Techno club

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Techno club in an old industrial hall in Berlin
Party in the Stammheim

A techno club is the special form of a discotheque in which only techno or electronic music is played. Techno clubs often claim to be less commercial than major events and focus on the scene.

Most clubs have permanent resident DJs who play there at regular intervals and help shape the club's image and musical style . In addition, guest DJs occasionally play. International stars of the scene (e.g. Sven Väth , Richie Hawtin , WestBam ) often appear in the more well-known techno clubs .

In contrast to traditional discos, empty industrial, factory and warehouse halls are often popular in the techno scene. The clubs are often named after the previous purpose of the premises, such as vaults (vaults of the Wertheim department store), bunkers, raw material stores or electrical works.

However, the transition to conventional discotheques is rather fluid, as techno events take place more or less regularly, especially in many large discotheques.

In addition to several dance floors in some cases, most clubs have a so-called chill-out area, which should offer guests seating and a relaxing atmosphere.

Technoclub series of events

Technoclub is also the name of a successful series of events (and the associated sound carrier compilations ) by the German music producer and DJ Talla 2XLC .

history

The warehouse in Chicago opened in 1977 and established itself in the early 1980s as the first club to play mainly house and electronic music . In West Berlin , the first acid house parties took place in the UFO from 1988 in the ambience of later classical techno clubs. Immediately after reunification, the first influential techno clubs emerged, especially in the east of the city, with the emergence of the techno scene . The planet and its successor E-Werk , the safe and the bunker were formative at this time . In 1988 the Omen opened in Frankfurt am Main and, under the operator and resident DJ Sven Väth, quickly developed into an international meeting place in the Rhine-Main area .

The first after- hour clubs such as the Walfisch or the Exit in Berlin quickly emerged , which only open in the early morning hours and are linked to nightly events.

While the various varieties of techno drifted apart in the course of the 1990s, the first clubs that focused on individual branches also opened. For example, the Milk! on Drum and Bass and the Natraj Temple on Goa .

Well-known techno clubs

Former clubs

Active clubs

  • gallery

  • Berghain

  • Palazzo

  • bunker

  • Distillery

  • Cyberhouse

  • KitKatKlub

  • KW - the thermal power station

  • safe

  • U60311

  • Ultrasound II

  • zoom

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Afterhour - Electronic Music in Nuremberg on medienwerkstatt-franken.de, from 2019, accessed on April 14, 2020
  2. ↑ The rocket - international top 10! on curt.de, February 16, 2014, accessed April 13, 2020