You can hear this-if you visit some clubs in Berlin, you know this is the Berlin sound.” Both of which strike me as a nice way to describe her own music too, which features her own glitched up, treated vocals, a judicious use of guitars, as well as some nicely crunchy breakbeats and four-to-the-floor techno stompers. She describes the music on BPitch Control as “always light-it goes in the air, because the music is not dark. Luckily for us, she persevered and created BPitch Control several years later, which hosts among others Apparat, Mochipet, and Modeselektor. Then it’s no problem, but if you’re young, you don’t know… Now it’s no problem for me. I stopped doing Braincandy because I had many problems with the distribution, and I was younger–and I didn’t know how to talk to men, in the men world!! But by getting older I learned a lot from men! There’s no macho culture here, but the most important thing for me was to know how to get the information I needed. In an interview, she stated that her first label Braincandy failed for reasons that have got a lot to do with women’s access to knowledge and power: With over two decades of work, she’s quite an inspiration.īut it’s not been all roses. She was resident at famed Berlin techno club Tresor in 1992, and has started two labels (Braincandy and BPitch Control) as well as releasing some acclaimed experimental music. Ellen Allien is a German producer, DJ, singer and label owner, familiar to anyone who follows the worlds of house and techno.

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