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Go Inside Berlin Atonal 2018 With These Videos From Its Experimental Control Room Stage
Get a glimpse of some the best sets from this year’s Atonal, straight from the Kraftwerk control room.
There are few better places to listen to cutting-edge electronic music than a power station control room. But while our dreams of techno clubs in Soviet control rooms will probably never be realized, Berlin Atonal has given us the next best thing.
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One of the smaller stages at the genre-defying festival takes place in the former control room for the mammoth, concrete-encrusted Kraftwerk. Lined with beautiful vintage panels and switchboards, it’s the ideal place to see music focused on wired-up and plugged-in electronic noise. The control room usually houses a massive modular system which acts from the festival take turns patching and improvising on, but this year they’ve also recorded a number of brilliant solo sets from the room.
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FACT was on site to record a set of intricate, looping electronics from London’s object blue, live techno from New York’s Hiro Kone (pictured) and Killer-Oma‘s bent contra bass/hip-hop duet. Needless to say, all the sets are feasts for both the eyes and the ears. Check them out in full above and below.
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