Lost and Sound

Techno is dead, at least officially. In reality, beyond social utopias and Love Parade electronic music and the night-time sub-culture of going out were never more creative or interesting than today. And never so concentrated in a single place: Every weekend young people from all over Europe populate a few kilometers on the banks of the River Spree in Berlin.

They travel there on cheap carriers and fairly often they stay until after days the last after-hours session just about merges into the next weekend...

Tobias Rapp, music editor of the taz newspaper and an intimate connoisseur of the scene sketches a portrait of the most fascinating, excessive and in secret the most influential capital city culture and its protagonists: dancers and DJs, music producers and city planners.

»An extraordinary and entertaining portrait of Berlin’s nightlife […] a lucky chance.« Süddeutsche Zeitung