Techno
A genre invented by Black teenagers in Detroit and its suburbs on machines the Japanese companies that built them considered commercial failures. Juan Atkins put out "Alleys of Your Mind" in 1981; the word was in local use by 1984, and a British label fixed it to the market in 1988 after the Detroit artists voted down a plan to sell them as house. Radio carried it first: the Electrifying Mojo was playing their mixes on air by 1981, inside a Black Detroit format that ran Kraftwerk next to P-Funk, and Jeff Mills was The Wizard on WJLB before he was Jeff Mills. It reached Europe and found rooms that suited it, in a Frankfurt club from 1984 and a West Berlin one from 1988, before the Wall came down and handed Berlin a city full of empty buildings. Since then: a vault under a department store, a parade that grew to a million people and ended in twenty-one deaths that no court ever assigned responsibility for, a power station in Friedrichshain, and a German heritage listing in 2024 that most of the press reported wrong. This archive runs from 1981 to 2026 and treats Detroit as the centre it actually is.
A chronological documentary of 994 moments spanning 1981–2026 on Loreline.
Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-03
Eras
- Radio, The distribution mechanism that the club-centred telling loses. In Detroit the Electrifying Mojo was on air from the late 1970s, running Kraftwerk alongside Parliament and Prince in a Black radio format, and was playing the future Belleville Three's own mixes by 1981; this archive holds dated airchecks from 1981 through 1992 of a man who is rarely filmed. Jeff Mills was The Wizard on WDRQ and WJLB, Derrick May had a WJLB slot, and Stacey Hotwaxx Hale was on FM98. In West Berlin, Radio Mars announced where UFO was that night. Mixshows, pirate broadcasts, station studios, and sets made for air rather than for a room.
- Records, The objects and the labels. Sleeves, centre labels, runout grooves, catalogue numbers, the shops and the pressing plants. Cybotron's "Alleys of Your Mind" on Deep Space in 1981, "Clear" as a 1983 single on the album Enter which the 1990 reissue renamed, Model 500's "No UFO's" as Metroplex M-001 in April 1985. Then Transmat, KMS, Underground Resistance, Warp and the Sheffield bleep records, R&S in Ghent, Basic Channel and Chain Reaction in Berlin, and Hard Wax as the shop that functioned as an institution.
- Machines, The instruments, most of which failed commercially before they were repurposed. The Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines, the TB-303 bass line that was built to accompany a guitarist practising alone and instead produced acid, the SH-101, samplers and sequencers and the modular rigs that came later. Roland discontinued all three of the famous boxes; the used market and the people who could not afford anything else decided what they were for. Objects rather than nostalgia: this is the best documented material in the whole subject.
- Crowds, The people it was for. Dancefloors, fields, warehouses and free parties, gabber in Rotterdam, hardcore, the fashion and the sound systems. Also the parts that get sanded off in retrospect: the drugs, as documented social history rather than instruction, and the policing. The music was made for rooms full of people and this segment is the only place they are the subject rather than the background.
- Detroit, Where it was made, and the largest segment here. Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, who met around Belleville High School, plus Eddie Fowlkes, who says of the label attached to the other three that "it's four originators and not three". Cybotron from 1981, Metroplex from 1985, Transmat, KMS, and Underground Resistance and Submerge on East Grand Boulevard. Then the generations after: Carl Craig, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Drexciya, Moodymann, Theo Parrish, Mike Huckaby, Kelli Hand, DJ Minx and Stacey Hotwaxx Hale. The city itself is here too, Hart Plaza and United Sound Systems and Eastern Market, because free photography of the originators barely exists and the honest answer is to show the place and let them speak on video instead.
- Berlin, The city, and why it suited this music. Not a birth: UFO was running in the West from 1988 and Frankfurt had a techno club from 1984. What the Wall's fall supplied was space, a vacant middle of a city with power still connected and nobody clearly holding the deeds. Mitte and Friedrichshain, the vault, the power station, the squats, the river, Hard Wax, and the closures and rent rises that keep taking rooms back. In March 2024 "Techno Culture in Berlin" was added to Germany's national inventory of intangible cultural heritage, administered by the German UNESCO Commission, which is not the same as UNESCO's international list however the headlines ran it.
