[1][2][3] Residents and guest DJs at the club included, among others, Tanith, Jonzon, Rok, Dr. Motte, Mike van Dijk[4] and the then 13-year-old Kid Paul.
[5] The techno activists Achim Kohlenberger, Dimitri Hegemann and the former history student Carola Stoiber,[6] founded the Ufo club in 1988 in West Berlin, in its first year it was located at the No.
6 Köpenicker Straße, in Kreuzberg,[7] near Schlesisches Tor in the basement of an old residential building,[8] that their electronic music label Interfisch had rented as headquarters.
[10] The basement room had a ladder for access and an improvised kitchen on the side of the building,[8] it had a ceiling height of only about 6 ft 2.8in (1.90 meters) of space for up 100 people.
[12] In the meantime, Ufo parties were set up in different places and the locations were usually given in hidden clues in the Saturday show The Big Beat hosted by Monika Dietl, from the SFB- teen radio station Radio 4U.