rOBOTS in Cologne

It's been a busy week for the rOBOTS dancefloor devestation duo. Last week established our monthly residency in Bucharest and this week we were invited to play in Cologne, Germany as the city hosted its very own electronic music festival Co/pop. Sven and I were joined by Sascha from Clubbing Mag for a weekend of german techno, german beer and erm german sushi! Friday night saw us get into the festival spirit as we visited the party of the weekend - The Kompakt event in the centre of town. To be honest it was a fairly lacklustre affair with too many industry types milling around trying to look cool, but we got to hear Michael Mayer, The Field, Superpitcher and others. After that we popped into another club to catch the final hour of Agoria in a smaller club before arriving back at the hotel at the very respectable time of 6am.



Saturday saw us wandering around the streets of Cologne indulging in some much needed retail therapy before getting ready for our gig for the clubnight known as Aphone. The club is spread out over three rooms, a bar, a ballromm and the basement. We took up our position in the basement, pushing a nice and loud soundsystem to its limits with a healthy dose of electro, techno and more indified tracks to a packed and enthusiastic dancefloor. At the end of the night, satisfied we'd put on a good show, I ventured out into the rain and took a cab back to the hotel.

This was my first visit to Cologne and although not as vibrant as Berlin it was a great cosmopolitan city with a lot going on considering it inhabits only 1 million people. I'm looking forward to a return visit soon.