Germany

Berghain

A former power plant with the best sound and the hardest door in Europe. The room does not care whether you get in, which is exactly why everyone wants to.

Tresor

The vault corridor under a decommissioned power station, still the loudest argument for why Berlin sounds the way it does.

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Two rooms, a garden that fills at sunrise, and a collective politics that shows up in the booking rather than the marketing.

Sisyphos

A former dog-biscuit factory turned village: stages, sand, a pond, and a weekend that genuinely does not end until Monday.

Kater Blau

Driftwood architecture on the Spree. The most charming long weekend in the city, and the one most likely to lose you a Sunday.

RSO.BERLIN

Far out in Schöneweide and proud of it. Fast, loud, and built for people who treat Sunday as a set time.

Ritter Butzke

An old paint factory with a courtyard and four rooms, reliably busy and considerably easier to enter than its neighbours.

SchwuZ

Berlin’s longest-running queer club, still the warmest room in the city and the one least interested in your trainers.

Anomalie Art Club

Trauma Bar und Kino

Performance, fashion and club programming in one building, with a booking policy that treats the dancefloor as a stage.

Klunkerkranich

A car-park roof above a shopping centre, which sounds grim until the sun sets behind the TV tower and everyone stops talking.

Prince Charles

A drained swimming pool in a courtyard basement. Smaller and warmer than the city average, and better for it.

Hoppetosse

A moored ship with a low hull room that does minimal properly, and a deck for when you need to remember what daylight is.

OHM

The former battery room of the Tresor power station. Small, strange, and where the more interesting bookings hide.

YAAM

Riverside sand, sound-system culture and a Caribbean kitchen. The least Berlin-sounding room in Berlin.