- Parades, Techno in the street. The Love Parade began in West Berlin in 1989 and grew from a few dozen people to a crowd in the hundreds of thousands, then over a million, before Berlin ended it in 2007 and it moved to the Ruhr. On 24 July 2010 in Duisburg, 21 people died and 652 were injured in a crowd crush at a ramp that was the only way in and out. Charges were brought against ten city employees and organisers. The case was rejected in 2016, reinstated in 2017, and the trial ended in May 2020 without a verdict: nobody was convicted and responsibility was never legally established. Also the Techno Parade in Paris, Zurich's Street Parade, and Rave the Planet, which Dr. Motte founded and which filed the heritage application.
- 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.
- DJs, People playing records to rooms. Booth footage, sets, back to backs, and the craft itself: mixing, programming a night, reading a floor. Held deliberately to under a tenth of this archive, because DJ set footage is effectively infinite and would otherwise crowd out everything that explains where the music came from. What is here favours sets with a documented time and place over generic recent uploads.
- Studios, How the records were actually made. Sequencing, sampling, mixing desks, studio walkthroughs and gear talk, much of it published by the artists themselves. This is where the machines in segment two stop being objects and start being decisions: which drum machine, how quantised, how much of the 303 to let through.
- - The King of the TR-808 : Egyptian Lover on THE ICONIC Drum Machine. Egyptian Lover on the Roland TR-808. The electro lineage that runs through his records is the same one Cybotron sat inside.
- - Klaudia Gawlas - NATURE ONE 2023 - ARTE Concert. Klaudia Gawlas at Nature One 2023, broadcast by ARTE Concert. Nature One is held on a former US missile base in the Hunsrueck.
- - XOX Project Presents: Saytek TR-909 Interview | Live at Readipop's 909 Event. Saytek interviewed at a Readipop event built around the TR-909.
- - Tech Talk: Jessica Kert talks Modular Synthesizer (Electronic Beats TV). Jessica Kert on modular synthesis.
- - Wie Techno groß wurde | DW Doku Deutsch. A Deutsche Welle documentary on how techno grew large.
- - Moritz von Oswald - Silencio (Short Documentary). A short documentary on Moritz von Oswald, posted by Tresor.
- - Derrick May Interview | #CONNECTORS CAP.35. Derrick May interviewed for Connectors. May was born 6 April 1963 and is alive and active.
- - 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.
- - The Roland TR-808 Drum Machine : A 5 Minute History. A short history of the Roland TR-808. It disappointed in its intended market as a songwriting aid, was judged unrealistic, and was then adopted second hand. It is more central to electro and hip hop than to techno narrowly, reaching Detroit through Cybotron and electro.
- - Wie Techno in die Zukunft wirkt | DW Doku Deutsch. A Deutsche Welle documentary on where techno goes next.
- - Inside Chlär's Studio: Tech Talk on Production Techniques, Favorite Plugins, Octatrack, and AI. Inside Chlaer's studio, on production technique.
- - From Detroit to the Cosmos: Carl Craig on Techno and Afrofuturism. Carl Craig on techno and Afrofuturism, recorded at the MSU Museum. Craig runs Planet E and is alive and listed for Movement Detroit 2026.
- - Grow Detroit’s Young Talent jobs program, Detroit DJ Stacey ‘Hotwaxx’ Hale | ABJ Full Episode. Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale on Detroit PBS.
- - The Untold History Of Hard Techno (Early Detroit + 1990-1999). A history of hard techno running from early Detroit through the 1990s.
- - The Detroit Files Interview: Jerry "Flynn" Dale of Def Sound Studio, MI's First Hip-Hop Landmark. Jerry Dale of Def Sound Studio on Detroit's studio infrastructure.
- - Tech Talk: A Deep Dive Into Rene Wise's Studio Setup - From Hardware to FL Studio and more. Rene Wise walks through a studio that runs from hardware into software.
- - Submerge Radio: Episode 006 - DJ Dex aka Nomadico. Submerge Radio, episode six, with DJ Dex, also known as Nomadico.
- - Tresor Studio Session: Kerrie. A Tresor studio session with Kerrie.
- - Juan Atkins and Delano Smith: The Techno Pioneers at VANTEK (FULL INTERVIEW). Juan Atkins and Delano Smith in a full interview. Atkins was born 9 December 1962, is alive and touring, and took "Cybotron" and "Metroplex" from Alvin Toffler's vocabulary in The Third Wave.
