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[ippy]

Just arrived and thinking about what to do. Tried looking on the net and searching daves, but no real luck. Wheres a good club for a bit of techno, drumnbass, or even psy trance (yes, im not fussy, ill even go to a psy club). Just want to bounce around with the korean space cadets in gwangju. Keep the rnb, hip hop, and trance/hard house crap though Ideally something like ageha/womb in tokyo would be great, or even mago in nagano (love that place ).

[hugekebab]

Your only real option for anything remotely approaching that is club vanilla in the shinae, not far from the Speakeasy foreigner bar. There's also a club opposite vanilla, but I think that will have music even further from what you're looking for. Expect to be disappointed.

P.S if you're into that scene, why did you choose to live in the most parochial city in Korea?

[ippy]

choice wasnt that big a factor. First job in korea, so grabbed the first half decent public school job i could get mjy grubby fingers on. Since i got sorted around august, it was pretty tough going. Worse still, i live in a city about 30 miles from gwangju and it smells of fermented skate No worries, worst comes to the worst, its not that far (or expensive) to go from the bottom of the country to the top, so theres always something toi do and somewhere to go. Cheers for the advice though, il check them out

[socratesocks]

I live in Gwangju, and I'm very into music, but I have no idea what you're describing. Psy-trance? The best bet for friendly people and a good time is the German Bar, literally two doors away from the speakeasy on the main street down from the Burger King. Perhaps you could meet someone there who knows what you're talking about.

[jimmydenfield]

house meets electronica... go to club Volume... foreigners get in for free.. it's downtown Gwangju near ABC shoe mart. I imagine if you ask anyone out at 3am, they can point you in the right direction.

club super houze, near fish and grill (downtown), is also a decent club. 10,000W cover gets you all-you-can-drink house beer (i.e. awful, but does the job). houze plays mainly hip hop and a ton of k-pop. the djs are awful, but this is the busiest club downtown.

there is another club called cube downtown... never been.

hope this helps.

[MoneyMike]

Hey dude,

Me and some friends just moved to Gwangju with the new batch of EPIK teachers and are in the same boat. Haven't been able to find any good dance music at all. We're looking for more dnb or dubstep, and I like a little good hip hop myself, but haven't found anywhere yet. Agree with the above poster, if you're not too picky Volume is probably your best bet, was there once and it was mostly housy techno. Most people are pretty reserved with their dancing though, very few "space cadets" hahaha.

As far as Vanilla goes, it closed down about 3 months ago apparently. And it was hip hop and funk, which doesnt sound like your thing. In my experience, asking fellow expats about where to find specific kinds of dance music usually ends with them saying something like "thats like house music, right?" But in all honesty the electronic scene in this city looks a little on the lame side. Super Club Houze can be pretty fun, the music is terrible, but the crowd is generally more into it than they are at Volume, at least judging from the 1 time I was at Volume. And with the free beer deal, you can just drink til the music seems good.

Anyways, hope that helps!

[ekul]

Dubstep is such pretentious tosh, I'm glad it's not big in Korea.

[MoneyMike]

Meh, I wasn't big at all on dubstep when I first heard it, its slowly grown on me though. (A few of my buddies back in Canada were DJ's and started playin dubstep, so I was around it alot)

I do agree that the whole culture of that kind of music is a tad pretentious.

[ippy]