Hey Techno heads, what happend to Privilege

[V. Barbarino]

???

[Guest pod]

They dropped the "techno" from their name months ago.

[Bling]

i was thinkin the same thing after PM Sessions ended, havent heard a thing about Privilege

[Guest]

That place rocks/rocked great sound system too bad the location but fuck it...

[Guest james stratus]

I haven't seen them open in almost 2 months. I do believe that are DONE :'(

[Guest coach]

Too much mouth, not enough money, as usual.

[Guest LdySphynx]

Yep they are gone, unfortunately Techno is dead in Miami.....so they were forced to closed!!!!!

If its not dead then the fans really did not know how to appreciate it....you know what they say you don't know what you have until its gone!!!!!

[Guest ramon]

Yep they are gone, unfortunately Techno is dead in Miami.....so they were forced to closed!!!!!

If its not dead then the fans really did not know how to appreciate it....you know what they say you don't know what you have until its gone!!!!!

its not dead .. its just in hibernation.

[Guest coach]

Come to FUCT if you think Techno is dead.

[Guest LdySphynx]

Come to FUCT if you think Techno is dead.

I don't think its dead, its just that the crowd that does like it did not show enough appreciation for it and thats one of the main reasons that it ended up closing.....that and that was surrounded by Hip Hop clubs!!!!

[Guest pod]

Ramon was referring to the genre, not the club i think.

That being said, it is kind of hard to base a genre on a fanbase of maybe 50 people in the entire city. I'm not hating, just stating a fact as Koky would say. Most of my friends are techno-philes, some of my friends are techno DJs even.

I tend to follow the booze and cooze though, and that is honestly what the techno scene is lacking. Not booze and cooze specifically, but accessibility. The music itself is hard for the average person to enjoy. They want their vocals, their refrain-chourus-refrain ad nauseum style of song.

Most techno fans I've run across are a pretty insular bunch. They fear the commercialization of their scene, but yet decry that no one shows up to their events, and those that don't show up are somehow defective in the head. Like I've said before, offending your potential crowd isn't exactly the best way of getting them to go to your event.

What I'm getting at is that techno-themed events need a bit of a sweetener to get the uninformed populace to go. Drink specials, psyco-pornographic performances and visuals...something, I don't know. Put those marketing brains to work.

[Guest Cosmigonon]

Last time I went there was like a month and a half ago on a saturday. Gaby Fain was playing,a lot of people showed up, but it seems like it was a one time only thing...

[Guest DiscJockeyJoey]

Ramon was referring to the genre, not the club i think.

That being said, it is kind of hard to base a genre on a fanbase of maybe 50 people in the entire city. I'm not hating, just stating a fact as Koky would say. Most of my friends are techno-philes, some of my friends are techno DJs even.

I tend to follow the booze and cooze though, and that is honestly what the techno scene is lacking. Not booze and cooze specifically, but accessibility. The music itself is hard for the average person to enjoy. They want their vocals, their refrain-chourus-refrain ad nauseum style of song.

Most techno fans I've run across are a pretty insular bunch. They fear the commercialization of their scene, but yet decry that no one shows up to their events, and those that don't show up are somehow defective in the head. Like I've said before, offending your potential crowd isn't exactly the best way of getting them to go to your event.

What I'm getting at is that techno-themed events need a bit of a sweetener to get the uninformed populace to go. Drink specials, psyco-pornographic performances and visuals...something, I don't know. Put those marketing brains to work.

you talk too much. lol.

people in miami for the most part dont know what real techno is. I have a group of now friends that had no clue what techno was but fell in love with it after I inlightened them. some people say techno scene in miami will never happen...I say its just begun. DUN DUN DUNNN!!!!!!

[Guest james stratus]

Techno doesn't get any promotion outside of the small club and rave genre here in Miami. And I mean club only when there is an individual or group like the people behind priviage and in the same spot long long ago Mission. Essentially the general Miami club populous knows nothing about Techno since it gets no play on the dance floors of the big clubs... unless it's Carl Cox anyway.

[Guest andrew_thomas]

Ramon was referring to the genre, not the club i think.

ramon was talkin about something thats unseen by the typical miami eye.. not the genre nor the club

james coach werd up man!!

see you there!!!

FUCT3

Future Underground City of TECHNO!!!

[Guest shannon_coolj.]

Ramon was referring to the genre, not the club i think.

That being said, it is kind of hard to base a genre on a fanbase of maybe 50 people in the entire city. I'm not hating, just stating a fact as Koky would say. Most of my friends are techno-philes, some of my friends are techno DJs even.

I tend to follow the booze and cooze though, and that is honestly what the techno scene is lacking. Not booze and cooze specifically, but accessibility. The music itself is hard for the average person to enjoy. They want their vocals, their refrain-chourus-refrain ad nauseum style of song.

Most techno fans I've run across are a pretty insular bunch. They fear the commercialization of their scene, but yet decry that no one shows up to their events, and those that don't show up are somehow defective in the head. Like I've said before, offending your potential crowd isn't exactly the best way of getting them to go to your event.

