Berlin is the home base of a group of innovative techno musicians. Cool, minimalist fields of sound, lyrical scratching and noise, beats that seem to be coming from afar and a nocturnal, urban atmosphere characterize their music. While Substance, Scion and Vainqueur shift the bor­ders of techno, Pole mixes deep bass rhythms and hallucinatory dub effects with screeching gro­ves from malfunctioning electronics.