Electronic, political music?5 times that techno has shaken the company

Taping your foot, does it move the company?This is one of the questions that the Soundsystem association, which organizes a cycle of conferences each year highlighting techno, house, electro, acid and other catchy rhythms, tries to answer.Through the archive documents, words of researchers and activists, we remember, during the last edition held this week, that these musical genres were, from their origins, at the heart of the movementssocial.In the meantime, electronic music has become more democratized until acquiring a sometimes criticized commercial content.But the environmental crisis and the restrictions of freedoms due to the health crisis have revived as a revolt.Back (not exhaustive) on five moments when it was - and when it is still political to dance very quickly and very strong on repetitive beats.

How Thatcher gave birth to (in spite of herself) the rave culture

Summer 1988, in the United Kingdom, this is the second Summer of Love.Punks, rockers, night clubbers, students, rastas and hooligans vibrate in unison in "Peace, love, unity and respect", thanks to happy multicolored pills on Acid House in Chicago.A festive and rebellious atmosphere that displeases the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: as early as 1987, she forced clubs to close their doors at two in the morning.Then summon a musicologist to the Parliament to very precisely prohibit the electronic music defined by their "repetitive beat".Forbidden to find yourself more than ten people against a backdrop of Acid House, forbidden to broadcast it on the air.Neither one nor two, the teatters find the parade and discover a way of partying in the most total of illegalities: squatted places, no timetables, no tickets, no decent outfit ... of the prohibition, the rave culturewas born.

1989 in Berlin: a few months before the fall of the wall, the first love parade

They were only 150, with a van and sound that drums in cheap speakers.This illegal and festive event, organized by squatters and anarchists fans of techno music, sounds like the promise of close freedom.In the months that followed, techno invaded the Berlin streets at crazy speed.

The city, with its many buildings abandoned to the east, becomes a huge playground where nightclubs are still emblematic today.Following this first Love Parade, the meeting will be made every summer for a day of jubilation to the sound of techno, bringing together ever more amateurs.From the 2000s, the event will be taken up elsewhere and in the world ... until the terrible edition of 2010 in Duisbourg where a crowd movement will be 21 dead and more than 600 injured.More than ten years after the drama, a new edition is still announced for the summer of 2022.

Brush the walls of the prisons by the sound of the bass: the house is (always) anti-racist and anti-carrale

Breaking the prison system with House Music exists?The director of the documentary "Bring Down the Walls" followed hundreds of activists during an artistic event in New York.A former prisoners, social workers and activists gathered there, denouncing the American prison policy and its system of discrimination against minorities.Long days of debate, reflections, interspersed with interviews ... and music.In the evening, the platform which was used for speeches the day becomes a dance floor where everyone gathers to the sound of house, a genre born of disco ashes in black communities and Latino lgbtq+.Phil Collins (the director), recalls the context of emergence of House Music, whose followers are then mainly black, homosexual and on the fringes.

Over the documentary, we understand how music is a bias of rebellion against the confinement and mass control machine of the penitentiary system in the United States.Fighting for more equality while dancing yesterday as today: this is what Phil Collins documents, with the added bonus a soundtrack that makes you want to wiggle.

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2019, the first climate rave in Paris

During the "march of the century" for the climate of March 16, 2019, particularly massive with more than 45,000 people in Paris, hundreds of dancers around a tank: the G.A.F. group(Give A Fuck Now) wanted to mobilize revelers and show that it was possible to fight in music by creating the Rave4climate movement.For this, the militant association has brought together about fifteen collectives and a few big names in electronic music: the first unit chart of the electronic scene since the anti-Le Pen demonstration of the 2002 presidential elections.

Demonstrations against the law Global Security and support for the Lieuron Rave: converge for freedoms

Do you remember this rave which made the headlines of many newspapers, in the middle of the world pandemic, in the last New Year?In Lieuron, the big party had brought together 2,400 people ... and trained "2,000 verbalizations, 15 arrests, 4 indictments" according to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.Following this, the "Teufeurs" of the "Free Parties" movement decided to protest against sanctions considered disproportionate and thus join the movement against the Global Security Law and its weekly demonstrations.Surprising convergences in many cities in France, with a single watchword: Liberty!