1995/96 times changed. The shop was closed and the Mojo people cared more about the music and the club again. Drum and bass came, the Mojo Club invited nearly all of the Metalheadz djs and the new lounge music of Kruder and Dorfmeister who also played made Mojo-clubbing fresh again. A second record series (“Electric Mojo”) was started with now two volumes and two remix albums. Raphael Marionneau developed a strict corporate identity for the mojo club that gave the club a strong identity. He also does his own club-night at the mojo club. On Wednesdays it’s time for “Le Cafe Abstrait”. Raphael carries a lot of sofas into the club and plays relaxing chill-out music.

Next to the Mojo Club was a Chinese family restaurant, the “Mandarin“. Instead of selling and serving food the restaurant was in businesses like selling travels, copying Asian soft-porns and cutting hair in their restaurant rooms. Someday in 1999 the family suddenly disappeared and left the rooms like they were. the Mojo people immediately felt like using those rooms for something special. They built “a club without dancing” into the large front room called “The Mandarin”. Chouches and small wooden walls that divide the seat-groups but not the room in small units.

Cool retro modern furniture with a lot of Chinese noble-kitsch, like a giant dragon on the ceiling with red glowing eyes. They serve exquisite drinks and play a stimulating lounge music. After a year the Mandarin was so overcrowded, that they decided to open a backroom as a more private club, as quiet oasis. You need a special key-label to access it, therefore it’s more relaxed and if you want you can play video games that are integrated very nice into the furniture.

Two weeks ago a third club was opened up. It’s called “Mandalay”. This time it’s again a club with a dancefloor, but the name, the styling and the music are closer to the lounge feeling of the Mandarin. We checked it out last week-end and were astonished how many people were there, although they didn’t do any advertisement like flyers or posters for it. Leif told us, that they have two more rooms to open there, so we’re very curious how they will look like…

Mojo Club
Address: Reeperbahn 1, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)40 319 1999
https://www.mojo.de