Berlin Atonal, A History & 2014 Preview

From The Quietus:

The 2013 relaunch of the Berlin Atonal festival signaled the rebirth of a cultural institution and a weighty development for experimental music worldwide. Lost in the pre-techno prehistory of the (then West) Berlin industrial and electronic scene, details on the festival’s original eight year run from 1982 to 1990 are surprisingly patchy. Founded by the then-newly arrived Dimitri Hegemann, who would later go on to found UFO, Tresor, and a list of other cultural experiments that would eventually change the face of Berlin as we know it, the festival contributed greatly to dragging the bubbling avant garde underground in Berlin above the surface and cementing its connection to the greater world.