TeXound Club Opens

Source: On the Way to the Dance — Ten Years of Raving in Taiwan, 1995–2005 · Author: Huang Sun-chuan
From: Reverberations: Explorations in Taiwan’s Postwar Sound Culture
Date: May 2015

Founded in 1998 by DJ Tiger and Chin, TeXound was a landmark club in Taiwan’s electronic music landscape. From the font of its name and signage to the club’s lighting and sound system design, to its roster of experienced DJs, every element faithfully embodied the futurism specific to electronic dance music.

The club’s extraordinary sound system and its deep, darkly seductive music drew crowds in droves; director Hou Hsiao-hsien used it as a principal setting in his film Millennium Mambo. TeXound was divided into a main hall and the X-Bar, each with a resident professional DJ. When it launched a monthly “Queer Dance Party” on the third Friday of each month, it gradually became a favourite haunt of both straight regulars and the LGBTQ community.

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• teXound (Lo Yu-chia)
• A Documentary Record of texound (Lei Shou Blog)