In Berlin, thousands of people parade to the sound of techno for a “Rave the planet”, little sister of the mythical Love Parade

Thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday to the sound of techno music for a parade organized by the creator of the legendary Love Parade, which is trying to revive the event that made the glory of the German capital.

The organizers of the techno parade called “Rave the planet” expected some 25,000 people for this parade of dance and music which started on the great Ku’damm thoroughfare in the rain and temperatures below 20°. The parade, which coincided two historic routes of the Love Paradetraveled 7 km and crossed a good part of the west of the city before reaching the Column of Victory, in the heart of the park of Tiergarten.

The event was initiated by the famous DJ Dr. Motte who did much to build Berlin’s reputation as Europe’s techno party capital after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was this 62-year-old artist, creator of the Love Parade in 1989, who kicked off this new edition, the motto of which was “together again(together again).

Dr Motte, who had ended up denouncing the commercial excesses, according to him, of the Love Parade, pleaded for the establishment of a universal income for artists and for the inclusion of Berlin’s techno culture in the intangible cultural heritage of Unesco, according to the regional channel RBB.

Having become a world-famous event in ten years, the Love Parade reached its peak in 1999 with some 1.5 million ravers and revelers, often in disguise, gathered behind vehicles spitting out decibels of techno.

In 2007, the Love Parade moved to the former mining area of ​​the Ruhr, where it had lost much of its appeal until the drama of July 24, 2010, which had a profound effect on the country. Twenty-one people died of suffocation near a tunnel, the only access to the grounds of an old station which hosted this techno festival. Some 650 people were also injured.