Clubs

Rooms and doors. The Music Institute on Broadway in Detroit, which lasted about fourteen months in 1988 and 1989 and of which no footage survives. UFO in West Berlin from 1988, before the Wall fell, with no sign on the door. Tresor from 1991 in the vault under the old Wertheim department store. Ostgut from 1998 and Berghain from 2004, whose interior is essentially unphotographed because the no-photography rule is enforced at the door, so what you see here is the building. Frankfurt's Omen and Technoclub, Ghent's Boccaccio, Tokyo's Maniac Love. Note a sourcing artefact: the photographs skew to Munich and Nuremberg venues because that is what German contributors uploaded, not because those rooms outrank the ones above.

Part of Techno

86 moments in this segment.

  1. - Krawalle nach der Räumung besetzter Häuser, 1990. Rioting after the eviction of squatted houses in Berlin in 1990, from the rbb archive. Unclear property titles and a vacuum of licensing authority in the former East are what supplied the space this scene occupied.
  2. - Westbam / Tanith / Tresor / Interviews (Part.1 -1991). Westbam and Tanith interviewed at Tresor in 1991, the year the club opened.
  3. - 1991 Dj Mix Sven Vath live @ Omen.. Sven Vaeth at Omen in 1991, the year he founded the Eye Q label with Heinz Roth and Matthias Hoffmann.
  4. - OMEN FRANKFURT | TRANCE CLASSICS | EYE Q & HARTHOUSE | VINYL EXTENDED MIX (1991-1997). A long vinyl mix of Eye Q and Harthouse material played at Omen between 1991 and 1997. Trance is a Frankfurt story rather than a Dutch one, and these two labels defined its earliest years.
  5. - DJ Sven Vath live Omen Frankfurt 01 04 1992. Sven Vaeth live at Omen, Frankfurt, on 1 April 1992.
  6. - Oldskool Acid House Techno Mixtape (Tresor Berlin 1992 Tracks). A mixtape of records played at Tresor Berlin in 1992.
  7. - Tacheles Berlin 1992. Tacheles, Berlin, filmed in 1992.
  8. - Technoclub Reanimation 1992. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  9. - DJ Disko Live @ E-Werk Berlin (A-Side) 17.03.1993. DJ Disko live at E-Werk Berlin on 17 March 1993.
  10. - Sven Väth DJ set, March 1993, Omen Club, Frankfurt.. Sven Vaeth at the Omen club, Frankfurt, March 1993.
  11. - Sven Väth @ Omen - Part 1/2 - 1993-12-06. Sven Vaeth at Omen on 6 December 1993.
  12. - Sven Väth Live at Omen Frankfurt 1993 (Part 1) 🚀 Trance & Techno Classics. Sven Vaeth live at Omen, Frankfurt, in 1993.
  13. - The Mutoid Waste Company at Tacheles , Berlin, 1993. The Mutoid Waste Company at Tacheles, Berlin, in 1993. Tacheles was an occupied ruin in Mitte that became a working art house.
  14. - DJ DISKO & DJ WOODY 1994 E-WERK BERLIN. DJ Disko and DJ Woody at E-Werk Berlin in 1994.
  15. - DJ WOODY E-WERK BERLIN 12.11.1994 LIVE MIX. DJ Woody's live mix at E-Werk Berlin on 12 November 1994.
  16. - Dr. Motte & DJ Jon @ E-Werk, Berlin 30.04.1994. Dr Motte and DJ Jon at E-Werk Berlin on 30 April 1994. Motte co-founded the Love Parade in 1989 with Danielle de Picciotto.
  17. - DJ Disko & Dixon @ E-Werk, Berlin 26.11.1994. DJ Disko and Dixon at E-Werk Berlin on 26 November 1994.
  18. - Unknown Artist @ E-Werk, Berlin 1994 #2. An unidentified set recorded at E-Werk, Berlin, in 1994.
  19. - Unknown Artist @ E-Werk, Berlin 1994 #3. A second unidentified set recorded at E-Werk, Berlin, in 1994.
  20. - DJ Disko, DJ Hell @ E-Werk, Berlin 10.12.1994. DJ Disko and DJ Hell at E-Werk Berlin on 10 December 1994.
  21. - Sven Väth | "Hot & Melty" hr3 Clubnight (23.07.1994) (Techno/Trance Classics). Sven Vaeth's hr3 Clubnight broadcast of 23 July 1994.
  22. - Sven Väth @ HR3 Clubnight, Omen, Frankfurt 01.01.1994. Sven Vaeth at the hr3 Clubnight from Omen, Frankfurt, on 1 January 1994.
  23. - Sven Väth Live at Club Omen Frankfurt (1994) | Classic Techno Set. Sven Vaeth live at Omen, Frankfurt, in 1994.
  24. - E-Werk club Berlin 1994. E-Werk, Berlin, filmed in 1994. E-Werk was a former electrical substation in Mitte, part of the wave of clubs that filled ownerless buildings after the Wall fell.
