Saturday, March 01, 2008
3AM - Funky Buddha Lounge
It’s fair to say Brighton’s clubbing community hasn’t quite got its collective head around late night raving. Unlike in say, Berlin or New York, even London for that matter, if you’re expecting to still be in a nightclub at 7AM, you generally leave the house a bit later. Not so in Brighton it would seem, where everyone’s in the pub at 8 as per and the late-doors/after party is invariably tacked sloppily onto the end of a normal night of bar and club hopping. It’s rarely a pretty sight…..
So it’s a peculiar atmosphere that greets you on arrival at the Funky Buddha around 3:30AM. An atmosphere certainly NOT enhanced either by the torturous queuing, the needlessly confrontational doormen or the super surly bar staff. Nor the fact that DJ and crowd are attempting an awkward transition from the Funky flavours of the earlier night into the shadier sounds of twilight zone electro.
Nevertheless, resident Ash Huntingdon makes a decent fist of this tricky crossfade, easing the night along with some vocal tracks whilst keeping it fairly bumpy and lady friendly. As the club begins to refill with dirty stop-outs from Audio and Captcha things start to look up. Finally, the scene is set for the Schtumm boys - currently Brighton’s hottest DJ tag team - to see us through till sun up. They don’t disappoint with two and a bit hours of impeccably cool tweaky electro and itchy future house.
By 5AM it’s looking, sounding and indeed, smelling like a proper after hours do and as the hours bleed into each other and the music gets ever freakier, all of a sudden it actually feels like you could be in Berlin or New York; 3AM has finally made good.
posted by: Jim Brackpool @ 5:20 PM
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