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Blitz Club in Munich is installed in a huge building that is home to German’s largest museum of science and technology, the Deutches Museum, and which for a time was used as a concert venue for acts like Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix etc. Apparently there’s a large planetarium room directly above the club, which would make for a pretty good party if its floor were not too weak to support a crowd of more than 80 people. Actually that would still be a pretty good party.
I went into the club through a side door from the restaurant so didn’t get the full ‘arrival’ experience, but even so the space left an immediate impression. The first thing I saw was a very sophisticated oblong bar leading down onto the main ‘Blitz’ floor (the second room is called ‘Plus’). You’d think that the bar and dancefloor spaces being so open to each other might undermine some of the impact of the dancing area itself, but you’d be wrong: big speaker stacks standing like sentries in the back corners of the floor are enough to mark the boundary, and the sound they emit removes any last vestiges of doubt. Once you pass these sonic bouncers you’re in the space, bodily and mentally, and the effect is astounding.