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99% Invisible

Tanz Tanz Revolution

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0

This is 99% invisible.

0:02.0

I'm Roman Mars.

0:05.0

One summer a few years ago, Alex Morrow was visiting friends in Berlin,

0:09.0

and he made plans to go out to one of the city's most famous techno clubs,

0:12.0

a place called Burghine.

0:16.1

The club is notoriously difficult to get into, and so Alex made sure he looked just right.

0:22.3

They said like wear black, so I was wearing everything black like black t-shirt black jeans black socks I said you know it just in case I wear black underwear as well.

0:31.0

Even with the black underwear Alex didn't think much of his chances, but

0:35.1

the doorman waved him through. And all of a sudden you're in this environment where the

0:39.2

music is penetrating you and I was just like, wow. The club isn't a former power plant and

0:48.0

it still has that rough and industrial look. This reporter Kevin Caners who lives in

0:52.2

Berlin.

0:52.8

It's a huge hall with massively high ceilings and different floors.

0:57.0

And filling the building, of course, is the sound of techno,

1:00.3

pumped out through an enormous wall of speakers.

1:03.0

It was just the sound and I just got fully into it.

1:06.0

Alex lives in London and he'd been clubbing there plenty of times,

1:10.0

but this was something different.

1:12.0

Everyone can do their thing as long as everyone respects each other.

1:15.2

If you see someone naked dancing next year, cool.

1:19.0

If you see someone wearing a suit, cool.

1:21.9

If people are having sex okay and I could have done whatever I

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