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Done. Can't think of anything else.
I can only do this.
Good morning. I'm Yaneq with a Y and a Q.
This is Sarah Farina, the most rockingest DJ
on the Berlin DJ firmament,
and we're at Schneiders Schokoladen in Mitte
where we'll have chocolate for breakfast.
Yes, it's early.
We'll have coffee and make chocolate.
Here is Klaus Schneider, our host.
Klaus, are you a praline maker?
What do you call it?
I'm a confectioner.
We'll give you a music style
and you give us the matching truffle.
Do you know ghettotech?
I know nothing.
We'll try 150-160 bpm ghettotech.
Grime is wicked.
I'll take some dubstep, too.
SARAH FARINA IS KNOWN
FOR ECLECTIC SETS
AND WAS BERLIN'S SURPRISE DJ OF 2012.
SHE IS PART
OF THROUGH MY SPEAKERS
AND LOVES CHOCOLATE
AS MUCH AS GOOD MUSIC.
Wow, this is wicked.
You drink alcohol, right? Not?
No, I don't like the taste. Water is best.
What about the night life?
When you play... Like you played at Party Arty,
in September. All female party, it was great.
You ruled the floor from 4am until 7 or 8am.
It was light, so...
And when everyone around you is drunk,
what's it like for you? Do you notice it?
Sometimes I do, but I don't care.
I'm fine when I listen to music
which is generally good. Then everything is fine.
But as soon as I don't like the music, I go home.
Isn't there a gap between you
and the other people
if you don't have the same level of intoxication?
No. The music makes me high.
It's not like smoking dope, whoosh, I'm high.
It takes a bit longer. But I'm in my own world
and the music makes me completely happy.
It's a natural high or something.
You play with a laptop?
Yes, I have a controller, my laptop
and a DJing programme.
Are there... If we talk about generations,
are there vinyl DJs in your generation?
I'm sure, but their number is decreasing.
A lot of them use timecode discs
with Serato or Traktor.
You have your mp3s and your timecode discs...
The timecode discs operate and pitch the mp3s.
Yes. But it makes no sense for me.
I'm not very good with discs.
I'm from a different time.
I was born in 1990, that's why.
So the art is not what it used to be.
If you ever worked with two records, it was all
about mixing and blending and fading.
But you create loops with your controller.
It's like a live remix.
You just use a four beat in a loop
and put effects on that.
Yes, you can also use four decks and so on.
The possibilities are huge.
I'm talking about a different perspective.
Since when do you use this system?
Since October 2010.
But now we want to eat.
Shall we put on gloves and a scarf?
Do you know that children's party game?
No?
What was the purple one?
Wasn't that ghettotech?
That was DJ Assault? He's from Detroit.
Yes. But he makes awful music now.
Stuff like this, all the time.
Yes, it's fun. Yes, ghettotech...
is really fast.
With ghettotech it's obvious
that hip-hop and techno have the same roots.
Africa Bambaata and so on.
It all goes back to that.
Yes, that's why it's a shame
when people don't know or don't find out
where the music comes from.
It's not like all music is from Berlin.
It's not like all techno comes from Berlin.
There is a Detroit-Berlin connection.
I think if you look at the history of music,
and know where it comes from,
you will listen to it and play it differently.
If you know the connection.
That's why it's important to me
when I play to go through a genre
so that I can show this to people,
that everything is connected.
Ultimately I end up with hip-hop.
I prepared dark chocolate now, 70 per cent.
We could make the one with rose petals.
You were just looking at it.
Rose petals...
Rose petals.
OK, let's make that.
I've never tried that.
Right, Sarah Farina...
I need some samples like that from you.
Give me some and I'll add a ghettotech beat.
I'll send you beats.
Yes, please do.
Is it running? Sarah Farina picked...
the rose petals.
Harking back to her snowboarding youth.
No idea, I'm making this up.
Klaus Schneider will show us what to do
with rose petals and what else have you got?
These are chopped cocoa beans.
They go in?
No, we'll put them on top to give the bar
some structure. Three petals and the beans.
When do you play next?
At Festsaal Kreuzberg with DJ Rashad,
my hero, Footwork, from Chicago.
What do you think?
Wicked. Is this from America?
No.
I'm from Allgäu.
Allgäu? You can do Bavarian folk dancing?
That's not right. You have to slap the inside.
The Bavarian beat.
Subtitles by Stephanie Geiges