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Berlin Senate scraps controversial “anti-discrimination clause” for arts funding amid protests

Cultural institutions seeking public grants will not have to follow the requirement seen as a "restriction on the freedom of art"

The Berlin Senate is dropping the controversial "anti-discrimination clause" for cultural grant recipients following pushback from artists around the world. The Senate Department of Culture...

New club opens in Munich, Germany

The new club aims to combine "pulsating techno rhythms" with art

A new club called DNA has opened in Munich, Germany. The 400-capacity techno club, whose name stands for Diverse Nightlife Aesthetics, is located near the...

Inside view of Tresor Berlin nightclub

Applications to the paid scheme close next Monday (20th November)

Tresor Berlin is giving six young people the chance to learn how to manage a nightclub. Run out of Kraftwerk Berlin by Tresor's owner Dimitri...

‘Synth Swap’ service for kit rental launches in Berlin

The community rental marketplace has been created to enable Berlin musicians to safely rent synthesizers and other gear

A new music gear exchange service, Synth Swap, has launched in Berlin. The platform and community rental marketplace has been created to enable musicians to...

Berlin club community to throw protest rave in response to A100 motorway expansion next month

"These prospects for the future are unacceptable to us," said the Berlin Club Commission

Berlin's clubbing community are set to throw a protest rave in opposition to the A100 motorway expansion next month. Scheduled for Saturday, 2nd September, the...

Photo of dancers and colourful lights inside a nightclub

Berlin’s new culture budget is more than double that for the entirety of England in 2024

Berlin’s Senator for Culture has announced a new €947 million (£813 million) culture fund for 2024, Euronews reports. The fund, which is up €13 million...

Kraftwerk Australia New Zealand tour 2023

The iconic electronic pioneers head for Wellington, Auckland, Sydney, and Melbourne among other cities  

Kraftwerk have announced plans to tour Australia and New Zealand before the end of 2023, marking their first string of shows in either country since...

Photo of the busy lakeside stage at Nibirii festival 2022

The German festival will welcome back the very best of Goa trance, psytrance, techno, and more

Nibirii Festival has shared the full line-up for its 2023 edition. Set to take place in Düren, Northern Germany, from 25th - 27th August, the...

Photo of green strobe lights on the main stage at Airbeat One festival

Charlotte de Witte, Fisher, ALOK, and more are on the bill for the festival’s 20th anniversary edition

Northern Germany’s Airbeat One has revealed the complete line-up for its 2023 festival this summer. Taking place from 12th to 16th July, the festival’s 20th...

timewarp2022

Featuring 40 headliners including Sven Väth, Amelie Lens, Adam Beyer and many more

Time Warp has revealed the line-up for its return to Mannheim. Following a four-year pause on its spring edition, the festival will take over its...

Berlin has a new record store, No Signal Records

It mainly specialises in first and second-hand house, techno, funk and disco

A new record shop, No Signal Records, has opened in Berlin. The new store opened its doors on Mainzerstrasse in Friedrichshain earlier this month. Stocking...

Whole Fest

This year’s Whole Festival marked the biggest underground electronic music-focused queer festival on the planet, bringing together LGBTQ+ collectives, artists and ravers from around the globe. Marke Bieschke heads to Germany to find out how Whole has created a world of its own

In its fourth incarnation, delayed two years due to the pandemic, this year’s Whole: United Queer Festival is the hot ticket for LGBTQ+ folks from...

refugeworldwide

It will take in 11 cities and various artists from October to December

Berlin community radio station Refuge Worldwide has announced details of a DJ workshop and party tour. Starting and ending in the stations home in the...

tresor_books

The 352-page Tresor: True Stories features 400+ rare photographs, 40 stories and more

The early years of Tresor is to be explored in a new archival book. In the midst of the club's 31st anniversary celebrations, Tresor: True...

DHL vinyl shipping costs

A petition to change parcel formats has been launched in a bid to help stores and sellers

The cost of shipping vinyl from Germany to the rest of the world is set to significantly increase as a result of pricing amendments to...

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The Mitte clubbing institution is back with a new soundsystem and more

Tresor is set to reopen for the first time in two years this weekend. Widely regarded as of the world's most respected clubs, the Berlin...

Klaus Schulze, pioneering electronic musician, dies, aged 74

Known for his groundbreaking use of synths and samples in the 1970s, and his work with Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel

Pioneering electronic musician Klaus Schulze has died. Known for his groundbreaking use of synths and samples in the 1970s, Schulze was equally regarded for a...

Museum of Modern Electronic Music in Frankfurt faces criticism over lack of diversity and representation

An open letter by female:pressure also addresses the Magistrate of the City of Frankfurt’s alleged misrepresentation of techno’s origins

The Museum of Modern Electronic Music in Frankfurt is facing criticism over an alleged lack of diversity, and misrepresentation of techno's Black roots. It comes...

Rules are being ramped-up across Europe as continental cases continue to surge

Germany, Portugal and Northern Ireland are among the countries announcing new COVID-19 restrictions in the face of rising cases and the threat posed by the...

"A place to explore, conserve and relive the historical dimensions and influences of Electronic Music"

A new museum dedicated to electronic music will open in Frankfurt next year.

The Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) was originally planned to open...