Tekno Trusters

»-(¯..v..¯)-» Design your MySpace with MyLook «-(¯..v..¯)-«-UNDER CONSTRUCTION- Questo space ha lo scopo di cercare di mantenere vivo lo spirito dei freeparty, ormai quasi perso per l’avvento delle feste tekno nei club, di cui gli spiral tribe furono pionieri e di segnalare e reportare tutte le migliori feste free in giro per il mondo, per far si che i primordiali valori messi in campo dai primi party non vadano totalmente perduti...Ci sono cose che non torneranno più e cose che non se ne andranno mai...english version coming soon-------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------STORIA-------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- La nascita dei rave risale alla fine degli anni ottanta, in un clima di generale contestazione politica, in un momento in cui negli Stati Uniti come in Europa si formano controculture tese a denunciare problemi politici, difficoltà economiche e disagi sociali. I primi rave trovano vita nelle fabbriche abbandonate delle metropoli statunitensi, più precisamente nelle fabbriche di Detroit, per poi espandersi in Gran Bretagna e nel resto dell’Europa. Con la momentanea invasione di un’area industriale ormai in disuso (in inglese TAZ, ovvero Temporary Autonomous Zone) si vuole stigmatizzare la condizione sociale di migliaia di operai disoccupati e celebrare la liberazione dell’uomo dalla catena del lavoro; per un’intera notte quel luogo riprenderà vita e le macchine fino ad allora produttrici di merci saranno teatro di una nuova, forte espressione musicale che si esprime in un suono senza strumenti né spartiti, ma scandito da suoni elettronici e casse ritmiche. Anche nella scelta dei suoni, che vengono campionati e poi mixati con il computer, si ritrova l’imprescindibile legame che il rave ha con la metropoli, nella quale nasce e si sviluppa; si tratta spesso di suoni provenienti dalla realtà urbana, sirene, antifurti, suoni di macchinari industriali. La musica techno è segnata fin dalla sua nascita dalla marginalità rispetto alla società, sviluppandosi fra le minoranze, nei club di Houston e Chicago frequentati per lo più da omosessuali e afroamericani. Dagli Stati Uniti il fenomeno dei rave si diffonde in Europa e soprattutto in Gran Bretagna, dove l’influsso della cultura psichedelica figlia degli anni settanta da vita a un nuovo genere musicale, l’acid house, che segnerà l’inizio dell’associazione tra i rave e il consumo di droghe e soprattutto la nascita del rave illegale. Negli USA infatti, i rave rimangono nei club; è in Gran Bretagna che il consumo di droghe determina la repressione governativa e la chiusura dei club, portando migliaia di persone a proseguire la loro festa fuori dalle città, organizzando feste illegali. Nel 1992, durante il festival di Castlemorton avvenuto sulle colline del Worcestershire, le forze dell’ordine fecero irruzione arrestando 13 membri degli Spiral Tribe, accusati di disturbo dell’ordine pubblico premeditato. Il Governo inglese vara nel 1994 il Criminal Justice Act, una serie di disposizioni legislative che impongono il divieto di riunirsi senza autorizzazione in più di dieci persone all’interno di uno spazio pubblico. Il rave è dichiarato illegale e per "rave" si intende una riunione notturna con più di cento persone in uno spazio aperto caratterizzato da musica (anche se il luogo è privato e la festa è organizzata con la partecipazione del proprietario). Per musica si intendono "suoni caratterizzati dall’emissione di una successione di battute continue". Vi è la possibilità di sequestro di tutti gli automezzi e delle attrezzature tecniche e non allontanarsi dal rave o dal festival, dopo l’intervento della polizia, è considerato reato. Nel 1996, in risposta al Criminal Justice Act, si sviluppa un’azione di protesta a livello globale racchiusa nello slogan "Reclaim the streets", che consiste nell’occupazione di spazi metropolitani, azioni di disturbo del traffico urbano attuate in bicicletta (Critical Mass) e nell’organizzazione di street party, una nuova forma di corteo danzante caratterizzato dalla presenza di migliaia di persone che ballano seguendo i carri sui quali sono montati i sound system. A Londra, lo slogan Reclaim the streets si avvale di diversi connotati sociali, politici ed economici; esso infatti abbraccia la protesta ecologista contro la speculazione stradale, la stigmatizzazione dell’auto come simbolo del vivere urbano, la reazione alla repressione poliziesca nei confronti dei rave.------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------HYSTORY------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------After the emergence of the Acid House parties in the late 1980s up to 4,000 people were known to attend a rave. These events happened almost every weekend. The noise and disturbance of thousands of people appearing at parties in rural locations, such as Genesis ’88, caused outrage in the national media. The government branded them Public Enemy Number 1 and made the fine for holding an illegal party £20,000 and six months in prison. Police crackdowns on these often-illegal parties drove the scene into the countryside. The word "rave" somehow caught on to describe these semi-spontaneous weekend parties occurring at various locations outside the M25 Orbital motorway that now attracted up to 25 000. It was this that gave Orbital their name. In the 1990s raves began to expand into a global phenomenon. Around 1989-1992 people who had travelled to attend the first raves began setting up promotion companies in each region to organize their own parties. This happened on a grassroots basis, often informally. By the mid-1990s, major corporations were sponsoring events and adopting the scene’s music and fashion for their "edgier" advertising, making the scene become more commercialized. After sensational coverage in the tabloids, culminating in a particularly large rave (near Castlemorton) in May 1992, the government acted on what was depicted as a growing menace. In 1994, the United Kingdom’s Criminal Justice Bill passed as the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 which contained several sections