The Big Mitte is having it’s opening party. Evolution. Live graffiti artists lurking deep underground. A Neon light installation or two because, well, who doesn’t like pretty lights? Five DJ’s dishing out an addcitive mishmash of Techno & house. Fill your bellies with morsel or two from Bite Club – Italian, French, Mexican, take your pick. Liquor time and sample a tasty concoction of cocktails just itching to be drunk  by you at the bar. Get to know Guts for Change, they’ll give you the low down on their charity projects and don’t leave without a snap with Carlsberg to spread the love on the #genberlin Twitter/Instagram feed. We could go on but we want to leave some surprises. 
 
Evolution is coming and you could be a part of it. We’ve got a limited number of free tickets on offer. Send your name, age and number of tickets to social@generatorhostels.com for the chance to get a bunch for you and your pals.
 
All’s left is to descend the lift into the madness below.
 
Line-up
 
Modular Record DJs presents: 
 
DJ Kaos, Roland Tings, Cecile, Glen Goetze
 
Basement DJ’s:
 
JFB and Lauren Flax 
 
About Guts for change 
 
Guts for Change was created by people between ages 25-35, who have cycled from Berlin to India, and have filmed their trip. Once they arrived in India they set up a charity project building dry toilets in Garade villaga, India, to help with increasing the hygiene and prevent diseases. Generator will support the project by donating €0.05 per bed sold in Berlin Mitte.
 
About Urban Art Clash 
 
Urban Art Clash are becoming an in-house residency of ours. As a group of international artists with the main base in Berlin, they focus on urban art related projects around the world and have a very strong network in the scene. Urban Art Clash will run interactive art projects on the night that happen in different areas of the event. There might even be a free tote bag with their very graphics sketch on for you lucky lot.
 
About Klebebande
 
Klebebande / Tape Art consists of 3 artists from the Berlin street art scene. ‘Our installations of all kinds with tape (Gaffa, crepe, insulation, plastic, etc..) Arise in many different ways. Partly abstract and partly figurative, combining our different styles always with the influences and circumstances of the place of installation and the people they visit.’
 
Again…we’ve got a limited number of free tickets on offer so get in quick. Send your name, age and number of tickets to social@generatorhostels.com. If you’re still umm-ing and ahhh-ing, then our past events including Origin, JEST & Venice launch event may convince you.
 
Keep up-to-date with the latest offerings on Facebook, stay tuned as we’ve got a lot more to tell you - https://www.facebook.com/events/218724514955318/?ref=22
 
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Evolution - Generator Berlin Mitte opening party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8-VdBB80Og

JEST Barcelona – a Joyous Entertaining Sensory Theatrical launch

I knew we had made it when I saw a 6ft4 stunning drag queen dressed to the nines in vintage circus standing in our window holding an umbrella next to an equally magnificent reincarnation of Groucho Marx’s famous character, Captain Spaulding.
 
The name of the game was JEST. A theme chosen purposely to give a platform for all of the creativity, colour and fantasy originating from Barcelona. Once again, we were overly ambitious in our choice of theme but it paid off. We worked our tails off but managed to pull off an incredible event with some of the best contributors Generator has yet to work with, not to mention the opportunity for the incredible crew of Generator Barcelona to show what they are made of. Made of awesomeness that’s what.
 
Let us begin…..
 
As this was the opening event of our newest design-led hostel we wanted to ensure we didn’t mask the design with decoration so we chose to create the vibe of a circus through mapping. Working with a company called Blowfactory who used many high powered projectors to map animated visuals across our whole lobby. Examples included vintage circus patterns and illustrations, including one reindeer-headed trapeze artist. Thanks Paula and your lovely team!
 
In addition to Blowfactory we worked with another local company, Twisted Circus who brought in a number of original circus installations. Including giant clown heads, two motorised puppets and a full lit sideshow booth. Cheers Matt – we finally found the right place for the clowns!
 
Then, of course, we had our incredible performers. We were honoured by performers from both London and Barcelona. Chivaree Circus came from London town to grace us with an aerial hoop performance by Lilly Raptor and giant clown antics from Ed Goslingo. They were followed by the absolutely unforgettable performance by Barcelona locals Proyecto Otradnoie which involved an 8 minute routine where Ingrid suspended by only her hair captivated us with a beautiful performance to a live electric guitar.
 
THE MUSIC was absolutely unbelievable. We had two main areas, Cagliari’s Bar which saw DJ Cabaret solidly pump out an incredible selection of Balkan beats, electro swing, be bop, funk and even some soul. He was followed up by Spanish street artist, producer and DJ, Roberto (aka DJ Imperial) who finished the night with some hip hop, chillstep, electro and grime.
 
