When electronic music is mentioned, Berlin is one of the main centers, and in strengthening this epithet, there is no doubt that "Berlin Beats" aims to be one of the main events. He has proven this since the first edition last year, and the DJ from Kosovo, Oda Haliti, also proved it there. This seems to have been the reason for another invitation, no less than to open this year's edition. Date: June 7. Address: "Hamburger Bahnhof" in Berlin, today a world-class gallery and museum, once a railway station with a history dating back to 1847, to be transformed into a gallery three decades later. It marks a quarter of a million visitors a year, the old "Berlin Beats" had about 50 thousand music fans, Haliti being the only non-resident artist. Now a special night has been reserved for him.
The news was announced through a press release on Wednesday, where it is written that "from Prishtina to Berlin, for the second time Oda Haliti performs again in one of the most important nights at 'Berlin Beats'".
"This year on June 7, Oda Haliti will perform at the opening of 'Berlin Beats 2024' as part of the biggest and most important music program of 'Hamburger Bahnhof. She heads the list of DJs who will participate this year as the headliner of the event/event, in a serious program with other world-renowned artists", the communiqué reads, followed by the information about her debut.
"Last summer at the first edition of 'Berlin Beats 2023', 50.000 visitors enjoyed the musical program by great artists of the Berlin scene. Oda Haliti was the only non-local artist who was invited to perform at 'Berlin Beats' in the special night 'Lange Nacht Der Museen zu Berlin', the night which resulted in the biggest success in the program of 'Berlin Beats 2023' - with the largest audience of all other artists", the communiqué reads.
As written in the communique, Oda Haliti is widely known in the electronic music scene of Kosovo and internationally with over 15 years of musical career, between her curated style of techno/electronic music and with an unmistakable combination of different experimental currents and rhythmic eccentricity. It is described as "among the pioneers of electronic music in the Balkans".
According to the communique, her performance at "Hamburger Bahnhof" marks "a key point in her career, but also in the musical culture of Kosovo and Albania, as this cultural institution welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, but also because it holds a special weight in the development of contemporary art practices, in addition to having a music program highly curated and long awaited by the audience".
This series of electronic music nights also opens the long music season that will continue until August 29. All this is similar in the capital of Europe and not only. Berlin also stands out as the center of electronic music. Berlin's techno music scene was included in UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list in March of this year. During the 80s, the club scene of this city developed into one of the main cores of the techno subculture of that time in the world. The electronic music genre became a sort of soundtrack to the changing years after German reunification. Its symbols include the legendary club "Tresor", which opened in 1991, as well as the Love Parade. When this scene was recognized by UNESCO, the German Government's Commissioner for Culture, Claudia Roth, would appreciate it as an important sign for an expanded concept of culture, which is directed against the "absurd division" between serious culture and culture. entertaining.
