Norman Ohler

I was in a health food store, one of the first, like there weren't health food stores back then a lot, but there was one on First Avenue.

And suddenly there was an announcement, which was unusual in the health food store.

I think it was called Prana Foods.

And the announcement was that Kurt Cobain had just shot himself.

And I had been actually, and still am a Nirvana fan.

I've seen one of the last concerts of Nirvana in New York City.

And it was amazing.

But he killed himself.

And like the next day, I received a music cassette from a friend of mine from Berlin with electronic music.

And I realized that there had been a paradigm shift, obviously.

Rock music with the hero on stage was dead.

Now it was, you know, dance, electronic music, which a lot of people today think,

It's kind of simplistic music form, but it's actually a very highly intelligent music form.

At least it was in the 90s.

People were really experimenting with that music.

That was the new music.

That was actually the reason I moved to Berlin.

I decided I leave New York City.

I'm going to move to Berlin.

And then in Berlin, to answer your question, I fell in love with something that probably reminded me of the 20s, even though I wasn't there in the 20s.