designed to suppress the growing free party and anti-road protest movements (sometimes embodied by ravers and travellers). By the early 2000s, the term "rave" had fallen out of favour among some people in the electronic dance music community, particularly in Europe. Many Europeans identify themselves as "clubbers" rather than ravers. The term ’free party’ has been used for sometime and can be seen on the Spiral Tribe video ’Forward the Revolution’ in 1992. It tried to disconnect raves from big commercial events of the early nineties to a more anarchist version of a party. Some communities preferred the term "festival", while others simply referred to "parties". With less constrictive laws allowing raves to continue long after the United Kingdom tried to ban them. More anarchic raves continue to occur in Central Europe and France, where the law says there can be only 4 teknivals per year (2 in the south, 2 in the north). In France the larger teknivals can attract up to 30 000 people in a three-day period. The terms free party and squat party have become the predominant terms used to describe an illegal party. The term "rave" is still often used to describe an unlicensed party in some parts of the United Kingdom, particularly the South East - perhaps because larger licensed "rave" events have become less common due to anti-drugs enforcement causing venue owners to be wary of hosting them. Free parties tend to be on the boundaries of law and are strongly discouraged by government authorities, occasionally using aggressive police tactics. Free parties are much like other rave parties, their main distinction being that the venue is free to use. The result is that they are often held in isolated outdoor venues or abandoned buildings, where they are also known as squat parties. If the building has a power source that is used but if not then the organisers will use generators. Often free parties involve a lot of (mostly illegal) dance drug use. The music played at free parties is very bass heavy. It is for this reason that they are usually held in isolated venues or places where police interference is unlikely, such as protected squatting residences (particularly in the UK, where police used not to be able to enter a squat easily ). The types of music played are usually various forms of dance music with fast repetitive beats, but, due to the lack of a commercial interest, the genre chosen is often far from popular main-stream tastes and is decided purely by the tastes of the DJs who play for the sound systems putting the event on. Each sound system has its own music policy, following and entourage. The current trend is towards breakcore and gabba or, in another musical direction, psy-trance but many sound systems still play traditional techno. Some parties in England now incorporate elements of performance art ("synthetic circus") as well as electronic dance music. Due to the lack of licensing restrictions, these parties often start after midnight and continue through the night until morning, often longer. Parties lasting several days are not uncommon; some large teknivals can go on for a week. Under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 where the definition of music played at a rave was given as: “ "music" includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats. ” — Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act empowered police to stop a rave in the open air when a hundred or more people are attending, or where two or more are making preparations for a rave. Section 65 allows any uniformed constable who believes a person is on their way to a rave within a five-mile radius to stop them and direct them away from the area; noncompliant citizens may be subject to a maximum fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (£1 000). The Act was ostensibly introduced because of the noise and disruption caused by all night parties to nearby residents, and to protect the countryside. It has also been claimed that it was introduced to kill a popular youth movement that was taking many drinkers out of town centres drinking on taxable alcohol and into fields to take untaxed drugs. The number of people attending and organising such an event for it to be deemed illegal were altered in the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 section 58 to cover indoor parties and outdoor parties of more than 20 people. It is also a crime if, within 24 hours of being told by a police officer to leave a rave, a person makes preparations to attend a rave. More recently in the United Kingdom, Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) have been used against unlicensed rave organisers if the police receive repeated complaints about noise and littering from locals. Despite these laws, free parties continue to exist. They do so in a number of ways. They can be small (with fewer than 100 people) and remote so that they are unlikely to cause distress to the local residents. If the police find out about the party and turn up, it is rarely worth the use of resources to attempt to arrest people and seize equipment. The people at the rave would then have to leave without having time to tidy up and potentially still incapable of driving safely. The other way free parties continue is to be large enough to make breaking them up difficult. When there are more than 500 or so people then there is a potential for a riot. A typical police response to why a rave was not stopped is: "officers had decided not to stop the rave because they had only received one complaint about noise and the amount of resources needed to stop it would not be justified." In August 2006, an unlicensed party in Essex, England was broken up by riot police, resulting in injuries on both sides. This was one of the largest confrontations between police and ravers that had occurred at an unlicensed event for some years. The Chief Superintendent in charge of the police operation said "These sorts of raves are quite unheard of in this county - I have not seen this sort of violence since the old days of acid house." 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