I was age 19 when I wrote this, so excuse some of my "youthful mindset / wording / language" in this text :) (and sorry for some Stellwerk and other negative remarks I wrote back then!)
(Spelling etc. errors not corrected).
This extended weekend took place from 6.7.2000 to 8.7.2000 in Berlin.
thursday:
gerald&baze.djunkiii drove me from hamburg to berlin(thanx!) where we
were supposed to play at the fuckparade-warmup-party at the maria. in
the evening we arrived in berlin and they dropped me at
christoph&rachael's place where i slept at the weekend. later i went
with them to the maria. the party was supposed to start at 22:00 but
did not do so before 23:00... the party was also quite over-booked,
the artists were booked with 3 floors in mind but the maria only had 2
floors available!
anyway, the party started with gerald DJing on the 2nd floor... he
played some cool breakcore stuff - many classic tracks from the likes
of ambush/dhr... quite nice! after him baze.djunkiii played, cant
remember what he played but i think it was breakcore too. then trauma
XP played some gabba/speedcore records, some of them were boring, some
of them were cool(like the epiteth one).
on the main floor there was mostly ambient/experimental for the first
hours of the party. this changed when christoph de babalon went on and
spun some really harsh breakcore/noize/speedcore tracks, which incited
the crowd to do some wild pogo dancing - woohoo!
next were the society suckers on the 2nd floor who played some great
breakcore stuff. then multipara spun some noizecore record, but was
stopped by the maria people after 15 minutes of his set, cuz they
wanted to close the 2nd floor. on the main floor alexdee and then
ashtar dxd played, but i didnt check out most of their sets cuz i
chilled in the backstage area so i cant comment on them.
then peter poellinger, who organized the party, informed me that i
could not play since they had to close in a hour :-( this sucked.
eiterherd, who was supposed to play after me did not get to play
either.
but it really was an excellent party anyway, and peter poellinger
promised me that the next party that he throws will be a bit better
organized :-)
friday:
after breakfast, at which dj scud played us his favorite garage
records(hehe), i checked out a cool record store called "public noise"
which had lots of old techno CDs; i bought a CD from 1992 featuring
such classics as "no women allowed", "navigator" and "alles naar de
klote" - nice!
at night i went to a gabber party at the stellwerk where eiterherd was
supposed to play. the location was quite cool, in the middle of
nowhere, pretty fuqed and hardcore, with smoked filled rooms. xol dog
400 went on and played his usual stuff, bunker-type industrial
hardcore, i liked some of the tracks he played (like the classic "der
flammenwerfer" or "chefstricher"). trauma xp was okay too, his set was
in a similiar style to his set of thursday.
i left before eitherherd played cuz i needed to get some sleep for the
fuckparade and after party at saturday.
on the next day eitherherd told me that when he played some gabbers
jumped on the stage and yelled at him cuz he did play breakcore, and
later they even cut of his power supply so he was forced to quit! so
if you ever come to berlin dont go to the stellwerk, boycot those
stupid gabba fucks!
saturday:
the day of the actual parade. there were around 28 fuck trucks
announced, dont know how much of them actually made it to the parade,
but there for sure were a lot of trucks at the parade! there were only
a few hardcore trucks, though. the size of the parade was quite big,
you had to walk a mile to get from the first truck to the last truck.
there were also lots of people at the parade, someone said around
10.000 people but that might be overestimated.
i played at the truck of the maria, which was actually my first live
act ever, and a *really* satisfying experience, woohoo!
i didnt get to check out most of the other trucks, but i heard the
truck of the insel was quite good too. anyway, the parade was fucking
excellent, for sure.
around 21:00 i left the parade, got some food, chilled a bit, and went
to the afterparty at the insel.
when i arrived xol dog 400 was playing at the hardcore floor, the same
tracks that he played at friday.
there were also 2 other floors, one floor was an old school
techno/breakbeat floor where classics like "age of love" or "9 is a
classic" were played - very nice!
i didnt check out the peace off crew and sonic dragolo cuz i wanted to
reserve my energy for christoph&hecate, the berzerker and dj scud.
when christoph&hecate went on the hardcore floor was already quite
crowded, not much room for pogo or any other dancing, so i spent most
time utilizing the 3rd dimension, i.e. jumping around.
christoph&hecate played a hard-as-fuck breakcore set. truly powerful
and creative music. excellent.
after them berzerker played. his stuff was truly incredible, the
hardest speedmetal mixed with speedcore beats ... that stuff punched
one right through ones skull... excellent.
then panacea played, i dont like his music, so i had time to chill
until DJ scud played. He spun some dope-ass noize-breakcore stuff in
the ambush style... very cool...
after him laurent ho played some very nice noizecore, great stuff, and
then we left.
all in all those were some truly blasting days in berlin, i dont think
i ever felt that great in my life!
thanx to rach and christoph for letting me stay at their place,
thanx to the DJs and live acts who played some wicked stuff,
thanx to daniel, marek, jan, basti, michael, bolkow and all the others
for partying with me and being dope blokes!
-low entropy