- - Where does techno and house come from? An interview with DJ Minx. DJ Minx on where techno and house come from. She founded the Women on Wax DJ collective in 1996 and the label in 2001.
- - Lifka Hardware Set | Live at Tresor - December 15 2023. Lifka performs a hardware set at Tresor, 15 December 2023.
- - Studio 2 48-track desk (53720747939). The studio as practice rather than object. Artists self-publish this material, which is why it is one of the more obtainable parts of the record, though the Red Bull Music Academy lecture archive that carries much of it was brand-funded music-history publishing.
- - Coach House control room (53720408036). The studio as practice rather than object. Artists self-publish this material, which is why it is one of the more obtainable parts of the record, though the Red Bull Music Academy lecture archive that carries much of it was brand-funded music-history publishing.
- - Me in the Coach House Studio control room (53719506612). The studio as practice rather than object. Artists self-publish this material, which is why it is one of the more obtainable parts of the record, though the Red Bull Music Academy lecture archive that carries much of it was brand-funded music-history publishing.
- - Pomnik Powstańców Śląskich na tle Spodka w trakcie trwania Mayday Polska, 2024, KsP 005. Contemporary festival photography. Festivals over-deliver enormously in free photo sources while the Detroit originators are nearly absent from them, so this material is deliberately capped in this archive rather than allowed to stand in for the history of the genre.
- - Katowice, Pomnik Powstańców Śląskich a za nim Spodek podczas festiwalu Mayday Polska, 10.11.2024, KsP 067. Contemporary festival photography. Festivals over-deliver enormously in free photo sources while the Detroit originators are nearly absent from them, so this material is deliberately capped in this archive rather than allowed to stand in for the history of the genre.
- - Katowice, Spodek, Mayday Poalnd Festival, 10.11.2024, KsP 066. Contemporary festival photography. Festivals over-deliver enormously in free photo sources while the Detroit originators are nearly absent from them, so this material is deliberately capped in this archive rather than allowed to stand in for the history of the genre.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - Luke Slater 1 24. A DJ playing. This is the single largest category of material in the genre and the worst rights position: Boiler Room, Resident Advisor, Cercle, HOER and Mixmag own their catalogues, monetise them and rights-manage them, and are interested parties in the history they publish.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - Broadcast Studio (53998133689). Radio is the correction to a club-centric telling of this history. It was the actual distribution mechanism in both founding cities: Mojo and WGPR in Detroit, and Radio Mars announcing UFO's locations in West Berlin.
- - Broadcast Studio (53998133784). Radio is the correction to a club-centric telling of this history. It was the actual distribution mechanism in both founding cities: Mojo and WGPR in Detroit, and Radio Mars announcing UFO's locations in West Berlin.
- - 2024-08-08-Heizkraftwerk-Friedrichshain-Berghain-Eingang. Berghain opened in 2004, following Ostgut in 1998, in a former power station in Friedrichshain. No photography is an enforced house rule with camera stickers at the door, so almost no legitimate interior imagery exists at all, let alone free imagery. The exteriors are what the record holds.
- - Rave The Planet Parade 2024 – OFFICIAL AFTERMOVIE. The official aftermovie for the Rave The Planet Parade 2024. Rave the Planet gGmbH applied in November 2022 for the heritage listing and is an interested party in how that listing is described.
- - 2024-08-08-Heizkraftwerk-Friedrichshain-Ruedersdorfer-Str-Berghain. Berghain opened in 2004, following Ostgut in 1998, in a former power station in Friedrichshain. No photography is an enforced house rule with camera stickers at the door, so almost no legitimate interior imagery exists at all, let alone free imagery. The exteriors are what the record holds.
- - Antique HMV gramophone- phonograph- record player. Vinyl is the format this music was distributed on, and photographing a physical object is more tractable for a free archive than licensing the audio pressed into it. Labels including Metroplex, Transmat, KMS, Underground Resistance, Warp and R&S actively manage their catalogues.
- - (20240817) Rave The Planet 01. The Love Parade ran on the Kurfuerstendamm until 1996, then moved to Strasse des 17. Juni in the Grosser Tiergarten, centred on the Siegessaeule. Attendance peaked from 1997 to 2000 at over a million annually, then declined as funding failed, and it was cancelled in 2004 and 2005.
