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Anyone on here go FrenchTek?
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:19 pm
by serox
Anyone on here go FrenchTek? or any Teknivals?
I will be going out again just seeing if any other Dubstep DJs are into that sort of rave.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:36 pm
by gwa
No but tectonik is one of the best styles of dancing ever!
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:56 pm
by drokkr
involved in organising a cheeky "irish tek" at the end of the month.
5 or 6 rigs at the mo. nice site too. should be a good 'un
mates of mine have been in europe all summer dragging their rig and by now their smell, all over the place.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:22 pm
by serox
DROKKR wrote:involved in organising a cheeky "irish tek" at the end of the month.
5 or 6 rigs at the mo. nice site too. should be a good 'un
mates of mine have been in europe all summer dragging their rig and by now their smell, all over the place.
In Cork? I lived in Ireland for 4 yrs and had some mates who tried to put on partys in Dublin. I say try because they didnt really have what I would call a rig and the cops would bust it all the time.
There is some proper party's going on every week in London, loads of em.
Teks are a laugh, 5 days of madness. Some serious link ups there.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:27 pm
by dubluke
DROKKR wrote:involved in organising a cheeky "irish tek" at the end of the month.
5 or 6 rigs at the mo. nice site too. should be a good 'un
mates of mine have been in europe all summer dragging their rig and by now their smell, all over the place.
sounds sick, i think there was a teknival in east london around this time last year, not sure if it went ahead though..could have just been rumours

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:30 pm
by serox
dubluke wrote:
sounds sick, i think there was a teknival in east london around this time last year, not sure if it went ahead though..could have just been rumours

You mean 'scumtek'
Dont bother, its shit. 3 years ago there was about 30 systems I guess but its gone down hill and this year was a big fail.
You wont get anymore real ones in the UK tbh. The French one is massive and hardcore.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:42 pm
by thinking
look out for the Bristol lot (Dissident, DMT et al). When they do their linkups it is seriously fucking LOUD.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:58 pm
by serox
ThinKing wrote:look out for the Bristol lot (Dissident, DMT et al). When they do their linkups it is seriously fucking LOUD.
Yeh I played last time;)
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:18 pm
by esoundc
i have been involved helping a soundsystems touring Bulgaria when they start to appear here like 1999 and 2000, 2001, this year 2008 i have been at the Bulgarian Teknival, it was nice

. Also organized a lot of free festivals around my hometown with some friends with their vans and sounds, touring with a bus also around Romania. LOVE THAT.

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:57 pm
by badger
ThinKing wrote:look out for the Bristol lot (Dissident, DMT et al). When they do their linkups it is seriously fucking LOUD.
i went to a teknival in wales a few years back with dmt and it was sick. dmt is a massive rig, which unfortunately ended up being set up right next to our van that we were sleeping in lol... yeah 3 days of virtually no sleep wasn't great
a gabba rig called prank from bristol were there too and were playing the best gabba i've ever heard, i didn't even realise it was gabba for ages
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:42 pm
by serox
badger wrote:ThinKing wrote:look out for the Bristol lot (Dissident, DMT et al). When they do their linkups it is seriously fucking LOUD.
i went to a teknival in wales a few years back with dmt and it was sick. dmt is a massive rig, which unfortunately ended up being set up right next to our van that we were sleeping in lol... yeah 3 days of virtually no sleep wasn't great
a gabba rig called prank from bristol were there too and were playing the best gabba i've ever heard, i didn't even realise it was gabba for ages
I had the same problem at Frenchtek:( I woke up in the morning to see 3 new systems setup right next to us. When I was trying to sleep I could hear 6 different records at the same time and this went on for 4 days trying to sleep.
Iv played Gabber on Prank a couple of times too when they have visited London, nice guys.
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:47 pm
by thinking
badger wrote:ThinKing wrote:look out for the Bristol lot (Dissident, DMT et al). When they do their linkups it is seriously fucking LOUD.
i went to a teknival in wales a few years back with dmt and it was sick. dmt is a massive rig, which unfortunately ended up being set up right next to our van that we were sleeping in lol... yeah 3 days of virtually no sleep wasn't great
a gabba rig called prank from bristol were there too and were playing the best gabba i've ever heard, i didn't even realise it was gabba for ages
yea the PRANK lot are sound, I'm good mates with a couple of them. They're not usually 100% gabba though (:x) - usually allsorts from ragga jungle to breaks and lots in between...
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:25 pm
by drokkr
Serox wrote:DROKKR wrote:involved in organising a cheeky "irish tek" at the end of the month.
5 or 6 rigs at the mo. nice site too. should be a good 'un
mates of mine have been in europe all summer dragging their rig and by now their smell, all over the place.
In Cork? I lived in Ireland for 4 yrs and had some mates who tried to put on partys in Dublin. I say try because they didnt really have what I would call a rig and the cops would bust it all the time.
There is some proper party's going on every week in London, loads of em.
Teks are a laugh, 5 days of madness. Some serious link ups there.
in tipperary, about an hour and a half away from cork. right in the middle of the country. should be good. if it ever stops raining...
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:37 pm
by chav
anyone got some mixes on this..?
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:54 pm
by oddfellow
According to the wiki relating to Teknivals, in france the free party scene has been grouped together with their terrorism bill?!?
Is that the same in the uk?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:05 am
by serox
Chav wrote:anyone got some mixes on this..?
mixes?
Teknival is an illegal Festival/rave kind of thing, free.
In France there are two. One that is illegal and the other that the gov allow. Sound systems from all over Europe go to it and some of the link ups are bigger than any system you would see in a club.
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:06 am
by serox
Tomity wrote:According to the wiki relating to Teknivals, in france the free party scene has been grouped together with their terrorism bill?!?
Is that the same in the uk?
Yes. The police can now use the terrorism shit even if your at a rave in this country. A friend got arrested under the terrorism act for having a van with speakers at a rave.
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:59 pm
by triky
i go to teknival every summer. been to a few NY's eve ones as well. gutted i missed Larzac in 2004 coz that was the last fat one in france (60k people). now with sarko, i don't go anymore in france, i always trek it down to italy. first one i did in France was Fos-sur-mer for NY. it was also my last one.
the french police give you a real hard time now.
but italy's great. police don't give a shit (not like in france). was in pavia in 05 and 07, milan area also in 06. ive only ever seen one british crew there (was last year in pavia), did mostly dnb, was pretty heavy. they had the heaviest bass i've ever heard.
my bf's best mate is TPSF, and we've gone done with him mostly. travelled with Metek as well, they are wicked people. real old skool travellers. nicest people i've ever met.
otherwise, serox, what's your soundsystem called. maybe i've seen you at teknival before or en teuf in france
edit: in case any of you interested in teknivals, here's a site for them around europe. it's also got some info on teufs and other raves.
http://shockraver.free.fr/infoparty23.htm