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This Video Takes You Through Berlin's '90s Techno Bunker Underground
Go cruising.
The idea of cruising through Berlin’s hottest ’90s clubs to Daniel Wang’s erotic acid disco sounds pretty good, right? Well, a fellow YouTuber agrees with you. Thanks to one user, some incredible historic footage of Berlin’s vibrant club scene circa 1998 has been uncovered in the form of a porno. The video below is a 6 minute—totally safe for work—clip from a longer film, appropriately titled Berlin Techno Sex: Tanz auf dem Vulcan (“Dance on the Volcano”). The tagline of the film is “where anything goes… and the boys play hard!”, which sounds pretty much like Berlin to us. And a classic Wang cut, “Two Tracks We Made In 1999 For A Gay Leather Video”, originally released on Playhouse has been chosen to soundtrack the clip to emphasize the video’s playful erotica.
In fact, the video and track work so well together that it has attracted the attention of Wang himself. Now, the cult house and disco producer is on a mission to track down the figures in the video. In a Facebook post, Wang has called on anyone to help him identify the actors or locations. Wang himself has already recognized some of Berlin’s hotspots, which have now become part of the city’s clubbing folklore; in particular, footage of the old KitKatClub location at Turbine. You can watch the video below.
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