Paris: Techno Parade 2025 canceled for financial reasons
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 that created it announced on Thursday, July 17.
"Since the event is primarily supported by private brands, it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to mobilize," Technopol said in a statement. In 2024, the Techno Parade was canceled due to the Paris Olympics.
The last edition was in 2023, with 400,000 participants—a record according to the organizers—on the occasion of the event's 25th anniversary. Since the creation of the Techno Parade, three other editions have not taken place: in 2001, after the September 11 attacks, and in 2020 and 2021, due to the health crisis.
"The next edition will take place in 2026, this year (Editor's note: 2025) being marked by a reflection with public and private partners on a renewed model of the Techno parade, more than twenty-five years after its creation," says Technopol. "We have taken the decision to rethink our financing model, to work with partners on the long term, in order to preserve our event and keep it alive over time," adds the association for the defense of electronic music. Technopol assures that it is "working actively" for a return next year: "we already have expressions of interest from private partners."
Asked about this new cancellation, the former Minister of Culture Jack Lang, who initiated the Techno Parade based on the model of the Love Parade in Berlin, considered that this cancellation is a " humiliation" for France and French electro music "at the very moment when President Macron has proposed the inscription of the French Touch, which brings together the big names in electro music, on the UNESCO list of intangible heritage."
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