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Two nights in one country: the island season that sets global club economics, and mainland cities that simply refuse to go home.
5 cities with a published scene.
For five months a year this island runs the world’s club economy, and for seven it is a quiet Mediterranean rock. Book around residencies, not around venues: the same room is a different night depending on whose name is on the poster.
Barcelona offers several ways into the night: Razzmatazz’s five rooms, Nitsa and Astin at Apolo, and INPUT inside Poble Espanyol.
Madrid ranges from a weekly city-centre electronic institution to vast multi-room productions beyond the ring road, with dance floors that routinely reach sunrise.
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Two rooms, a terrace that fogs itself into whiteout, and fifty years of being the reason people book the flight.
A low concrete shed by the airport runway with no interest in decor. The most serious dancefloor on the island and the one that most rewards arriving early.