Review: Two Nights in Berlin City
Blitzlicht feat. the Horrorist @ 1820 Club, September 16th The dancefloor was as industrialized and austere as the tunes: it was a square, black dance pit lit with strobelights, surrounded by metal railings. Krautrock, proto-industrial, acid house and guttural techno were the sounds of the night. They were bold, chunky, crude... sounds from the primordial soup that brought the modern variants of techno and electro to a boil. The Horrorist 's set contained ingredients from all of the above styles, stripping them back down to the basics: four-four beats and two-chord riffs, but vested with the intensity of a rock opera. The opening DJ, Denard Henry played a more sumptuous, plasmic kind of EBM that could have just as well been labelled 'ambient', interspersed with harder obscure finds. Later on, DJ Deathbat played music that was 'minimal' in a bold way, unlike so much of the techno that's been placed under that hea...