Electronic music in a room this size

Most electronic music is written for rooms much bigger than this one. Big rooms swallow detail, so records are built to survive that: more low end, more repetition, more room to breathe between changes.

What a small floor does to those records

It puts every one of those decisions under a light. In a hundred-capacity room you hear the arrangement, not just the pressure — which means half of what works on a festival stage sounds thin here, and half of what nobody plays out there works perfectly.

It also means the volume can stay reasonable. We do not run the room loud, we run it clean: enough low end to feel it in the floor, never so much that the vocals disappear or that you have to shout at the bar.

What we play

House, mostly: deep and warm early, firmer after midnight. Around it, whatever holds up on a floor this size — indie with a rhythm section, edited disco, some techno when the night has earned it.

What we do not do is genre nights. Naming a night after a genre is a promise to play the same set every week, and a room of a hundred people notices that faster than anywhere else.

Who is playing

Four residents, Wednesday to Saturday, and a guest most weeks whose name goes up in the calendar rather than on the street. If you want to know who is on tonight, the agenda page has the month.