Even a century ago, the old Prussian capital was the trailblazing zenith of interwar Europe. A hotbed of the avant-garde, cabaret, and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht\u2019s socialist librettos, such subversion on the street was countered by the academic innovations in modern classical music, with Arnold Schoenberg rejecting centuries of Western compositional convention with his atonal and 12-tone row pieces. It was an exciting time for any artist and bohemian, before a seething conservative movement growing in Munich set such \u2018degenerate music\u2019 in its fascist sights.<\/p>\n
The Third Reich could never kill Berlin\u2019s creative spirit.<\/a> In the ensuing decades, a reputation for fierce experimentalism would score the Western half of the city during its Cold War era. The heady explorations of Krautrock while the old FRG was swept by political protest, David Bowie\u2019s famed Berlin Trilogy pulling international attention to the speck of capitalism deep in the Eastern Bloc, and the explosive Neue Deutsche Welle spinning their own wry and Teutonic take on the new wave at the 1970s\u2019 end.<\/p>\n Such belligerent radicalism marries with the old Weimar Berlin\u2019s sense of fun, too. Berlin to this day is a fervently party city, standing as a Mecca of the techno nightlife and the absolute authority on the world\u2019s rave community. There\u2019s a little golden age cabaret in the mammoth dance clubs, the echoes of Berlin\u2019s unabashed dive into hedonism<\/a> and Dionysian abandon of the 1920s fuelling all the megaclubs and 24-hour parties from the same gloriously libertine spirit that\u2019s been floating in the centuries-old River Spree.<\/p>\n It\u2019s still a city that commands countercultural attention. From punk underground to dance pilgrimage, we take a stroll through Berlin\u2019s storied city and select the spots that tell an essential slice of the German capital\u2019s music lore.<\/p>\n
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