Street Parade

The Zürich techno parade, from its first edition on 5 September 1992 — two Lovemobiles and a couple of thousand people, permitted as a demonstration — to the lakeside event that fills the city every August. Includes the 1994 ban that nearly ended it and the reversal that made it mainstream.

A chronological documentary of 249 moments spanning 1992–2026 on Loreline.

last updated 2026-08-08

1. 1992 — The first Street Parade, 1992. Eight minutes of video from the very first Street Parade, when a few hundred dancers followed a handful of sound trucks through central Zurich. The tape circulated for years as a rip of a private recording credited to vandeloow. It is one of the few moving-image records of the founding edition.
2. 1992 — Swiss television at the first parade, 1992. An SRF report from the very first Street Parade in 1992, broadcast in the youth programme 'Barock Dynamix' on 26 September 1992. Ravers are asked on camera what love means to them, and the piece frames the new techno scene as a celebration of peace and love.
3. 1992 — The first Street Parade, 1992. A record of the very first Street Parade in 1992, posted with the original announcement text: a demonstration for love, peace, freedom, generosity and tolerance, police-approved and free, assembling from 13:30 at the Hechtplatz. The legal framing as a demonstration is what made the parade possible at all.
4. 1992 — Unreleased footage of the first parade, 1992. Previously unpublished video from the first Street Parade on 5 September 1992, released for the event's thirtieth anniversary. It shows the parade at its origin, when it was a handful of floats and a crowd of about a thousand people moving through the city centre.
5. 1992 — Swiss television reports the first parade, 1992. A short Tagesschau item from Swiss television broadcast on 5 September 1992, the day of the first Street Parade. The report shows the cortege on its original route along the Limmatquai and the Bahnhofstrasse, before the parade moved to the lakeside circuit it uses today. Held in the SRF archive.
6. 1992 — Amateur footage with sound from the first parade, 1992. Sixteen minutes of amateur camcorder material from the 1992 parade, uploaded by DJ Dream as a gift for the twentieth edition. The uploader notes that despite the poor picture quality these are among the only amateur recordings from that day that carry live sound. It shows the small early cortege and the crowd around it.
7. 1993 — The 1993 parade on camcorder. Thirty-eight minutes of footage from the 1993 Street Parade, the second edition, when the parade was still measured in thousands rather than hundreds of thousands.
8. 1993 — The second Street Parade, 28 August 1993. Fifty minutes shot at the second Street Parade on 28 August 1993 by a visitor who travelled to Zurich with two friends and a heavy battery pack for the camera. The uploader notes that nobody in that small group of techno fans expected the gathering to turn into a mass event.
9. 1994 — Energy at the Hallenstadion on parade night, 1994. A VHS transfer of the Energy indoor party held at the Zurich Hallenstadion on 13 August 1994, the night of the third Street Parade. The event became the parade's regular after-hours continuation, and this tape records its early sound and staging.
10. 1994 — The Empire crew at the 1994 parade. Two minutes of footage tagged to the Zurich club Empire at the 1994 Street Parade, the third edition, when the event was still small enough to move through the city centre streets.
11. 1994 — Camcorder impressions of the 1994 parade. Nearly fifty minutes of amateur camcorder footage from the 1994 Street Parade, digitised decades later from the original tape. It records the parade while it was still a small event, before the route around the lake basin filled with hundreds of thousands of people.
12. 1995 — Forty-six minutes at the 1995 parade. A long, unedited record of the 1995 Street Parade posted without commentary. Material from the fourth edition is scarce, and this is one of the few full-length records of it.
13. 1995 — The 1995 parade, recorded live. A 46-minute recording of the 1995 Street Parade, circulated by an old-school techno channel. The 1995 edition was the fourth, drawing a crowd already well into six figures but still a fraction of what the parade would become.
14. 1995 — Local television report on the 1995 parade. A mood report on the 1995 edition produced by the Zurich local station Zueri 1. It mixes street-level shots of the trucks and dancers with reactions filmed on the route, in the register of regional news of the mid-1990s.
15. 1995 — The 1995 parade in Zurich. Nine minutes from the August 1995 edition, filmed from within the crowd. The uploader notes there was still no official motto at this point in the parade's history. The footage catches the moment the event grew past a niche gathering into a mass one.
16. 1996 — The 1996 anthem: Parade by 1000 People. The official Street Parade anthem of 1996, released under the name 1000 People. Audio only, from a rare pressing of the period. The 1996 edition ran under the motto The Rave-olution continues.
17. 1996 — Fourteen minutes at the 1996 parade. Amateur footage from the fifth Street Parade in 1996, the year the event first drew a crowd in the hundreds of thousands and the organising association was formed.
18. 1996 — The 1996 parade, first part. Fifteen unbroken minutes from the fifth Street Parade in August 1996, shot from the route. The long take gives an unedited sense of how the trucks moved through the crowd and how densely the lakeside was packed by then.
19. 1996 — Super 8 film of the 1996 parade. The 1996 Street Parade shot on Super 8 film by Alain Margot, a rare non-video record of a mid-nineties edition. The uploader's note is that people knew how to enjoy themselves before mobile phones.
20. 1996 — The official video of the 1996 parade. The official VHS release documenting the fifth Street Parade on 10 August 1996, mixed by DJ S.I.ONE and carrying that year's motto, 'The Rave-olution continues'. The organisers put the crowd at over 350,000, the first time the parade reached that scale.
21. 1996 — Swiss television questions the parade as a demonstration, 1996. An item from the SRF news magazine 10vor10, broadcast on 9 August 1996, the day before the parade. It examines the parade's legal standing as a registered demonstration and asks what a march that is about pleasure and the body still shares with the political street protests that preceded it.
22. 1997 — The 1997 parade. Twenty-seven minutes shot at the 1997 Street Parade in Zurich, the sixth edition, by then drawing a crowd in the hundreds of thousands.
23. 1998 — The Sensor Love Mobile, 1998. Fourteen minutes from the Sensor Love Mobile at the 1998 Street Parade on 8 August, uploaded by DJ Noise in memory of the friends, DJs and ravers of those years. The 1998 edition ran under the motto 'It's all in your hands'.
24. 1998 — The 1998 anthem: It's All In Your Hands. DJ Scream's It's All In Your Hands, the official anthem of the 1998 Street Parade, issued on ZYX Music. The title doubled as that year's motto. The release notes give the parade date as 8 August 1998.
