Not a bad way to celebrate in our book!Īs both Felix da Housecat and Aphrohead, Felix Stallings Jr. Kicking off at midnight on Saturday 13th December, the club’s tenth anniversary featured regulars such as DVS1, Ben Klock, Ben UFO, Marcel Dettmann, Gerd Janson and a live set from Shed.
Much like their famed new years session, the action goes on for a long, long time.
The British DJ’s night regularly featured a diverse array of acts, with the likes of Mala, Shackleton and Pearson Sound often joining him behind the decks.Īlthough the club was taking something of a calculated risk when they first signed up Scuba for a residency, it soon proved to be one of Berghain’s most popular nights. Plus, how about the below for a way to bow out?īerghain’s annual birthday session is typically one of Berlin’s biggest such parties each year. Scuba’s massively successful SUB:STANCE night, a heady combination of dubstep and bass music, was proof of the fact. Scuba calls time on SUB:STANCE residency (2013)īerghain has never been afraid to champion out-there sounds. Here’s hoping we see him back at the club one day. Besides that, Prosumer’s Panorama Bar mix is widely accepted as the best mix Ostgut Ton has ever formally released. So, the sudden news that he would be departing his fabled residency was one that was met with genuine sadness by many of the club’s regulars. A true house music connoisseur, the German DJ embodied all that’s great about the more house-inclined club. Recent offerings by the likes of Kobosil and Etapp Kyle would suggest that the label’s penchant for brilliance shows no sign of slowing down.įew DJs earned as much love (or built up as much of a legendary following) as Prosumer did during his residency at Panorama Bar. A medium for strictly cutting-edge music, Ostgut Ton has since emerged as one of house and techno’s most essential imprints.įrom deep house classics (Tony Lionni’s ’Found a Place, Steffi & Virginia’s ‘Yours’) to more techno-tinged anthems à la Ben Klock’s ‘Subzero’, straight through to timeless mixes from the likes of Marcel Dettmann, Len Faki, Prosumer, Tama Sumo and Ryan Elliot, Ostgut Ton is a label that brilliantly captures the sound of both Berghain and its sister club, Panorama Bar. If walls could talk, eh?Ĭonsidering the wealth of talent at the club’s disposal, it was only really a matter of time before Berghain launched its own label. The Snax brand lives on at Berghain’s current home, while the old Ostgut has made way for Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz arena (formerly the O₂ ). However, its roots go much further back.īerghain as we know it today is the reincarnation of the legendary Ostgut club, which ran successfully from 1998-2003, and emerged as a male-only fetish nightclub called Snax. Or, at least, the printable ones…īerghain opens in current location (2004)īerghain’s current location is nestled between two prominent Berlin districts (Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, hence the name) and first opened as a nightclub in 2004. With all this in mind, we decided to run through some of the club’s most iconic moments. From chief bouncer Sven Marquardt to its iconic Wolfgang Tillmans artwork to its strict no cameras policy, Berghain really is unlike any other club on the planet. Not to mention an exceptional music policy and a soundsystem that’s among the world’s best.Ī byword for all that’s great about electronic music, anyone who’s witnessed Berghain in all its glory can testify to its undoubted brilliance. While other such venues would have cashed in by now with world tours and gimmicky nights, Berghain has vehemently stuck to what made it so successful in the first place, namely a stringent door policy, a steadfast refusal to compromise and an all-round liberal and tolerant attitude. A true adult playground, the notorious former powerplant officially opened as a club in 2004 and has since left an inimitable mark on the electronic music scene. No club on earth goes deeper, longer or harder than Berlin’s Berghain.
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