Club night «Journey to Elan» with Matt Sassari

   A proper techno and tech house night from a name the European floors know well, right in the middle of Saigon: a full dance floor, lights following the beat and a producer whom the biggest DJs in the scene namecheck. If you have been following this sound for a few years, you get to hear it up close here.

   Matt Sassari is a Marseille-born DJ and producer bringing his signature techno and tech house to Vietnam. The promoter says he has passed one billion streams on Spotify, a mark few electronic artists anywhere have reached, and that he is backed by names such as John Summit, Carl Cox, Adam Beyer and Nicole Moudaber.

   The short version:

   — the night is techno and tech house, not a mainstream EDM set;
— it belongs to the «Journey to Elan» run of parties leading up to the big Neworld show at the Independence Palace in early October;
— the room works as a standing dance floor, with no seated sections;
— Ezedraa and MusicFest.Asia are on board as partners.

   If the two labels mean little to you: techno is a steady machine pulse, darker and more insistent, building in layers instead of chasing drops; tech house is softer, groove-led and leaves more air to dance in. A set like this is worth hearing from the start, because the best stretch usually comes once the artist has read the floor.

   This one is for people who go clubbing for the music: the city's techno regulars, expats living here and newcomers curious about what a well-built tech house set actually sounds like. APLUS Saigon calls itself a next-generation superclub, and its sound and light rig is built for exactly this kind of night. «Journey to Elan» is not a one-off either: the run is designed as a path, adding one name at a time ahead of the big show at the Independence Palace.

   Give yourself a late weekend night with one of the most talked-about producers in techno right now, and save your energy for the floor.