Cielo's 11-year legacy is extra impressive given that it opened at a time when New York City clubbers were still licking wounds inflicted by multiple licensing crackdowns.

The living-and-breathing embodiment of NY dance culture, this intimate, lounge-like club, with a Funktion One set-up, is our most significant link between the ashes of the club kid era of the '90s — when venues like Twilo, Limelight and Tunnel ruled the roost — and today's generation coming through.

Resistant to the ongoing wave of EDM crashing over the US, ex-Pacha resident Nicolas Matar's club has stuck to its roots, regularly hosting François K's Deep Space parties and other local legends like Louie Vega and Danny Krivit still, while Kevin Saunderson and Robert Babicz visited just last month.