When What You Love Starts Making You Deaf
The signs were there for a while. When I played, I instinctively chose early time slots and stayed outside the floors as much as...
No Music for Genocide. What’s Behind the Streaming Boycott, How It...
Since mid-September 2025, a coordinated cultural boycott of Israel has been forming under the banner No Music for Genocide, targeting not only live performances...
Holy Outrage Instead of Compassion: How the Scene Erases the Dead...
It happened two years ago. The Nova Festival was attacked. By Hamas terrorists. More than 1,200 people were murdered, many abducted. Two years later...
From Vinyl to Prompt Music: AI Tracks and the Devaluation of...
AI music is no longer a niche phenomenon. Deezer has just released figures showing the extent of the trend. 28 percent of all uploads...
Urban Loneliness vs. Dancefloor: How Clubs Can Bring Gen Z Back...
Making friends has become a challenge for young people today, especially for the post-Corona generation in Berlin, where organic encounters are becoming rarer. In...
From Drexciya to German National Culture: When Politics Uses Culture as...
An exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, which dealt with the mythology of the Detroit techno duo Drexciya, triggered...
The Night Was Here Before the Real Estate Agent Came
Schwarz Sauer is making somersaults just like Berghain. And no, that’s not an exaggeration – back in 2006 Berghain went to court and got...
Welcome to the Club of the Old! 30+ Raves as the...
I’m 53 and a DJ since forever. Back in the day, the hardest door in the night scene was at Hardwax record shop on...
Knaack 2.0: Is This Berlin’s Most Important New Club Project?
In a hood that has basically lost its soul, a new club is set to rise. The Knaack is making a comeback. Cue the...
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