Ulrich Gutmair works as cultural editor at the alternative Berlin-based newspaper taz.
Gutmair's chronicle is about another mise en scene ... namely that of the first electronic dance clubs. His descriptions of the sounds and smells, bass drums and breakbeats, the low-ceilinged and cinder-strewn dance floors transport one to those locations better than any film version of the day. The National [A] fascinating work of cultural history. Society