dr martha and danielle deeper chouteau lead the 1st love parade here through west berlin's main shoppingdistrict a few months before the berlin wall came down. everyone was scattered around the 20 people who were there 1st we didn't have any event management we just did it we just flipped on the generators. west berlin in the late 1980 s. . the dream couple of a new subculture. acid house a new electronic sound which dr much of played in a club called the turbine. at the time affordable electronic instruments drum machines and bass synthesizers were changing how music was made and how it sounded . those 2 machines basically started a revolution it was like you can record music in your bedroom on a cassette or whatever who cares but you could do it. and techno made everyone equal unlike before when there was always the big rock star out there. so. that's why techno was so important to me politically and that's. what made it so incredibly attractive i think i took so long to have. the love parade became the image of a new generation post berlin wall hundreds of rivers turned into hundreds