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2xCD Digipak, including 20 page booklet
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No Photos on the Dance Floor! Berlin Techno 1992–Today', compiled by Heiko Hoffmann, follows a hugely successful photography and video art exhibition by the same name that was co-curated by Hoffmann and shown at C/O Berlin in late 2019. The exhibition included works by photographers and visual artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Romual Karmakar, Sven Marquardt and Camille Blake, that dealt with Berlin’s club culture since the fall of the wall. It was followed in 2020 by a book of the same name which collected together the most striking imagery from the exhibition alongside interviews and personal essays.
'No Photos on the Dance Floor!' is the first compilation to trace the history of techno made in Berlin over the last three decades, with a selection of classics and hidden gems that have helped shape Berlin’s sound from the early 90s until now. The title refers to a particularity of the Berlin club scene: photography is banned in almost all the important clubs to allow partying together in a space where you can lose yourself to the music and feel free and safe at the same time.
After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, abandoned spaces and buildings were waiting to be filled with new life in the form of clubs, bars, galleries, workshops, and studios. Berlin became the epicenter of a new nightlife culture that soon resonated around the world. Berlin’s techno scene was heavily influenced by the pioneering sounds of Detroit techno created by African-American producers such as Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson and Underground Resistance.
Their records were imported to the Berlin DJ scene by the record store Hardwax, based on the ground floor of a building on Reichenberger Straße in Kreuzberg, from December 1989 onward. The original temples of DJ culture in New York amd Chicago, as well as the emerging rave culture developing in London and Manchester via Ibiza, would also go on to shape Berlin’s nightlife. Party series like Tekknozid and clubs such as Ufo, Tresor, and Planet can retrospectively be interpreted as the big bang of the first shared culture between Germany's East and West, having paved the way for what is still the last and biggest expression of European youth culture.
Tracklist
CD - Disc 1 - 1992 - 2006
1 - 3MB feat Juan Atkins – Die Kosmischen Kuriere
2 - 9-10-Boy - Robocop
3 - Alec Empire - SuEcide
4 - Futurhythm - Phuture
5 - Vainquer – Lyot (Maurizio Remix)
6 - MMM – Donna
7 - Kotai + Mo – Black Acid (Pt 1)
8 - Ricardo Villalobos - Dexter
9 - Sleeparchive – Elephant Island
10 - Monolake – Alaska (Substance Mix II)
CD - Disc 2 - 2007 - Today
1 - Heartthrob - Baby Kate (Plastikman Remix)
2 - Ellen Allien – Go (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
3 - Klockworks - Sean
4 - Efdemin – Acid Bells
5 - Wax – Untitled / W30003 B
6 - Rodhad – Energomash
7 - Ancient Methods – Else
8 - Dasha Rush - Outer Space
9 - Avalon Emerson – The Frontier
10 - Barker - Cascade Effect
11 - Modeselektor - Kalif Storch
12 - Fjaak – Breathe