Techno at the End of the Future, Episode 2: Berlin | On Music

Around 1989, what were the promises of techno and its fictions? How
are they significant today? And to whom? Episode 2 focuses on past,
present and future of the Detroit-Berlin axis. By means of an
interview collage, writer and Make Techno Black Again activist
DeForrest Brown, Jr., Lerato Khathi aka Lakuti (founder of Uzuri
Recordings and the Bring Down the Walls initiative), Boris Dolinski
(resident DJ at Berghain) and Mark Ernestus (musician and founder
of the Hard Wax record store) explore how the rapid growth of club
culture in Germany after 1989 relates to techno’s origins in the
Black neighbourhoods of Detroit. Narration by Christine Kakaire,
directed and produced by Julia Vorkefeld, script and concept by
Arno Raffeiner Image: Abu Qadim Haqq (Detail) Music credits: Techno
is a Liberation Technology by DeForrest Brown Jr/Speaker Music ft.
AceMo, Katak by Kode9, The Truth is Elsewhere by Nkisi, Victim by
Kode9, Rhythmatic Music For Speakers (Mk.II) by DeForrest Brown
Jr/Speaker Music & Rona City Blues by Kode9.