Maybe this has been posted before... but in any case, it ties in nicely with the "If" dicussion as it evaluates the role of delelict industry as a factor for the emergence of Techno - in Berlin!!!
Peace from Dortmund - highly industrial, derelict but no Techno anywhere!!!! Kat ---------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----- SHRINKING CITIES MUSIC /// Live Acts, lectures, discussion groups, films, parties Thursday, September 23 - Saturday, September 25 Palast der Republik, Schlossplatz, 10187 Berlin In the framework of the project "Volkspalast" (Aug. 20 - Nov. 9, 2004). In cooperation with the WMF, visuals by Pfandfinderei, supported by the British Council, Berlin, De:Bug, Geier-Tronic. Music /// Th, Sept. 23, from 10 p.m. Messer für Frau Müller live (What's So Funny About, Solnze Rec. / St. Petersburg) Errors live (Glasgow) Freeform live (Warp, Nonplace / Brighton), Dave Haslam (Haçienda / Manchester), triPhaze + Rev. Benn Schipper (Privatelektro / Leipzig), Oleg Kostrov (Messer für Frau Müller / St. Petersburg) Fr, Sept. 24, from 10 p.m. Clueso live (Four Music / Erfurt) Tim Wright live (Novamute / Glasgow) 808 State DJ-Team (Circus Rec. / Manchester) EU/2h Company (Chebu Rec. / St. Petersburg) Rec de Weirl (Lanetic / Leipzig) Miss Mira (Lanetic / Leipzig) Sa, Sept. 25, from 10 p.m. Richard H. Kirk live (Cabaret Voltaire, Mute / Sheffield) FSK live (Disko B / FFM) Derrick May (Transmat / Detroit) TBC! Dex (Underground Resistance, Detroit) Franki Juncaj (Motech / Detroit) AN 2 (Was Not Was, Izhevsk/St. Petersburg) Lowtec (Playhouse, r.a.n.d. Muzik, Leipzig) Lectures, Discussion Groups, Films /// Th, Sept. 23 and Sa, Sept. 25 In shrinking cities like Detroit (USA), Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield (UK), and Izhevsk (RUS), significant music cultures (Punk, House, Hip-Hop, Techno, and Electro) arose precisely in the times of urban crisis. They have sometimes had a significant influence on the cities' development. Shrinking Cities Music acoustically and theoretically addresses the question how music production developed and established itself in shrinking cities. Are shrinking cities especially productive sites for music? How is the city reflected and thematized in music production? Shrinking Cities Music comprises discussion groups, live performances, and parties. Further information: http://www.shrinkingcities.com/music.html Th, Sept. 23, 7-10 p.m. Panel 1 /// "Appropriating the City in the Post-Socialist Upheaval" (Ger.) With Steffen Kache (Distillery, Leipzig), Ralf Donis (Ilses Erika, Leipzig), Oleg Bogdanov (Light Music, St. Petersburg). Moderation: Jörg Augsburg (POP UP, Leipzig). Panel 2 /// "Reinventing the City through Music" (Eng.) With Dave Haslam (DJ and author, Manchester), Drew Hemment (Future Sonic, Manchester), Jayne Casey (afoundation, Liverpool), Klaus Overmeyer (landscape architect, Berlin). Moderation: Philipp Oswalt (architect/journalist, Berlin). Film Lounge /// "Made in Sheffield", Director: Eve Wood, USA 2004 "Strange Früt", Detroit Culture Part 1, Rock Apocrypha, Destroy all Monsters USA 1998 and other films, all orig. vers. Sa, Sept. 25, 4-9 p.m. Panel 1 /// "The City as Originator (Independent Mainstream)" (Eng.) With Jeff Mills (DJ, Detroit/Berlin), Dimitri Hegemann (Tresor, Berlin), Thomas Meinecke (journalist/musician, Eurasburg). Moderation: Alexis Waltz (music journalist, Berlin). Panel 2 /// "Black Brand? (Image of Techno)" (Eng.) With Nelson George (culture critic, New York), Justin Hoffmann (curator/musician, Wolfsburg), Diedrich Diederichsen (pop theoretician, Berlin). Moderation: Markus Müller (author/curator, Münster). Film lounge /// "Modulations", Director: Iara Lee, USA 2003 "The Last Angel of History", Director: John Akomfrah, Black Audio Film Collective GB/D 1995 Admission /// to lectures/discussion/film lounge: 5 Euro per day Admission to the music program (from 10 p.m.): Th: 8 Euro, Fr: 10 Euro, Sa: 12 Euro Advance ticket sales: Ticket Office HAU 2 daily Noon-19 p.m., Tel. 25 90 04 27, or Ticket Office Palast der Republik, Schlossplatz, daily 3-6 p.m., Tel. 030-20 91 46 80, and at all ticket outlets. Music concept: Alexandra Dröner, Johanna Grabsch, Katrin Hallenberger; Theory/Film Lounge concept: Doreen Mende, Philipp Oswalt; Production manager: Andreas Sachwitz. Press contact: Astrid Herbold, Shrinking Cities Project, Eisenacherstraße 74, D-10823 Berlin, Phone +49 (0)30 81 82 19 06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shrinking Cities is a project of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes [Federal Cultural Foundation] in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the magazine archplus. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Stewart Caig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. September 2004 17:39 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: (313) If > >us the whole > >warehouse/summer of love/rave/acid house/Orbital parties call it what you > >like scene bloomed over here first before the rest of the world caught on > > Hacienda!? > Blackburn?! same summer. You know Ive always wondered about the whole early Manchester (or Madchester as the crap Tee shirts told us) scene. I was going to warehouse parties as early as 89, but I always imagined the Hacienda and Manchester thing to be slightly different. I never hooked onto the whole Mondays/Stone Roses/New Order thing and never really felt that it had anything to do with what I was getting into. Have never really made any effort to extended my knowledge of the Manchester scene in those days (Having never ever even ventured further North than to the Eclipse in Coventry a few times! I'm Southern through and through!) other than what I've read in Techno Rebels and some other cool book on the history of rave culture, but even then I still thought that it all sounded a bit different to what I remember of those early heady days. I mean we were all wearing 30 inch flairs, baggy hooded tops with 'freaky' patterns on, Kickers, wallabies and floppy hats as well, but I dont remember ever hearing a Manchester track played at a single party I ever went to.
