A technoparade (taken from the German word "Technoparade") is a parade of vehicles equipped with strong loudspeakers and amplifiers playing electronic dance music . It resembles a carnival parade in some respects, but the vehicles (called lovemobiles ) are usually less elaborately decorated. Unlike some carnival parades, a technoparade does not share the 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.
8-595: The Fuckparade is an annual summer technoparade in Berlin . The event began in 1997 as a demonstration against the increasing commercialisation of culture and public life and the misuse of the right of assembly by purely commercial ventures, in particular the Love Parade . The event has had problems with the authorities since 2001, but in 2007 the Federal Administrative Court of Germany decided that it met
16-499: 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. However, in Germany technoparades are usually officially registered as
24-446: 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 generally not as important as what happens informally. In contrast to
32-555: A political demonstration and thus have an appropriate motto. That way techno fans have a constitutional right to dance in the streets, and any objections from the authorities to noise and traffic obstructions are overruled and the cities also have to pay for security and cleaning up the streets afterwards. 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
40-474: The Verwirrungsgebiet (" overlap zone ") by analogy to a concept in radio frequency engineering . The street allows for a type of dancing that would be literally impossible in cramped German nightclubs , and the breadth of some people's dancing is further exaggerated as they throw their clothes outwards. Some in the crowd generally climb up to any high point that can possibly be scaled, more and more as
48-410: The definition of a demonstration. This music festival-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Technoparade 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
56-572: The event continues. The spirit is usually continued at after-parties in the local nightclubs , sometimes including unofficial after-parties at venues having no official connection to the parade. Technoparades are not without problems: 5 big technoparades of the 1990s and early 2000s: Parades with a political character: Small town or onetime moves: Similar to technoparades, electronic dance events have also been organized using other moving vehicles such as boats and trams . In contrast to technoparades which are characterized by free participation on
64-418: 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
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