[upbeat music]

And he mixed it all up.

He would play whatever, the B-52s, Prince.

He would play electronic music that came over from Europe.

[electronic music] So you had Kraftwerk, obviously.

You had, like, the Belgium stuff, like Telex, Italo disco.

And he would kinda create these narratives, and he was kind of a mystical figure as well.

Sven Vath, the DJ techno historian, picks up the story of Wertheim here.