25. 1998 — The official 1998 compilation, 'It's all in your hands'. The official mix compilation for the 1998 Street Parade, put together by DJ Noise and released under that year's motto. It is the record of what the parade sounded like in 1998, with a full tracklist in the upload.
26. 1998 — The seventh parade, 8 August 1998. Amateur video shot on 8 August 1998 by the Rete Tre radio team, who covered the seventh edition live with Alessio Arigoni and Massimiliano Babbucci. The uploader warns that the picture quality is poor, but the tape carries the sound and density of the route that day.
27. 1998 — Rain pipe torn down at the Street Parade, still lying where it fell. The Commons file page dates this to the Street Parade of 8 August 1998 and its description says the drainpipe was pulled off a toilet block by a climbing raver at the 1997 parade and was still lying in the same spot a year later. It is the only image on Wikimedia Commons filed under any 1990s Street Parade year. The picture itself carries no DateTimeOriginal; its only EXIF timestamp is 2011-05-06, so the 1998 claim cannot be confirmed from the file. The subject dates from 1998; the photograph itself is later.
28. 1998 — The 1998 parade, first part. Eight minutes from the 1998 edition, archived by a channel that collects old-school techno and hardcore material. Straight footage of the trucks and the crowd with the original sound of the day.
29. 1998 — Full tape of the 1998 parade. A forty-minute continuous recording of the 1998 edition, unedited and without commentary. Its length makes it useful as a record of how the day actually unfolded rather than as a highlight reel.
30. 1999 — The Mäxxx and Friends Love Mobile, 1999. Forty minutes recorded on the Love Mobile run by Mäxxx and Friends for Club Chillup's Sundays Trance Dance at the 1999 Street Parade.
31. 1999 — DJ Nonsdrome's set on Love Mobile 3, 1999. The set DJ Nonsdrome played on Love Mobile 3 at the 1999 Street Parade, recorded live on the truck and posted with a full tracklist of the trance and hard trance records used. The 1999 edition ran under the motto 'More than words'.
32. 1999 — The official 1999 compilation, 'More than words'. The official mix compilation for the 1999 Street Parade, mixed by the Swiss DJ Tatana and named after that year's motto. A full tracklist accompanies the upload.
33. 2000 — The Antiparade Soundsystem, 2000. A record of the Antiparade Soundsystem, the noise-making counter-current that set up near the Street Parade on the same day in Zurich and preceded the later Antiparade. It documents the criticism the parade attracted from within the city's own club and squat scene.
34. 2000 — Max B. Grant's live mix from the 2000 parade. The set Max B. Grant played at the 2000 Street Parade, the ninth edition, which ran under the motto 'Believe in Love'.
35. 2000 — Energy at the Hallenstadion after the 2000 parade. Footage from the Energy party at the Zurich Hallenstadion, described by the uploader as the biggest indoor techno event following the Street Parade. It records where a large part of the crowd went once the trucks stopped rolling.
36. 2000 — The official 2000 compilation. The mix compilation issued for the 2000 Street Parade, the ninth edition, which ran under the motto 'Believe in Love'. Seventy-five minutes of the trance and hard trance that dominated the parade at the turn of the century.
37. 2000 — Swiss television's live broadcast of the 2000 parade. The complete SF DRS live transmission from the ninth Street Parade on 12 August 2000, more than three hours long, presented by Christoph Baumgartner and Dominik Kaiser with Kathrin Winzenried reporting from inside the crowd. It cuts between studio links, impressions of the route and the boats and trucks on the lake basin.
38. 2001 — Chinese Lovemobile at the 2001 parade. Swiss television footage of a Chinese-themed Lovemobile at the 2001 Street Parade on 11 August. A close look at how a single truck was decorated and crewed, at the edition whose motto was Love, Freedom, Tolerance.
39. 2001 — Madwave's set at the 2001 parade, part one. The opening fragment of an eight-part recording of Madwave's trance and hard-trance set played from a Lovemobile at the 2001 Street Parade. Short, but taken directly from the truck rather than from a later studio mix.
40. 2001 — Madwave's set at the 2001 parade, part two. The second fragment of Madwave's hard-trance set recorded live from a Lovemobile at the 2001 parade. The clip catches the interplay between the DJ on the truck bed and the dancers walking alongside.
41. 2001 — Madwave's set at the 2001 parade, part five. A later fragment from the same eight-part recording of Madwave's Lovemobile set at the 2001 Street Parade, deeper into the run when the route was at its fullest.
42. 2002 — DJ Energy at the 2002 parade. DJ Energy's set from the 2002 Street Parade, uploaded as an official recording of that year's event.
43. 2002 — DJ Indian's trance set at the 2002 parade. A long trance set presented as a live recording from the 2002 Street Parade, running through the hard-trance repertoire of the period with a full tracklist in the description. It stands as an audio document of what a truck actually played across an afternoon.
44. 2002 — Salvaged tape of the 2002 parade. Fragments the uploader was able to recover from an already deteriorating tape of the 2002 edition. The original ambient sound had to be replaced for rights reasons, so the value here is purely in the pictures of the route and the crowd.
45. 2002 — The 2002 parade in Zurich. Three minutes of personal footage from the 2002 edition, posted years later by a participant looking back. The motto that year was PEACE!.
46. 2003 — Beat Herren and Bopp Records on the 2003 route. The Bopp Records truck with Beat Herren behind the decks at the 2003 Street Parade. A portrait of one Swiss label's Lovemobile and the crowd that followed it.
47. 2003 — Television excerpt from the 2003 parade. An excerpt from an episode of the programme Cool TV covering the 2003 parade, kept with its original on-site sound rather than a music bed. Swiss German commentary throughout.
48. 2003 — Mousse T. at the 2003 parade. A short television segment of Mousse T. playing the 2003 Street Parade, part three of a series covering that edition. The 2003 parade ran under the motto 'Let the sun shine' and was the year the route direction was reversed.
49. 2003 — Short clip from the 2003 parade. A one-minute clip from the 2003 edition filmed among the crowd, posted by an Italian-speaking visitor.
50. 2003 — The 2003 parade in Zurich. Ten minutes from the 2003 edition, filmed on the route. The motto that year was Let the sun shine.
51. 2003-08-09 — Boats packed onto Lake Zurich during the 2003 heatwave parade. Hundreds of pleasure boats raft together on the Zurichsee off the parade quay, with the crowded lakeside promenade behind them. The 2003 edition fell during the European heatwave, with temperatures above 35 C, and again drew about 900,000 people. Watching the parade from the water has been part of the event since the route moved to the lake basin in 1994.
