La Bomba de Tiempo and Asia de Cuba

In our never-ending quest to find the best local events and live music, we heard from several sources that the best option is "La Bomba de Tiempo" (time bomb).  Every Monday, at a former oil factory-turned live music venue (El Konex), a strange and wonderful thing happens.  Different drummers, traditional; tribal; modern; and other percussionists play a set that starts promptly at 8 pm.  The set continues for exactly 2 hours, building in intensity, until a spectacular finish at 10 pm exactly ... hence "La Bomba de Tiempo".

The entry fee is minimal, the  beer is cheap, and the smell of weed smoke pervades.  Very hippy, very fun.

While there, we also met a great couple from London - Pritesh and Rakhi.  They had only one week in BsAs, and like us they wanted to make sure they at least attempted an Argentine eveniing of partying till dawn.  We all agreed to meet up at the end of the week at Asia de Cuba, a dance club in the Puerto Madero barrio, for a night of dancing till dawn.  We also met Pritesh and Rakhi that week for a foray into a closed-door club "Frank" (perhaps that one will be a later blog post).

At Asia de Cuba on Friday, we met Pritesh and Rakhi around midnight. The club itself is fairly well-heeled.  Only the monied Argentines and foreign tourists are in evidence.  Merely sitting at a table will cost you $40 US, and our one bottle of vodka between the 4 of us was $200 US.  Yikes!  Thanks to Rakhi's powers of persuasion, however (we still owe you for that one!), Jax and I paid no table fee since Pritesh and Rakhi ate dinner at the club and we managed to horn in on their reservation 2 hours later.

Needless to say, one empty bottle of vodka later we were putting our chairs on the table to make some room and shaking it like teenagers to the likes of Michael Jackson, Erasure, Beyonce, and innumerable Latin stars that we didn't recognize.  Our photos are a little suspect for obvious reasons, but Pritesh and Rakhi should have a few good ones - hopefully they can contribute!

At some point, probably around 4 am, Pritesh and Rakhi threw in the towel.  Jax and I were not far behind, stumbling out of the club at around 5.  Our timing was perfect, however.  We made it back to our roof just in time for the sunrise.