By sourpix - cc 2.0
A good friend of mine asked me to join him to go to the Faces, a rough night club that is famous for its Thursday night parties starting at 6 am to end up in the late evening, a good choice though when leaving the Wednesday Tresor party and you actually don’t wanna quit yet. We’d planned to go to the Faces last Friday, but appaerently the club was closed that night. Their website doesn’t seem to be that up to date.
After discarding one club after another as a compromise (we were a group of one girl and five guys, and had to find a club with a moderate door policy) we’ve tried our luck at the Watergate. The last time I was in the Watergate was around 2004/05. And it’s also while ago, since I was in a Berlin club.
The wating line wasn’t that long, so we were waiting just for about 5 minutes. Thanks to the anonym girls in front of the club, who helped us joining the club as fake couples ;)
Inside the Watergate we were first checking out the Water Floor, where The Cheapers aka Ruede Hagelstein and Fraenzen Texas were playing a 12 hour ping pong set. Fast checking the schedule of that I explored, that Mitja Prinz was playing in the upper LED floor. Since my last time here, they’ve rebuilt this floor with a nice arrangement and freaking, long spread ceiling with thousands of LEDs, controlled by a VJ. I’ve already hear about the LED lights and also saw some videos, but you have to check out this thing in real time! It’s simply gorgeous!!!
Mitja Prinz played an fine grained techhouse set with some darker influences, which generally was interessting to me. Most of the tracks he played were unknown to me, either brand new or unreleased stuff, or records I still not know. Two tracks I definitely remember were Konrad Black “Medusa Smile” and Spektre “Capacitor” (a relatively new one). After him Scarlett Etienne, an upcoming female DJ from London started between 3 and 3.30 am. I really liked the first few records, that she was playing. It was interesting that both were playing with digital setups and vinyl emulation, Mitja with N.I. Traktor Scratch (a software that also Steve Bug and Ritchie Hawtin are using) and Scarlett with a - to me - unknown software.
We (a friend and I) left the club at around 4 am, which means, that the night wasn’t so long for a Berlin club night ;) Maybe the next one will last longer, since I plan to visits the Pokerflat label night at the Watergate in April.
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