What Kind of Clubber Are You? · Result
The Early Shift
You are in the room before it is a room.
Designed rarity: about 8% of takers
You tend to arrive when the doors open and the floor is still about eight people wide, and that is no accident. You like hearing a room get built one record at a time, and you have real respect for whoever is doing the building. People like you catch the opener's best choices that everyone else walks in too late to hear, and by the time the night is officially good, you have often had the best two hours of it already.
You check set times, plan to be there at doors and head straight for the floor while it is still quiet. You find the spot near the booth where the system sounds best and let the warm up do its slow work on you. Once the room gets crowded and loud you tend to leave satisfied, sometimes before the headliner has played a single record.
Your strength
You can tell a good room from a full one.
Your blind spot
You sometimes form firm verdicts on sets you did not stay to hear.
Key takeaways
- You hear the two best hours of most nights, and almost nobody else does.
- Your patience gives openers a reason to play their best records.
- Staying for the peak now and then makes your verdicts even sharper.
Rooms to try in Seoul
- Cakeshop, Itaewon: The opening hour here is a proper warm up played to a near empty basement, which is exactly the hour you came for.
- Faust, Itaewon: The sound is set up for a room to be built slowly, and being on the floor at eleven feels completely natural.
- vurt., Hapjeong: A small techno room that treats the first two hours as part of the set, which suits your timing perfectly.
Rooms to try around the world
- Panorama Bar, Berlin: Turning up at midday on a Sunday is a legitimate entrance, and the room is at its most honest before the crowd arrives.
- Coda, Toronto: Openers are booked seriously here, and the front of the night rewards anyone who made the effort to be there for it.
- Smartbar, Chicago: A residency room where the early set comes from someone who has been building that floor for years, played for listeners like you.
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