52. 2004 — The 2004 anthem: Elements of Culture. DJ Tatana's Elements of Culture, the official Street Parade hymn of 2004 and the track that gave the edition its motto. Audio only, produced with Marc Zibung and David Prodygee.
53. 2004-08-07 — Crowd filling the parade route, Street Parade 2004. Ravers fill the full width of the closed lakeside road between the Lovemobiles. The 2004 edition again approached one million participants, close to the record set in 2001. Litter is already visible on the tarmac, a foretaste of the tonnes of waste the city clears after every parade.
54. 2004-08-07 — Yellow Lovemobile with sound stack and dancers, 2004. A yellow-liveried Lovemobile, its truck bed built out into a scaffold sound tower, grinds along the route above the crowd. Lovemobiles, decorated trucks each carrying a sound system and its own DJs, have been the signature of the parade since the first two rolled in 1992. By the 2000s several dozen were licensed each year.
55. 2005 — The Golden Age Lovemobile, 2005. The Golden Age Lovemobile run by tilllate.com with Offshore Music at the 2005 Street Parade. Shows the truck's decoration and its crowd from close range.
56. 2005 — Hour-long recording from the 2005 parade. Close to an hour of house and techno recorded at the 2005 Street Parade, posted without commentary or description. It works as a sound document of the day.
57. 2005 — Along the lake at the 2005 parade. Five minutes of handheld footage from the 2005 edition, following the trucks along the lake basin. The motto that year was Today is tomorrow.
58. 2005 — One minute at the 2005 parade. A single minute filmed inside the crowd at the 2005 edition, without commentary or editing.
59. 2005 — Long record of the 2005 parade. A thirty-eight minute personal recording of the 2005 edition made by RedJam, moving with the trucks rather than cutting between them. Unedited length makes it a useful pass over the whole route.
60. 2005-08-13 — Inflatable marker above the crowd on the quay, 2005. A tall red inflatable column rises over the packed lakeside route, used to mark a truck or stand in the crush. The parade is legally still a demonstration, a status dating from its 1992 permit, which is why the city carries much of the security cost. Costume and improvised signage have always done the work that stewards' barriers do at ticketed festivals.
61. 2005-08-13 — Costumed ravers in the crowd, Street Parade 2005. Participants in pink wigs and feather costumes among the crowd on the quay. 2005 was the year the official drinks partners were first allowed to sell beer along the route, a change many observers blamed for a rougher mood than usual. Radio Street Parade, which had run into financial trouble, was rescued that year by Energy Zurich and the free paper 20 Minuten.
62. 2005-08-13 — Costumed participants on the lakeside route, 2005. Ravers in elaborate hand-made costumes push through the crowd on the quay. From the mid-1990s the parade grew from a few thousand marchers into a city-wide street festival drawing hundreds of thousands. The costume culture is one of the few threads that survived the shift from underground rave to mass public event.
63. 2006 — The 2006 anthem: Move Your Mind. The official Street Parade anthem of 2006, whose title was also that year's motto. This upload credits the version to Aras; the anthem was released under the name Friends Of Street Parade. Audio only.
64. 2006-08-12 — Stage with dancers and video wall, Street Parade 2006. Dancers perform on a parade stage in front of a large video screen. The 2006 edition ran under the motto Move your mind and drew about 800,000 people despite cloud and repeated showers. The Dutch promoter Q-Dance supplied a hardstyle stage that year before later withdrawing after a dispute with the organisers.
65. 2007 — Television best-of the 2007 parade. The television programme that broadcaster 3+ built from the 2007 edition, running close to half an hour. It covers the route, the trucks and the stages under that year's motto, Respect.
66. 2007 — Filo and Peri play The Anthem at the 2007 parade. A short clip of Filo and Peri's track The Anthem being played at the 2007 Street Parade, recorded from the crowd in front of the system.
67. 2007 — The sixteenth parade, 11 August 2007. A compact camera record of the sixteenth Street Parade on 11 August 2007, held under the motto Respect. Filmed by a participant moving around the lake basin with the crowd.
68. 2007 — The 2007 parade in Zurich. Five minutes from the 2007 edition filmed by a visitor, taking in the trucks, the sound systems and the packed quays.
69. 2007 — Six minutes at the 2007 parade. A visitor's edit of the 2007 edition, cutting between the trucks on the route and the crowd on the quays. The uploader links to the contemporary photo galleries that covered the same day.
70. 2007 — Photographs from the 2007 parade. A slideshow assembled from stills taken at the 2007 Street Parade, set to Swiss trance records of the period. Useful for costume and crowd detail that moving footage of the era rarely holds still long enough to show.
71. 2007 — Full personal record of the 2007 parade. Forty-seven minutes filmed at the 2007 edition by a group of Italian-speaking friends, kept as one long unedited piece. The length captures the slow pace at which the parade actually moves.
72. 2007-08-11 — Ravers in the lake beside the parade route, 2007. Participants wade and leap into the Zurichsee alongside the cordoned quay, with excursion boats on the water behind. The route runs the whole length of the lake basin, so the water is never more than a few metres from the crowd. Swimming off the quay is one of the informal traditions of a hot parade day.
73. 2007-08-11 — Costumed marchers in gold and green, Street Parade 2007. A group in gold and green costume walks the closed route ahead of the trucks. The founding permit described the event as a demonstration for love, peace, freedom, generosity and tolerance, and costumed self-presentation has stood in for placards ever since. In 2007 the parade drew roughly 800,000 people.
74. 2007-08-11 — Lovemobile crowd under the motto Respect, 2007. Ravers dressed in white ride and surround a Lovemobile on the route. The 2007 parade, the 16th edition, was held on 11 August under the motto Respect! and called for a violence-free gathering. Over 200 DJs played, among them Paul van Dyk, then ranked the world's number one.
75. 2007-08-11 — The crowd on Limmatquai in Zurich's old town, 2007. A dense column of people moves through the old town between historic facades, a reminder that the parade takes over the core of the city and not just the lakefront. The city and organisers have argued for years over who pays for the closures, cleaning and policing this requires. Zurich's police chief tried to ban the event outright in 1994 on exactly these grounds.
76. 2007-08-11 — Boat-themed Lovemobile on the quay, 2007. A Lovemobile built as a boat, complete with hull and mast, passes the crowd on the lakeside route. Each truck is fitted out by a club, label or crew and competes for attention along the circuit. The parade's police and sanitation planning is built around the trucks' slow fixed procession.
