Club night «A+CHRONICLES: RICKY HALL»

   Hanoi superclub APLUS is opening a new strand of nights called A+CHRONICLES, and the first chapter goes to Dark Fantasy. It is a world that fascinates precisely through its harshness: darkness here does not frighten, it keeps secrets that were never fully revealed. The whole night is built around that idea, from the music to the lighting.

   The club describes the headline set not as a run of tracks but as a musical journey: you do not stay outside it, you step into the story and follow it through. For APLUS that is the working difference between an ordinary night and a night with a concept, and every concept gets its own stage, lighting and visual build.

   The essentials

• — DJ RICKY HALL headlines the opening chapter of the series
• — MC KAYZEE carries the room and ties the sets together
• — the club's resident DJs and MCs play the line-up alongside the guests
• — A+CHRONICLES sits inside the PLUSIGNATURE programme, and this night launches it

   The room itself is a real part of the experience. APLUS calls itself the first superclub in Vietnam and sits forty third in DJ MAG Top 100 Clubs. The sound is built on L-Acoustics L2 and L2D, and light and video work as one stage rather than a set of separate effects. Concept nights are nothing new here: the venue has already run editions of MUSEUM OF SOUND and A+GLOBAL with visiting artists, so a themed night is a familiar format for this floor rather than an experiment.

   This one is for people who come to a club for a complete experience rather than background noise, for a theme held steady in both the music and the visuals. If dark, dense electronic music is your thing and you like a night that has a plot, this chapter is aimed at you.

   The one restriction the club spells out is the dress code: flip-flops, tank tops and swimwear will not get you in. Tables are taken by advance reservation, over the hotline or by message to the club's page. For organisational questions there is [email protected].

   The opening chapter is a fair chance to see what APLUS becomes when the whole room works to a single theme.