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title: "Praslea @ S//IP (18/12/21)"
authors: ["nikomas.md"]
abstract: "Visitor from Romania"

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For me, nights like this make it worth it, we can be very cynical about conditions in Cyprus but when I heard about the praslea booking, I was genuinely invigorated, this is  a DJ that I really genuinely like and follow, people I genuinely wanted to meet and who inspires me. I remember meeting “Ceephax Acid Crew” at ᴋʟᴜʙᴅ under similar circumstances, and having the experience of finding out this guy I was a fan of for years was from my home town, and he went to a school where my grandmother was a teacher; and the experience of meeting Dave Mothersole on a beach in Mazotos where everyone kept asking if he was my Dad, so naturally I introduced myself to him by saying “hey, I’m Niko and I think you might be my father”. These are profound memories; forgive my romanticism.   

It was worth it just to have the chance to say “hey, I dance to and play your music all the time, thanks for that”. I could talk about the set, and how much I enjoyed the music, and the feeling of being in good hands that come with experienced DJs, but it’s the sociological angle where I feel we can most appreciate what a club can mean, in Nicosia in 2021. It’s a space which can conjure or summon things from other worlds, it can stream culture from other localities.

As a label we were able to pass things we’ve made to these visitors, for example our newest magazine “becoming” contained a long article about something Praslea was involved in, so to be able to walk 10 minutes from my house to the club and give that article to him suddenly made me feel a restored  connection to the world. We were able to pass ʙɪʟʟʏᴅ’s EP to someone who might enjoy playing it somewhere, something that really means a lot to a producer, that is an experience the label and artist both enjoyed that was entirely facilitated by the club. We need these spaces.   
