Neonman is an Anglo-German partnership, in which the only thing they can definitely agree on is a mutual love for Guns N’ Roses (a rare thing and coincidently a love shared by their interviewer). They have just released their second album on Berl...
Monika Kruse, is one of Germanys biggest DJ’s, playing a mix of high-energy techno and house to clubbers all over the world. From humble beginnings, DJ’ing in a local bar, she soon made the step to organising her own raves, everywhere from abando...
Never drink beer after a bottle of jaegermeister, it hurts.If you’re feeling that luck has struck you, never try to hold it, otherwise it will disappear faster than it came.Pornmovies in hotels in Norway and USA suck, remember you pay per film an...
A music obsessive to the core, Erik Wiegand is maybe an inconspicuous presence in the vastness of the Berlin electronic scene, but his productions, whether in collaborative projects like MMM, Smith n Hack or under the moniker Errorsmith (his solo...
It’s hard to talk about that ONE music moment in my life, it could be being blown away by listening to Inner Citys Big Fun for the first time on the Radio, going to the first Houseparty or the first proper Rave. But nothing exceeds the quality an...
Falko Brockskieper is probably best known as the head of Sub Static, the label he runs in conjunction with long term collaborator MIA. He is also a rather good DJ, Producer and is about to make his live debut, showcasing his new album "Heavy Day"...
Heavy bass and very strange sounds are dominating a large part of today’s underground music scene. Whether it is dub-step originator Shackleton, Mercury Prize nominee Burial or Ricardo Villalobos, it seems that everyone wants a bit of the dark du...
Dance music is in a period of flux. Music sales are falling, the death of the major label is predicted, creating both problems and opportunities, and the proliferation of better, cheaper computers as well as equipment is changing the way music is...
SNAX“I’ve been on some very memorable journeys in my life so far. But it’s more the places than have meant something to me, rather than the journeys themselves. Most strikingly for me was when I saw the Berlin Wall on my first trip to Berlin from...
DANIELLE MOORE“My first trip away from home was when I was 18, back in ’89. I went to Berlin on a netball trip - we stayed at an army camp and also got to visit East Berlin. We had an amazing time and after we got home the following week the wall...
Dance music, as we know it, may have been forged in the white heat of America’s discothèques, but it was the early electronic experiments of Europeans that laid the foundations. Russian inventors like Leon Theremin, French and German avant-garde...
When Mark Reeder arrived in Berlin from Manchester on a dreary night in 1978, he might as well have landed on another planet. Aged 28 and in Berlin as a representative for Factory Records - the label that gave the world Joy Division, New Order an...
Every party in Berlin is a “street” party, the idea of legal or illegal doesn’t really mean much in a city that is filled with squat houses and has virtually no health & safety rules for owners. That said, some of the most notorious parties o...
There is a phrase in Berlin that is bandied around amongst friends with a shared understanding, and said with a knowing look, which is this: Don’t forget to go home. This nugget of wisdom is regularly put to the test in Berlin, perhaps more here...
Or is it? It may be a haven for hedonists, yet Berlin (somewhat ironically, to some) also expounds an extremely healthy attitude to living - you only need to take a walk down any street in the hip neighbourhoods in the East part of the city and y...
It’s true that in East Berlin there are an inordinately high number of young people and many of them are working in creative fields such as the music business, and they do run on a completely different timetable. There are also a high proportion...
The increase in personal freedoms and personal choices is something the Berliners we spoke to cited as a main reason behind hedonistic behaviour. Silke Super, Radio DJ at Motor FM says, “We have so many more choices than previous generations in e...
It might be easy to imagine that the job of a DJ is basically an all-access ’Proceed to Go’ pass to the realms of excess and non stop parties, but the reality is definitely different. Marcus (aka DJ Supermarkt) says “I’ve been DJing for over 13 y...
The overriding sentiment in the end from everyone was that for hedonism to exist in your life as a positive force, it should be balanced with concentration in other areas. “It’s a personal journey and everyone gets there in their own way. I want...
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