Jul 10, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 17 segments
We travel to Germany to trace techno’s history from Detroit to Berlin. The story of how, after the Wall fell, Berlin exorcised its brutal past with a very strange, decade-long party. A mission that…
PJ VogtHost
Sven von ThülenGuestPhilip Schröder-RingeGuest
As someone who has known the joys of belonging and the pain of not, I've always been very curious about where I can make myself fit in and which places are a bridge too far.
Could a poorly dressed American with a weird laugh find even a temporary home in a severe German techno dungeon? I had less than a week to get an answer, but for once in my life, at least I knew it would be a definitive one.
So, on March 13th, I get off the plane, blink in the bright, cold sunlight, and start practicing some rudimentary German.
Hello.
[laughs]
Hello.
Can you say Tag?
Say Tag.
It's our first day, and so we head to the neighborhood everyone had told me to start with, Friedrichshain.
As someone who has known the joys of belonging and the pain of not, I've always been very curious about where I can make myself fit in and which places are a bridge too far.
Could a poorly dressed American with a weird laugh find even a temporary home in a severe German techno dungeon? I had less than a week to get an answer, but for once in my life, at least I knew it would be a definitive one.
So, on March 13th, I get off the plane, blink in the bright, cold sunlight, and start practicing some rudimentary German.
Hello.
[laughs]
Hello.
Can you say Tag?
Say Tag.
It's our first day, and so we head to the neighborhood everyone had told me to start with, Friedrichshain.
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