Electro first emerged as electro-funk, a meeting of funk grooves, early hip-hop, and new machines like the TR-808 drum machine and vocoder. Artists in the early 1980s fused Kraftwerk’s robotic pulse with the raw bounce of Black American dance music, creating a hybrid that was both streetwise and futuristic. Out of this current, Miami Bass soon followed in South Florida, pushing the low end even harder – loud 808 kicks, rapid rhythms, and anthems made for block parties and car systems. These foundations gave electro both its funk roots and its bass-driven intensity before it branched into new directions.

Electro has always thrived below the surface – a sound that never asked for attention, but carved its own path through those who listened closely. It began in Detroit, where machines spoke in broken codes and basslines echoed the pulse of a restless city. The music was futuristic but never detached; its syncopated rhythms and robotic tones carried both urgency and imagination, a vision of dance music that was raw, complex, and uncompromising.

When it reached Germany, the current took on a different charge. In Berlin’s dim basements and Frankfurt’s hidden rooms, electro absorbed the cold precision of European electronics. The music became sharper, more industrial, yet it retained the same drive to move bodies and shift minds. It was music that asked you to listen as much as to dance, demanding attention in the shadows where the underground always breathes strongest.

Over the years, trends rose and fell, but electro remained steady, passed hand to hand through records, small labels, and secret nights. Its power lies in this persistence – always slightly out of reach, always alive in places where sound feels more like energy than entertainment.

This night is part of that continuum. A meeting point of Detroit’s machine funk and Germany’s steel-edged precision, carried into the present. Expect fractured beats, heavy basslines, and the strange electricity that only underground electro can deliver.