77. 2008 — Building a Lovemobile for the 2008 parade. A time-lapse showing Lovemobile number sixteen for the 2008 Street Parade being built up from a bare truck. One of the few clips in the archive that shows the preparation rather than the parade itself.
78. 2008 — The 2008 parade, filmed live. Footage shot on 9 August 2008 at the Street Parade, posted by a record label that ran with the event. Straight footage from the route with the day's own sound.
79. 2008-08-09 — Spectators packed onto a building's balconies, 2008. Every level of an office building's balconies is lined with spectators watching the parade below. The Commons description calls it a loaded balcony. Buildings along the quay effectively become grandstands, and residents' complaints about noise and access are a fixed part of the annual permit negotiation.
80. 2008-08-09 — The crowd on Limmatquai, 2008. Ravers stream along Limmatquai in the old town, past the arcades and shopfronts. Although the parade circuit itself is the lake basin, the crowd spreads through the whole inner city for the rest of the day and night. The Commons description names the location.
81. 2008-08-09 — Zurich rooftops above the parade, 2008. Looking down over the city's roofs to the packed parade route and its stands below. The route runs the lake basin from Wollishofen round to Seefeld, reversed in 2003 for noise reasons and to give the trucks better exits. The picture shows how completely the event occupies the historic centre.
82. 2008-08-09 — Wide avenue of the parade route filled with people, 2008. A broad boulevard, its tram tracks running down the middle, is given over entirely to walking ravers. The 2008 edition ran under the motto Friendship, calling for a peaceful and responsible attitude to other people and the environment. Roughly 88 tonnes of waste were cleared after a comparable edition in 2011.
83. 2008-08-09 — Ravers on a Lovemobile platform, Street Parade 2008. Participants ride the upper deck of a Lovemobile behind the speaker stacks. The 2008 edition took place on 9 August under the motto Friendship. After trouble at the 2007 parade the city imposed new conditions, banning outdoor speaker rigs at bars and refusing extra pavement licences in the inner city.
84. 2008-08-09 — The Hotel Eden au Lac facade above the parade, 2008. Spectators fill the windows and terraces of the Hotel Eden au Lac on the Zurich lakefront as the parade passes. The grand lakeside hotels sit directly on the route, one of the sharpest contrasts the event produces. The Commons description names the building.
85. 2008-08-09 — Police and spectators along the closed street, 2008. A police officer stands in the empty carriageway while spectators line the balconies and pavement above. Security and medical cover for the parade are provided by the city because the event is still legally a demonstration. The 2008 concept was written specifically to prevent a repeat of the previous year's violence.
86. 2008-08-09 — Crowd around a monument on the parade route, 2008. Ravers gather at the foot of a statue on the closed quay, using the plinth as a vantage point. Improvised viewpoints on monuments, walls and bus shelters are a constant of the parade and a recurring headache for the safety planners. The 2008 security concept was tightened after the fatal stabbing at the 2007 edition.
87. 2008-08-09 — Trams and crowd on the closed parade route, 2008. People spread across the tram tracks of a main artery closed for the parade, with a stationary tram and overhead wires above them. Shutting Zurich's tram network across the lake basin for a day is one of the largest operational costs the city carries. The status of the event as a demonstration has long shielded the organisers from paying it.
88. 2008-08-09 — The parade crowd seen down the length of the route, 2008. A wide view over an unbroken field of heads stretching down the closed lakeside road. Attendance figures in this period ran between roughly 600,000 and one million depending on weather. The event is the largest annually recurring gathering in Zurich.
89. 2008-08-14 — Boats and swimmers off the quay at Street Parade 2008. Small boats and inflatables crowd the water off the lakeside promenade with the parade buildings behind. The file's EXIF timestamp is 14 August 2008, five days after the 2008 parade on 9 August, so the camera clock or the processing date may be off. The scene itself matches an August parade day on the Zurichsee.
90. 2008-10-08 — A French-language look at the parade. A short French-narrated piece introducing the Street Parade as the annual techno march held along the Zurich lakefront since 1992, and comparing its scale with Berlin's Love Parade.
91. 2009-05-10 — Parade footage from the late 2000s. Several minutes of parade footage posted without commentary. The uploader's title is truncated and gives conflicting years, so the exact edition cannot be established from the source.
92. 2009 — Lovemobile truck with smoke effects on the route, 2009. A heavily modified truck running smoke effects moves along an emptier stretch of the parade route. The Commons file has no EXIF date and is dated only by the uploader to the 2009 parade. Its description simply calls it an interesting truck on Street Parade 2009.
93. 2009 — The Scantraxx hardstyle truck at the 2009 parade. The Scantraxx S.W.A.T. Lovemobile on the route at the 2009 Street Parade, filmed by Partyvids for the Dutch hardstyle label. Shows one truck's crew, sound and following across the afternoon.
94. 2009 — Hardcore at the 2009 parade. Recorded live at the 2009 Street Parade in front of a hardcore system, with a DJ Paul track running. A reminder of how wide the stylistic range on the route had become by then.
95. 2009 — Three minutes at the 2009 parade. General footage of the 2009 edition from inside the crowd, from the same visitor who filmed the trance clip. The motto that year was Still have a dream!.
96. 2009 — Crowds at the station, 2009. Footage taken around Zurich main station during the 2009 Street Parade, when the concourse itself turns into part of the event as trains empty into the city.
97. 2009-08-08 — Costumed group walking the wet route, 2009. A group in red and black costume walks the rain-soaked carriageway with umbrellas open behind them. The motto of the 2009 edition was Still have a dream. It was also the last year the associated Mainstation party was held in Zurich's main station.
98. 2009-08-08 — Skull-fronted Lovemobile in the rain, 2009. A Lovemobile fronted by a giant skull rolls down the wet route with its crew walking alongside. Rain shortened many people's day in 2009 but the truck procession completed the circuit. Attendance was about 600,000.
99. 2009-08-08 — The harbour of Zurich during Street Parade 2009. Moored boats and the harbour basin with the parade crowd along the shore. The Commons file carries no EXIF timestamp at all; the 8 August 2009 date comes from the uploader's own date field, which matches the 2009 parade date. Watching from the water has been part of the event since the route moved to the lake.
