Dubstep Takes Over

I was in Berlin the other week as you'll see below. The Germans have very specific music tastes. To my mind they love very minimal techno, scary metal and cheesy euro-dance.

And at a club called Maria I realised you can add another genre to that list. The UK's own Dubstep. I leave Brixton to go to Berlin and end up at a stonking Dubstep night. Bizarre.

Benga and Skream were supposed to play seperate sets but decided to go back to back and of course killed it. Biggest tunes were Benga's own Crunk, this remix of The Streets and the above La Roux remix. Sorry about the DJ, but it's so big I had to post it. Wait for it to kick in at 4mins.

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Berlin Buildings

Just got back from the German capital and really fell in love with the place. The modern architecture beats London hands down. After the wall came down every big architect seems to have designed in Berlin- Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Frank Gehry are all there somewhere.

My favourites though were Brit Norman Foster's reworking of the Reichstag (including the psychedelic dome above) and Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum. The latter is disorientating, challenging, uncomfortable and well, just scary. See below.

Ich bin ein Berliner

Going to Berlin for a few days and realised I own hardly any German music. I do have a copy of the Tiefschwarz album Eat Books which was recorded in the capital. Two banging tracks below, one has German lyrics- natürlich.

MP3: Tiefschwarz- Fly

MP3: Tiefschwarz ft. Malte- Schmetterlingsflugel

Gonna try to get to this place tomorrow when Hertha Berlin play Frankurt. A win would take them to the top of the Bundesliga. Oh and listen to the breakdown on Fly at about 3mins30secs.