After the cancellation of the techno parade in 2024, due to the Paris Olympics, it is now financial problems that prevent the event holding.
The Techno Parade, an annual showcase of electronic music in Paris since 1998, will not take place in 2025 for the second consecutive year, the first time for financial reasons, the Technopol association which created it announced on Thursday. “The event being mainly supported by private brands, these are more and more difficult to mobilize”said the organizers in a press release. In 2024, the Techno Parade had been canceled due to the holding of the Paris Olympics.
The last edition dates back to 2023, with some 400,000 participants – a record according to the organizers – on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of this event. Since the creation of Techno Parade, three other editions have not taken place: in 2001, after the September 11 attacks, in 2020 and 2021, due to the health crisis. “The next edition will take place in 2026, this year (note 2025) being marked by a reflection with public and private partners on a renewed model of techno parade, more than 25 years after its creation”. Indique Technopol.
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“We have made the decision to rethink our financing model, work with long -term partners, in order to preserve our event and make it live on duration”adds the association for the defense of electronic music. Technopol provides “Work actively” For a return next year: “We already have brands of interest on the part of private partners”.
Questioned by AFP on this new cancellation, former Minister of Culture Jack Lang, at the initiative of the Techno Parade on the model of the Love Parade of Berlin, estimated that this cancellation is “A humiliation for Paris, France and French Touch, at the very moment when President Macron proposed the inscription to UNESCO, to the intangible heritage of the French Touch, which brings together the big names in electro music”.