After some days of silence, here we at last, updating the diary again !! We must admit that we were totally captured by Berlin's metropolitan rhythm, and we kind of lost ourselves into parties, social life, and the beginning of spring. The party we held on saturday at subversiv was really a joy for us. Since not too late in the night the place was already full, everybody was dancing  and the party went on like that until approx. 7 in the morning.

It was a nice sensation for us to be in a place, where most of the people in the radical alternative movement listen to some kind of electronic music. We didn't feel anymore like we had to "convince" the people that they could, for one time, dance to electroclash and disco beats... that is pretty normal here in berlin. And so, the two of us swap each other at the console for hours and hours, enjoying our DJ session like kids.

The subversiv is actually a really nice place on two floors, so the ground-level floor was the bar while we converted the basement into a real dancefloor. We decided to play electroclash & electrotechno until 4-5 in the morning, and then switch to some dance and disco hits... and people enjoyed that a lot.

So the party went just smooth... and the afterparty too: when we finished djing in Sub's, we continued in our nightlife experience in another couple of clubs. Both of us didn't go to sleep before sunday late afternoon.

The following days were also full of events: the 1st of may, our "pizza goodbye" to kinderbauenhof... but we will write some diary about that too. Meanwhile, we try to set up the pictures of the berlin party to put them on the website.

It's being very interesting for us (the 2 survivors of the 270beat collective) to spend a while in berlin ...  First of all, Kreuzberg is a quartier full of life, that for some aspects reminds us of the "barrio" where we live in Barcelona: lots of immigrants, punks, ex-punks and antifascists live here. There are many wagenplatz (the kinderbauenhof, where we are staying, is the smaller) and the mythical Köpi, the only illegal squat that survived during the nineties, and that still makes many activities... Yesterday night, for example, we went there to a soli(darity)party: even if lights and sound equipment were really low-fi, the music was very nice and djs were pretty proif...  Actually german culture for electronic music impressed us in many other ways: berlin seems to be one of the most important  dj's capital! Many wellknown techno labels are from here, there are lots of events in clubs every night and the musical ambience gives us a big inspiration... How can a partymaker not get inspired by a city where on friday night you can see on a sky-scraper a 30meters high green-yellow-red twin coloumn of lights reproducing the led v-meter of a dj mixer?

Anyway, even if our long berlinese nights are dedicated to explore the temples of electro/techno music, at the end we always end up at the Rote Rose (the 24h kitch proletarian pub near here) for some more Jägermeister... 

Today, saturday 15 april, we went to a demonstration against the inminent eviction of the Kreutzberg wagenplatz "shwartzer Kanal": there were about 800 peoples and almost the same number of cops, among them the new special "anti conflikt team" wich are supposed to mediate between normal  police and demostrators in case of tensions (!?)...  The demo was really peaceful, but the cops managed to arrest 2 persons  "for having their face masked" - that is a crime, here as in many other nations...

Now  we go back to the kitchen to make pizza in the wood oven of Kinderbauenhof, showing our italian pizza-maker skills to old and new friends...   güten appetit!