Getting down since the lock opened. Riga Industrial Music Series and Publishing House Sturm Celebrates 30 / Day

In the light of stroboscope lights, dancing dark floors follow the vibrations of a stunning rhythm, permeated by the flare of tunent melodic sounds. Such scenes can be experienced at industrial music events Sturm, What has been gathering in Riga for thirty years, charged and inspired by a massive sound attack. Rarely, the series of events dedicated to a subculture has survived for decades, as the interests and priorities of the organizers themselves, as well as public habits, not to mention generations, who, in most cases, have not been taken over by the previous taste, especially in music. However, the industrial music scene in Riga has turned out to be so persistent that the series of events dedicated to it and also the publishing house of the genre’s music records Corn On March 28, he will celebrate its thirty anniversary in its current home – wagon quartet pub 1983 The small concert hall, which will also be virtually exhibited by posters of all three decades. Their constant author is the artist Walter Werner. For the most part, they are ascetically, but there are so extreme specimens in history that the surprised people have asked to remove.

In the early nineties, he returned after two years of study in Germany with concerts and punk discos, as well as tangible wealth – about a thousand CDs, which was a huge value in that time – the beak (Reno Krauklis) began to use them when playing regular disco in Kramene. The basement of Kramu Street 4 has come to life in Old Riga.

There are no limits in this muse

Many remembers not only as the best -understanding Riga DJ, but also as an educator who introduced the previously little -known or unknown music here – a variety of top rock sub -janas and industrial music.

« Little that muse was here to get here, and in Germany opened the locks. At first, everything Underground, What was or was not in the top was overthrown! Once I played in Kramene, and for the third time it was full of people who came from all Paks to Riga, even from Lithuania. On Thursdays there was a great industrial madness, and that was the beginning. Its electronics and industry liked it – it was my holiness, so I started sorting those discs by getting rid of Rage Against The Machine and better buying another Skinny Puppy. More and more fans also appeared – there were many people who needed it, and I realized that they needed to play their industry. I liked the fact that the industrial scene contains a mess for topics that are not elsewhere, highlighting the maximum « Chernuhu », which people usually avoid talking directly. There are no boundaries in this muse – there are all kinds of unexpected turns and surprises. The tools are allowed in every way – from the hammer and drill to the best electronics, if it is so true that we feel it literally physically, « the beak says with a huge voice.

Walter Werner adds that the events did not happen at night at the time, but from six to eleven in the evening, when there was still a chance to get home by transport, because there was no night pub to go after Colonel (Long -term most popular Old Town pub Nobody writes Colonel) that became the first home of sturm. « I made the first, the second – wow, Everything went away and tolerated, not only for me, but also a team that each had their own skills. For example, Walter began to work with the design – he well understood me from half a word, and I too. Talking to people with poster design is very important, ”says the beak.

Causes addiction!

The industrial music listener loves extreme loud but technically high quality electronic music in an appropriate environment, where those gathered have always their own, even if they do not know each other for decades – accidentally those who have come to these events quickly realize that this is not their place. Original Corn Souvenirs always stand out for high quality, and the beak is ready to offer industrial literature and films to the more mature exploring this music listeners to go deeper into it, not only with music listening and their appearance alone.

In those years Corn The events took place in clubs Area, subway, depot, recently One One, in the last half of the year – 1983. Generations gradually replaced but Corn Veterans are also present at the events since the mid -1990s, as industrial – like classical – music causes addiction and almost everything else seems like an inconspicuous background that is required to turn off electricity saving purposes.