100. 2009-08-08 — Umbrellas over the crowd in the 2009 downpour. Ravers pack the route under a canopy of umbrellas as the rain continues. Media had warned beforehand that a gathering this size could help spread the swine flu pandemic in Switzerland. This file also has no EXIF; its date comes from the uploader's date field.
101. 2009-08-08 — Pirate-ship Lovemobile, Street Parade 2009. A Lovemobile built as a wooden pirate ship, complete with cannon and rigging, carries its crew along the route. Truck decoration has escalated steadily since the two plain Lovemobiles of 1992, one of which lost power mid-parade. Each truck is registered, routed and noise-limited by the organisers.
102. 2009-08-08 — Dense crowd in the rain, Street Parade 2009. A tight mass of people on the route under grey skies. About 600,000 came to the 2009 parade despite continuous rain, cold and swine flu warnings, well down on previous years. The ambulance service treated an unusual number of people for hypothermia caused by soaked clothing and thin costumes.
103. 2009-08-08 — Lovemobile with sound stack on the route, 2009. A branded Lovemobile with a scaffold sound tower and dancers on its deck moves through the crowd. In the rain of 2009 the trucks kept rolling while much of the crowd sheltered. Around 600,000 people attended, the lowest figure of the decade.
104. 2009-08-08 — Ravers in flower costumes with umbrellas, 2009. Participants in red and yellow flower costumes hold decorated umbrellas in the rain. The parade has kept a strong costume culture even as it grew into a mass public event. The 2009 motto was Still have a dream.
105. 2010-04-13 — Television documentary on the early parades, 1992 and 1993. A documentary segment from Sputnik TV covering the first two Street Parades. It sets the small founding cortege of 1992 alongside the visibly larger second edition, and gathers comments from the DJs and organisers of the period.
106. 2010 — Dave 202 on the Orbit Events truck, 2010. Dave 202 playing from the Orbit Events Lovemobile at the 2010 Street Parade, filmed from close to the truck. The 2010 edition ran on 14 August under the motto Celebrate the Spirit of Street Parade.
107. 2010-08-14 — Speaker stack towering over the crowd, 2010. A wall of stacked bass bins and horns rises above the heads of the crowd. The Commons description of a related file from the same set records one truck's amplifier output at 90 kW. Noise emission limits have been part of the parade's conditions since the city relicensed it in 1994.
108. 2010-08-14 — The crowd in the rain, Street Parade 2010. People stand in the wet on a route strewn with litter as the rain sets in. Heavy rain had been forecast from 15:00 and the start was brought forward by a quarter of an hour; the downpour finally arrived around 19:00. A minute's silence was held at 17:00 for the 21 people killed at the Loveparade disaster in Duisburg three weeks earlier.
109. 2010-08-14 — Huge crowd on the parade route, Street Parade 2010. The closed avenue is filled from building line to building line with participants. According to the organisers about 650,000 people attended the 2010 edition on 14 August. The file carries no EXIF timestamp and is dated by the uploader to the parade day.
110. 2011 — Television best-of the twentieth parade, 2011. The forty-three minute programme broadcaster 3+ built around the twentieth Street Parade in 2011. It moves between the trucks, the stages and the crowd across the whole day.
111. 2011 — German television at the 2011 parade. A Spiegel TV report filmed at the 2011 Street Parade and broadcast on 14 August 2011. It uses the parade as a vantage point on young Europeans during the financial crisis, following a young Spaniard through the day, and notes Zurich prices along the way.
112. 2011 — Lovemobiles at the 2011 parade. Short footage concentrating on the Lovemobiles at the twentieth edition, showing several trucks in succession as they pass.
113. 2011 — Intec Digital and Carl Cox at the parade, 2011. The Intec Digital crew, including Carl Cox, Jim Rivers and Jon Rundell, filmed at the Zurich Street Parade as part of their summer tour. Backstage and on-truck footage from the label's own camera.
114. 2011 — The 2011 parade in Zurich. A visitor's edit of the twentieth edition on 13 August 2011, cut together from footage taken along the route.
115. 2011 — Fifteen minutes at the twentieth parade, 2011. A long segment from the twentieth Street Parade on 13 August 2011, dedicated by its maker to DJ Energy. It runs through the route under that year's anniversary motto of love, peace, freedom and tolerance.
116. 2011 — Street level at the 2011 parade. Four and a half minutes filmed among the crowd at the 2011 edition, without commentary.
117. 2011 — Dancer at Buerkliplatz, 2011. A minute filmed at Buerkliplatz during the 2011 parade, following a dancer on a truck at one of the busiest points of the lakeside route.
118. 2011-07-04 — Announcing the twentieth parade, 2011. A short piece announcing the twentieth Street Parade for 13 August 2011 under the motto 20 Years Love, Freedom, Tolerance and Respect. It restates the organisers' position that the parade remains a demonstration calling for peaceful and tolerant coexistence.
119. 2011-08-13 — Crowd seen from above through the trees, 2011. The parade crowd stretches away under the plane trees of the quay. About 900,000 people attended the 2011 jubilee edition. The file has no EXIF date; the uploader's date and the geotag place it on the 2011 route.
120. 2011-08-13 — Ravers walking the tram tracks, Street Parade 2011. A costumed group walks down the tram rails of a closed street among the crowd. Closing the tram network across the lake basin is one of the largest logistical costs of the parade. The 2011 edition marked twenty years since the first march in 1992.
121. 2011-08-13 — Paul van Dyk's stage at Street Parade 2011. The Paul van Dyk stage rig at the 2011 parade, with dancers on the deck and the crowd below. Van Dyk was one of the international headline names the parade booked repeatedly through the 2000s and 2010s. The Commons description names him directly.
122. 2011-08-13 — Skull Lovemobile in the street, Street Parade 2011. A Lovemobile fronted by a giant skull works its way along a street lined with buildings and spectators. Truck number 5 in that year's procession according to the plate on its front. About 900,000 people lined the route for the 20th edition.
123. 2011-08-13 — DJ playing a parade stage, 2011. A DJ works behind the decks on one of the parade's stages. Alongside the Lovemobiles the organisers build fixed stages at points around the lake basin, a format that grew through the 2000s. Over 200 DJs have played a single edition.
124. 2011-08-13 — The 2011 parade crowd on the lakeside road. Participants fill the closed lakeside carriageway on the 20th anniversary edition. The Swiss DJ Energy played the 2011 parade and died of a drug overdose the following night. Around 88 tonnes of rubbish were cleared from the route afterwards.
