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Tekknozide flyer from 1990

Tekknozid ( portmanteau of Tekkno and Acid ) was from the beginning of 1990 until the end of 1991, the first series of typical techno - raves in East Berlin and influential later for many techno events.

To describe the new sound of the Tekknozid parties, the organizers invented the term Tekkno , which was largely adopted in Germany in the early 1990s.

The organizer of the Tekknozid Tekkno raves was Wolfram Neugebauer , known as a DJ under the name of Wolle XDP . After training as a theater technician, he worked a. a. as production manager for events in the East Berlin sports and recreation center (SEZ). There he organized together with some friends in November 1989 the first big house party in East Berlin. Under the label X-tasy Dance Project , they then initiated several series of innovative-experimental projects that had a significant impact on Berlin techno events over the next few years. These projects were not parties, but actually real productions . All design components (decoration, light, sound, music, effects) and the timing were considered and implemented according to plan, purposefully and with the involvement of all visitors.

Tekknozid was also conceived with the aim of creating ecstatic dance on a mass basis. The radical concept of Tekknozid was contrary to normal disco. This request was already made clear in the announcement of Tekknozid (including on flyers, posters and press releases) in the form of a “warning”: “ Warning: Tekknozid is not a new synonym for disco. Hardest techno beats from House, Industrial, Hip-Hop, Electronic Body Music (EBM), New Beat and Acid work in the interplay of psychedelic light and effect installations on the subconscious. In total ecstasy the boundaries of time and space are lost. Visions from the subconscious open up a view into cyberspace, that indefinable data space behind monitors, synthesizers and satellite antennas. "

At the Tekknozid raves there was basically only one dance floor. This was realized by optical partitions in a separate room and completely darkened. There were no bars, tables or seating. The lighting effects were reduced to faintly glowing, holographic projections and as many stroboscopes as possible that could be individually controlled to the rhythm of the music . Another part of the staging were laser installations and two huge metal battle giants. With this martial-looking ambience, an attempt was made to avoid the emergence of a classic disco atmosphere or to create an unreal reality. The dance floor was also surrounded by huge stages on several levels, on which u. a. committed dancers also used glow sticks to create rhythmic light effects for the first time . The sound installation consisted of a four-point sound system and an additional bass installation, the "Magic Bassline". This concept should ensure the complete self-abandonment of the individual in the rhythm and thus in the dance ("Either dance or flee the room"). The concept worked and at the Tekknozid parties several thousand people danced for hours in ecstatic states of consciousness. The associated intense quality of experience gave many a new cultural identity and a new sense of self-worth and was partly responsible for the success of Techno in Berlin.

The breakthrough in the media was made by Tekknozid and with it the new techno sound, however, mainly through the party inphone, the XDP-Raveline. This party info telephone was actually just Roland BPM's answering machine and was initially only intended to provide the opportunity to find out about new announcements of XDPs. In order to make the announcement more interesting, however, all organizers of techno parties were given the free opportunity to have their parties recorded on the announcement text. Techno had thus invented its own, new medium, which led to numerous articles, radio and TV reports about Tekknozid in the international media world.

The artistic concept of the X-tase Dance project was based u. a. based on the experiences of DJ Tanith's Cyberspace Techno Club , whereby a reduced choice of props and maximum exhaustion of these minimalist stylistic devices were characteristic of Tekknozid raves. Tanith was heavily involved in the X-tase dance project and was also a regular DJ at the Tekknozid parties. DJ Roland, also known as Roland 138 BPM, was the second regular DJ on this project. In addition, a wide variety of domestic and foreign disc jokes and musicians honored the guests at the Tekknozid raves, such as Frankie Bones from New York, Energy 52 (joint project by Cosmic Baby and Kid Paul ), Futurhythm (joint project by Cosmic Baby and Jonzon ), Kid Paul , LX Empire ( Alec Empire / Atari Teenage Riot ), Psychick Warriors of Gaia , Rokki , Peter Rubin and Talla 2XLC . In addition to the two resident DJs Roland 138 BPM and Tanith , only one guest DJ and a maximum of two live acts were booked. In the period from April 28, 1990 to December 21, 1991, ten Tekknozid raves took place.

The promotion for this rave ran in competition with the first Mayday . Planning for Mayday began after the date for Tekknozid had been set, but it took place a week in advance in the same location. In the competition for the favor of the visitors, the company Low Spirit developed a completely new rave concept together with the techno magazine Frontpage : All DJs and producers known at the time were booked for the rave and changed every hour. From then on, Mayday was the most successful rave in Germany in terms of the number of visitors. The mayday rave concept thus became the standard for almost all raves. The last Tekknozide took place on December 21, 1991 in the form of a festival in the Weißensee hall. A total of six short live acts were integrated into the DJ mix.

The events were organized by the Berlin DJ, Wolle XDP, in collaboration with friends. Some members of the XDP later started their own projects, such as Johnnie Stieler ( founder of the safe ), Tanith, Ralf Regitz ( founder of the Planet and E-Werks / Loveparade ), "Zappa" (co-organizer of the Walfisch Afterparties), Paul van Dyk .

Other XDPs were the trance parties "The Brain", the "toughest techno club in the world": the bunker , the XDP-Motorclub (the 1994 Tresor relaunch), the "Tribalrave" (fusion of techno and ethno), the "Earthbeat", the "Earthclub", the discount club and many more.

Tekknozid today

Tekknozid was successfully "reanimated" in October 2015 by a big old school rave in Berlin's Postbahnhof and will henceforth take place as a regular series of parties at various locations.

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  1. ↑ Maike Wüllner: [The Future is Ours - When Techno went through the roof Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ], WDR Feature from April 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdr3.de
  2. ↑ Review: Westbam - The Power of the Night
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