The History of the World's Greatest Nightclubs | Official Trailer

“The History of the World’s Greatest Nightclubs.” From London Audio, iHeartRadio, and executive producer Paris Hilton. 

Hosted by Ultra Naté, is a 12-part podcast exploring how different clubs around the world revolutionized the way we party. How they ushered in the birth of new genres and became hotspots for political activism. But above all how they created space for people to escape the world around them, to lose themselves in the music and leave it all on the dance floor. 

Nightclubs are sanctuaries where people find their chosen family. It's where you experience the joy of dancing in crowded rooms with people open to accepting you for who you are, or whoever you want to become, even if it’s only for the night.

Partying brings us together. Whether that’s under a mirror ball in New York or out in the sun in Lagos, beneath the glare of bright strobe lights in Berlin or while listening to the early sounds of a new genre in Detroit. They influence one another. 

Nightclubs do change the way we see the world. Because the pure joy of a good party has the unique ability to transcend language, culture and place. To reach people from different parts of the world and unite them through the magical, unshakable, desire to… dance.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The greatest nightclubs. Take you by the hand, lead you
out onto the dance floor and to a magical place
full of imagination and inspiration where you are free to
truly be yourself.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
It was electric, The vibe was electric. It was like fire,
a fire that could not be contained. You wanted to dance,
and dance and dance.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
We're diving into the late nights that turned people's worlds
upside down, the euphoric moments when the lights were low,
the music was loud, and people felt themselves reaching heights
they'd never experienced before.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
And it was real dark, real dark, but the mirrored
ball was moving around and everybody's dancing a slow motion.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Twirling and dancing and hips and moving.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
From London Audio, iHeartRadio and executive producer of Paris Hilton.
This is the history of the world's greatest nightclubs. I'm
Alternate and this is a love letter to nightlife, a
twelve part podcast about the iconic venues and people that
revolutionized how we party. I'll be your guide on this

(01:16):
global journey as we step into the Strove light Field
sanctuaries that pioneered new musical genres and launch cultural movements.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
The Warehouse is the birthplace.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
At House music culture.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Dance material revolutionized the tumplate for nightline.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I think Berkheim is a symbol for a certain freedom.
We'll uncover the stories of the parties and people that
stood right in the middle of political oppression, social upheaval,
and the fight against discrimination. The clubs were just dancing
was an act of resistance.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
This is a time when the Bronx is burning. There's
fires everywhere, there's desolation. So many of our friends were
dying of aids.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
We'll spend nights in sacred places where outcasts found a
community to call home and step into the clubs that
gave black, brown and queer people a space to experience
true freedom.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
It did matter who you were, what you were, where
you came from. We all came together and we all
felt one thing, and that was the music.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
From Paradise Garage in New York to Space in Abida,
the New Africa Shrine in Legos, to the Hacienda in Manchester,
and many more. Each episode will explore a different dance floor.
There were people who had their first, you know, transcendental
dance floor epiphany. There Listen to the history of the
world's greatest nightclubs, starting July thirteenth, on the iHeartRadio app,

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.