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I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs

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Re: I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs

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Post by kalli »

stevetron wrote: post #6

Might have been nice to know where the clubs are? San Francisco? South Africa? Belgium? And what demographic the clubs serve, i.e are any of the clubs LGBTQ+, or are the all hetero? They don't generally play the same material.

If you click a club its region and country should be in its detail panel underneath their logo. The region and country filters should show you just the clubs in the given region/country.

Demographic analysis would have been interesting I agree, but I didn't know of a good data source for that and it's hard to parse from line up data (especially in places one isn't familiar with)

Re: I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs

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Post by kalli »

input_sh wrote: post #5

I love the idea behind it and the visualisation indeed looks awesome, but the RA data behind it is messy to say the least. For example, 3/7 "nightclubs" it lists in Croatia are not nightclubs. I would also group Kalypso and Zrće Beach together as Kalypso is one out of 4 nightclubs located on Zrće Beach, but the beach itself is not a venue. Similarly, Barbarella's is kind of an afterparty destination for festivals org…

Author here, this is good to know.! I tried to spotcheck the regions and countries, but wasn't familiar with all of them so didn't want to make assumptions (and didn't make time to research them thoroughly). Not sure if/how I could try to correct that.

> This is the kind of "lore" that's impossible to catch from raw data.

Agreed this project definitely banged up against those sorts of walls a few times. Still think it's worth trying, hopefully the information offered one can find outweighs any distortions it introduces. Maybe something that should have been explicitly acknowledged in the piece.

> I like the Essential Mix visualisation even more! It's such a shame most of the other ones appear dead due to API changes.

Thanks, happy to hear that. I keep meaning to go back to the essential mix one, get new data and apply some of the stuff I've learned since!

Re: I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs

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Post by analog31 »

alexandregcode wrote: post #4

This is pretty cool, interesting to think about what causes more or less resident DJs. As a side note, on the RA events sometimes artists are listed in the description but not linked in the description so there could be some artists missing. In my experience it tends to vary on the nightclub.

Granted I'm not a DJ but a jazz musician. I think there's a slight premium for "out of town" acts compared to local acts of possibly equal quality. It could simply be due to scarcity. If a certain act is only in town for one night, then it's your only chance to see them, whereas you can put off seeing a local band for a while.

Re: I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs

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Post by tirant »

wavefunction wrote: post #8
siva7 wrote: post #7

Don't confuse this list with actually very popular djs. Many clubs in this list host mostly resident and local djs (like Berghain as the club name/culture is the main reason people go there, not the lineup) instead of popular touring djs who have a big fan base of their own (and are more expensive to book).

people go to a club because the music is good, even at the shittiest of popular venues everything follows from there

Music is not the only aspect. Even more important is the vibe.

Re: I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs

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Post by Mashimo »

wavefunction wrote: post #8
siva7 wrote: post #7

Don't confuse this list with actually very popular djs. Many clubs in this list host mostly resident and local djs (like Berghain as the club name/culture is the main reason people go there, not the lineup) instead of popular touring djs who have a big fan base of their own (and are more expensive to book).

people go to a club because the music is good, even at the shittiest of popular venues everything follows from there

Setting / atmosphere / vibe also plays a role.

If a know a place that has angry bouncers or annoying rules, I rather go to a place that he less then ideal music.

One local club has a rule that you can't drink water from the bathroom tab, and they even turn off the cold water. I'm not going there, even when the music is fire.

Re: I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs

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Post by FinnKuhn »

jrrv wrote: post #13

Am I missing something or is the author using dots for both breaking up large numbers and also for decimal points?

Yes, I assume it is because you use dots to seperate large numbers in most European languages and they forgot it's different in English.
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