Kosovo Clubbing

The highly anticipated film Rave On will premiere on May 15, 2025, at the Cannes Film Market, offering an authentic and immersive look into Berlin's legendary techno scene.  Photo by  Aleksandr Popov  on  Unsplash Directed by Nikias Chryssos and Viktor Jakovleski, the film follows young music producer Kosmo (played by Aaron Altaras) through a transformative night that blurs the lines between reality, sound, and emotion. Shot during real club events in Berlin and featuring artists like Hieroglyphic Being and Lucia Lu, *Rave On* captures the raw energy of underground culture without glamorizing it.  Producer Andro Steinborn calls it “as raw and real as the music itself.” Represented by sales agency The Playmaker, the film aims to connect with a global audience and stand as a powerful, genuine portrait of a generation dancing toward self-discovery through rhythm and night. [ source ]

Kosovo Clubbing shares a cool throwback to a special movie called “Chilling” , which first aired on Christmas Day in 1990 on Channel 4 in the UK.  This 30-minute documentary was one of the first to truly show what partying on Ibiza looked like during the late '80s and early '90s, in the time of the third “Summer of Love.” The film was made with help from DJ and promoter Charlie Chester , and it reached over 13 million viewers when it aired on Boxing Day 1990 ! “Chilling” inspired and educated a whole new group of party lovers, DJs, and music producers . The soundtrack is packed with amazing sounds like Balearic beat, acid house, early house, and chillout music . It takes us back to the real sound of Ibiza , with scenes from famous clubs like Ku (now Privilege), Amnesia, and Pacha . You can see people dancing outdoors, smiling, and losing themselves in the music. But “Chilling” isn’t just about the music – it also shows the spirit of that time . Through interviews with D...

A new short film has been released to expose the truth about sexual harassment in the electronic music industry. The film is called “When the Music Ends” and was created by Berlin-based production house Spilled Milk, directed by Mo Kanaan and starring British DJ and producer Rebekah. The film is based on true stories from people who have remained anonymous and is based on a study by the Electronic Music Inclusion Initiative (EMII). The study covered 28 countries and reported over 615 incidents of harassment, ranging from insults to unwanted touching. What does this film show? In just five minutes, it portrays what many people have experienced in nightlife and shows how harassment takes a physical and mental toll on victims. This effort aims to raise awareness of these issues in the electronic music scene. Along with the film, a new website has been created to inform people about panel discussions and to raise funds for 2025. A new law has come into force in the UK requiring employers ...

 A special documentary, almost 30 years after its original release, has returned to YouTube for anyone who wants to watch it. The documentary “ Techno – the dream sold” , made in 1995 by East Germany’s Radio Brandenburg, tells the story of the “rise and fall of the rave generation” through interviews with journalists, music store owners and celebrities of the time, such as Dr. Motte and Jürgen Laarmann. The documentary tackles topics that are still relevant today, such as self-promotion and selfishness in the electronic music scene. In addition to interesting interviews, this documentary also features a great soundtrack with songs by Leftfield, Joey Beltram, Eric Murillo, Paul van Dyk and Barbara Tucker. If you are a fan of techno music or just want to enjoy some nostalgia from the 90s, you can watch the full documentary “Techno – the dream sold” on YouTube and relive unforgettable moments from that era. Watch here!!

This film celebrates the sound of Detroit. Welcome to Techno City! Third Ear is proud to present its unique documentary filmed in Detroit, featuring personal interviews and commentary from some of the key figures in the Techno story. It also includes footage from the inaugural Detroit Electronic Music Festival, later transformed into Movement , held on Memorial Day in the US. “Detroit Techno. Definitely techno. Appreciated abroad. Ignored at home. Until now." In 2000, almost fifteen years after the first editions, the city of Detroit held its first electronic music festival. This film celebrates the sound of Detroit. Welcome to Techno City. [source]

 A new documentary explores how the techno genre spread from Detroit to Berlin, which is today's epicenter of techno. The film features interviews with some of the most significant figures from the early days of the techno scene: Juan Atkins, Alan Oldham (DJ T-1000), Ellen Allien, and Tresor founder Dimitri Hegemann. Additionally, archival footage of interviews with DJ Detroit and Paul van Dyk also make appearances.  For those who might raise concerns about the omission of some pioneers of the scene, primarily Kraftwerk , it's important to note that the film's focus is squarely on techno and the Detroit-Berlin relationship. While the title " How Techno Was Born?" may generate expectations about listing the most important musical influences, the film effectively captures the essence of the genre's evolution and its global diffusion within a concise 19-minute runtime.  The story commences in 1980s Berlin, when the Berlin Wall still divided the city into tw...

