Freetekno/Free Party Sound Systems
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| Free party / Squat Party | Teknival |
| Freetekno | Sound System |
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Sound system is also used to refer to a free party sound system, also known as a rig. The equipment will be a van, loudspeakers, amplifiers, decks and cables but larger rigs might also have a fog machine, lighting, projectors and an electrical generator. A sound system collective is usually five or more people, with larger sound systems having more members. Equipment is owned by some and others are DJs, record producers or enthusiastic ravers that help out. They will be the people who organise free parties and teknivals and will be a group of friends with similar interests. Some owners purposely use second hand equipment, as they will not care if the equipment will get damaged, stolen or confiscated. This type of rig is called a suicide rig and usually used at unsecure locations where it may get stolen or damaged and if police will have knowledge of the party.
Sometimes a soundsystem is well known for its travelling nature and can be described as modern Nomad tribes or New age travellers. In this context the word sound system is used interchangeably to describe either the group of people or the equipment. The techno travelling scene of the 90's was made of such sound system like Bedlam sound system, and Spiral Tribe.
The Free party community has come under much criticism from wider society in recent years. Through the general unsightly appearance of attendees to such events, accusations of high levels of substance abuse of illegal drugs such as MDMA, Ketamine, Amphetamines and LSD along with complaints about mess left behind by such parties have given the scene a negative reputation. However despite such complaints the scene continues to grow with a large following in Bristol, Abergavenny, Newport, London, Devon and Cornwall.
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—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
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—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
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—Don Delillo (b. 1926)