It’s already been quite the start to the long weekend with many clubs powering through since Wednesday and all seemingly competing with one another for the most star-studded line-up.
Luxy played host to EDM icon R3hab on Wednesday, and Spark barely gave dance music fans a chance to sleep off their hangovers before opening its doors last night to dance duo Bassjackers. Fortunately for Myst, overzealous EDM fans are well-versed in the art of carrying on for days so a full floor can be expected tonight when Swedish duo Dada Life perform for the first time in Taipei. And just as the song says: Shit is going to go bananas.
Olle Corneer and Stefan Engblom have built their career around the phallic fruit. You’d be hard pressed to find a photo on the Internet where the twosome aren’t eating bananas, throwing bananas, wearing bananas or partaking in some sort of nonsensical antic that includes bananas, which is often credited as “bananarchy.”
Photo courtesy of Control Management
But people love it and riots have been known to break out but fortunately they are purveyors of a lot of good and greasy music too. This makes their shenanigans endearing to the hundreds and thousands of fans that sardine themselves at festivals like EDC and Ultra.
As of 2013, Dada Life holds the Guinness world record for the world’s largest pillow fight after an event in Chicago. While Myst might not have the capacity to break the 3,813 person record, they will certainly try to recreate the feather frenzy.
■ Dada Life performs tonight at Myst, 9F, 12, Songshou Rd, Taipei City (台北市松壽路12號9F). Admission is NT$1,800 at the door and one drink is included with the entrance fee.
But if something a bit more alternative is your jam, there is plenty else going on.
Techno fans are in for a treat as Berghain resident Marcel Fengler treats Korner patrons to a small taste of what has been labeled the Berghain sound. For those who don’t know what Berghain is, you should. It’s the storied Berlin club whose notorious door policy sees hundreds turned away every weekend who don’t fit the look, an enigma to everyone except the doormen.
The gargantuan club opens sometime after most clubs close and can stay open well into Monday. It has no mirrors, no VIP, no fancy cocktails, just a top of the line sound system and the finest techno DJs in the world. In fact, the restored warehouse has been dubbed the techno capital of the world and Marcel Fengler plays there regularly.
Fengler’s style encompasses a stark contrast of dark and bright, and is also melodic in carrying out the harder edges of techno.
The dark retreat that Korner offers from the bright lights of Taipei is the perfect place to experience Berghain because it’s not an experience for your eyes, but one for your ears.
■ Marcel Fengler plays tonight at The Wall/Korner from 11:30pm to 4am, B1, 200, Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路四段200號B1). Admission is NT$650 and includes a drink.
Drum and bass fans will surely be out and about tonight. Tranquility Bass cranks up the beats with a full line-up of drum and bass DJs and MCs, who will also likely dabble in dubstep and all the subgenres that come in between.
Parties like this happen so infrequently that Triangle will surely be going off with rudebwoys throughout — there seems to be a lot of them hiding in the shadows of this hard knock EDM movement.
■ Tranquility Bass is tonight at Triangle from 11pm to 5am, 1, Yumen St, Taipei City (台北市玉門街1號). Admission is NT$300 and comes with a drink.
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