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Originally Posted by kool maudit
I always look forward to your posts and this is why. I have never loved clubs either, but Mira & Chris at Kater Blau on the right night, right face control, beads of sweat, it's its own world.
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Thanks, and likewise. Kater Blau is good; I dig Else for a similar but lower-key atmosphere. Hanging out under train tracks, next to the water, with city views... music and drugs are gravy.
Acajack isn't wrong that it's changing. I have a friend who moved here in 2003 and he's told me stories about how hardcore the party scene used to be: techno and electro punk thumping out of random kellars and hinterhofs. That's mostly gone. On the other hand, the city is run by literal communists right now; they handed off that big empty building on Alexanderplatz with the STOP WARS graffiti to some kind of artists' co-op, and they're running things with the kind of shantytown aplomb you'd expect. Still, the police shut down a longstanding squat last year so someone who came by the building god knows how could make money.
And like I said, I'm scared what corona will do. It's bee hard for cultural spaces. That said, a lot of boring third-wave coffee shops and bougie boutiques have closed so it's not like there isn't space to start over.