![]() ![]() tours and a regular schedule in Dallas at proper venues It’ll Do Club, The Green Elephant, the late great Lizard Lounge and others. That place had it all - sound, lights, ambiance and talent."Īfterlife was an ideal launchpad for a new DJ to earn stripes, and it proved rewarding for Vaughan. And on big event nights you could see Jeremy Word and Red Eye and other Dallas natives playing sets. ![]() I regularly watched residents David Ringel, Stormie, Michael Todd, and Nodafunk play as I was really into breakbeats and fidget house then, and they were pushing that sound consistently. ![]() "I don't think I'll ever forget some of the parties there, and that was when I first started DJing for crowds," he says. It was rugged and had bass-banged steel walls.Īfterlife’s lineups, with names such as Wolfgang Gartner, James Kelley, Cody Hill, DJ Keoki and others, made the place legendary. Today, it's a yard filled with truck parts, but a decade ago, the same spot held a ferocious underground venue just west of Interstate 35 on Northwest Highway. On nightclub patios all around the world, ravers share cigarettes and war stories from “back in the heyday.” Dallas DJ-producer Hunter Vaughan isn’t alone in his nostalgia for the Club Afterlife parties from 2010. Devout dance music fans love to reminisce about the good ol’ days.
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