That's all changed in the past few years as the world of dance music has gained a mainstream hold on Los Angeles. The club scene is a happy, vibrant one, and people of different ethnic groups and sexual preferences mix easily.
LA is definitely a major date on all international DJs' tours.
This is because several club promoters in other cities have set up shop here. Most notable among them is Dave Dean. Dean's club in Hollywood, Giant, has singlehandedly spread to the masses the beats of such notables as Paul Oakenfold, Sasha and Digweed, Paul Van Dyk, Carl Cox and other mega-DJs of the house and trance worlds. Other DJs, such as DJ Carbo at the Viper Room, have been plugging away for years and are still at the forefront of LA's dance culture. The Viper Room holds several hundred, Giant several thousand.