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in an old coal-pulveriser

where it was also incredibly dirty

and then it became more official, and bigger

and then some money was invested

and the whole thing moved

to the Kulturhaus in Rdersdorf.

Here we organized the bigger raves

in Rdersdorf from 1994 onwards

- the really official ones.

There were lots of people involved,

and lots of people in the end

means obscure accounting.

We had to pay tax for example.

Until then:
What?

Nobody ever did it before.

And it worked for a while,

was quite nice,

but then a certain greediness

from certain people set in,

and the group split.

It stopped fairly soon afterwards.

I think in late 1995

we had the last party here.

So basically, it kept going for 1 years.

Before I started getting into music seriously

I also did other things,

like skateboarding and spraying graffiti.

I also went to school in Berlin.

But when I witnessed

the first Techno parties here,

that touched me somehow,

it did something with me.

It was so overwhelming that after

that point there was nothing else for me.

Gernot and I always

went to the parties together,

then spent the time separately

and in the end went home together.

That's how it always went.

It was fascinating to experience

this new type of music

basically around the corner,

kind of in the middle of the forest

and Gernot was always crazier about it

than me or other people and wanted to

experience it with every fibre of his body.

Our Gernot could not yet walk properly

when he started to bang

his wooden toys in a rhythm

and sing really like a jazz-musician:

'There was a man,

who poo-pooed in his bed. '

In different kind of rhythms

and he was still very small then.

We thought that he was going to be a musician

- even the minister said during his christening:

'He'll be a great musician!' -

so we send him to piano lessons:

Big fiasco.

In about 3rd or 4th class I was

proud owner of a Technotronic tape,

I went to bed with it

and woke up to it in the morning.

I was listening to it non-stop

and after some Techno socialisation

and underground parties where Szary was too,

I started to get more into it

and basically had my first

DJ gigs at home in my bedroom.

I think Gernot's parents always said:

'Just do it. '

His Dad is a scientist,

he always sat downstairs in his office

and Gernot was playing music upstairs

and that was alright.

I think they rather encouraged him

to do what he really wanted to do.

My father once threatened me with

a wooden slat because I made so much noise.

He was working in his study,

he always had to write a lot,

and I had the music really loud in my room...

Something was being built in the staircase

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