HOTTEST CLUB 2014 IS Ibiza, Spain

                        THE PARADISE OF CLUBBER

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SPACE IBIZA

Address: IBIZA, SPAIN
Capacity: 7000
Web: spaceibiza.com

Despite the emergence of rival clubbing hotspots — Croatia, Las Vegas, Brazil — in recent years, the island that vibrates remains your number one, with voters placing five of its clubs in the top 20 of this list. The zenith of the circuit, despite increasing competition and rising standards, still hasn't changed in your eyes. Space Ibiza is king, and if you need to be told why it's because you haven't been there.

A multiplex of the dance world's most accomplished rooms, each impeccably finished space has a distinct identity of its own. Discoteca for astronomical main room madness, a formidable black box that's all exploding CO2 and cacophonous sound.
The Terrace conjures a cosmic world of nocturnal intimacy like no other. Sunset Terrace, now with mesh roofing, still has a unique, sultry Balearic vibe only found in Ibiza and Premier Etag offers a splash of sunset raving. El Salon, meanwhile, is as warm and cosy as any lounge we've ever relaxed in. But it's for opening and closing, when a ginormous dome structure fit for NASA HQ is fitted in the outside carpark, that Space's wow factor really comes into its own.
Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Paco Osuna all launched ballistic missiles through its colossal Funktion One stack sponsored by Ultra at Space Closing Fiesta last October, while each of those DJs testify The Terrace is like a home from home, their weekly nights places where they as residents they are as revered as the marquee names they book.
Once a family restaurant, the venue is today held together by a close-knit house of professionals. The baby of Pepe Roselló, who opened his club owning account in the '60s with Playboy in San Antonio, this man has always been providing people an escape, catering for the first wave of hippies from the USA taking refuge from the Korean and Vietnamese wars.
These days, however, his trophy club is an automatic stop for discerning clubbers from all over the world, those escaping the nine-to-five drudgery of the world outside The White Isle.

It's not only the state-of-the-art look and feel of this dance consortium that pegs it as the peoples' favourite, though. Supremely programmed with some of the strongest and diverse clubbing brands on the planet, We Love continues to select line-ups so brave that its pretenders are left for dust. From Henrik Schwarz to Sasha, they've brought some of the most leftfield dance names to Ibiza and the most audacious, while convincing all and sundry that the best parties still happen on a Sunday.
Kehakuma, ENTER, Cox's The Revolution are also among today's most lauded, while misty eyed memories of Danny Rampling, Alex P and Brandon Block on The Terrace without a roof are not just what laid Ibiza's foundations, but those of modern clubland as we know it globally. With heritage and modernity perfectly poised, Space Ibiza is a well deserved winner of this poll once again. And Ibiza is still on top.
CARL COX“Space represents who I am and what I'm about. Space was the first and at the time, the only place where you could listen to dance music under the sun. It set the precedent for the after-hours club. Before that people just expected a 2am kick out. Here, you went to the club at 7am! To be there now giving something back is really special to me.”
RICHIE HAWTIN“When we started talking about a residency on Ibiza, Space seemed like the obvious choice. After walking through the club, the ideas just started to come very quickly and very easily. It was like, 'OK, let's do some interactive stuff in this room,' and when I walked into the back room I was like, 'Man, this would be perfect to do a cool, small intimate bar, let's bring sake in here'. That was really in the first half-hour of walking through Space. After that it was like, 'Oh my God, I think we may actually start to really honestly think about doing our own night in Ibiza'. The main room at Space on Thursdays at ENTER. is really one of my favourite spaces. I've helped design the room, I have my entire team with me every week with everything dialled in to create the perfect moments for me, the other performing artists and the audience on the dance loor!”

