A Technoparade (the word is German) is a parade of vehicles equipped with strong loudspeakers and amplifiers, along the streets of a municipality, which are closed down for this purpose.
It resembles a carnival parade, but the vehicles (called lovemobiles) are less elaborately decorated and the music—usually, but not always, techno—comes from a DJ's sound systems. Also, a technoparade doesn't share the carnival parade tradition of bombarding the ...
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A Technoparade (the word is German) is a parade of vehicles equipped with strong loudspeakers and amplifiers, along the streets of a municipality, which are closed down for this purpose.
It resembles a carnival parade, but the vehicles (called lovemobiles) are less elaborately decorated and the music—usually, but not always, techno—comes from a DJ's sound systems. Also, a technoparade doesn't share the carnival parade tradition of bombarding the spectators with sweets. However, the revellers do occasionally throw confetti (usually larger and more sparkly than that in a carnival parade) and spray foam from the vehicles onto the crowd.
Nearly all of the vehicles are converted trucks. In order to power the amplifiers, the trucks are frequently equipped with an additional electrical generator. The theoretical possibility of using overhead tram wires in some cities has never been put into practice: as a rule such overhead current-delivery systems are switched off during the gathering for...
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