Loveparade 1999 / Berlin >> once upon a time... (22 images)

By the end of the 80`s, some musicians had the idea of using computer technology as a tool, electronic music and techno music was the result. The Loveparade was the first festioval for this new kind of music. In the beginning, the Loveparade was organized by DJ Doctor Motte and some avantgarde music artists They were searching for a new way of presenting music and expressive feelings. The result was a kind of provokation. 500 people were dancing behind an old VW bus with some speakers in...
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By the end of the 80`s, some musicians had the idea of using computer technology as a tool, electronic music and techno music was the result. The Loveparade was the first festioval for this new kind of music. In the beginning, the Loveparade was organized by DJ Doctor Motte and some avantgarde music artists They were searching for a new way of presenting music and expressive feelings. The result was a kind of provokation. 500 people were dancing behind an old VW bus with some speakers in 1989. Each following year the number of visitors doubled or trippled which lead to the biggest Loveparade ever in 1999 with about 1,5 million visitors. 51 trucks (20 000 watt of music power each) rolled between the Ernst Reuter Platz and the Siegessaeule (victory column). The Loveparade began as a rebellion in 1989 but soon lead to more and more commercialisation which was allways criticized by the media and a lot of people in the techno-scene. But in order to finance the Loveparade, the organisators may have had no other choice. Soon, beer buses and hot dog waggons were integrated. Techno music created a completelly new fashion style: strange, colourfull and sexy.
I managed to capture the colours of this mega event and through them I exposed this incredible amount of energy. Unfortunatelly in 2010 a mass panic killed 21 visitors and brought an end to this event.
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