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Techno Parade takes the streets of
Paris and promotes the “Renew’all”
concept. means a world’s end or
rather the beginning of a new era! House,
trance, techno & drum n bass music characeterise the Paris Techno
parade. There’s lots of bloc trucks
with over 200 DJs passing through on
floats the streets of Paris and half
a million techno lovers, just follow
whatever tickles your fancy. There’s
lots of nightclubs doing specials on
the night and also plenty of after
parties.
Technoparade is a parade of vehicles
equipped with strong loudspeakers
and amplifiers playing techno music.
It resembles a carnival parade in
some respects, but the vehicles
(called lovemobiles) are usually
less elaborately decorated. Also, a
technoparade doesn't share the
carnival parade tradition of
bombarding the spectators with
sweets. However, the revellers do
occasionally throw confetti (usually
larger and more sparkly than that in
a carnival parade) and spray foam
from the vehicles onto the crowd.
Nearly
all of the vehicles are converted
trucks. In order to power the
amplifiers, the trucks are
frequently equipped with an
additional electrical generator. For
safety reasons, horse-drawn floats
are never used in technoparades:
there would be a danger of horses
panicking from the noise and chaos.
However, there are occasional
human-drawn floats equipped with
generators, record players,
amplifiers and loudspeakers. Some of
the vehicles allow people to ride
along, for a fee. For those on the
sidelines, or travelling alongside
on foot or bicycles, attendance is
free.
The
official program of a technoparade
is usually not as important as what
happens informally. In contrast to a
carnival parade, the vehicles are
little more than flatbed trucks with
sound equipment, rather than
elaborately decorated floats. There
are usually no fireworks or other
traditional elements of large
celebrations. Technoparades are
rarely linked to anniversaries of
historical events: they usually
simply take place in the summer to
take advantage of the good weather.
Technoparades generally have a
carnival atmosphere, where social
rules (and some laws, or at least
their enforcement) are at least
loosened, and sometimes broken
outright. An atmosphere of chaos and
tolerance prevails as bystanders
dance to the shifting sounds of
successive vehicles rolling by them:
the music blasting from one vehicle
blends into that from another, which
can mean a sudden change of dance
style in the area where the spheres
of influence overlap. The music
coming from two sound trucks
overlaps with approximately equal
intensity, and people can dance to
either of two competing rhythms. In
the technoparade subculture they
call this the Verwirrungsgebiet
("overlap zone") by analogy to a
concept in radio frequency
engineering.
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