This article has been published by Kaput Mag.
"Noticeably different, more free"
It is Saturday, just after 12 am. While the last weekend shopping is being done outside Topic Drift owner Christian Guntermann is warming up the coffee maker at his record store. But before the 24 year old can get deeper into the cosmos of his store, which was opened in November 2015, the door opens and a first customer enters the store: "A mate of mine is looking for something techno-like, do you have something like that? Hardcore- or speed core techno?"
Three months earlier. Wir are situated at an unremarkable industrial area in Cologne Deutz. The Cologne painter David Ostrowskiis opening one last work-in-progress exhibition at his atelier before moving to the more central Belgisches Viertel. The "One Trick Pony" series is homogenous-minimalistic and kept very white, the oversized room supports the melancholy emptiness of the paintings - fittingly old school techno of the Munich School is being played by Cio D'Or, a rave veteran of the 90s, when we enter the room. DJ Brom aka Kieran, one of the most promising young DJs from Cologne, is playing after her. He will tell me later that he designs his set...
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