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Aircraft hangar warehouses, 20,000 ravers, 18 hours, a who’s who of modern techno
and jaw-plunging production… German über-rave Timewarp has it all
or those that kneel at the Born 15 years ago, the fi rst Timewarp was But for all its mini-Sonar stylings, it is concession to any commercial ‘big room
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altar of techno, faith is an all-night 2000-capacity rave in nearby tonight’s closing rave in Mannheim’s sound’. Timewarp founder Steffen Charles
often defi ned by a Ludwigshafen with DJs like Speedy J, Maimarkthalle that is the main draw. succinctly sums up their music policy as
succession of well-chosen Laurent Garnier and John Acquaviva Squeezing a season’s worth of Cocoon/ “techno.”
pilgrimages. Roll back a rocking a predominantly German DC10 line-ups and 20,000 ravers into 18 “A lot of people on our website asked why
couple of years and thousands would have following. hours, three huge warehouses and two don’t we bring a special guest like Fatboy
held DC10’s Circo Loco or Amnesia’s In the years since, Timewarp has evolved additional music marquees, it is one of Slim or Tiësto for our 15th anniversary?”
Cocoon as their hedonistic Holy Grail; into a TDK sponsored week of workshops the most intense techno celebrations in he reveals, half-confused by the
these days superseded by the sleepless (Loco Dice chaired a Traktor workshop the Europe. suggestion. “But we take that money and
deviance of the Panorama Bar. week just gone), vaguely arty live And in the internet dominated age, its spend it on production. For me, it’s really
Yet one crusade that thousands, including performances (Cobblestone Jazz’s live gospel is spreading faster than ever bad if on our 15th year we give someone
DJmag, are currently undertaking is not performance of their soundtrack for before. Last year’s Youtube video of like that a headline set for €60,000 when
leading to the German capital of Berlin 1920’s silent movie ‘Faust’ one of this Hawtin’s closing set has fl ashed away on people like Richie [Hawtin], Carl [Cox] and
but some 500 kilometres south to the year’s highlights), seminars and smaller nearly half a million computer screens, Sven [Väth] have been supporting us for
unassuming city of Mannheim — home of club events across Mannheim and the while the Timewarp disciples that were years.”
the annual Timewarp festival. neighbouring areas. there that day — lost deep into the
warped hours of Sunday afternoon — Germany’s eternal and omnipresent
have spread their message on the techno shaman, Väth has played
cosmopolitan terraces of DC10, in the Timewarp religiously for 14 years but his
dark corners of Berghain or simply to infl uence into Timewarp’s origins run
whoever would listen in their hometowns. even deeper than his 1995 debut. Back in
As a result, the swarming congregation 1990, Sven’s charismatic force was rising
we join at tonight’s Timewarp is its most to mythical proportions across his
pan-European yet. A number that is homelands and his weekly residency at
growing by the year, 800 ravers have The Omen in Frankfurt — just 50 km north
shipped over from our UK shores alone of our current location — was the
with a further 6000 split between Italian, defi nitive techno baptism for the region’s
Spanish, French, Dutch and Belgian rave hedonistic youth.
contingents. “Frankfurt, Sven, The Omen…” continues
Steffen with obvious passion. “That was
The growing appeal to the most devout the fi rst time we all got in touch with
techno heads is obvious. Contrasting electronic music, with techno, with drugs
most European mega raves of this scale, — it went on ’til midday Sunday every
Timewarp’s raw neo-warehouse vibe is a week, a totally crazy atmosphere driven
departure from the vacuous sterility of by this totally crazy DJ. I always
the conference hall venues they often remember Sven saying, ‘We were carving
inhabit. And the music policy is every bit ravers in Omen’ and it’s totally true — that
as honest and uncompromised. There’s no is what they did. Someone was coming
Loco Dice
dilution, no trend jumping and no into The Omen not knowing what was
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