WHAT FIRST STRUCK ME ABOUT BERLIN WAS THE UNDENIABLE VITALITY OF EXPRESSION THAT EXISTS IN ALMOST EVERY POCKET OF THE CITY. IT FELT MORE INTERESTED IN HOW MY IDENTITY CONTRIBUTED TO THE AMORPHIC NATURE OF THE CULTURE RATHER THAN THE LINES ALONG WHICH THE TWO WERE CONSISTENT. I FOUND THAT THE CONTEMPORARY BERLINER IS NOT […]
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Techno Burned My House Down
I saw Berlin on a pogostick
Berlin’s blueprints were drawn up with a pogostick Measured in the highs and lows and Grandmaster plans of allies and enemies. You see Berlin on the pogostick Bouncing over jagged concrete memories of the torn down wall and Touching down in the basement art shows where gravity And creativity And bizarre performance pieces And the […]
Berlin Impressions
These five stations are the most memorable places for me. Lived in an old and quiet Berlin apartment, walked to grocery stores in cold and gloomy late autumn, got off together with talkative drunk person at the U-Bahn station—a typical Berliner life for me. I was always scared at night. And it was not the kind […]
Third Culture of Techno
Ted 수안 ShinTed is a DJ and producer under the alias Fugal and is a core member of secondnature, a Seattle-based techno collective and event-curator. www.secondnatureseattle.com