The stadium itself was of course, completely empty, but the live-stream had over a quarter of a million viewers on-line.
Not really sure why West German type people would rock this kind of music, it doesn't quite have the requisite two-dimensional regimented style they all tend to favor, you wouldn't think.
Van Dyk is a product of Soviet-era East Berlin, and its deep roots into classical music. He asked his fans once, 'what was the first piece of Trance Music that you had ever listened to?'
I told him 'Beethoven's 9th' and he gave me a big grin and a nod.
(You get to chat away with people down the right hand scrolling box).
After three hours... ...pepper steak with flaming whiskey cream sauce, right?
And my own selection of 'hour al-ayn.'
...As the sun went down on the stadium behind the man playing his long set, the club put on a lighting show in the darkened arena. Now we're talking some serious pull here. BVB Dortmund is arguably the biggest, most powerful soccer club in all of Germany.
BVB is big, but Bayern Muenchen is way bigger. The German trance scene makes perfect sense when you think of all the synth pop coming out of West Deutschland in the 1980's, Alphaville, Kraftwerk, etc...
ReplyDeleteGod you are so right in the sense of what Germany has done in pop music certainly. And I should know! God when I think I even forgot my own past in all of this!! I actually produced a German/Austrian group called 'Auslander' - as in, invested and looked after them as artists although I also arranged a full-time 'agent' for them. They had worked on Dieter Meier's 'Yello' material and live performances beforehand. I shoved them up to this Canadian talent agent (because there was not enough for them down here) and she got them together with Bryan Adams after which they did the huge success 'Chicane.' ...Which sadly, I had no piece of. I think the tragedy of a lot of commercial music, is that the artists cannot handle the success IF it ever comes. Chicane was never repeated. But then too, the big studios manipulate contracts as well. Kraftwerk and the rest as you mention, were HUGE HUGE albeit totally different to modern era 'EDM Trance' as such, although it could be seen in some sense as a forerunner up to a point. I am biased towards Borussia Dortmund... lol 'Yello.' And - 'The Yellow Wall.' Dortmund. And don't get me going on Arsene now. Because over there on that side, it's the GUNNERS!! Munchen don't have the soul for MUSIC. Hehehehe.
DeleteAs far as the German supporters go of course, they just would follow Kloppers wherever - so yeah, Paul finished his set with 'You'll Never Walk Alone.' And the trance heads around the globe not ALL THAT familiar with UK soccer were sitting there going 'wha-a-a-a?' 'Has he lost his mind?'
DeleteI'm a real fan of Rammstein, whose roots were in East Germany. I love the lead singer, mostly because his style would NEVER win the American singing talent show, "American Idol"! Lol.
ReplyDeleteSorry to change topics a bit on you but I was wondering...
ReplyDeleteLast month you posted a small list of "some things we know" on another web site.
I am curious if that list has been changed or added to in the past few weeks.
Sorry not "things we know". More like what is real.
ReplyDeleteI mean I'm pretty sure it's not a secret though it has never been 'put out there' officially, but let's face it, Navy has published the 'Tic-Tac' UFO. NASA has never publsihed any 'Tic-Tac' UFOS filmed from up there. But Space Force will. That's number one thing. And when that happens, WHEN it happens which will be sooner or later depending on what more funding they are seeking, the world of 'out there theories' will of course go nuts. You bank this though, if they filmed it down here and released the film, they will see those things up there and they will 'film it up there' too and release that as well eventually.
DeleteThere are other things to do with London academia of course, but that's just from the same line of inquiry as Mifsud and Halpers an co, though more specifically focusing on where the 'strategizing' is all coming from.
There is one HUGE thing that is just plain too huge to talk about here or anywhere just for the moment. It isn't critical to anything, it's just that speculation will swirl massively at some point. It's a very complicated thing this one because it's two completely separate things that have some similarities: one of them is to do with thousands of missing kids.
But you might be thinking more along the lines of the 'Tik-Tak' matters, and, is this ALL they/'we' know... Are there really decisive other aspects no one wants to reveal. There is a rumor, that the CIA has a set of archive files from after WWII that have gone completely missing, involving some tiny quiet projects and even operations that may have been kept going on 'black budgets' even after, long after, maybe till now, while HO believed everything was closed especially after all the people from Paper Clip were long dead from old age! You see the 'Q clearance' (nuclear security code 'Q' not media 'Q') is listed in control files of course, BUT, some were definitely in the hands of the Paper Clip German scientists. Well who took their clearances off them? No one in CIA has the power to. But CIA keeps the archives and reports on the programs, project, operations - which in that regard are all meant to be closed files. THIS 'Q' stuff is definitely linked to Area 51 matters vis-a-vis the nuclear security and propaganda aspects to do with the back then Soviet threat, or perceived/potential risk anyway. I'm fencing around the point of 'propaganda' and using the word 'propaganda' because the 'legend' is too stupid to countenance without hard factual evidence. However people in serious places - Oz radar dishes, night watch radar dishes, other - are proceeding right now, on NOT propaganda. So... Who knows. Exercise? Dunno. You know, they've been running 'exercises' on pandemics too. And then... Well, you know what happened 'and then.'
Thank you. I always appreciate your insight.
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