Bulging line-ups risk killing the vibe on the dancefloor

But don’t you occasionally get the overwhelming feeling that sometimes less is more? Fair enough if all these names were spread across a festival weekend – but across an eight-hour club night things just feel a little crammed. The big money-making nights should be looking at keeping the DJs to a minimum, giving them space to express themselves. The best parties are often those that have two or three DJs for the whole night, meaning you know exactly what you are getting and when you go to find your friend, you know you aren’t going to miss a big moment. You also don’t spend the whole night trudging from one room to the next trying to shrug off the FOMO. While not quite adhering to Berghain’s policy of sets being four hours at an absolute minimum, Printworks has done quite a good job of striking a balance since opening, with DJs getting at least two hours and generally keeping the main room to four or five DJs across the day when they could probably try and cram in seven or eight.

A DJ can perform better when they know they’ve got a stretch of time ahead of them and that no one’s going anywhere – not to see Denis Sulta B2B The Black Madonna B2B The Martinez Brothers in Room 6 or Ben Klock B2B Helena Hauff B2B Nina Kraviz in Room 3. These nights should be kept as they once were: underground raves with a united sound, not filled up like festivals, each act showing off their shimmering memory stick with the three or four tracks that everybody expects them to play. Let the crowd think. Let the DJs breathe.