  25. - Chromapark Party 1994 E-Werk Berlin. The Chromapark party at E-Werk Berlin in 1994, where techno and visual art shared a building.
  26. - 15 Hours of Techno (Short Film) 1994 | Sven Väth's OMEN Club Frankfurt. Fifteen Hours of Techno, a 1994 short film shot at Sven Vaeth's Omen club in Frankfurt. Omen opened in 1988 and closed in 1998, founded by Vaeth with Matthias Martinsohn and Michael Muenzing.
  27. - DJ Disko, Clé & WestBam Live @ 4 Jahre E-werk & Closing Party E-Werk Berlin [20.04.1997]. DJ Disko, Cle and Westbam at the four year anniversary and closing party of E-Werk Berlin.
  28. - Sven Väth Interview | OMEN Frankfurt Closing Party 1998 | VIVA Berlin House Special. Sven Vaeth interviewed at the Omen closing party in 1998.
  29. - Sven Väth | "OMEN Closing" hr3 Clubnight (17.10.1998) (Techno/Trance Classics). Sven Vaeth's Omen closing set, broadcast on the hr3 Clubnight on 17 October 1998.
  30. - Tresor History Short Documentary (Berlin 2000). A short Tresor history filmed in Berlin around 2000, five years before the original site closed.
  31. - Richie Hawtin & Ricardo Villalobos @ Tresor / Globus, Berlin | 17.04.2005 | 5 Hour Archive Recording. Richie Hawtin and Ricardo Villalobos playing five hours at Tresor's Globus floor on 17 April 2005, days after the original site closed.
  32. - Paul Kalkbrenner Live @ Tresor Closing 2005 in Berlin !! Full + HD !!. Paul Kalkbrenner playing the Tresor closing in 2005.
  33. - Tresor Closing 16-04-2005 (Part 3/3). The closing of the original Tresor at Leipziger Strasse on 16 April 2005.
  34. - Pharrell at Womb, Tokyo. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  35. - Pharrell at Womb. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  36. - Pharrell at Womb, Shibuya. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  37. - Havin some beers with @ramontapia in sao paulo before d-edge. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  38. - DJ Tiesto in 808 Nightclub playing trance music, Bangkok, Thailand. A club interior, which is scarce material. The photographic record of techno venues skews to exteriors because of enforced no-photography rules and private premises, so interiors that do exist freely are worth holding.
  39. - DJ Tiesto performance in 808 Nightclub, progressive trance music, Bangkok, Thailand. A club interior, which is scarce material. The photographic record of techno venues skews to exteriors because of enforced no-photography rules and private premises, so interiors that do exist freely are worth holding.
  40. - Dance party at night, DJ booth, Gili Trawangan (island), Indonesia. A club interior, which is scarce material. The photographic record of techno venues skews to exteriors because of enforced no-photography rules and private premises, so interiors that do exist freely are worth holding.
  41. - Laurent Garnier - Rex Club Paris 2011 (Electronic Beats TV) From the Archives.. Laurent Garnier at the Rex Club in Paris in 2011, from the Electronic Beats archive. Garnier DJed at the Hacienda in Manchester in the late 1980s before returning to France, which makes him a real UK to France conduit.
  42. - Nicolas Jaar and band live at Rex Club, Paris. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  43. - Herr Hotter Nightclub Munich. A club interior, which is scarce material. The photographic record of techno venues skews to exteriors because of enforced no-photography rules and private premises, so interiors that do exist freely are worth holding.
  44. - Sven Marquardt, Photographer and Bouncer | Talking Germany. Sven Marquardt interviewed at length on Deutsche Welle as a photographer and a bouncer.
  45. - Charlie Nightclub Munich Dance Floor 1. A club interior, which is scarce material. The photographic record of techno venues skews to exteriors because of enforced no-photography rules and private premises, so interiors that do exist freely are worth holding.
  46. - Charlie Nightclub Munich Dance Floor 2. A club interior, which is scarce material. The photographic record of techno venues skews to exteriors because of enforced no-photography rules and private premises, so interiors that do exist freely are worth holding.
  47. - Nox Club Munich. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  48. - Bahnwärter Thiel Nightclub Munich Railbus. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  49. - Alte Raffinerie Nightclub Munich 2017. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  50. - Bullitt Club Munich 1. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  51. - Mo talks Hard Wax, Düsseldorf and Mastering process | Red Bull Music Academy. Mo talks about Hard Wax and mastering. Mark Ernestus opened Hard Wax in 1989 and Basic Channel grew around the shop; it is arguably as important as any Berlin club and is still trading.
  52. - Claudio Coccoluto talks Goa club, '80s Italy and Mixing | Red Bull Music Academy. Claudio Coccoluto on the Goa club and 1980s Italy.
  53. - Chez Damier on The Chicago-Detroit Axis, Production and The Music Biz | Red Bull Music Academy. Chez Damier on the Chicago to Detroit axis, production and the music business. The Music Institute at 1315 Broadway opened in May 1988 and closed after fourteen months.
  54. - Nastia talks life, clubbing & culture in Kiev (Electronic Beats TV) 2018. Nastia on clubbing and culture in Kyiv.
