The next day, we head to another venue, Szpitlana 1, to meet booker Jakub Wojas. Jakub is also a member of the six-person Techno Rączka collective, which has been operating in the city since 2016. They specialise in events in unique locations: abandoned warehouses, parking lots, and a former telephone factory from the 1950s, where Icelandic composer (and Oscar winner) Hildur Guðnadóttir recently played as part of Unsound. Szpitalna’s walls are papered in party posters from the last few years, and a rainbow flag hangs under the vault. We sit in front of the soundsystem in a smaller room and Jakub tells us about the role of the club in shaping the party landscape of the city. It cooperates with many promoters by organising a number of raves: from drum ’n’ bass collective Neurodydaktyka to popular trance party Modern Shamanism.
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