- - 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall event 2024-11-09 01. Berlin techno did not begin with the Wall. UFO opened in 1988 in West Berlin, before the Wall fell, and Frankfurt's Technoclub dates to 1984. What the Wall's fall supplied was space: ownerless buildings, unclear property titles and a vacuum of licensing authority in the former East.
- - Love Parade - Rave The Planet 2024 01. The Love Parade began in July 1989 in West Berlin with 150 participants, initiated by Matthias Roeingh, who works as Dr. Motte, and Danielle de Picciotto, who is routinely dropped from the telling. Its motto was "Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen" and it was framed as a political demonstration for peace and international understanding through love and music.
- - Love Parade - Rave The Planet 2024 02. The Love Parade began in July 1989 in West Berlin with 150 participants, initiated by Matthias Roeingh, who works as Dr. Motte, and Danielle de Picciotto, who is routinely dropped from the telling. Its motto was "Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen" and it was framed as a political demonstration for peace and international understanding through love and music.
- - 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall event 2024-11-09 02. Berlin techno did not begin with the Wall. UFO opened in 1988 in West Berlin, before the Wall fell, and Frankfurt's Technoclub dates to 1984. What the Wall's fall supplied was space: ownerless buildings, unclear property titles and a vacuum of licensing authority in the former East.
- - 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall event 2024-11-09 03. Berlin techno did not begin with the Wall. UFO opened in 1988 in West Berlin, before the Wall fell, and Frankfurt's Technoclub dates to 1984. What the Wall's fall supplied was space: ownerless buildings, unclear property titles and a vacuum of licensing authority in the former East.
- - Love Parade - Rave The Planet 2024 03. The Love Parade began in July 1989 in West Berlin with 150 participants, initiated by Matthias Roeingh, who works as Dr. Motte, and Danielle de Picciotto, who is routinely dropped from the telling. Its motto was "Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen" and it was framed as a political demonstration for peace and international understanding through love and music.
- - 35 Jahre Mauerfall 002. Berlin techno did not begin with the Wall. UFO opened in 1988 in West Berlin, before the Wall fell, and Frankfurt's Technoclub dates to 1984. What the Wall's fall supplied was space: ownerless buildings, unclear property titles and a vacuum of licensing authority in the former East.
- - 35 Jahre Mauerfall 003. Berlin techno did not begin with the Wall. UFO opened in 1988 in West Berlin, before the Wall fell, and Frankfurt's Technoclub dates to 1984. What the Wall's fall supplied was space: ownerless buildings, unclear property titles and a vacuum of licensing authority in the former East.
- - 35 Jahre Mauerfall 004. Berlin techno did not begin with the Wall. UFO opened in 1988 in West Berlin, before the Wall fell, and Frankfurt's Technoclub dates to 1984. What the Wall's fall supplied was space: ownerless buildings, unclear property titles and a vacuum of licensing authority in the former East.
- - Behringer TD-3-SR. Released in 1981, the TB-303 is a monophonic bass synthesiser with a built-in step sequencer, designed to simulate a bass guitar for a guitarist practising alone. It failed at that and was discontinued in 1984. The resonant squelch produced by misusing its cutoff and resonance controls became acid, a lineage that runs primarily through Chicago acid house and reaches techno by way of acid techno.
- - Roland CompuRhythm CR-5000 drum machine (1981). A programmable drum machine of the kind whose commercial failure is load-bearing in this history. Designed as songwriting aids and judged unrealistic, they sold poorly, were discontinued and reached producers with no budget second-hand.
- - Panel talk with Juan Atkins - Legacy Detroit. A panel talk with Juan Atkins on the Detroit legacy. Atkins founded Metroplex in 1985 and its first release, Model 500's "No UFO's", is frequently described as the first techno record, though Cybotron's "Alleys of Your Mind" is four years older.
- - Tech Talk : Lauren Flax - Hardware Flow, Acid House and Human Touch (Electronic Beats TV). Lauren Flax on hardware flow and acid house.
- - 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.
- - A Guy Called Gerald on live performance – Interview and Roland T-8 jam. A Guy Called Gerald on live performance, with a Roland T-8 jam. Gerald is a direct bridge between Manchester and Detroit; he met Derrick May in Manchester in 1990.
- - TÂCHES TALKS #1: Claude Young. Claude Young in a long conversation.