At 10 we were beckoned down to the black cat basement by the animalistic swagger of the brass section of our first band, The Gentle Mystics. Truly a combination of genius and lunacy these cats are like no ensemble you have ever seen before. A 9-PIECE strong band mixing dub, hip-hop and every instrument and inspiration under the sun to create their own special bounctastic sound. Including Noémie as singer / keyboard, Eliane as MC, Harky causing mischief on his tomato tin drums add one massive brass section and you have a killer sound with one mighty bouncing bassline! Admittedly I do feel sorry for their sound guy Greg – 9 piece band – holy moley!
 
Next up was our truly unique sounding headline act, Molotov Jukebox. Super high energy with loads personality Molotov Jukebox have been tearing apart the festival scene for the past couple years. They are completely mad but wow have they defined an awesome style, a mixture between ska, dub, dubstep, samba and more, you are never short of some skanking beats and a high tempo performance. They even debuted one of their new songs and announced the release of their debut album next year! We love you Molotov. Come back soon.
 
Admittedly when I got the chance to meet our first DJ the day before I turned into the equivalent of a teenage twilight fan. Having spent the past couple months prowling through Pablo Bolivars back catalogue I was so excited to meet the man who produced such deep tunes! He didn’t let us down, he managed the transition from gypsy mayhem to sexy house like a boss. Beautiful set! Thank you.
 
Last but certainly not least was Barcelona legend Iñaqui Marin. Presenting a style different from his usual signature he blew us away with some electro funk, soul and more to create one heady heady mix. What a way to end the night! To find out more, check out our JEST  line-up and our Facebook gallery.


Jest Barcelona

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pjDLucoaO5k

Big risks usually mean big payoffs BUT [oh my days!] can the suspense kill you.
 
I recall the night before ORIGIN lying in bed thinking “We’re nuts, we’re all completely nuts. I know we like to push the envelope but a party in a building site. What are we thinking? PEOPLE COULD DIE!”
 
To say the least, we wanted to affect people, for want of a better expression, WOW our guests and partners in a surprising way – “Oh, that’s what we were thinking- Go us!”.After realizing we could be insured and planning our emergency exists, we got to the concept. ORIGIN – the point of place where something begins, arises or is derived. Let us arise, for one night only, from the real foundations of our exciting new hostel.
 
As with all our events and design features we aim to respect the soul of the city we are in, Berlin, which is known for its industrial history and raw venues. Hence, we chose to make as few adjustments to the site as possible. Instead we focused on bringing you quality through our contributors, most of which are independent businesses or artists.
 
To name a few…..
 
Benjamin Fischer, entrepreneur and incredible human being, welcomed guests from the freezing night of Berlin with a hot jar of organic apple cider, Berliner Winter. Made entirely from German products within Germany this tasty delight is both scrumptious and ethical. He is busy in his laboratory at the moment developing his summer version…. Sweeeet.
 
 Kim Hernandez dazzled us with her incredible fire performance. Previously of the independent Chivaree Circus in London, Kim decided to spread her [fire] wings in Berlin. Admittedly I was on the brink of a heart attack as I clutched the fire extinguished throughout her performance, repeating the mantra – WE ARE INSURED – but she rocked it like a boss and to Mr.G no less. Check the track here amd  pay attention at 2.40 “An intense piece of bass that fills you up and moves for you”, its why our lovely lady chose the track, bass and high flames: powerful combination.
 
The dapper and extremely talented Hicks joined us from London. His [tech]nique is not particularly ‘street’ but plenty ‘art’, his well known calling card is a brush line sharp enough to shave with.. Hicks won the legendary Streetwars UK and has ever since been prolifically covering web, walls and print at home and abroad. Watch out, if you’re not careful, he might paint you!
 
On the night, Hicks was complimented by two German street artists Cren and Tussycats, both proudly sponsored by Red Bull. Below is a pic of Hicks painting the mural in our London HQ.
 
Then of course we had the barracuda boys: mixologists, flare bartenders and all around awesome guys. Heading up some amazing bespoke cocktails from Sailor Jerry, Hendrix and St.Germain. Ahoi!
 
Our mainroom DJs Damien Barras and Roman Azzaro both played strictly vinyls to our delight. Daniel Rajkovic resident at top Berlin nightclubs watergate resident/ weekend club / tresor / kater holzig mixed up a storm with some welcoming electro beats upstairs. Jamie Shaw, straight from London town was visuals guru for the evening. He is also a super talented painter.
 
Then there is the soul. Thanks to all the Generator crew who busted their behinds over the whole production. I think we all nearly passed out, raged and cried at the same time when the elevator broke but we managed somehow, Who needs the gym? Work events!
 
There’s shed loads more where this came from, make sure to check which events are going on in the hostel before you go. Check events on Facebook and here are some more stylin’ pics of the Origin event.
 
Peace. Love. Inspiration.
 
This blog is written by Rachel, Generator’s Venue and Events Wizzard.  Our Berlin Mitte hostel will open in April! Come and stay with Generator in Berlin Mitte!


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