Countdown in Budapest
Lima is his most recent musical spot landing, Budapest is an already known terrain and Berlin hasn’t seen him for ages. Even only one of those reasons is already enough to get one’s socks on to celebrate the New Year’s Eve somewhere else, for example at Budapest-based super club Studio; a pretty sexy and perfect place to start the midnightly countdown and letting the corks pop together with a “fisherman, who is djing occasionally” – Nick Warren »»
Techno on High Heels – Scarlett Etienne at Watergate Berlin
The name Scarlett somehow automatically reminds of Rhett Butler, cotton plantations near Atlanta and Yankees trying to knock about the Confederates. But when putting the ten Oscars awarded tome “Gone with the Wind” against a musical background, then Rhett disappears, Atlanta becomes Berlin and the cotton plantations transform into the Watergate. Though, a Scarlett remains, decently knocking our confederates of the nightlife socks off: Gone with the Beat »»
Ten years of dangerous Drumming
It must have been one of those days, which could have given inspiration to Guns N’ Roses’ when composing “November Rain”. Hence, an ideal climatic condition to fight autumn melancholy by spending the night in front of a fireplace of crackling electronic beats »»
Everything but watery – Audioriver 2008
Often it is not easy for successors. For example Sister Act; first part was amusing, but the second part of that 90-minute Whoopie Goldberg word stream was something for the garbage. For festivals this piece of wisdom applies as well. Honestly, subconscious expectations were high when hearing the first news about Audioriver 2008. This year’s logo of Audioriver was the opposite of all things happened; really no one was eager to hang up his ballet shoes. Dancing was the maxim, come hell or Vistula’s high water… »»
This calls for a Hiloola
Did someone call for a Hallelujah? But now there’s Hiloola made by Moshic. Hiloola, the allround worry-free package of grooving power, washing whiter than white »»
Layo & Bushwacka at SQ Cub, Poznan
A ride to catch up with Layo & Bushwacka; not to Rio, but to Poznan, to Poland’s venue of the moment, the SQ club. A great opportunity to visit the much lauded club itself plus finally finding out who is Layo and who is Bushwacka »»
Pokerflat & Dessous at Watergate, going twice
Last Saturday the club next to Oberbaumbrücke evidenced one more time, that it is a heavy weight in the Champions League of clubbing »»
Laurent Garnier at Weekend club Berlin
Wow… What a sound. Laurent Garnier truly deserves the title world class DJ. He is one of the few, who is visibly delighted when spinning. Easily he let his acoustic sparks fly, to set the place and crowd on fire »»
Anthony Pappa at Sfinks, Sopot (PL)
Not only for IT specialists the following would be a simple, but yet definitive piece of logic: If Pappa, then Eastern Europe, if not to say Poland »»
Border Community at Watergate Berlin
5 years Watergate – Fairmont live and label honcho James Holden himself, supported by Sascha Funke, Geiger as well as Dave Turov and Robin Drimalski »»