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Renato Ratier (Click on the picture for more)

“Sometimes it’s hard to keep both sides going, to balance the nightlife with the day-life because I’m the sole owner of D-Edge so I have to be there in person to check what’s happened last night. I also like partying a lot; when I go to the club at night, I drink, I socialise and party.”

Sitting in his sumptuous Sao Paulo apartment, Renato Ratier smiles as he outlines the difficult balancing act he maintains running his uber-successful Brazilian club D-Edge against indulging the temptations from being one of South America’s most popular and successful house DJs.

“For example, on Thursday night I went to another club first, then D-Edge then after that some people said ‘let’s go to your flat and have an after-party there’. So we came back to my house and my friends ended up leaving at 4pm.”

“Then I had to go to the club to take care of some matters immediately afterwards,” he sighs. “That’s the difficult question for me: balancing everything. Of course, business is important and I need to take care of things but I really like the nightlife. So that’s difficult. Sometimes I need to go home early.”

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Alisson Gothz & Jonty Skrufff (live @ Vegas, Rua Augusta) Click on the picture

Click HERE for a Youtube clip from my gig at Vegas in Sao Paulo on Saturday. The clip’s quite dark but it captures the flavour of the night pretty well.

Rod (photographer), Alisson, Jonty

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Alisson & Jonty Skrufff (click for lots more Alisson)

We’re delighted to announce that ubercool queen of Brazilian nightlife,  avant garde superstar Alisson Gothz is joining the Skrufff team, and will be contributing regular reports on her adventures in Sao Paulo nightlife.  Check below for a selection of pictures of Alisson in action:

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Benjamin at D-Edge (click for more recent pictures)

Sao Paulo disco house DJ Benjamin Ferreira is in the running for ‘best breakthrough DJ on 2009, in DJ Magazine Brazil’s latest annual poll of talent.

DJ Magazine’s Brazilian staff have selected nominees for the 16 categories based on their clubbing experiences of the last year, selecting Skrufff DJ Benjamin alongside the likes of Gorky, Lishy and Leiloca Pantoja (Djs including Magal, Atum and Gui Boratto are included in their ‘best DJ’ category). Clubbers are being invited to vote for their favourites in all 16 categories (including ‘best festival’, ‘best blog’ and  several groups for ‘best club’) with voting running throughout February.

Benjamin told Skrufff he’s delighted, if surprised, to be included in the poll.

“Nobody told me about it – I just saw a link for the nominees on Twitter and started scrolling down the page to see who was there, and suddenly I saw my name. I didn’t expect to see my name there at all- really,” he laughed. “I shouted loud enough to terrify my friend who was sitting next to me at home.”

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Camilo Rocha @ Vegas (click on the picture to download Camilo's latest Tech-o-disco DJ mix)

“The original vision for Discology was about good dance music from any era meaning disco but also funk, soul, old school hip hop, 80s dance, acid house, boogie, vintage electro, classic Detroit. The name Discology has actually more to do with ‘disc’ than ‘disco’.”

Though London and increasingly Paris have gone ‘nouveau disco’ crazy in the last 12 months, Sao Paulo club night Discology first began championing the trend 5 years earlier in underground clubs and minimally converted strip clubs around the city. The brainchild of top local journalists Claudia (Clau) Assef and Camilo Rocha (also one of Brazil’s best known DJs) the club nowadays takes place once a month at Vegas, one of the wildest and best clubs in Sao Paulo nightlife.

“The inspiration came from Clau and I looking at our massive record collections and thinking it was a real waste that they should stay home,” says Camilo, “At the time, 2003, local clubland was still dominated by linear DJ sets, so there was something radical about the notion of playing all these styles together, from many different eras.”

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