The most underground of Madrid's music bars. Its owner, a bespectacled techno-baron called Sevi, is devoted to non-commercial, futuristic music. Radar, however, indulges several different specialist audiences - Wednesday: noise, industrial, experimental; Thursday: accessible techno; Friday: electronica; Saturday: a mixture of dance genres. The bar itself is a purist's heaven - minimalist, never too packed and home to musicians and aficionados of fringe sounds. Dancing's not frowned upon, but the music is more a vehicle for cerebral motion than high jinks. So leave your sequinned tops and whistles at home and bring along a penchant for Kraftwerk. You might meet robots in the toilets.

Time Out
Madrid Guide
2000