- - DT:Recommends | Kelli Hand / K-Hand - Detroit-History Part 1 (2001) Album. Kelli Hand, K-HAND, and her album Detroit History. Known as the First Lady of Detroit techno, she was recognised as First Lady of Detroit by the city council in 2017 and died on 3 August 2021, aged 56.
- - Âme’s Frank Wiedemann Explores Ableton’s New Hardware: Move. Frank Wiedemann of Ame explores Ableton's Move hardware. Ableton Live was co-created by Robert Henke, who records as Monolake.
- - LET'S GO CRAZY. PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999, WHEN DOES CRY, & PRINCE'S FIRST UNFORGETABLE RADIO INTERVIEW🦋🔥. Mojo on Prince's first unforgettable moments on Detroit radio.
- - The Story of the TR-909. The story of the Roland TR-909, introduced in 1983 and produced to 1985. It is a hybrid: analogue voices for most sounds, but the first Roland drum machine to use samples, for the crash, ride and hi-hats.
- - Human Machines (Live hardware set) | Live at Tresor - 11.09.2024. Human Machines perform a live hardware set at Tresor, 11 September 2024.
- - Tech Talk: Wallis - Hardware, Processing and Playfulness (Electronic Beats TV). Wallis on hardware, processing and playfulness.
- - Juan Atkins on the Intersection of Techno, Physics and the Future
- - TALKS BECOME THINGS with Juan Atkins. Juan Atkins in a long-form conversation.
- - The TR-808 Drum Machine That Changed Music Forever (1980 Story). The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, released 1980 and produced into 1983. Its significance is that it let users program their own patterns rather than pick presets, and its sounds are synthesised rather than sampled, so they do not resemble a real kit.
- - Dédicace au Groove avec Mee Shel et Lysiane N. (Curated Mix + Talk) | Rinse France. A curated mix and talk on Rinse France.
- - Inside one of Berlin’s finest Mastering Studios - Manmade Mastering (Electronic Beats TV). Inside Manmade Mastering, a Berlin mastering studio.
- - Riva Starr - Movement Detroit, 25 May 2025. Riva Starr's house set from Movement in Detroit, recorded on the festival's middle day. Starr is a house producer and label owner rather than a techno DJ, and the set is a good example of how house is programmed at a festival built on Detroit techno. Released by the artist as a full unedited recording.
- - DISTRUCTION BOYZ Gqom DJ Set Live From DESCENDANTS Johannesburg. A gqom set from Johannesburg. Gqom, from Durban, explicitly departs from the four-to-the-floor that defines most Western house and techno, foregrounding local percussion instead, so calling it techno erases what makes it itself.
- - Judy (Live Hardware Set) | Live at Tresor - 05.03.25. Judy performs a live hardware set at Tresor, 5 March 2025.
- - Mixing console setup in a modern studio showcasing professional sound equipment and controls undefined. The studio as practice rather than object. Artists self-publish this material, which is why it is one of the more obtainable parts of the record, though the Red Bull Music Academy lecture archive that carries much of it was brand-funded music-history publishing.
- - Pan-Pot Party 01. A DJ playing. This is the single largest category of material in the genre and the worst rights position: Boiler Room, Resident Advisor, Cercle, HOER and Mixmag own their catalogues, monetise them and rights-manage them, and are interested parties in the history they publish.
- - Pan-Pot Party 07. A DJ playing. This is the single largest category of material in the genre and the worst rights position: Boiler Room, Resident Advisor, Cercle, HOER and Mixmag own their catalogues, monetise them and rights-manage them, and are interested parties in the history they publish.
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- - Pan-Pot Party 20. A DJ playing. This is the single largest category of material in the genre and the worst rights position: Boiler Room, Resident Advisor, Cercle, HOER and Mixmag own their catalogues, monetise them and rights-manage them, and are interested parties in the history they publish.
- - Loveparade-Magnolien-Duesseldorf-2025-06-msu-. After Berlin cancelled in 2007 the Love Parade moved to the Ruhr: Essen 2007, Dortmund 2008, and Duisburg on 24 July 2010, where 21 people died and 652 were injured. Charges were brought against ten city employees and event organisers. The trial ended in May 2020 without a verdict and nobody was convicted, so responsibility was never legally established.
- - Loveparade-Magnolien-Duesseldorf-2025-06-msu-6959. After Berlin cancelled in 2007 the Love Parade moved to the Ruhr: Essen 2007, Dortmund 2008, and Duisburg on 24 July 2010, where 21 people died and 652 were injured. Charges were brought against ten city employees and event organisers. The trial ended in May 2020 without a verdict and nobody was convicted, so responsibility was never legally established.
