What makes club lighting work? Energy! The visuals in the room should match the energy of the music. A wash fixture with a shutter chase is usually a great way to keep the beat of a song. It wouldn’t be prudent to tell you not to use your frost, focus and all of the other attributes, but they don’t really have much punch. And club lighting is all about punch.
— Morgan Landrum, from “So You Want to Run Lights in a Nightclub?” PLSN, March 2008