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Club Mystique
Airport Hilton, Miami, Florida
Owner: ???
DJs: Pete Denis
When Pete Denis was working for LONDONTOWN, a service that installed and ran DISCO'S for many hotels world wide, they put him in there to open it up. Instantly it was the busiest place in town, mixing music from happy hour until three-thirty in the morning. On a Tuesday there would be over a thousand people in it, on weekends it would close, and the lines to get in would stretch out for four blocks. The Miami Sound Machine "broke out" from MYSTIQUE. EXPOSE received a huge boost there. Kid Creole and The Coconuts ruled for two years with "MY MALE CURIOSITY", the only club in town playing it. A very strange happening indeed, a packed floor for a song that never made it anywhere else. Then the hotel decided that the club was not what they wanted, it took away parking spaces of Hilton guests, and the overflow crowds actually hurt the Hotel's business. So one day it went SALSA. That was the end.
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COMMENTS ON THIS DISCO / DISCOTHEQUE / NIGHTCLUB
Pete Denis was way a head of his time. He was re-mixing live in clubs before any one even heard about it. He was doing things with songs way before the term mash-ups was invented.
What the f*** is a MASH=UP??
Mash-ups
Mixing two or more songs for a long period of time creating a new song.
Like you did with the chase and pump it up.
In my day, that was simply a long mix. There are new terms that I am not aware of. I guess that is one of them. How are you RAY? LONG TIME NO SEE!!
Doing good. Great to here you still around. I'm now caught up remembering all those times we had at the clubs and the Vynil Junkie newsletter we published.
I really think that you will enjoy this web site. You got to check out the record list, the club listings, the artists. I think that BERNIE is a genius for putting this WEB SITE together. I see that there are a lot of the clubs you worked at missing! Put them in!! There is a page on SCARAMOUCHE!!! You are not anywhere on it?????? Fix that please!!
This place was the best club in town. I loved going there. Every day it was full, I would start dancing right after work! The deejay was the best in Miami, better then the guy at CASANOVAS. He would make all the good music last longer then at anywhere else. He played great songs that could only be heard at MYSTIQUE, that made this place the best. I rememba going there and the lines would reach 57th ave! It was the place to go if you loved the dancin and the music. great times.
While everything you said is true, who are you??
This club was the best for a deejay to hear a great LIVE remixer. This deejay created magic that others couldn't . He sounded like a studio edit machine, but he did it with records.
I used to live in Miami in the early 80's, I would go to Club Mystique on Saturdays. Sometimes on Fridays I would go to Casanova's. Those were the two best deejays that Miami had. There were a lot of good ones, but these two were the best. The music the deejay Pete played, not only was progressive, but at times outrageous. Who ever heard of playing THE CURLEY SHUFFLE?? He got away with it. I remember him mixing and remixing a medley of EXPOSE's hits, and a group similar called SEQUEL. He would remix about four different songs, going back and forth, phasing each song, mixing while it was phasing! That was new to me, and ever since, I have never heard anyone do that with records. Then there was the club itself. Full of all these well dressed dancers and partiers. The best looking people Miami had to offer, and they had a lot. They would dance, and dance, never getting off the floor, afraid to miss a remix or a favorite song. The amount of smoke from the smoke machines would make it look like a fog came inside. I couldn't see two feet in front of me. The effect of the lights slicing through the smoke, with the hard pounding disco music blaring away was a moment I would never forget. It gave me such emotion, a wanting of it to last forever, that it made me follow my true course in life, to deejay. I just wish that I could do that. I can't. I try, but I can't. I wish I had met him so I could have gotten some tips. But it really doesn't matter, today, we deejays don't work like that anymore. Today it is computerized, with everything easily done by technology. I crave to mix like those guys in Miami, but admit it is much easier today. Don't know how they did it. The music was better as well, that might have something to do with it. Yet, I don't envy them, it looked much harder. I will never forget my days at UM, and at MYSTIQUE, Casanovas and Zachery's. Great times and fantastic memories. I love this site>
Hi, I used to be a waitress there, this club was awesome. I made so much money in tips, especially from all the drug dealers. There were two deejays, Pete and Ray. I partied with them, they were cool. The music was so loud, and I never heard anything they ever played, then a month or two later, it would be on the radio and in other clubs. I soon went to New York to work for Penthouse Magazine. the music there was great, but, nothing like MYSTIQUE.
Lilly and Patti. hmm, I think I remeber you two. Lilly, were you the stunning redhead that also like the Shannon medley and would give us a wet kiss everytime we remixes it?
And, Patti, how can I forget the times we went into the staircase when the band would come on. You were the most delicious blond I ever ate, I mean met.
Ray, remind me, who are these girls? I certainly don't remember them. Were we under the influence at the time?? Patti??? There were so many. I don't recall. help me out. There were too many "regulars" whose names I've forgotten. Anyone who recalls WHAT I PLAYED, that amazes me. Cool. Hey girls, what was my closing number?
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