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- Germany!
" Are you okay?

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Germany!

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Germany!

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Has he been run over?

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Germany!
- Come on, get up.

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Germany!
- Come on, get up.

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Terrible.

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You are listening
to the news broadcast Berliner Rundfunk.

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The celebrations of the 32. anniversary

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of the German Democratic Republic
began with a parade

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of the National People's Army in Berlin.

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Fucking is fun!
- Spastic! Go and wank yourself off!

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Turn off the fucking camera!

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Ok, my name is Silke

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and I was born in the East
but now I live in West Berlin.

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"Property of class 10 B."

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And now your first view of the Berlin Wall,
which is right in front of us.

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Behind the Wall is the Berlin TV tower,
the fourth highest in the world.

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The Wall is 45 kilometres long within Berlin

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and extends for a further 115 kilometres
around Berlin.

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In most places it's 3.5 metres high
and has one-meter-deep foundations.

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We will not be able to guarantee your safety
if GDR border officials intervene...

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Leave the territory
of the German Democratic Republic at once!

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DIRECTOR FASSBINDER
DEAD IN FRONT OF TV

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Today I want a fix as well!
- Wrong question.

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I don't believe there's a real difference
between a snort and a fix.

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Sure is. Afix is like an explosion...

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Can I use your needle?

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What's wrong, have you run out of cans?

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We're not New Wave
and we're not a punk rock group,

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and we're not... What are we?

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We don't want to pigeonhole ourselves,
we play the music...

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...that we like,
regardless of what's fashionable.

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Although Joy Division are really in,
we don't play like them.

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At that time
I was working at Zensor in Schöneberg,

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where I sold records.

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And Joy Division were the absolute megahit,
of course,

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and that really got on my nerves.

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They all wanted Joy Division
and nothing else.

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It was a bit like selling Madonna
in that little shop.

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I couldn't stand Joy Division anymore
and I was really pissed off.

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It was much too popular,
but it was great, of course.

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They were the heroes of the scene back then.

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I sang in English at first.

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It's easier because you can hide behind words
like "baby" and "ooh ah".

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You're more naked and direct in German
because everyone understands every word.

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You have to use body language.
The audience know if you're faking it.

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SQUATTED AND RENOVATED

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Please get back behind the barrier.
Get back behind the barrier, please.

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Just a moment!
- Get back behind the barrier, will you?

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Pursued by the police,
the crowd ran towards Potsdamer Strasse,

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where the traffic was still flowing.

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Klaus-Jürgen Rattay, 18 years old,
was hit by a bus and fatally injured.

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MURDER

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BERLIN'S BURNING: FIRST FATALITY

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WE DON'T JUST WANT A PIECE OF THE CAKE
WE WANT THE WHOLE BAKERY

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What's wrong?

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Mark Reeder was our manager.
What do I mean by manager?

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It wasn't professionalized back then.

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He was English,
knew his way around in the music world,

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and the scene was small.

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He was full of energy,
he thought we were great, and he helped us.

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He didn't want to be
referred to as our manager, but he was.

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We always said: "Mark Reeder is our manager."
It sounded better.

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When we started we just thrashed away
and made noise.

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Then we kept listening to
the cassettes we'd recorded

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and started trying to develop
our own special sound.

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Initially a lot of people came because we
were girls, but they didn't like the music.

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We make much harder music
than any boy would.

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Our music is much more brutal,
people find it brutal.

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At the moment I enjoy working with girls
much more than I do with boys.

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Boys always want to tell you
what's right and what's wrong,

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but I think I know myself
what's right and what's wrong.

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The sun's shining, the birds are twittering,
the world is beautiful, people are good.

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West Berlin was
a very strange little creative island

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but it was also my yardstick for normality.

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Everything else was different to West Berlin.

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Rents were way below those in West Germany.

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It was possible to survive
on next to no money in West Berlin.

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At the same time, the whole situation,
the atmosphere there, caused many people,

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not just from West Germany but from
other countries, too, to stay in West Berlin.

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Hold on a sec. Mark!

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Exactly.

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What are you doing here?
- What I'm doing?

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What do you want to do?
- God! I live here.

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Yes, sure.

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What did she just ask?
- How do you see Berlin?

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The "real" Berlin.
- It's the most interesting city.

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ANYONE WHO FOLLOWS COMMERCIAL MUSICAL TASTE
SERVES THE REACTIONARIES

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I asked myself:
What is my authentic situation in life?

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What is my personal environment,

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for me as a West Berliner, without an
ID card, without an address, without a job,

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without any income, without qualifications?

