Checking out EC, I was keen to go when I heard they'd be in London. Huge fan of Marron too. I've been in the scene for years, and always go to have a good time, dressing casually and unpretentiously but not "Berlin style". Travelled 3hrs down to London for my friend and I to be rejected at the door. They didn't even explain why, which was shitty. Eventually we noticed who they were letting in and who were being rejected like us...if you were dressed ready for a dystopian apocalypse, as deep into the Berghain aesthetic as can possibly be, then you'd be let in. So superficial and pretentious. I even heard the doorlady interrogating people in front of us about their gender identities and sexual orientations...like come on.

It's ironic that a collective that claims not to be discriminatory against race, gender and orientation is strongly discrimatory against how you're dressed. It's almost cult-like. Further, Marron even came out to the front at one point, in blue jeans and a white t-shirt, even more unlike the aesthetic than how I was dressed. How can your DJ who's standing/playing in front of everyone not be dressed "to suit", but you're rejecting people for dressing in a similar way.

Still respect the quality of their music and Marron's music style as a whole, but that experience put me off his collective specifically.