Video subtitles: Berlin the City of Techno/Electronic Music
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the techno parties did not stop just
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started 11 o'clock 2:00 in the morning 6
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7 8 10 o'clock 12 o'clock sometimes
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there were parties like 36 hours people
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want to escape from the forms a real
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world you know from the reality it's
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like a therapy er they want to enter
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this door and want to find the world I
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really like them is I wanted to feel
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protected from professional form of this
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pressure they can't stand this pressure
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so they get lost if you can make it to
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be in this kind of parties then you
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discover something special you lose the
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club you close the door and the only
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thing that stays it was somehow grave
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you do not remember any melody liner so
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it was just a great feeling and you
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enters in the reality again but you find
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good other spaces breakfast cafes parks
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where the bridge from the club to the
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reality is not so difficult and this you
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only find in Berlin changes always
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happened in Berlin's history especially
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after the Second World War there was
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this law that you don't have to go to
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this auditory service when you're living
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in West Berlin so if you were clever
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then you finish the school in West
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Germany and just left the home cloud it
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went to West Berlin
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so Berlin became in the 80s a very very
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political and very alternative we had
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the extremely strong gay scene and in
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very creative underground scene here
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that is was not based on people that was
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born in Berlin it was some kind of
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artistic freedom situation in Berlin
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everything was possible and when the
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wall came down
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the atmosphere was burning
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the wall falls down and like a small
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scene in West Berlin takes over huge
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empty spaces in East Berlin
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so they celebrate the freedom that's one
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big historical accident I mean nobody
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could have anticipated anything like
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that the wall coming down East Berlin
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being totally unexplored people going
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into houses making warehouse parties
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lower living costs only in this
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environment you can actually have a club
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culture and a music culture like this
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growing this is basically what made it
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all possible in the first three years
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there were no control by authorities so
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we could do what we wanted to do back
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then in 1990 in East Berlin you didn't
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have normal in that sense because the
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city wasn't normal squatters like us on
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the one hand we represented freedom on
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the other hand we were also scary and
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and unusual I mean squat there hadn't
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been no squatters in the in East Germany
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I mean it was an unusual sight and an
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unusual attitude to just move into a
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house and say that's our house in our
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squad we could do what we wanted to
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because the police didn't give a shit I
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didn't know shit crazy stuff but that's
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the way it was in any one part of the
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experience was looking for the spots
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where the party is running through this
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empty city looking for a party
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everything was about sharing you know it
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was a very friendly atmosphere and
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relations between the people it didn't
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matter if you come from East Berlin or
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worse banana the music really did play
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an important role for this reunion and
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it was were really wild reason why I
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came here and how whole feeling the city
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had it was inspiring like this this dark
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attitude dirt the grey buildings that
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was definitely inspiring and it made me
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what I am today
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the real heyday of squatting the real
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summer of squatting ended in November
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1990 when the city started to kick out
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people but the attitude of squatting
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remained I mean the whole history of
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Technol in Berlin in the 90s is
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unthinkable without this attitude that
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people learned in the summer of 1990 you
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can take houses and do with them what
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you want to that's where the plays were
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people got their ideas and energy from
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that they had this huge amazing space
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they just found
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we found this old vault the trade zone
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club in the heart of the city we
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discovered it like in 91 we came in and
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it was untouched over nearly 45 years
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ago and we discovered it it was like
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opening a pyramid and it was big
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adventure and I felt it immediately was
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dedicated for something special we could
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transform this space and it became
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symbol you know for the reunion of kids
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from East and West Berlin you know it
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was a perfect space for this new
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adventure called techno I think that
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lots of people who were in Berlin at
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least at that time and who went to trace
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or to other clubs that you had the
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feeling okay this is our new beginning
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that was a very very very strong feeling
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lots of people shared detrusor Club was
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a long time illegal and every fucking
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taxi driver knew about it Resort Club
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you don't need to give an address you
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say it Resort and you they brought it
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there back then it was like all the
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freaks and I felt attracted to that more
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to the music maybe I felt attracted to
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to the to the people that were there to
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the situation that you had the feeling
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only you know about it and that was
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something that yeah made me feel special
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and I wanted to be part of it
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I think the idea of escaping from where
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you have been getting rid of the old
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heavy felix's that was like that was
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like the mood a lot of people had you
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could go out every night it was just
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parties on Monday Tuesday Wednesday
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Thursday open end that was relieved it
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was a really nice time you have like
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girls guys gays all dancing together no
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matter like sexual orientation or
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anything did you psyche enjoying the
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music and that's that's the whole point
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I don't really know when this 90s German
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adventure changed into this Berlin that
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we have right now which is like an
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international kind of hot spot but I