- - Hardwax
- - 1 Berlin Berghain NYE 04. Berghain opened in 2004, following Ostgut in 1998, in a former power station in Friedrichshain. No photography is an enforced house rule with camera stickers at the door, so almost no legitimate interior imagery exists at all, let alone free imagery. The exteriors are what the record holds.
- - Electronic Music Synthesizer Documentary The Shape Of Things That Hum History Pop Rock Musica. The Shape of Things That Hum, a documentary history of the synthesiser.
- - Talk on techno and art: Robert Hood, Arthur Jafa and DeForrest Brown Jr.. Robert Hood, Arthur Jafa and DeForrest Brown Jr in a talk on techno and art, hosted at Tresor Berlin. Hood is alive and releasing in 2026 and also records as Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood.
- - Zurich Street Parade 2025 - Opera Stage - ARTE Concert. The Zurich Street Parade 2025, Opera stage.
- - Erik Jabari (Live Modular Set) | Live at Tresor - 11.05.25. Erik Jabari performs a live modular set at Tresor, 11 May 2025.
- - 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.
- - Front 242 - The Final Show in Brussels 25 Jan 2025 - Fan Documentary. Front 242's final show in Brussels on 25 January 2025, filmed by fans.
- - Russell E.L. Butler in conversation with Jeff Mills @TheLotRadio 10-07-2025. Russell E.L. Butler in conversation with Jeff Mills on The Lot Radio, 7 October 2025.
- - 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.
- - Tech Talk: DJ & Producer Nene H on Modular Systems, Essentials & Creative Mindset | EB.TV. Nene H on modular systems and what she considers essential.
- - Inside Jack White's Vinyl Empire: Making Records Third Man Pressing. Inside a working vinyl pressing plant. The physical manufacture is the part of this history that most tellings skip.
- - La HISTORIA de UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE: dioses subterráneos de DETROIT TECHNO | #primaverasound2026. A Spanish language documentary on the story of Underground Resistance.
- - Interview with George Evelyn - Nightmares On Wax | CEC Media. George Evelyn of Nightmares on Wax interviewed. The group's only album as a group was A Word of Science in September 1991, after which it became Evelyn's solo vehicle.
- - Haçienda In Conversation #6 - Kevin Saunderson & Graeme Park. Kevin Saunderson and Graeme Park in conversation for the Hacienda archive.
- - Tech Talk: Vera Grace - How Modular Gear Shapes Her Hypnotic Techno Sound (Electronic Beats TV). Vera Grace on how modular gear shapes her hypnotic techno.
- - Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald present Borderland - Riod (Original Mix). Borderland by Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald, the Detroit to Berlin collaboration made explicit as a record.
- - DJ-Legende Paul van Dyk über Trauma, Techno und Tresor | Interview | Berlin Sounds. Paul van Dyk on techno and Tresor, interviewed for rbb.
- - Basic Channel: The Origins of Berlin Dub Techno. The origins of Basic Channel and Berlin dub techno. The project grew around Hard Wax, the record shop Mark Ernestus opened in 1989, and its family includes Maurizio, Chain Reaction, Main Street and Basic Replay.
- - Underground Resistance: The Detroit History of Afro-Futurism and Myth. Underground Resistance and the Detroit history of Afrofuturism and myth.
- - Stasi Files: Inside East Germany’s Secret Police | FULL DOCUMENTARY. A documentary on the Stasi files and East German secret policing, the state apparatus that ended a few months before the first Berlin techno clubs opened in the East.
- - George Clinton and Maurice “Pirahnahead” Herd on recording at United Sound Systems Recording Studios. A longer conversation with George Clinton and Maurice Herd at United Sound Systems.
- - My Bad Sister - Inside The UK's Rave Underground. Inside the UK's rave underground with My Bad Sister.
- - Carl Craig on the hidden origins of Detroit Techno. Carl Craig on the origins of Detroit techno that get left out of the standard telling.
- - Carl Craig b2b Seth Troxler, live at Nuits Sonores 2026 – ARTE Concert. Carl Craig back to back with Seth Troxler at Nuits Sonores 2026.
