this one requires a forum debriefing the day after
Reporting back. I broke my rule never to attend parties with a dress code to go to this one.
Approaching Es Paradis slightly after midnight, I saw a long line of people aged over 40 mostly dressed in white. I joined the line and was inside the club some 15 minutes later. A few hundred people were inside, but the club wasn't exactly filled to capacity and there was ample room to dance the whole time.
The music didn't differ that much between different DJs. It was what a good village discotheque in Germany would have played in the 1990s. No really crazy rave stuff (that I was hoping to hear). Some commercial electronic music from the time, some underground-ish tunes a German village DJ would have announced as "a round of house music", some electronic remixes of pop songs. Quite enjoyable for me.
The big letdown was the crowd. At every other classics party I have been to, people gathered to celebrate the music from days past together. There is a dynamic between the DJ and the crowd, there is eye contact, people react to the music, it gets loud when the DJ drops a big tune from the past.
Here, the crowd obviously gathered to wear white T-shirts and dresses together. The only one excited about the music was the DJ. I mean, he drops "Greece 2000" and there is zero reaction from the crowd. He shouts euphorically into the microphone - and gets zero reaction, not even a single polite whistle. How is that possible at a classics party??
There was a tiny 2nd floor, the "Blue Room" with DnB played. Now, I absolutely dislike DnB with lots of vocals. But there was an actual party there - there was interaction between the DJs and the small crowd, people were celebrating together. I enjoyed the blue room more than the main floor, despite liking the music on the main floor a lot more.
I left at 4am - no point wasting precious sleep time on a party I don't enjoy. What a shame. Es Paradis is a beautiful club though and I have satisfied my curiosity.
Oh, no one was filming with a smartphone. I guess because there were no exciting memories worth capturing here
DnB floor
