berghain

Everybody even having the slightest interest in Berlin techno and clubbing can't get around Berghain. Loved for its athmosphere and music by many as wel as reviled for being an expensive tourist trap and for its seemingly random door policy by as many others, its a one of the most famous techno clubs on earth. And I got in!
Just for a concert, though. On a Wednesday. When there was no door policy and no one-hour waiting row at five o'clock in the morning. The concert was great, though. Deep, organic, slow electronic ambientish beats, live. The cool surroundings (Berghain is a former power plant - intimidating, gray, tall building with high vertical windows in an industrial zone) and the awesome sound system (Function one system - clicky for those fans of awesome numbers and cool names, some pictures of Berhain's inside as well) helped, off course. See those "dance stacks" on the picture in the pdf file? They are taller than I am. All the four of them.
And I'm 2 meters.

3 euro for a becks beer, which isn't cheap but not utterly unpayable either. However, the two hours of waiting for the concert to start (staring hour on the website: 20 - real start of the concert: 22) sucked. "Lets just let these tourists buy a couple of drinks more", seemed to be the rationale. Can't really blame them, though.

They stick to their no-camera policy even on evenings like this, checking my pockets and all. I wonder what they do with mobile phones sporting multi-megapixel autofocusing leica-lens equipped camera's, though.
I guess you best disable the flash.

Anyway, looks like a cool place to go in the weekend. Will try it again, if I don't get in I'll just get to another place. No shortage of that in Berlin, so it seems :)