Gleis 11 Munich arrives at Import Export on May 13 as the venue launches its outdoor season with a night dedicated to migration, memory and genre-defying musical exploration.
Joined by DJ Süperfly and DJ Vanilla Panzer, the evening blends live performance, vinyl culture and transcultural dancefloor sounds into a gathering shaped by movement across borders — both musical and personal.
At the center of the night is Gleis 11, a band whose music reflects the layered experience of Turkish guest workers in Germany across multiple generations. Formed by sons and grandsons of migrants who arrived during the labor migration waves of the 1960s and 1970s, alongside newer immigrant voices, the project transforms questions of identity and belonging into a deeply emotional and rhythmically rich live sound.
Musically, Gleis 11 Munich moves through Anatolian folk traditions, psychedelic rock, Balkan textures and nostalgic migrant-worker sound aesthetics while remaining fully connected to the present moment. Their performances carry a strong emotional undertone — not simply revisiting history, but reinterpreting it through contemporary experience.
The result feels both intimate and cinematic: music about movement, homesickness, memory and celebration all happening simultaneously.
Alongside them appears DJ Süperfly, also known through his Eksotik Meksotik concept. Raised between Munich and Istanbul, Tuncay Acar has spent years building one of the most unique musical identities within Germany’s alternative club landscape.
His sets move fearlessly through Kurdish Halay, Arabesk, Anatolian psychedelia, Balkan rhythms, Greek melodies, Levantine edits, boogaloo, electro and hip-hop hybrids, creating a sound impossible to reduce to simple genre definitions. Rather than reinforcing cultural boundaries, DJ Süperfly actively dissolves them — transforming dancefloors into spaces of shared transcultural energy.
Beyond music, Acar is also recognized as a cultural activist, organizer, blogger and one of Europe’s early graffiti pioneers under the name Blash.
Completing the lineup is DJ Vanilla Panzer, adding another layer to a night already centered around eclectic selection, movement and open musical dialogue.
Import Export Munich remains one of the city’s most important independent cultural venues, known for programming that connects club culture, live music, political discourse and alternative artistic communities. The outdoor opening reflects that same spirit — less focused on commercial nightlife formulas and more on collective experience, storytelling and musical discovery.
On May 13, Gleis 11 Munich transforms Import Export into a meeting point between migration history, psychedelic groove and dancefloor liberation without borders.
