These photos capture the wild, queer nightlife scene of 80s Hamburg:
Crinkly chest hair, sweaty bodies, leather everywhere — when you think of excessive parties, Berlin is probably the first place you imagine. But what happened in Hamburg, a city up in the North of Germany, way back in the 80s, is everything your wet dreams are made of. What's more, it's all at a place you've probably never even heard of — a gay club called Front.
“The best thing about the place was how we were able to educate the people in a musical context,” explains Klaus, who recently teamed up with Dlugosch to release a master mix which sums up the sound of the entire era. But he's wary of dwelling in the comfort of nostalgia. “This ‘everything was better in the old days’ mentality makes you feel old,” he says. “It’s a fact that disco and house sound fresh to the kids — most of them only know the remix and think it’s the original.
Most of us usually forget that residents had to play all night long back in the 80s. An impressive feat coupled with the fact that it was as difficult to get your hands on all these tracks as on the drop of a new limited sneaker edition nowadays."Everything was fresh, the music was new and there was hardly any club music playing on the radio,” Klaus says. “This slowly changed with MTV and the first video clips — today everyone can access everything within no time.
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