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Then I was in one band after another

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and one of them was Einstürzende Neubauten.

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Then we went off on expeditions.

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We set off into the industrial landscapes

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and began to make music with nothing.

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We played in secret, forgotten places, hollow
spaces in motorway bridges or under railways,

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places that have something magical about them
and have incredible acoustic qualities.

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If you're sitting in a 1.5-meter-high space
inside a steel girder

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that's maybe 40 metres long and you can hear
the trucks whizzing along above you,

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it's difficult to develop something
connected to the peace movement.

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We didn't just work in the hollow spaces
inside motorway bridges,

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we worked
with absolutely everything imaginable,

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and especially with things
that were completely unimaginable.

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Berlin is the classic American colony
as far as rock music is concerned.

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We all grew up with AFN and Coca-Cola here,

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so we've been exposed
to a lot of cultural influence from there.

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And Berlin is a pretty damaged place,
so our music is, too.

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And that was our golden child, Nena,
once again.

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I want to marry Nena.
- I want to marry Nena, too.

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I really want to marry Nena.

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Of course, bands from New York and England
are the crowd-pullers,

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and then I give them a band from Berlin,
whether they want one or not.

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Who's the hottest girl here tonight?

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You, Pink, come here!

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In a spectacular act, East and West made the
long-awaited exchange of prisoners today.

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This took place on a bridge
between West Berlin and Potsdam in the GDR...

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Mark, what are you up to?

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Well, at the moment
I'm working on this programme

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it's for "kids" in England

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they want to know
what you can do here in Berlin.

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You can go out.

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Yes but it's 2 in the morning

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what can you do at this time of night

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Lots of things

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clubs like "Safe Sex" or "DNC"

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HANSA RECORDING STUDIO

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Look.

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OK, but let me down.
- All right.

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An accident has occurred at a nuclear
power plant in Chernobyl in the Ukraine.

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A reactor was damaged.

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According to an unconfirmed report,
the reactor core has melted.

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Such an incident is known as
a Maximum Credible Accident.

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Ever heard of a disease called AIDS?
-AIDS? No, I've never heard of it.

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Berlin is a special city that's exposed
to American, German and Eastern influences.

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Russia's the major factor there.

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This creates a special kind of tension.

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We live in a world,

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we draw our ideas from it
and express them with a particular medium.

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It can be music,
it can be film, it can be painting,

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it can be writing.

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And we mix them all together in our show
to create our concept.

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I had it this way round...

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THE GDR
A PEACEFUL STATE FOR 35 YEARS

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SUCCESSFUL -
HIGHLY EFFICIENT - DEPENDABLE

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It takes a while at the border.
- Where? - Party.

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Taken to court: the fake Heino
who claimed to be the real one.

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I'm the real Heino.

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I'm the real Heino.
- I'm the one and only real Heino.

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I'm the real Heino.
- Me, too.

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No question about it, I'm Heino.
- I'm the real Heino.

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He was ordered to pay a fine of 10,000 marks

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for not making it clear enough
that he wasn't the singer Heino

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but Mr. Hähnel from Berlin.

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That was the ruling of the regional court
in Bonn. Good evening.

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OCTOBER 1986
TEMPODROM BERLIN

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Has anyone called an ambulance?

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END

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Wake up, we're closing!

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Here is the news:

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The American president, Reagan,
began his visit to Berlin this morning...

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The Wall must go!

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On 6 June 1987

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a large group of decadent looking youths

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gathered around Hermann-Matern-Strasse.

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The music from the stage in West Berlin
could be clearly heard in this area.

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By 7 p.m., the crowd had grown
to a size of between 250 and 300 persons.

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OK, it's like this:
DJs are the new pop stars,

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DJs are no longer the little go-betweens
between the audience and the musicians,

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they're now the musicians
in a completely new music scene

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where a new game's beginning.

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No, I need both hands.

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You need both hands for scratching,

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you don't just do this,

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you do this as well.

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The principle of sound sampling...
- Don't twiddle those knobs...

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If you'd just speak into the mic.

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That's your voice.

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Can you show it?
- One, two...

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You want to make it big with that?
- Yeah.

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There are now quite a lot of DJs

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who understand that this is
a new form of music, a new genre,

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and I think it parallels
new developments in technology.

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I'm totally shocked at having to watch
something like that.

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At my age, it's just too much.

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I wasn't scared, but it was crazy.

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The film was simply stunning,
my innermost self.

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I thought it was brilliant, excellent!

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It was fucking top!