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Beta
Night Club Details...
Beta
Night Club, 1909 Blake Street, Denver, CO 80202, USA
One of Denver's newest and hottest nightclubs,
Beta not only offers headliners from Ibiza, but also strives
to be as environmentally conscious as possible.
DJ Mag
Club Review...
As if bossing the globe's MP3 market
wasn't enough, Beatport's Brad Roulier has reset the parameters
of 21st century clubbing with his pet project, Beta. In under
two years, Roulier and his team have transformed what was
once a commercial hellhole in Denver's tourist district and
shaped a strong contender for the most forward-thinking dance
club on the planet.
Don't believe us? Just ask the experts.
Richie Hawtin says the DJ booth has the best monitoring system
he has ever played on, Deadmau5 describes the venue as "a
DJ's wet dream" and just about everyone that has played
here is full of praise as pure as the club's consuming soundsystem.
Of course, perfection never comes cheap
and the Beta crew have thrown every last dime of financial
and creative investment at the place. Built from the DJ booth
out, Beta's sound design is borderline obsessive. On a mission
to build the best they could, they gutted the place out, bankrolled
acoustic engineers to analyse the room to its definitive optimum
and then fine-tuned the country's first Funktion One Dance
Array system.
Not only that, the four towering speaker
stacks that face off in its 900-capacity main room would easily
flood a 10,000-capacity concert arena with sound. But instead
of being raked up to the limits, the system runs at just 30%
– 40% capacity, resulting in the warmest, cleanest and
most engulfing sound possible.
But whilst the system never needs to be pushed up high, Beta
is raising the bar across the board. With a 90% environmentally
green rating, it is the most Earth-friendly club on the planet.
The bar top in both the main room and the Cielo-inspired Beatport
Lounge is shaped out of recycled concrete, the acoustic panelling
from old denim jeans, mirrors from reformed glass and the
LED signs run on low voltage - there's even a botanical garden
on the huge patio area.
Yet Denver remains a city of rave hounds first, tech geeks
second. Never once featuring a dud DJ or staid line-up, Beta
is high-energy rave hedonism at a technological optimum, rather
than endless geeky admiration or stationary chin-stroking.
A diehard clubber himself, Roulier has been putting on 10,000-capacity
raves in this city since 1997 and was programming Denver venues
like the Church and Vinyl around the turn of the century.
When his valiant attempt to buy the Church failed, he decided
if you can't buy them, beat them. And how.
Now Beta is the new church for Denver's clubbing community
with names as varied as A-Trak, Boys Noize, Paul van Dyk,
Matthew Dear, Above & Beyond, Danny Tenaglia and Hercules
and Love Affair all playing since it opened back in March
2008.
"It's a club that is about the crowd as much as the DJ,"
confirms Armin Van Buuren. "You're very close to the
crowd and not elevated in any way. But the sound is just awesome,
it's so pure and fresh. The Denver crowd has always been one
of the big ones but the atmosphere at Beta brings it to a
new level. Like Space, Ministry or Amnesia, it has that special
magic and it's just a privilege to play."
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