James Manning retraces the origins of a techno production credited by many as one of the genre’s most influential.
K209 is a real place. A bunkered down studio located somewhere in East Berlin. It’s also the concrete hideout of Henning Baer and Milton Bradley’s K209 facility; a label and production hub that the duo launched back in 2011. Following a silent 2012, the project resurfaces with a third release in three years, the succinctly titled K209-3, which sees a strengthened Baer and a refined Bradley each deliver two typically dark hunks of looming German techno. Milton Bradley is already a well established producer with his Do Not Resist The Beat label, new acid techno series Alien Rain and releases on Prologue, so it’s been Henning Baer that’s drawn a specific acknowledgement from K209.