Despite making a impression with rough-hewn techno records on TAANSTAFL and his own Tallmen imprint, Brian Mitchell aka Tallmen.785 is a relative newcomer to the genre. Arriving in Berlin to continue studying jazz guitar – a craft he’d been learning in New York from legendary jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Lawrence D. ‘Butch’ Morris – it was a long night in Berghain that steered him toward electronic music