Reclaim The Night

Clubbing has broken the shackles of conformity to evolve into a new culture where local musical heritage is being consumed and appreciated.

- Eugenie Adda

Paris, October 2017. A flock of ‘neoweirdoes’ are collecting at No. 114 on Rue Oberkampf. It is at the exact address that 824 hours has just opened, an ephemeral club, the latest conception of the Bonjour Bonsoir collective. Here, there is no authorised photography, but is a space of freedom, a neopunk establishment unaware of the extent of their programmed obsolescence.

A décor between the ’70s squat and neon retro, as if it had been plucked out of the imagination of Alexandro Michele, an exigent enterprise and, definitely, the bringer of smiles to the Parisians of the night. A godsend in a capital where evenings continue between elitist clubs and private after-parties. The end of hostilities?

Where does one go dancing after hours? More than half the clubs have shut shop since 2005 in London. In New York, it is the same fight, the same music, the same sort of people everywhere. But not here, no, you will not do that anymore. It is elsewhere that the night beckons you, between the beaches of Mexico and the underground of Kiev, the cabanas of Durban and the lost and forgotten hip hop festivals in the middle of China.

The underground scene has morphed, breaking the shackles of conformity. The future of clubbing is here.

Germany: New sound of music an anti-tourist countryside having taken over Berlin for a few years now and institutions such as the Berghain battling to maintain an air of exclusivity, we now see a wave of more intimate clubs emerging, where the local or transnational artistic communities find each other at evenings centred around the music than the party itself.