Brunnen 70

Underground party at Brunnen 70

Address: Brunnenstraße 70, 13355, Mitte

U-Bahn: Voltastraße

Opening times: Fri – Sat, 11pm-late

Admission: 10€

Website: www.brunnen70.de

Based inside the sprawling foundations of a row of shops on Brunnenstraβe, this underground club has everything a music lover needs – and a lot more. Once you have found the club, there is no sign and only an iron railing indicating the entrance, you are ushered into a cargo lift by the heavily tattooed bouncers. You can hear the muffled bass as you descend in the lift. Then the metal doors open and you are in the depths of an expansive club. It is a dungeon labyrinth, with neon lights shining upon the crumbling grey walls and copper pipes trailing along the low ceilings. An eclectic crowd of ravers and music lovers span across the many concealed rooms. The first room offers live music throughout the night as local, unsigned bands share the stage and treat the crowds to a mix of electro, synth-rock, indie and punk. Unfortunately the sound system is not as earth shaking as the other major clubs, however the D.I.Y feel to this gritty venue generates an electric atmosphere.

If you explore deeper you will find other rooms with clubbers dancing to anything from psych-trance to Balkan beats. Each room has its own unique feel. You can be raving beneath strobe lights fitted inside empty petrol canisters upon the roof of one room and then relax on the tattered sofas in another room which walls are painted with luminous graffiti. There is even a karaoke bar where you can grab the microphone and sing your favourite Madonna song or just stay and dance along. Cult films are played in a cinema towards the back, a ‘hit the goat’ carnival game offers strawberry vodka shots as a prize and there is even a hairdressers just in case you feel like a trim at 4 o’clock in the morning.

The club only opens on Friday and Saturday nights at 11pm but the party goes on well into the morning. Entry costs 10€ and a beer is 2,50€, but remember to bring enough money with you as it is quite a mission to find the exit and go back up the lift just to use a cash machine.  

Tresor

Tresor Sign

Address: Köpenicker Straβe 70, 10179, Mitte

U-Bahn: Heinrich-Heine- Straβe

Opening times: Mon, Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat 11pm - late

Admission: 7€ -10€

Website: tresorberlin.com

This world famous club was once one of the major players in Berlin’s techno scene. It was there from the very beginning. The club first opened in 1991 housed in the old basement of a former department store on Leipziger Straβe. The original lock to this building was shaped as two circles and this formed the basis of the Tresor logo. Unfortunately the club was forced to close in 2005 however it was reopened two years later and now operates in the vault of a working power plant on Kopenicker Straβe in Mitte. Ravers queue beneath the two colossal ventilation towers which impose themselves upon the skyline for a chance to experience an authentic Berlin techno club.

Three floors are dedicated to showcasing the best in techno, house and electro music. Upstairs the Globus bar, which is the largest room, features a huge plasma ball sparking at its very centre. Inside this industrial sized warehouse top named DJ’s play house/electro music in front of a mesmerising light show. Sven Vӓth, Paul van Dyk and Juan Atkins are just some of the legendary DJs to have performed here.

If you venture down the rattling staircase and along the smoky corridor you will find the grimy, dungeon techno room at the heart of Tresor. Here shirtless clubbers sporting tribal tattoos rave to industrial beats while strobe lights flicker above. The rumbling bass reverberates along the low ceilings of the vault and rattles the prison bars that separate the DJ from the crowd.

Although the clubs reputation has fallen slightly after its previous closure there are still many reasons why it attracts thousands of clubbers each week. The prices are not as expensive compared to the other major clubs, beer costs 3.50€ including a drink deposit and entry prices vary between 7€ - 10€. You also don’t have to deal with any egotistical bouncers that are prevalent throughout the Berlin club scene. Tresor is also open five nights a week, with Electro Mondays allowing you to continue the weekend’s festivities.