This two-part documentary brings exclusive interviews with key figures from the scene, such as Nile Rodgers, Marshall Jefferson, Honey Dijon, and many others. British television Channel 4 presents a two-part documentary series called "I Was There When House Took Over the World," which chronologically traces the origins and development of house music.  The documentary series follows how the death of disco led to the creation of the iconic sound of electronic and dance music.  The documentary series is divided into two parts - "House Was Born," which focuses on the social and cultural environment, as well as the historical context that influenced the genre's development, and "House Went Global," which tells the story of how house music conquered the charts and dancefloors worldwide. The documentary series features archival footage, visits to iconic locations in Chicago , and interviews with key figures from the scene who were active in the past and to...

The eight-part documentary series Techno House Deutschland is available in the media library of the TV channel ARD The series follows the development of electronic music and techno culture in Germany over three decades and traces its influence on the global techno movement. Four episodes are devoted to club culture as a place of culture, starting with Frankfurt in the late 1980s . The starting point is Sven Väth's  club Omen from the 90s. The next two episodes follow the development of techno culture in the east of Germany in Leipzig, the emerging festival landscape. Co-producer SWR puts a special focus on the Nature One festival in two episodes. Monika Kruse, Sven Väth, Roman Flügel, Paul van Dyk, DJ Hell, Chris Liebing, Anja Schneider, Robag Wruhme and Lexy & K-Paul will take part in the series.  All eight episodes of the Techno House Germany series can be viewed in the media library at THIS LINK . . The only limitation is that there are no English subtitles, and ...

New documentary, A, is ready for launch in the coming weeks, although filmmakers are now asking for help funding its release.  The film highlights of new documentary "We Wanna Do Is Dance" are the early era of rave and tackles issues surrounding the onset movement of acid house in the late 80s such as police raids “in an age of discrimination".  ‘ All We Wanna Do Is Dance ’ has launched a crowdfunder to ensure its release!  Support their crowdfunding campaign HERE ! The Director of this documentary is Gordon Mason. Venue owners, promoters, and clubbers themselves were also documented in All We Wanna Do Is Dance, including head of Police Pay Party Unit Ken Tappenden , who said:  “We were logging something like up to three or four hundred parties per month in the height of that summer 1989.”  The documentary spotlights the rise of police coming up against club-goers during the period.  “There was a movement of traffic, there was a movement of people and we w...

The whole world is already buzzing about the return of Space to Ibiza , but we will go back 5 years when the popular club brand closed its doors.  The marathon party started on October 2, and ended the day after at exactly 12 o'clock. The club closed with an epic Carl Cox that marked ten seasons there.  Then the owner Pepe Rosello said goodbye:  "Your and our emotions and our love and our friendship here are sealed and signed forever dear friends. Thank you all."  Check out all of this and other impressive moments of Space in Ibiz a in an 40-minute documentary released just two weeks after the clubs closed. Enjoy! 

Underplayed is the feature debut of New Zealand-born director Stacey Lee , who has been shortlisted for the Cannes Young Directors Award. Underplayed, in its 90 minute runtime, manages to show us the beautiful, diverse and talented multitude of people making electronic music — their history, and their hopeful future, throughout are the particular stories of a handful of women as they follow their dreams: Rezz, Alison Wonderland, TOKiMONSTA, Nervo, Sherelle, Nightwave, Tygapaw and Louisahhh. “I don’t like to talk about it a lot, but there is definitely sexism in the music industry.” - Alison Wonderland   [ source ]

New documentary "Sisters with Transistors" - prominent women, pioneers of electronic music. With a focus on some of the movement’s greatest collaborators such as Laurie Spiegel, Delia Derbyshire and Suzanne Ciani, the film titled “Sisters with Transistors” will premiere at London’s Barbican Theater on November 14th 2020.  Although electronic music is often perceived as a men's club, it is true from the very beginning that women were an important part of the invention of devices, techniques and styles that would define the form of sound in the years to come.  The aim of the film is to reveal an often neglected aspect of the history of electronic music. [ source ]

A documentary on the Georgian underground scene was premiered in London . The title of the documentary is " Raving Riot ," and the film focuses on the Georgian club scene that organized mass protests in Tbilisi in 2018 after the closing of two nightclubs - a vein of electronic sound. Director Stephan Polivanov : "We decided to shoot the movie ... let's explore the the generation that made that protest possible."

Free Tekno is a journey into the true underground of illegal underground techno festivals in Central Europe. The director travels with a group of Dutch and Irish young men who organize  illegal rave parties  in the forests of  Germany  and the  Czech  Republic. This is called the  underground   that is often written or referred to, but we rarely see it. As one interviewee puts it:   "We don't want money to profit, we do this out of love and be at a positive zero; if we make money, we use the money for travel or vacation expenses." "How many  parties  like this are made in which we are at all times exposed to the police shutting down music and confiscating equipment, but when you live for  electronic  music and have  enthusiasm , you do not think about blue caps" -  a director with Gunnar Hauth. [source]