Unscene Berlin

Dance music's 2 choices: sell its soul to the Devil or die? by Julian Dourado www.juliandourado.co.uk I often get accused of taking clubbing too seriously but that's simply not true.  I find clubbing fun - and, at times, funny - but serious? Don't make me laugh (pardon the pun). In a club, I know I can go through the motions of change but that's all. No matter how far I get, I know that at some point, the lights will go up, the bouncer will shepherd me out the door, the floor will be swept and all traces of whatever transformation I experienced there will be removed. The club is not a community center, after all: it's a product and as such, it needs to be consistent. Any alterations by its users have to be removed, its original shape restored, before it can be re-packaged and re-sold. How could somebody who is committed to real change take that seriously? A recent article about the crisis of creativity in dance music made it clear to me that some DJs and...

The DJ in this photo is male but females are VERY welcome to apply! Club Alien has a vacancy for the role of Musical Chaos Co-ordinator, beginning on a randomly-designated date in Spring 2013. Duration of contract will be 2 hours. Salary according to experience (this is NOT an unpaid internship!) The Role: You will be joining a team of Acid Ambassadors from London who possess a solid track record of inciting disordered euphoria at a range of vacant & derelict locations. Working alongside them, you will deliver a set of trippy rhythmic techno / breakbeats to a open-minded, wide-eyed dance floor in Berlin. The Candidate: *Will be an unpretentious, Germany-based DJ that doesn't carry any minimal tunes in her/his record bag and wouldn't wear drainpipe jeans. Ever. *Will be a coinesseur of techno, street parties, graffiti, and radical thinking. *Should ideally have been to/played at free parties before and have connections within the Berlin techno scene. *Sh...