The Love Parade

Germany’s annual Love Parade was the temporary centre of the world of electronic dance music during its two-decade run. First organized in 1989 in West Berlin by planetcom, a company affiliated with the defunct E-Werk club, the parade was registered with the city as a political demonstration for “peace, joy, and pancakes” and until 1997 was held on the Kurfürstendamm, Berlin’s main shopping street. The first Love Parade consisted of a couple of vans playing...