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Techno TalesAuthor: Will Johncock
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Episode 27 –3 Phase featuring Dr. Motte - Der Klang Der Familie
Episode 27
Sunday, 14 September, 2025
It’s February 1989, a few months before the Berlin wall falls. Matthias Roeingh, a dj otherwise known as Dr Motte, is standing on the street outside a Berlin nightclub at three in the morning. He, his girlfriend, and a friend, are discussing how underground parties in England are regularly being stopped by the police there, who in doing so also remove the sound system. Motte and his associates are amused that the response to this from English partygoers is often to dance outside in the streets, with ghetto blasters producing the soundtrack. So enthused is Motte by this story, that he raises the possibility of holding a street party in Berlin, in an explosion of colour and sound that might animate the city. As Motte and others develop this idea into a reality in the coming weeks and months, the event becomes known as the Love Parade. By 1992, he and Sven Röhrig, otherwise known as 3 Phase, have produced the track that will serve as the party's unofficial anthem, "Der Klang der Familie". Support Techno Tales by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/techno-tales
