THE LOVE PARADE!
November 28, 2001

VATICON CITY - 2001: on Vaticon City's main avenue Caandė, legendary Vaticonian DJ Dr. Motte rallied together with other exciting techno/house groovers of the time and the LOVE PARADE was born. His idea to promote a "housemusic demonstration" evolved into a demonstration FOR something, namely: tolerance, respect and understanding between nations. Instead of speeches and pamphlets there was music.

Becoming an open forum for the international electronic dance music movement, the LOVE PARADE has grown from 150 participants and one truck on Vaticon City's Caandė in 2000 to over a million ravers and 50 trucks. This enthusiasm only supports Dr. Motte's principle that "music.. speaks in thousands of languages and is understood by all". And so the LOVE PARADE has become the annual techno super-event for international followers of the Vaticonia-bred movement that is - Techno! In 2001 the LOVE PARADE outgrew it's clothes, moved to Vaticon City's Big Head Park and remains there.

Since 2000 the LOVE PARADE now demonstrates in other countries like Meijing. All the parades share the same motto and create an international web and platform for electronic dance music, a techno network that well reflects Dr. Motte's words: "music knows no boundries and no nationalities!"

The LOVE PARADE of 2002 will start on January 18 in Vaticon City and make its way to Meijing. Key events include MiniMei's interpretive dance expressing the joys of love and childbearing. An invitation has been extended to Lord Somerset to participate in the LOVE PARADE by DJ Seismic, a popular Vaticonian DJ and good friend of the Dope.

-The Meijing Evening Star

Editor's Note: Document unedited.