About Us

The Berlin Mitte Institut für Bessere Elektronische Musik (BMI) is a collective of some music enthusiasts, who are running a platform for the experimentation of concepts related to electronic music culture. Our  playlist  includes  national  and  international  electronic players, who will  showcase  their definition  of  “better electronic music”. We  have  already presented  various  labels,  clubs,  event promoters and  other  concepts such as Minus, Mobilee, Berghain/Panorama Bar, Get Physical, Poker Flat and many more. Once  a month  we  air  the  “New  Releases  Show” to  showcase  the  latest  releases of  labels and  unsigned  artists, big and small,  and give our considered comments and feedback. The BMI shows are produced by Fresh Meat and Kandel.

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David Noel, a co-founder of  Soundcloud recently interviewed Fresh Meat for the remix-contest the Berlin Mitte Institut is undertaking together with Florian Meindl and Soundcloud. On that interview the current concept of the Berlin Mitte Institut is outlined:

Tell us a little bit more about the project, how did you got to team up with Florian Meindl for this project?

The Berlin Mitte Institut seeks to produce radio and WebTV shows that touches upon new things. The radio landscape in the techno scene mainly focuses on dj mixes, or inviting big names to your radio show. In the end, everybody does the same: One more radio show or dj mix to listen to and download. But we want to take the new democratising technologies a bit further and produce content, which has not been done before and also is of special cultural value. You can see this on our shows. We broadcast live track productions, as well as focusing on topics that are normally not covered by the usual techno press. We also produce shows explaining the correlations of booking agencies and the techno scene, along with shows that pin point the relationship between the techno scene and its distributors.

Our next show (LINK) will be a live broadcast from a Berlin club featuring 8 live interviews, which will be put together as a Youtube Doku playlist. We will interview people from professions go more unnoticed (waiters, technicians, runners, bouncer, night manager etc.), yet are vital to the the club functioning as a whole. We always try to connect the promotion of our guests through our channels with the connection to interesting topics that under the surface concern the techno scene.

We sometimes also produce label (eg. Minus, Bpitch, Get Physical) shows in-between, as this is good way to outreach forbigger audiences. Last year we had a Stil vor Talent showcase with Florian and quickly found out, that we have common interests: Techno and social media. I hit him up asking, if he wants to do this live production show. From one show (creating a loop) we made a second one (arranging the loop) and since the public response is so good, we added a remix competition to involve the users even more, create a productive dialogue between fans and us. We also planned to make a live mastering show sometime soon with a special mastering studio here in Berlin.