Find­ing an Open Air dance­floor in Ber­lin ain’t a rocket sci­ence. Find­ing a good Open Air in Ber­lin — well, that’s an entirely dif­fer­ent thing alright. Now, not all tastes are the same, so please beware: the meas­ures of qual­ity are all sub­ject to my per­sonal opin­ion. I like col­or­ful dec­or­a­tion, boo­gie house music, nicely dressed up people and con­fetti can­nons. What I don’t like: routine Techno without a cli­max, shabby sound­sys­tems and drugged up zom­bies creep­ing over the dance­floor look­ing like they could need an ambu­lance in two or less seconds.

The Fabel­wesenguys really know how to work an Open Air that matches my expect­a­tions. Last time I was thor­oughly stunned by their set-up at the former Stadtbad Tier­garten. This time around they threw their little party in a rather pop­u­lar back­yard in Mitte. If you’ve ever been to Pick­nick, you’ll surely recog­nize it. I’d never been there dur­ing day­time like this, so it was cool enough to me. I’ll gen­er­ously get over the fact that the toi­lets are an abso­lute mas­sacre. Man you GOTTA do some­thing about that.

Any­way: see­ing as these days might be the last days of sum­mer, it was really nice to have another great Open Air in a relaxed atmo­sphere, with pretty people and pret­tier music. Hope the Fabel­wesen guys will throw in another one for the crowd in the next couple of weeks before it gets too cold and we all have to hide at Berg­hain for six straight months.