125. 2011-08-13 — Happy Birthday Street Parade sign at the 20th edition, 2011. A green street sign reading HAPPY BIRTHDAY STREET PARADE marks the 20th anniversary of the event. The 2011 motto was 20 Years Love, Freedom, Tolerance and Respect, echoing the 1992 permit wording of love, peace, freedom, generosity and tolerance. Roughly 900,000 people attended.
126. 2011-08-13 — The crowd at Sechselautenplatz, Street Parade 2011. Ravers fill the open square beside the lake at the 2011 parade. The 20th edition ran under the motto 20 Years Love, Freedom, Tolerance and Respect and drew about 900,000 people in fine weather. The organisers insured themselves against bad weather for the first time that year.
127. 2012 — Lovemobiles eighteen to twenty-one, 2012. A run through four consecutive Lovemobiles at the 2012 Street Parade, listed by the uploader as Paradise Music, Jaybee with Human Elements, Bionic Events and Tito Torres and Friends. Useful for seeing how differently neighbouring trucks were staged.
128. 2012-08-11 — Security staff in the crowd, Street Parade 2012. A steward in a SECURITY shirt works the barrier line in front of the crowd, shot in black and white. Private security, city police and the ambulance service run a joint concept for the parade, with prevention stands aimed at cutting the health risks. Zurich has consistently reported far fewer medical cases per head than the Berlin Loveparade did.
129. 2012-08-11 — Boats moored off the quay, Street Parade 2012. Motorboats lie against the lakeside jetties while the crowd lines the promenade behind. The 2012 route ran the lake basin as usual, with the Centre Stage and the Future Sound Stage at Burkliplatz. The lake itself functions as a second viewing area.
130. 2012-08-11 — Main stage and crowd, Street Parade 2012. The main stage rig seen over the heads of the crowd on a sunny afternoon. Fixed stages such as the Centre Stage and the Future Sound Stage at Burkliplatz sit alongside the moving Lovemobiles. Pendulum and Fritz Kalkbrenner played the Burkliplatz stage in 2012.
131. 2012-08-11 — Balloons released over the parade, 2012. A cluster of coloured balloons drifts up against a clear blue sky above the route. The 2012 motto was Follow your heart. The day was sunny with temperatures over 25 C.
132. 2012-08-11 — Silver Lovemobile on the route, 2012. A silver-bodied Lovemobile with a sculpted shell moves slowly through the walking crowd. Each truck is built by a club or crew and carries its own DJs and sound system. The format has been the parade's signature since 1992.
133. 2012-08-11 — Wide street packed with parade-goers, 2012. A broad Zurich street between apartment blocks given over entirely to the parade crowd. Attendance in 2012 was again in the high hundreds of thousands. Steve Angello of Swedish House Mafia headlined the Centre Stage and publicly criticised the sound system afterwards.
134. 2012-08-11 — The parade route seen down a Zurich street, 2012. A long view down a closed street packed with people between residential blocks and tram wires. The 2012 edition ran on 11 August under the motto Follow your heart, in sunshine and over 25 C. Criticism afterwards focused on sound systems that were too quiet for the size of the crowd.
135. 2012-08-11 — The route at night, Street Parade 2012. The closed avenue at night, lit by streetlights, with the crowd still filling it and litter across the road. The parade proper ends in the evening but the crowd and the stages carry on into the night. Clearing the route usually runs into the following day.
136. 2013 — The Tekkno Town truck, 2013. The Tekkno Town Lovemobile at the Street Parade on 10 August 2013, in the crew's own official video of their truck and its following.
137. 2013 — Trucks on the route, 2013. Footage from 10 August 2013 following the twenty-eight decorated music trucks along the two and a half kilometre lakeside route, under the motto Dance For Freedom.
138. 2013 — Four minutes at the 2013 parade. Unnarrated footage from the 2013 edition, filmed on the route among the crowd.
139. 2013 — Official best-of the 2013 parade. The organisers' own twenty-five minute recap of the 2013 Street Parade, taking in the route, the stages and the closing hours under the motto Dance For Freedom.
140. 2013 — A visitor's day at the 2013 parade. A short travel diary of the 2013 Street Parade filmed by two visitors, moving from arrival through the crowded quays to the trucks, with a tracklist of what they heard.
141. 2013-06-28 — Official trailer for the 2013 parade. The organisers' own trailer announcing the 2013 Street Parade. Short, cut to music, and aimed at bringing people to the lakeside on the day.
142. 2013-08-10 — The crowd along the route in the evening, 2013. Ravers spread across the road under the trees as the light drops. The 2013 parade was held on 10 August in sunshine and over 25 C. Attendance was again in the high hundreds of thousands.
143. 2013-08-10 — Wide view of the route and a stage, 2013. A long stretch of the closed road with the crowd flowing towards one of the stages. Fixed stages at points around the lake basin now carry as much of the programme as the Lovemobiles. Over 200 DJs play a typical edition.
144. 2013-08-10 — Guy Fawkes masks on the parade route, 2013. Participants wearing Guy Fawkes masks sit on the closed carriageway among the passing crowd. The parade retains its legal status as a political demonstration, and overtly political costume still appears on the route. The 2013 motto was Dance for Freedom.
145. 2013-08-10 — Route lined with crowd and inflatables, 2013. People walk the closed street carrying inflatable rings and pool toys, with the tram rails visible under their feet. The 2013 edition ran under the motto Dance for Freedom. The route follows the lake basin, so swimming gear is a normal sight.
146. 2014 — Street preachers at the 2014 parade. Twenty-three minutes following Christian street preachers working the crowd at the 2014 Street Parade. It records one of the counter-currents the parade attracts and the reactions of the ravers who stop to argue.
147. 2014 — The Dance Revolution truck, 2014, first part. The Dance Revolution and T4E.Live Lovemobile at the 2014 Street Parade, filmed by the crew running it. They frame the truck as a defence of the hands-up and jumpstyle dancefloor under that year's motto, Enjoy the Dancefloor and Save It.
148. 2014 — The Dance Revolution truck, 2014, later part. A further part of the same crew's record of their 2014 Lovemobile, further along the route once the crowd around the truck had built.
149. 2014 — Opening of the twenty-third parade, 2014. The opening of the twenty-third Street Parade with ATB, attended by founder Marek Krynski and the Street Parade board, followed by impressions from the route and main stage sets by Hard Rock Sofa and Paul van Dyk.
