Pics from April First Thursdays Afterwork champagne party at Copacabana lounge in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, with Moet & Chandon! The party was hosted on April 1st at Copacabana Community Lounge @ Cheongdam, Seoul. The next Afterwork party will be hosted on May 6th. Check Afterwork website for more details.
Photo gallery of the party after the jump.
First Thursdays Afterwork returned this time with Moet et Chandon Rose and Hennessy! The party was hosted at Copacabana, Cheongdam’s newest trendy lounge that is located right next to Tribeca or ex-Club Circle building. Check out the picture gallery to see if you and your friends were captured in the moment! Or if you couldn’t make it for whatever reason, check out the gallery anyways to see what you missed out on!
March First Thursdays Afterwork featured a chocolate fountain for guests to dip biscuits, strawberries and other fruits. Also featured were a gigantic ice sculpture of Hennessy bottle, which was nothing short of impressive. As usual Copacabana was packed with people and towards the end of the night some were moving their bodies along with the house beats dropped by the DJ at the booth. Next First Thursdays will be on the first Thursday of April. Visit Afterwork website for more details.
Photo gallery after the break.
March First Thursdays Afterwork party is back, hosted by HSK and Nodus at Copacabana @ Cheongdam. It’s an event where professionals come together for relaxing after work to decompress and to meet like-minded other professionals. Around 150-200 guests participate, and it’s one of the hottest monthly parties in town! Feature champagne can be ordered by the glass or bottles. To have a space for guests to sit, bottle orders are necessary. To request an invitation, go visit the Afterwork website. To get glimpse of what the parties are like, see SeoulGrid photo gallery of Feb First Thursdays Afterwork post.
Event information after the jump.
First Thursdays Afterwork party is to be hosted on Thursday Feb 4th, 2010 at Copacabana, a lounge located in Apgujeong/Cheongdam area, previously reviewed on SeoulGrid. It’s an invite-only champagne party featuring Moet & Chandon Rose at one of the nicest and newest lounges in Cheongdam, Seoul! If you want to meet some new people, network and socialize, Nodus & HSK’s Afterwork party would be the perfect place for you!
Continue reading for more information and to view the invitation necessary to get in!
When I heard Copacabana opened behind ex-Club Circle building at Cheongdam-dong, I was expecting this:
So I went to check it out. Well, I was off by a bit.
As soon as I stepped into the venue, I found myself in a nearly all-white decor with light green lighting, which conjured up an interesting mixture of energizing and relaxing ambiance. Then I noticed the furniture, especially the chairs. Looking half alien-ish and half jellyfish-ish, the chairs and other decorations on the wall, and lighting made me feel like I was a fish that came to chill out at some underwater hideout… I promise you I wasn’t under the influence of anything when I thought this!
What's up, SeoulGrid? Sorry about the delay in posting the club guide this week. My already crazy week unexpectedly got a bit crazier... [My plane crashed on this mysterious island, then we got attacked by this big black column of smoke, and... Ok, so I'm really irresponsible and I spent the past week catching up on "Lost" instead of writing this article -- look, I'm sorry, alright?!]Quick updates this week: The good, Club Heaven has free entry Friday night! The bad, Club Volume is still closed for renovations until further notice. The ugly, I'll be in Tokyo this weekend, so you all will have to party it up without me. Yeah, I know you'll miss me, but don't worry -- the East Sea won't stop me from giving you the lowdown, and there's lots of good stuff going on this weekend.Read on to find out what's up, and prepare yourselves for yet another weekend of the chaotic debauchery that is Seoul's club scene...
Guest DJs: "Housegraphy Records" -- Baram, KINGmck, Hyde, S-Pill, LocoSoound, BaekSeung
Club Naked shutting down has mixed things up a lot. I remember seeing a lot of these guys at Club Naked back in the day, and now I guess they have a bit of freedom to play at other parties as well.
These guys are really talented -- some of the shows they put on at Naked when it first opened were incredible. (I went to Naked much less frequently in the last months before it closed, so I'm not sure if they continued). Two of them would DJ simultaneously, often creating new music on the fly, blurring the boundary between a DJ set and a live performance.
This party is described as "House Mixset for Driving," so I'm not sure exactly what kind of style to expect, but it reminds me of my midnight drives up I-95 between my college and my hometown. So chug a Red Bull, crank the volume, push the pedal for the floor, and check your review mirror periodically for flashing red and blue lights!
Resident DJs: EYou, Ziro
Nothing much to write here -- Eden's resident DJs usually play tech-house and minimalism. I can't find a decent quality video of their resident DJs online.
Club Eden: More Information & Directions
Guest DJs: Clubber Langz (UK), Mackay (Ireland)
Note that although Club Heaven also lists "Shut Da Mouth" as a guest DJ, I'm not listing because on last week's poster it read:
Club heaaaaven...
Anyway, actually guest DJing tonight are Clubber Langz from the UK and Ross Mackay from Ireland. Here's Clubber Langz playing at Elune in Busan with an MC:
Free entry: From what I gather, you can get in this show for free if you arrive before midnight and say "Clubber Langz" at the desk. So if you've been wanting to check out the club scene but don't feel like paying a W30,000 cover, here's your chance.
A friend of a friend just saw Kavinsky in Tokyo and said that the show was incredible. People are calling him the next generation of French Electro, following in the footsteps of Daft Punk and Justice. After listening to his stuff, I can say his style is definitely one-of-a-kind.
Think synth film scores from the '80s. Think SNES. Think Knight Rider meets Tron. [Speaking of SNES, did anyone here play Mega Man II? This game had one kickass soundtrack. Ok I'm a huge dork.] Anyway, If I wanted to sum up Kavinsky's style in a word, I would have to go with "Neo-Retro," if that makes any sense. So it's like he came from some strange alternate universe where the '80s was awesome.
Check out more of his music on Kavinsky's Myspace. If you like what you hear, then I'll see you Saturday!
Club Answer: More Information & Directions
This duo goes under the name "Masters at Work" or MAW. The video I posted is a bit more upbeat than a lot of their stuff, but it was the highest quality video I could find. For the most part their style seems to be a kind of funky, soulful minimal house with some Latin influence. Definitely an ineresting sound if it's your style.
Club Eden: More Information & Directions
Note that this is a live show -- "Drum, Guitar, Keyboard, Vocal" -- but I can't find a clip of Psytonic playing a live set online.
Psytonic's usual style is psytrance, so if that's your thing, it should be quite interesting to see psytrance accompanied by live rock.
Club Heaven: More Information & Directions
Note that this is a live show -- "Drum, Guitar, Keyboard, Vocal" -- but I can't find a clip of Psytonic playing a live set online.
Psytonic's usual style is psytrance, so if that's your thing, it should be quite interesting to see psytrance accompanied by live rock.
Club Heaven: More Information & Directions
