Episode 30 –Anja Schneider - Belize

It’s the early 1990s, and Anja Schneider, a young German fan of techno music, is seeking out the legendary Tresor nightclub while visiting Berlin. Her life in a small town near Cologne regularly involves attending electronic music parties, however her appetite to explore techno further, partly motivates her journey to Germany’s capital. Schneider duly heads for the Tresor club once she is in Berlin, entering what she believes is the venue, and heading upstairs. There she joins a bustling dancefloor, and hears house, electronica, and hip hop, but not the hard techno beat that she is expecting and desiring. After three to four hours, Schneider suspects accordingly that this venue isn’t the legendary Tresor club about which she has heard so much. When she then politely asks someone else in the club whether she has the right location, he responds that she doesn’t, and taking her by the hand, leads her down a small staircase. Arriving in Tresor’s dark, underground headquarters, Schneider here finds the heart of the Berlin techno sound, which will soon inspire her to not only move here, but also to eventually produce tracks of her own, such as "Belize".