GREEN VALLEY
Address: CAMBOURIU, BRAZIL Capacity: 6000 Web: greenvalley.art.br
According to Sander Kleinenberg, “Green Valley ain't a club, it's a mother-freakin' jungle”. And he's not wrong. But, as we're yet to launch a Top 100 Jungles poll (which, of course, this place would win hands down), Brazil's biggest club is going to have to settle for second place despite finishing top last year — but it's nought to be ashamed of.
Hidden away in the tropical hills of Santa Caterina, a clue is in the title but it's what goes on underneath those giant canopies that makes this club one of the world's finest. A favourite among EDM's biggest hitters, Armin, Angello and Morillo all pick it as their best, calling out gobsmacking production and wild, unbridled energy that is unmatched elsewhere.
Party to a lake and a swanky boutique within its lush grounds, this giant playground for adults is one to satisfy both sides of the clubbing dialectic, where Brazil's achingly pristine rub shoulders with its most adventurous — those unafraid to get sweaty.
An explosive cauldron of electronics through a hail of confetti, CO2 and ecstatically-raised hands, Green Valley is the apex of clubbing style and technology in a country where production standards are literally going through the roof. Warung, D-Edge, Sirena, Matahari and Skybar are all pushing boundaries of what's capable when it comes to sound, special effects and, most of all, spellbinding dancefloor electricity — and your votes prove it.
A lot of this should be traced back to this party emporium in the jungle, which raised the bar to an unprecedented level when it first opened its majestic gates in 2008PACHA IBIZA
Address:  IBIZA, SPAIN Capacity: 3000 Web: PACHA.COM
PACHA isn’t just a club. It’s a brand synonymous with glamour and sun-kissed hedonism. But while there are a multitude of other Pacha outposts scattered across the globe in Buenos Aires, Sydney, New York, Sharm el Sheikh and just lately in Poznan, Poland, it’s their Eivissa headquarters that gets all the glory.
Although the club’s first manifestation opened in Sitges on the Spanish mainland in 1969, their Ibiza club has since 1973 been one of the key venues on the island — often regarded as the epicentre of dance music culture.  
The stylish décor and superior sound may please the aesthetes but one of the reasons the club has endured is its ability to subtly morph to suit the times, rather than changing its essential shape. Its biggest promotions today range from the increasingly accessible 
forms of deep house played by Solomun at his +1 night to Guy Gerber’s more underground-focused Wisdom Of The Glove, via the OTT EDM antics of Steve Aoki at his new flagship night, Steve Aoki’s Playhouse (new for the 2014 season) and David Guetta’s none-more-massive extravaganza F**k Me I’m Famous.
In other words, they manage to cover all bases, shrewdly repositioning their nights to acknowledge the capricious shifts of their clientele’s tastes, and the fickle nature of genre popularity.  If it’s your bag, and you can afford a table, Pacha’s VIP area is the stuff of dreams, while their super-slick Mediterranean/Japanese fusion restaurant is just the thing to set up intrepid clubbers before a night on the tiles, or to revive exhausted, elated dancers after a shimmy on the floor.
That double-cherry emblem looks sweeter than ever.
FABRIC

Address: LONDON, UK Capacity: 1600 Web: fabriclondon.com

Fabric cements its place as one of the top clubs in the world by again polling at No.4 this year — and all without compromising its underground dance music vision. Launching right at the end of last century in an old cavernous meat-packing factory in Farringdon, near central London, Fabric laid out its underground credentials from the start. Foregrounding drum & bass from the off, it's hosted DJ Hype's Playaz night for the duration and also Andy C's Ram night on Friday for many years. Saturday is more for house and techno, but of the more discerning variety.
Fabric are risk-takers, which is welcome in an ever-evolving scene. They made dubstep dons Caspa & Rusko residents in the mid-noughties when nobody had heard of them, and gave them one of their acclaimed Fabric CDs to mix which helped blow-up dubstep Stateside. They gave nights over to the Stanton Warriors and the Plump DJs to curate in their early years when breakbeat was first blowing up, and recently they've given over rooms to people like Rinse and Black Butter who are busting through to the mainstream without 'going EDM.
Maya Jane Coles is the latest DJ to do a prestigious Fabric CD mix — the 75^th in the series — while Jack Beats have just done 'Fabric Live 74'. Viva Fabric!

BCM

Address: MALLORCA, SPAIN Capacity: 3000 Web: bcmplanetdance.com

There's been plenty of debate in the last couple of years over the democratisation of dance music, with self-appointed denizens of dance bitching about shuffling, the co-opting of the phrase 'deep house' and the unstoppable juggernaut that is EDM. So quite what they make of BCM, jewel in the crown of Magaluf, is anyone's guess.
Gladly playing up to all preconceptions, the club's website makes plenty of reference to Shagaluf's salacious reputation. But while the teenage kicks of booze and bonking are undoubtedly part of BCM's allure, it's subtitle of 'Planet Dance' underlies a commitment to attracting world renowned acts. Take a look at their 'Thank You' flyer for 2013 and it reads like the line-up for Tomorrowland or EDC, boasting Calvin Harris, Avicii, DJ Fresh, Steve Angello, Porter Robinson and Steve Aoki amongst its recent guests.
It's more Vegas than Ibiza, granted, but it's these acts who are forging ahead with the kind of main room sound suited to clubs the size of BCM, its Funktion One stacks delivering a sound second-to-none. With Showtek already confirmed for Summer 2014, alongside regular brands such as Cream, you can be sure that — whatever your feeling — BCM will be 'smashing the granny out of it' for some time to come.