- - Tech Talk: K.A.S.I. - Serge Modular, Improvisation & Organic Movement (Electronic Beats TV). K.A.S.I. on Serge modular systems and improvisation.
- - George Clinton & Maurice “Pirahnahead” Herd on recording funk music at United Sound Systems Studio. George Clinton and Maurice Herd on recording funk at United Sound Systems in Detroit, filmed for Detroit PBS.
- - Manifestive of 6 June 2026 in Nantes - Wall of free party, antifa and anarchist slogans. Free party and sound system culture, including the Spiral Tribe lineage and teknival. This material is fan-made and widely uploaded rather than rights-managed, which makes it one of the few genuinely open parts of the record.
- - Organic '96 Music Festival Event Flyer with Full Lineup. Contemporary festival photography. Festivals over-deliver enormously in free photo sources while the Detroit originators are nearly absent from them, so this material is deliberately capped in this archive rather than allowed to stand in for the history of the genre.
- - Organic-96-Festival-Flyer. Contemporary festival photography. Festivals over-deliver enormously in free photo sources while the Detroit originators are nearly absent from them, so this material is deliberately capped in this archive rather than allowed to stand in for the history of the genre.
- - Manifestive of 6 June 2026 in Nantes - Antifascist music sign. A techno street parade. The form descends from the Love Parade, which began in 1989 as a registered political demonstration, a status that was both a stated purpose and a funding mechanism until German courts reclassified it as a commercial event in 2001.
- - Manifestive of 6 June 2026 in Nantes - 'We'll fulfill our dreams-raves' sign with a circle-A. A techno street parade. The form descends from the Love Parade, which began in 1989 as a registered political demonstration, a status that was both a stated purpose and a funding mechanism until German courts reclassified it as a commercial event in 2001.
- - Manifestive of 6 June 2026 in Nantes - Artist not terrorist sign. A techno street parade. The form descends from the Love Parade, which began in 1989 as a registered political demonstration, a status that was both a stated purpose and a funding mechanism until German courts reclassified it as a commercial event in 2001.
- - Roland TR-808 Drum Machine at SMEM Playroom 07. An analogue drum machine manufactured from 1980 into 1983. Its significance is that it let users program their own rhythms rather than select presets, and that its sounds are synthesised rather than sampled, so they do not resemble a real kit. It is more central to electro and hip-hop than to techno narrowly, reaching Detroit largely by way of Cybotron and electro.
- - Roland MC-202 Synthesizer at SMEM Playroom. Part of the Roland line whose commercial disappointment shaped the genre. These machines were designed to imitate real instruments, were judged unconvincing at that, sold poorly and were discontinued, then reached the second-hand market cheap.
- - Synthesizers at SMEM Playroom. Part of the Roland line whose commercial disappointment shaped the genre. These machines were designed to imitate real instruments, were judged unconvincing at that, sold poorly and were discontinued, then reached the second-hand market cheap.
- - DJ Minx on Women on Wax, Vinyl & What Detroit Owes Its Pioneers | Living for the City FULL Interview. DJ Minx on Women on Wax, vinyl and what Detroit is owed by the rest of the world.
- - Blind Test: "Hard-Edged" Techno 1997-2006 I Electronic Beats TV. A blind listening test on hard-edged techno released between 1997 and 2006.
- - Kevin Saunderson on Why Detroit Techno Never Got Its Credit | Living for the City FULL Interview. Kevin Saunderson on why Detroit techno never got its credit. The money for this music was largely made in Europe, where Detroit artists licensed to UK, Belgian and German labels.
- - I Made A DRUM MACHINE From An Old Organ Found In The Trash!. A drum machine built from an organ found in the rubbish.
- - Dominik Eulberg - Nature One 2026 - ARTE Concert. Dominik Eulberg at Nature One 2026.
- - Klaudia Gawlas - Nature One 2026 - ARTE Concert. Klaudia Gawlas at Nature One 2026.
- - Annie Wonder live im Synthesizer Museum Berlin “The true emptiness smiles”. A live performance inside the Synthesizer Museum in Berlin.
- - Westbam - Nature One 2026 - ARTE Concert. Westbam at Nature One 2026. Westbam, Maximilian Lenz, has been active since the mid 1980s.
- - Theo Parrish & Lovie in Conversation: On Chicago House, Mixing Technology, & Selecting with Bravery. Theo Parrish in conversation on Chicago house, mixing technology and selecting.
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