150. 2014 — Paul van Dyk's full set, 2014. Paul van Dyk's complete set at the Street Parade on 2 August 2014, recorded in full at just over an hour. One of the longest single-artist documents in the archive.
151. 2014 — A visitor films the 2014 parade. Five minutes shot in the crowd at the 2014 edition. The uploader's notes rehearse the parade's origin as a student initiative by Marek Krynski and its official designation as a demonstration for love, peace, liberty, generosity and tolerance.
152. 2014-06-19 — Announcing the Swiss Hardstyle Mafia truck for 2014. The Swiss Hardstyle Mafia crew announce their own Lovemobile for the Street Parade of 2 August 2014, with DJ Crypsis among the names on the truck. It shows how independent crews organised and promoted a truck of their own.
153. 2014-07-25 — Official trailer for the 2014 parade. The organisers' trailer for the 2014 Street Parade, held under the motto Enjoy the Dancefloor and Save It.
154. 2014-08-02 — Lasers over the night stage, Street Parade 2014. Laser fans sweep out over the crowd from a stage rig after dark. The EXIF timestamp reads 23:22 on 2 August 2014, hours after the truck procession itself had finished. The stages and the surrounding parties run well into the night.
155. 2014-08-02 — The route at night after the parade, 2014. The closed avenue at night, lit orange by streetlights, with the crowd still on it and the road covered in litter. Clearing the route begins before the party ends and usually runs into the next day. A scented disinfectant is used on the tarmac to deal with the smell of urine.
156. 2014-08-02 — The crowd on the parade route, Street Parade 2014. People fill the closed road on a bright afternoon. The 2014 edition was held on 2 August, the first rather than the usual second August weekend, and drew 950,000 visitors. Forecast rain held off until about 21:00.
157. 2014-08-02 — Costumed groups on the route, Street Parade 2014. A group in banana costumes walks the parade route among other costumed participants. Costume is the surviving thread from the event's origins as a small demonstration in 1992. The 2014 parade was held on 2 August.
158. 2014-08-02 — Crowd and stands along the route, 2014. Parade-goers move past branded stands and bars on the closed route. The 2014 edition drew about 950,000 people. Retail and drinks concessions along the route have been a recurring point of friction with the organisers over who contributes to the clean-up bill.
159. 2014-08-02 — Aerial view over the parade crowd, 2014. A high view over an unbroken crowd stretching along the lakeside route towards the hills. The 2014 edition drew about 950,000 people. The file has no EXIF timestamp; the uploader dates it to the parade day of 2 August 2014.
160. 2015 — Full television broadcast of the 2015 parade. Three and a quarter hours of live television coverage of the 2015 Street Parade on 29 August, held under the motto Magic Moments. The single longest document in this archive, running from the afternoon build-up through the Lovemobiles to the evening, with a marked chapter for the Synergy Events truck.
161. 2015 — Lovemobile number twenty-seven, 2015. The Swiss Hardstyle Mafia's truck, running as Lovemobile number twenty-seven at the 2015 Street Parade, filmed by the crew themselves.
162. 2015 — Robin Schulz at the 2015 parade. Footage of the 2015 Street Parade released through Robin Schulz's channel, cut to an EDX remix of his track Sugar. A short, polished view of the crowd around one of that year's best-known names.
163. 2015 — Twenty-six Lovemobiles and six podiums, 2015. A report on the 2015 Street Parade noting the twenty-six Lovemobiles on the route and the six dance podiums built along it, where Swiss and international DJs played through the afternoon and evening.
164. 2015 — Three minutes at the 2015 parade. Short unedited footage from the 2015 edition filmed on the route.
165. 2015 — Aftermovie of the 2015 parade. A twenty-one minute aftermovie of the 2015 Street Parade assembled by a German visitor, who notes that it combines his own pictures and video with third-party material. It works as a summary of the day rather than as a single continuous record.
166. 2015 — The 2015 parade in Zurich. A compact edit of the 2015 edition by a channel that filmed the parade year after year, moving along the lakeside route.
167. 2015 — Inside the crowd, 2015. Fourteen minutes shot from within the crowd with no commentary and no montage, deliberately left as one continuous pass through the parade. The uploader's own attendance estimate is far above the organisers' figures and should not be taken at face value.
168. 2015-07-02 — Official trailer for the 2015 parade. The organisers' trailer for the 2015 Street Parade, the edition held late in August under the motto Magic Moments.
169. 2015-08-29 — Crowd filling the avenue, Street Parade 2015. A vast crowd fills the tree-lined avenue on the 2015 route. The 2015 edition was held on 29 August, later than usual, because of the Quaibrucke and Bellevue building works. Roughly one million people attended.
170. 2015-08-29 — Crowd along the lake, Street Parade 2015. The crowd stretches away along the lakeside route with the Zurichsee and the hills behind. Because of construction work on the Quaibrucke and at Bellevue the 2015 parade was pushed back to the last August weekend, 29 August. In hot weather it drew around one million people, the highest figure of the decade.
171. 2016 — Sechselautenplatz in 360 degrees, 2016. A 360-degree view from Sechselautenplatz on 13 August 2016, taking in the opera house, Stadelhofen and Bellevue with the lake behind. It shows how far beyond the route itself the crowd spread.
172. 2016 — Bellevue in 360 degrees, 2016. A 360-degree video recorded at Bellevue at around a quarter to four on 13 August 2016, with Pat Farrell playing from the second Love Mobile. The format lets the viewer turn around inside the crowd at one of the parade's tightest points.
173. 2016-07-05 — Official trailer for the 2016 parade. The organisers' trailer for the 2016 Street Parade, the twenty-fifth edition, held on 13 August under the motto Zurich is unique.
174. 2016-08-13 — Street cleaning vehicle on the route, 2016. A municipal cleaning truck with a crew in high-visibility vests works its way down the emptied route past the remaining crowd. Clearing begins before the party has finished and continues into the following day. After the 2011 edition the city and private contractors removed around 88 tonnes of waste.
175. 2016-08-13 — The route at night, Street Parade 2016. The crowd still fills the street after dark, lit by streetlights and stage lighting. The 2016 parade was held on 13 August and drew about 900,000 visitors. The file has no EXIF; the filename and uploader date both encode 13 August 2016.
176. 2016-08-13 — Lovemobile and crowd, Street Parade 2016. A Lovemobile with a lit-up stage front pushes through a dense crowd. The 2016 edition ran on 13 August with about 900,000 visitors. Trucks and fixed stages now run in parallel around the lake basin circuit.
