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Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 23:46
- The techno-focused venue now features a room they call the "dark vault."
Lantern, an 11 year-old nightclub in China’s capital, has a new address.
The techno establishment recently moved to another spot in the city’s central core due to renovations at its old neighborhood, where it had been for ten years. Lantern's grand reopening on the last weekend of November marked the first time it has fully opened its doors since closing in late January.
The new digs are acoustically treated and decked out with Funktion-One soundsystems, according to the club's Facebook description. There's a multi-purpose space, a larger area that will host "the kind of techno events that make up Lantern's core identity" and an intimate room that the club calls a "dark vault."
Lantern first disclosed its move in August: "The official notice came as a complete surprise, only giving us three days’ time to cease all business operations," it posted on social media at the time.
This is the third time Lantern has changed addresses since opening in 2009. Despite enduring "all sorts of trials and tribulations time and time again" throughout the years, Lantern has become "a mainstay of techno culture in China," the club said in August.