{"id":35794,"date":"2026-05-17T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=35794"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:17:15","slug":"club-reports-alfies-hifi-scholars-luna-bar-memento-mori-the-axe-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=35794","title":{"rendered":"Club Reports: Alfie’s HiFi, Scholars, Luna Bar, Memento Mori @ The Axe Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For the past couple years Alfie’s HiFi <\/em>has been the darling of Orlando nightlife with a half-hour long queue outside and wall-to-wall people inside. That appears to no longer be the case but you should still try to arrive early if you can.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It’s still packed inside though. You enter into their front room which is where their bar is located.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stepping further aft, we walked into this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Resident DJ Sean Samaroo (USA) was in the booth delivering the tunes. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No CD’s, no thumb drives, no laptops. Everything at Alfie’s<\/em> is played off vinyl. You might hear 70’s Disco, you might hear 80’s Funk; it could be nearly anything because it’s whatever the DJ has in store for you. Last night during our visit it was a lot of Classic Dance hits from around the turn of the century. During that era a lot of those hits were Breakbeats. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First time we’ve seen the dance floor clear to allow individual dancers to bust some moves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First time we’ve seen some line dances here too! So cool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The club keeps a supply of records on the shelves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But the DJ’s usually bring their own crates too, old school style.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted on the dance floor!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The ceiling above the dance floor is a large mirror and it’s popular for individuals or groups to take selfies pointing upwards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Such a great vibe here and a good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We next headed to the downtown core for a second visit to new club Scholars<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here we found DJ Showtime (USA) in the booth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The music was mostly Hip Hop and Top 40 during our visit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There are two rooms in this venue which used to be home to Frosty’s Christmastime Lounge<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Both rooms have bars and seating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“She stopped drinking Diet Coke<\/em>, she on that coke diet.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From a revenue perspective, not sure how this is any better than Frosty’s<\/em>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Crossing Magnolia, we came to Luna Bar<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There was a DJ playing Reggaeton to a small crowd downstairs but we headed upstairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And when we turned the corner, we walked into this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And the dance floor got a crowd fairly quick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the corner booth, DJ Mighty Shari (USA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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She was spinning some great Disco House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There are full bars on both levels of Luna<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With drinks last night by Clarissa. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Luna <\/em>has a shiny disco ball so you know they’re legit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Such a great vibe in here last night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted in VIP: Katrina with DJ Johnnie Sebastian (USA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And he would take over a few minutes later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Located just east of I-4 on Lee Road in Winter Park, The Axe Trap<\/em> is an axe-throwing joint that becomes nightclub Barbarella 3.0<\/em> on Saturday nights. And typically on the third Saturday night of every month, it becomes home to the \u00fcber-gothy “Memento Mori”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We walked into this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Memento Mori Resident DJ Lavidicus (USA) was in the perch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At Barbarella <\/em>you’ll hear mostly 80’s New Wave and Alternative while at Memento Mori you’ll hear the darker genres such as Industrial, Goth, Dark Wave and Power Noise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dance floor was pretty jammed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You can wear your favorite color to Memento Mori, as long as you favorite color is black.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The club has a shiny disco ball so you know they’re legit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted on the dance floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted in VIP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You can often find DJ Rob Bates (USA) doing the late shift at Barbarella<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Everywhere we went last night, a good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1899],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCN5474-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OlZE-9jk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35839,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35794\/revisions\/35839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}