.
Sound Museum Vision
Liquidroom
Studio Lam
A custom sound system built by the Zudrangma Records crew, playing molam and Thai funk to people who came specifically for it.
Good Room
De Commune
UNIT
Phonox
A single dark room built around long residencies rather than guest bookings, which is why the Saturday crowd actually knows each other.
Yu Yu
A small hi-fi room in Roma with a bar programme as considered as the sound. The most consistently good night in the city.
White Hotel
A former MOT garage in Salford with a booking policy braver than anywhere else in the north.
Floyd Miami
The small room under Space. Better for the music, worse for the story you tell afterwards.
Faust
A concrete room in Itaewon that runs until the trains restart and books like it has something to prove.
Badaboum
Paragon
Bar Martha
Tannoy Autographs, a wall of vinyl and a rule against raising your voice. The archetype of the Tokyo listening bar.
E1 London
The Pickle Factory
JBS
Ministerium Club
Sub Club Melbourne
Volt
Colour Factory
Salón Amador
The room that proved Medellín could take electronic music as seriously as it takes reggaeton.