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BERLIN LOVE PARADE 2003—For the fourteenth consecutive year, the celebration of techno music and wild partying took place in the center of Berlin, this year as the past seven around the Victory Lady in the area of Tiergarten. The parade was established in 1989, just four months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, as a demonstration for “freedom, love, unity and respect.” This year, as I waded through the beer and vodka bottles on the street and saw the people dancing and camped out around the Victory Lady?...
...Europe is enjoying itself. O.K., in late July, it always does. The weekend I was in Paris, an estimated 500,000 kids descended on Berlin for the annual Love Parade, a carnival of techno music, dope and sex. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of families started their treks from the damp north of the Continent to their vacation homes in the warm south. But even when the sun isn't shining, Europeans seem to be throwing themselves into fun and festivity with unprecedented zeal. Each weekend, central London is one great bacchanal. Cities that for reasons of politics or religion were...
...think we have the freedom to write about war on one hand and dogs on the other." SFA's serious side dominates Phantom Power, the band's sixth album, out this week. It has the familiar Super Furry sound - upbeat acoustic sections, driving rock, close harmonies and techno breaks augmented by horns, strings and synthesizer. (Previous comparisons have ranged from ELO to dance-pop conceptualist the KLF.) But Phantom Power is an album of its time. Written and recorded in the second half of last year, the record is full of paranoia, uncertainty and the threat...
After scanning my registration badge’s barcode at the front gate, I entered into a world of techno gadgets, chatty salesmen and frantic conference attendees, all trying to make the most out of their limited time at one of the most important business technology shows of the year...
Although this is not my haunt, per se—I am spending the summer working in finance—I was thrilled at the opportunity to experience this mega tradeshow and all it had to offer my less-than-secret love of dorky techno-gadgets. What I quickly learned, though, was that the gadgets were neat, but the show itself was fascinating...