Sven Marquardt, the gatekeeper to techno club Berghain (pronounced Berg-hine) in Berlin, remembers a time when clubbing was to be experienced, not photographed, catalogued and curated online.
“Back then it was unusual to take photos of venues, it was not a time of smartphones, people went where they did to live experience,” says the burly German, who had been a bouncer at East Berlin’s hotspots since the 1990s.
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