![]() ![]() The idea for a “real” bar and a playground for friends took hold soon thereafter. It all started with an old DDR Nagetusch trailer-turned-bar that operated at illegal parties on the banks of the Spree. The most mythologized Berlin club had modest beginnings. Despite the influential presence of the respected sound gallery Robert Johnson, the Frankfurt area still lacks a club whose star shines as bright as Omen’s did back in the day. After that day, Frankfurt’s famous club scene started to bleed out, and it still hasn’t fully recovered. A sound system was erected, the police agreed to block the street from cars and a spontaneous open-air ensued. When they had to close after ten years in 1998, so many ravers flocked to party one last time that the street out front became packed with dancing bodies that couldn’t fit into the building. For years Omen was the nucleus of the Frankfurt scene when it was still considered one of the leading forces on the electronic music map and the “sound of Frankfurt” was a highly successful international export. This was the sweatbox where Sven Väth held court his living room where he became known as “Baba” and established himself as one of the biggest DJs in the world. ![]() If you don’t know about Omen, then you don’t know much about German techno. ![]()
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