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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.
Neighbourhood
Farringdon
Energy
Cathedral
Capacity
1,600
Price
$$$
Age
19+
Opened
1999
Indoor / outdoor
indoor
Dress
No stated code
The door
19+ on most nights. ID required.
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The vibe system
A controlled vocabulary, so two rooms tagged the same actually feel the same.
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The same feeling, in another city.
Paris
Rex Club
The room where French techno was argued into existence, with a sound system maintained like an instrument rather than an amenity.
Glasgow
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.
Berlin
Tresor
The vault corridor under a decommissioned power station, still the loudest argument for why Berlin sounds the way it does.
Tokyo
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.
Amsterdam
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.
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