Berlin
Berlin appears in 3 Songsheets issues: German Krautrock, Industrial and Berlin Techno. 6 artists in the archive came from here, including Tangerine Dream, Cluster and Dimitri Hegemann.
Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the kosmische scene emerged from West Berlin's isolation, turning Cold War anxiety into cosmic electronic voyages.
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Artists from Berlin
- Tangerine Dream
Edgar Froese's ensemble kept reshaping itself for years, starting as psychedelic experimentalists before settling into kosmische musik's defining act.
- Cluster
Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius made ambient, minimalist electronic music, often alongside Brian Eno, that stripped rock down to texture and space rather than rhythm and melody.
- Dimitri Hegemann
Dimitri Hegemann grew up in a village of 700 people and, by his own account, lived a happy, quiet life he never meant to leave.
- Marcel Dettmann
Marcel Dettmann became a Berghain resident DJ whose releases on Ostgut Ton set the tone for the club's uncompromising sound through the 2000s and 2010s.
- Basic Channel (Moritz von Oswald & Mark Ernestus)
Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald ran Basic Channel out of Hard Wax, the record store Ernestus had opened on Paul-Lincke-Ufer, fusing the stripped-back logic of minimal techno with the spatial echo and weight of Jamaican dub.
- Norbert Thormann & Michael Teufele
Norbert Thormann and Michael Teufele built Snax, the fetish club night that launched in 1994, then Ostgut in 1998, then Berghain in 2004, threading techno culture and sexual freedom into a single continuous thing rather than treating them as separate scenes.