  55. - Rui Vargas on Pirate Radio and Lisbon Club History | Red Bull Music Academy. Rui Vargas on pirate radio and Lisbon club history.
  56. - Blitz Club Munich Waiting Line. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  57. - Graffiti Bahnwärter Thiel Munich 2018. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  58. - Mach 1 Club Nürnberg. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  59. - Bhavishyavani Future Soundz on the Birth of Mumbai's Club Scene | Red Bull Music Academy. Bhavishyavani Future Soundz on the birth of Mumbai's club scene.
  60. - Tresor - Berlin's Legendary Techno Club | Paul van Dyk on the early Berlin Techno Movement. Paul van Dyk on the early Berlin techno movement and on Tresor, filmed for Deutsche Welle. Tresor closed at Leipziger Strasse on 16 April 2005 after rental disputes and reopened on 24 May 2007 inside the decommissioned Heizkraftwerk Berlin-Mitte on Koepenicker Strasse.
  61. - DIMITRI Tresor Interview DEMC 2020. Dimitri Hegemann interviewed at the Detroit Electronic Music Conference in 2020. Tresor Records, founded October 1991, is the label that carried Detroit artists into Berlin.
  62. - Bahnwärter Thiel 9509. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  63. - Pimpernel Nightclub Munich. A club interior, which is scarce material. The photographic record of techno venues skews to exteriors because of enforced no-photography rules and private premises, so interiors that do exist freely are worth holding.
  64. - Let's Talk About »G« In Berlin Club Culture. A Clubcommission Berlin panel on drugs in Berlin club culture. The documented institutional response in the city is harm reduction, through services such as Fixpunkt.
  65. - Die Rakete Nightclub Nuremberg. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  66. - 2022 06 28 Z-Bau Nürnberg Stefanie Sargnagel Lesung 04. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  67. - Institut für Zukunft Nightclub Leipzig. A club interior, which is scarce material. The photographic record of techno venues skews to exteriors because of enforced no-photography rules and private premises, so interiors that do exist freely are worth holding.
  68. - Who's The "Unsung HERO" of Detroit Electronic Music? Talk To Alton Miller. Alton Miller, co-founder of the Music Institute, interviewed. The founders are usually left out of the telling in favour of the DJs who played there.
  69. - How Berlin became the capital for clubbing, techno and raving | History Stories. How Berlin became a capital for clubbing and raving, from Deutsche Welle. Berlin techno did not begin with the Wall: UFO opened in 1988 in West Berlin and Frankfurt's Technoclub dates to 1984. The Wall's fall supplied space rather than birth.
  70. - Bahnwärter Thiel Gelände 1. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  71. - Bahnwärter Thiel Gelände 2. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  72. - Bahnwärter Thiel Gelände 3. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  73. - Annual revival party of techno club "Pulverturm" in Munich, 25-12-2023, in the Ampere club, Muffathalle. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  74. - Annual revival party of techno club "Pulverturm" in Munich, 25-12-2023, in the Ampere club, Muffathalle.Nr 2A. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  75. - Annual revival party of techno club "Pulverturm" in Munich, 25-12-2023, in the Ampere club, Muffathalle.Nr 2B (cropped). A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  76. - Tresor: A Story of Survival
  77. - Sub Berlin - The Story of Tresor (Documentary). Sub Berlin, the documentary story of Tresor, posted by the club itself. Tresor opened in March 1991 in the vaults of the former Wertheim department store at Leipziger Strasse 126 to 128 in Mitte. The name means vault, and the vault is the actual building rather than folklore.
  78. - D-5-64-000-2302 Frankenstraße 200, Z-Bau Nürnberg 20241110 0477. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  79. - Bahnwärter Thiel 13. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  80. - Bahnwärter Thiel 15. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  81. - Bahnwärter Thiel 21. A club of the kind this music was made for. Club interiors are structurally hostile to a free archive: no-photography rules, rights management and private premises mean the photographic record skews heavily to exteriors and to the few venues that permitted cameras.
  82. - Inside Open Ground: A very interesting new Club with an incredible sound system (Subtitles). Inside Open Ground, a newer club, with attention to its sound system.
  83. - Why so many famous Berlin clubs are closing | DW News. Deutsche Welle on why so many Berlin clubs are closing. The Berlin Clubcommission, an advocacy body for the clubs and therefore an interested party, reports about 250 clubs in the city with over half assessed as at risk.
  84. - Inside Berlin’s Most Notorious Nightclubs (You Won’t Believe These Rules). A visitor's account of Berlin's club door culture. Everything beyond the documented fact of a strict and selective door is speculation, and the decoded dress codes and rules for getting in are folklore.
  85. - DJ-Legende Paul van Dyk über Trauma, Techno und Tresor | Interview | Berlin Sounds. Paul van Dyk on techno and Tresor, interviewed for rbb.
  86. - Blind Test: "Hard-Edged" Techno 1997-2006 I Electronic Beats TV. A blind listening test on hard-edged techno released between 1997 and 2006.
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