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It's being very interesting for us (the 2 survivors of the 270beat collective) to spend a while in berlin ... First of all, Kreuzberg is a quartier full of life, that for some aspects reminds us of the "barrio" where we live in Barcelona: lots of immigrants, punks, ex-punks and antifascists live here. There are many wagenplatz (the kinderbauenhof, where we are staying, is the smaller) and the mythical Köpi, the only illegal squat that survived during the nineties, and that still makes many activities... Yesterday night, for example, we went there to a soli(darity)party: even if lights and sound equipment were really low-fi, the music was very nice and djs were pretty proif... Actually german culture for electronic music impressed us in many other ways: berlin seems to be one of the most important dj's capital! Many wellknown techno labels are from here, there are lots of events in clubs every night and the musical ambience gives us a big inspiration... How can a partymaker not get inspired by a city where on friday night you can see on a sky-scraper a 30meters high green-yellow-red twin coloumn of lights reproducing the led v-meter of a dj mixer?
Anyway, even if our long berlinese nights are dedicated to explore the temples of electro/techno music, at the end we always end up at the Rote Rose (the 24h kitch proletarian pub near here) for some more Jägermeister... Today, saturday 15 april, we went to a demonstration against the inminent eviction of the Kreutzberg wagenplatz "shwartzer Kanal": there were about 800 peoples and almost the same number of cops, among them the new special "anti conflikt team" wich are supposed to mediate between normal police and demostrators in case of tensions (!?)... The demo was really peaceful, but the cops managed to arrest 2 persons "for having their face masked" - that is a crime, here as in many other nations... Now we go back to the kitchen to make pizza in the wood oven of Kinderbauenhof, showing our italian pizza-maker skills to old and new friends... güten appetit!
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