Berlin Zwanzig

A podcast celebrating the city in 20 songs, from 1998-2018

August 30, 2018

The history of Berlin music in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s is well documented. Punk, new wave, acid house; the fall of the Berlin Wall and the stellar rise of techno. By the end of the millennium, more than a million people raved at the infamous Love Parade events every year. Dance music had arrived. But then what happened? Who are the people and what are the sounds that shaped the Berlin we know today? To celebrate 20 years of Red Bull Music Academy, Berlin Zwanzig – “Berlin Twenty” in English – explores 20 songs that have defined Berlin’s musical landscape from 1998 to 2018, by way of interviews between Red Bull Radio’s Vivian Host and the artists, journalists and scene stalwarts who bore witness to this fertile period in the city’s musical history.

Atari Teenage Riot - Revolution Action

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