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know I remember the the moment I
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realized it and that was 2004 and I was
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standing in the line of a club I
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realized wow all these people around me
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speak different languages nobody speaks
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German in the early days that I think we
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had only 20% tourists and the rest came
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from Germany many from Berlin today we
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have 60 up to 70 80 % tourists and
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foreigners and that's why we also have
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many more clubs you have the clubs in
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the in the tourist guides we as a club
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its I first feel like how cool your
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we're in a tourist guide but then you
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end up everybody who's never heard about
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techno for about electronic music in
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general just turns up at the club and
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then you have this strange mixture of
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people that actually come from a
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underground culture background they meet
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people that have never been to a club
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before in their life this is why we have
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a selection at the door separating the
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ones that themselves wouldn't like the
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club we make a decision for them
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actually because they did they just
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don't fit like they've never experienced
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this culture and it kills the vibe
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inside if you have too many of them
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inside at the moment we have to take
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care a little bit that not too many
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stupid people come into the cinema like
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just drinking and getting lost then like
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you're in my or car can borrow money or
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like the drums go to me this is this
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cheap tourism
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today I think so
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club scene is more like an industry it
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works like an industry it became a
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business techno became the business and
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artists absolutely be a part of this
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whole creative industry in Berlin I got
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more professional yeah of course people
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like starting labeled starting
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businesses whatever merchandise and
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everything and it got more serious I
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basically think that everyone that was
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doing illegal things they don't want to
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hide anymore you don't want to run
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anymore you wanted to have the great
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sound system that you don't need to
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build up and build on after the party
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once you do something crazy
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it's a certain point you wants to
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establish it and make it legal and make
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living out of it I think it's getting
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more and more international which is
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really good for the club industry in a
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way of course the real Berliners who are
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really proud to be building us try to
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hide more and more the big market places
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yeah you see a trend in Berlin that is
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going more and more to hop up venues
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just for a couple of weeks or also this
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outdoor events
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now the government becomes interested in
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club life they say to protect it they
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want to promote it to to push it a
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little they want to promote it
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internationally you can get support from
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from the government and try to get
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tourists and it's especially investors
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to town because there's so much
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creativity going on to actually sell the
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city but in the end it's this is my true
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belief it's only meant to to pull
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investors to pull the big money to town
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and when the big money comes as we
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already said club scene is the first
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thing that has to leave but still you
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find new spots every week you Berlin
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still offers many secret spaces and
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young kids find them discover them and
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start using the gaps where the war wars
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are still not felt and there are still
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areas that are to be discovered and
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these areas are not in the suburbs this
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errors are still in the center
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so this is the club or not you know we
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have very many different rooms in this
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building which is just a normal
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residential building and yeah as you can
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see it's almost untouched as we got this
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you know we started looking around and I
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was we found this first floor under the
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wall it says what's the most exciting
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place we saw now let's do something yet
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we started to do some parties and we had
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fun and but somehow it's the charm of
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foreign artists that has so many small
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rooms so we can get really lost inside
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of the building and a big party we have
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like four floors they all are totally
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equal so you can change the room like
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every two or three hours and that's why
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the party doesn't get boring here it's
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the whole atmosphere like to hang out to
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hide away sometimes you know like the
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special thing about Renaud
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welcome to the dungeon
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I think like the history of Berlin in
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the last 20 years is like a novel I mean
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you have a great entry you know it's
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like an emptiness it's it's it's an it's
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an adventure and then it gets more
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mature in a way it gets more complicated
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it gets more complex and it gets more
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successful and it gets more colorful
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sometimes if something is established it
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starts to sucked and this is not what is
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what happened here all the established
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nightclubs that are legal are owned by
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people that started illegal parties and
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became legal which means the owners of
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the clubs they really know what it's
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about
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the scene is so much bigger than people
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out there can imagine you know thinking
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we're opening this door at 11:00 in the
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evening and doing strange party in the
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next day it's all over it's a little
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little culture and the little economy
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it's not common for German cities to be
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that attractive for the rest of the
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world it's a very very new situation for
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German City to be like the hot spot
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when I walk through the streets in
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Berlin still up to now I have the
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feeling on the pulse of the pressed you
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know it's happening here
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Berlin will also stay very amazing for
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the next 20 years I am here now 30 years
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or longer 30 years and I still think
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it's every day it's a new life it's new
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adventure
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you
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you
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