Milk!

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Milk! is the name of a former Mannheim club that pioneered breakbeats and thus jungle and drum-and-bass music in Germany.

The milk! was founded in 1990 in the former rooms of the Valentino discotheque on planks P4, 13 of Mannheim's square city and offered space for around 400 guests. It gained national fame from 1992 when the focus was on breakbeat and jungle music and thus stood out from the electronic music styles of techno and house that were predominant in the techno scene in Germany at the time .

Well-known DJs from England started in Milk! her international career. The so-called “Milk DJ Team” consisted of the resident DJs Bassface Sascha and Holger Klein, and later other locally known musicians such as DJ Jonathan and DJ Tobi joined them. Managing Director of the Milk! was Dirk Mantei, who had appeared as the organizer of acid house parties in southwest Germany around 1988/89 and became known as D-Man in the musical field. Xavier Naidoo , who later became known as a soul and R&B singer, worked as a bouncer at Milk! and describes this as "a very formative and important time" in his life.

Milk! Car at the Love Parade

The milk! was voted Club of the Year in 1992 by Frontpage magazine . At the Love Parade , the club and the so-called Milk! Posse presented themselves as Love Pirates and thus established the music genre in Berlin as well as in Club XS in Frankfurt am Main .

The Milk! Club environment also gave rise to the major events under the name Euphoria and Future , which, alongside the newer Kings of the Jungle, will form the largest jungle raves in Germany until later . From the Vibration Club in Forst near Bruchsal , where DJs and MCs from Great Britain came to Germany for the first time from 1994 onwards, the major event series Meditation emerged from an accidental overbooking .

The name Milk! was chosen according to Frontpage based on the term “ breast milk ” as the “origin of old liveliness and movement”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Disco of the year: milk! Frontpage , 1993
  2. ↑ The Breakbeat Phenomenon - 10 Years of Drum'n'Bass in Mannheim , Mannheimer Stadtmagazin Meier , February 2002 - including a review by Holger Klein
  3. ↑ a b Holger Klein: Club legends - milk! Groove, 2004
  4. ↑ Biography of Xavier Naidoo at laut.de.

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 12.5 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 9.4 ″  E