What I'm getting at is that techno-themed events need a bit of a sweetener to get the uninformed populace to go. Drink specials, psyco-pornographic performances and visuals...something, I don't know. Put those marketing brains to work.

i'm a technohead though and i say the more the merrier. i don't care if a lot of people come and enjoy themselves at a techno event (ahem, "commercialization").

it's just that techno is hard for people to swallow. i mean, it took me years to really appreciate techno after listening to dance music for almost ten years.

to me, it's a fine art - and the most organic of all genres. but for most people, it takes them a while to understand and appreciate it. that's why it's hard for a commerical techno club to survive (well, in miami anyway).

it all depends on where you put it - miami sucks when it comes to playing techno. but bring it to germany or detroit and you've got yourselves a hit.

[Guest LdySphynx]

Well the title asks What happened to Privilege??? ;D

[Guest lil_liz]

RIP Privilege, along with Nerve.

[Guest shannon_coolj.]

Well the title asks What happened to Privilege??? ;D

yeah, but privlege is (supposedly) a techno club...and if people aren't into techno in miami, a techno club's not going to do to well!!

[Guest LdySphynx]

Well the title asks What happened to Privilege??? ;D

yeah, but privlege is (supposedly) a techno club...and if people aren't into techno in miami, a techno club's not going to do to well!!

Exactly what I posted......LOL!!!!!

[V. Barbarino]

Nick and Dade, we are sorry you guys were right....

Signed

The Clubbers of Miaimi

[Guest B612]

The owners of Privilede don't exactly know what they are doing. They have 2 rooms in that place and a terrace.... you could do so much to attract people to the place... they even have a small patio...

Yet they don't make good use of what they have... First of all, there's always some dude playing "WORLD" beats in the terrace, which obviously brings a crowd to the club that no techno-fanatic can stand AT ALL >

There's millions of ways to attract people to that place... Have a tech-house DJ on the second floor... while you get a more banging techno DJ on the main room... AND NO FUCKIN WORLD BEATS IN THE TERRACE... Having a tech-house DJ on the second floor would "commercialize" parties at Privilege a bit more...without getting to the point where us techno headz get pissed off at the fact that it is not an "Underground" scene...

Yet I must say the "underground"/"commercial" debate is bullshit... Josh Wink plays at Space, minimal, acid and hard banging techno... the place is always packed and he kicks ass behind the decks... and don't tell me everyone in the main room would actually say they like techno... MARKETING MARKETING MARKETING!!!! and don't tell me that those of us who go to space don't enjoy a techno night because we are in a big club at a party that in a way is very "commercial"

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I had the chance to spin at Privilege and of course never got paid...They kept giving me excuses... Not that I care... it is nice to get some money to buy new records but that is not exactly the reason why I get behind the decks... All I've heard and experienced with the owners is that they are really clueless and irrisponsable...

Anyway... Privilege was a cool place... it's dead now!!! Hopefully the conference next year will help alot...

I still appreciate the fact that they took the risk to open a "TECHNO" club in a city where vocal house and fucking trance rule >

[Guest ramon]

Ramon was referring to the genre, not the club i think.

That being said, it is kind of hard to base a genre on a fanbase of maybe 50 people in the entire city. I'm not hating, just stating a fact as Koky would say. Most of my friends are techno-philes, some of my friends are techno DJs even.

I tend to follow the booze and cooze though, and that is honestly what the techno scene is lacking. Not booze and cooze specifically, but accessibility. The music itself is hard for the average person to enjoy. They want their vocals, their refrain-chourus-refrain ad nauseum style of song.

Most techno fans I've run across are a pretty insular bunch. They fear the commercialization of their scene, but yet decry that no one shows up to their events, and those that don't show up are somehow defective in the head. Like I've said before, offending your potential crowd isn't exactly the best way of getting them to go to your event.

What I'm getting at is that techno-themed events need a bit of a sweetener to get the uninformed populace to go. Drink specials, psyco-pornographic performances and visuals...something, I don't know. Put those marketing brains to work.

well the genre is this city .. its prety active ins ome other places of the country .. i do agree it needs to be marketed better. i think people fear commercialization of it due to the fact that people will play it cause its a fad and not really stick with it it over time or get in make their money and run like hell after. i hope things do get better if not american airlines will thank you all later. the main problem imo is that dj's are even scared to play it due to how its percieved in this city. thats pretty fuckin sad imo .. if a record doesnt go over well it doesn't go over well tough luck it happens, but i find it appauling some of the biggest records this year have gotten less tahn 3 plays in miami ... yet i heard one of them 5 or 6 times in one weekend outside of the city. I'm talking about Joris Voorn's Incident and Mathew Jonson's Decomrpession and last but not least Alter Ego's Rocker tune which crossed over from Craig Richards to Erick Morillo, but I've heard it maybe twice in Miami.

Guys believe me I would love to do another night thats musically driven and hell if i can i will, but its really sad to see a lack of exposure to this music in this fine city. I think if a few people hooked up the techno kids , the minimal kids , the electro kids and put their heads together something may work .. i saw how many people were at kraftwerk .. people do like this music in one form or another .. we just gotta reach them.

peace love and techno!

[Guest djrc]

Techno is the fat girl of dance music. Fun to ride until your friends see you.

[Guest pod]

Nah. Techno is the kinky whore that your friends give you shit about in the first place, but over time they warm to because she'll take it up the ass for them as well.