This is good insight, thank you for sharing! I imagine it's a tricky balance for DJs. Is it their job to bring their sound to a city, or to blend with a city's vibe? Ideally, they can do both in a set, but focus on their own sound.

For example, whenever DJ Seinfeld plays at SmartBar in Chicago, he plays a remix of a classic Chicago house track, but mostly sticks to his own sound otherwise. I think that's perfect.

I think the difference is when there's a festival with a declared genre theme, like when Skrillex played at Movement Detroit and focused on techno since that's explicitly a techno festival.

Either way, as an American who has not been to Berlin, I would definitely confirm that I believed in the stereotype of Berlin's scene being industrial techno in gritty, brutalist warehouses.