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This twenty-four minute movie is hosted by MFS label head Mark Reeder, who according to dance folklore, invented the term “trance” (There’s footage of him wrestling with defining it as separate from techno in the film.)
The movie features interviews with a very youthful looking Paul Van Dyk, a ponytailed Laurent Garnier as well as Mijk Van Dijk, who plays a live set to a room full of dancers, every one of whom seems to have a whistle in their mouth. There’s also rare footage of the early Love Parade with Dr. Motte quaintly enthusing about the numbers. “First it was 2000, one year later it was 6000, then 10,000. And this year we have…30,000 people!” Shades of Dr. Evil.
But most of all it’s fascinating because it catches a bit of the vibe of the Berlin club scene in the early nineties, a time when the wall had just come down and East Berlin warehouses were being turned into makeshift clubs with little attention from the authorities, who, understandably, had bigger fish to fry. Reeder recently lamented the lack of spontaneity in clubbing nowadays in an interview: “Sure, there are occasionally spontaneous illegal parties in Berlin today, but they are getting very, very rare. The problem is the availability of property. There are not many ruins left anymore. Arguably, those "good old days" of clubbing freedom are gone forever. The only thing that is left is a vague memory, for those that can remember anything at all.”
This film might jog a few of those memories.
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