177. 2017 — The 'vo Züri für Züri' Love Mobile, 2017. The Love Mobile run by Zurich nightlife operator Holenstein Gastro at the 2017 parade, themed around a combined 50 years of its three AKT bars in the Niederdorf. Filmed from and around the truck as it works its way along the route.
178. 2017 — The Swiss Hardstyle Mafia truck, 2017. Fourteen minutes with the Swiss Hardstyle Mafia Lovemobile at the 2017 Street Parade, filmed from beside the truck as it works its way along the route.
179. 2017 — The 2017 parade filmed from the crowd. Eight minutes of handheld footage from inside the 2017 parade, moving with the crowd along the lakeside route as the Love Mobiles pass. The uploader's other films cover the 2016, 2018 and 2019 editions.
180. 2017 — Early evening at the 2017 parade. Eleven minutes filmed at just before seven in the evening on 12 August 2017, when the light drops and the parade moves into its closing hours. Timestamped by the uploader.
181. 2017 — Aerial views of the 2017 parade. Aerial footage shot over the 2017 Street Parade, uploaded as the second part of a five-part series. The camera looks down on the Love Mobile route and the crowds packed around the Zurich lake basin, showing the scale of the parade as a single mass of people along the quays.
182. 2017-08-12 — Inflatable rhinoceros over the crowd, 2017. A giant inflatable rhinoceros floats above the crowd on the 2017 route. The 2017 parade was held on 12 August. Among its programme was the Future Sound of Egypt 500 event with Aly and Fila, The Thrillseekers and M.I.K.E.
183. 2017-08-12 — The route after dark, Street Parade 2017. The crowd fills the road at night under streetlights and the lit facades of the buildings. The parade proper is a daytime event but the crowd stays on the route long after the trucks finish. The file has no EXIF; the filename encodes 12 August 2017.
184. 2017-08-12 — Lovemobile on a cleared street with stewards, 2017. A yellow Lovemobile moves down an almost empty stretch of street with stewards and police walking alongside. The trucks are routed and marshalled individually; the crowd is held back until each passes. The parade's legal status as a demonstration means the city carries the security costs.
185. 2017-08-12 — Official information board with the parade route map, 2017. A large information board showing the parade circuit around the lake basin, with the stages and Lovemobile positions marked. Boards like this are part of the city and organiser safety concept, alongside help points and medical posts. The map shows the route running round the Zurichsee basin over the Quaibrucke.
186. 2018 — Paul Kalkbrenner live at the 2018 parade. A recording of Paul Kalkbrenner's live set at the 2018 Street Parade, running close to two hours. The upload carries a timestamped tracklist of the material he played.
187. 2018 — Tale Of Us at the 2018 parade. The full Tale Of Us DJ set from the 2018 Street Parade, recorded and streamed by BE-AT.TV. Around 75 minutes of continuous play from the Italian duo.
188. 2018 — Love Mobile 12: Party Fraktion Wattenscheid, 2018. The German crew Party Fraktion Wattenscheid running the twelfth Love Mobile of the 2018 parade under the motto 'Back to the 90s'. The upload lists the DJs who played on the truck that day.
189. 2018 — Love Mobile 14: Supermarket's anniversary truck, 2018. The Zurich club Supermarket marked its twentieth year with Love Mobile 14 at the 2018 parade, decorated with wooden arches and colour under the motto 'Glitzer'. Filmed as the truck rolls along the route.
190. 2018 — Love Mobile 3: Pat Farrell's Garden of Eden, 2018. Love Mobile 3 at the 2018 parade, staged by DJ Pat Farrell with a 'Garden of Eden' build of ivy, flowers, apples and snakes. Eight minutes on and around the truck.
191. 2018 — Love Mobile 20: Mimmo and Friends, 2018. Love Mobile 20 at the 2018 parade, run by Zurich promoter Cosimo Mele under the motto 'Welcome to the Jungle'. Six minutes of the truck and the dancers around it as it moves through the city.
192. 2018 — Official aftermovie, 2018. The Street Parade organisation's own recap of the 2018 edition, cut from footage across the route, the stages and the Love Mobiles. It closes by announcing the following year's date.
193. 2018-08-11 — The crowd on the route, Street Parade 2018. The crowd fills the tree-lined route on a clear day. The 2018 edition took place on 11 August, the usual second August Saturday. The parade was cancelled in 2020 and again in 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic before returning in 2022.
194. 2018-08-11 — Lovemobile in the crowd, Street Parade 2018. A black Lovemobile with a lit banner works through a dense crowd under the tram wires. The 2018 parade was held on 11 August. The file carries no EXIF; the filename encodes the parade date.
195. 2019-01-16 — On the Hard Music Association truck. A short, DSLR-shot recap from the Hard Music Association Love Mobile, the hardcore truck that has run in the parade for years. Handheld throughout, cutting between the sound system and the dancers riding with it.
196. 2019 — Patrick Topping at the 2019 parade. Patrick Topping's full set from the 2019 Street Parade, recorded by ARTE Concert. Ninety minutes of house and techno from the British DJ.
197. 2019 — Amelie Lens at the 2019 parade. Amelie Lens's full set from the 2019 Street Parade, filmed and broadcast by ARTE Concert. Ninety minutes of Belgian techno played to the lakeside crowd.
198. 2019 — Paco Osuna and Andres Campo back to back, 2019. The full back-to-back set by Paco Osuna and Andres Campo at the 2019 Street Parade, recorded in high resolution by ARTE Concert.
199. 2019 — Love Mobile 5: Daytona's anniversary truck, 2019. The Aargau promoter Daytona Events marked twenty years with Love Mobile 5 at the 2019 parade under the motto 'Transmission', with a progressive house, trance and goa line-up. The film catches DJ Toxic in action on the truck.
200. 2019 — Thomas Lizzara on the a.life Love Mobile, 2019. A short clip of German DJ Thomas Lizzara playing on the Sonntagskinder and a.life Love Mobile at the 2019 parade, filmed from the deck of the truck.
201. 2019 — Official aftermovie, 2019. The Street Parade organisation's recap of the 2019 edition, shot by Black Frame Studios across the route and the stages.
202. 2019 — Street scenes from the 2019 parade. Handheld footage from the 2019 Street Parade, following the crowd along the lakeside. The 2019 edition ran under the motto 'Colours of Unity'.
203. 2019 — Half an hour at the 2019 parade. A thirty-minute walk through the 2019 Street Parade, taking in the Love Mobiles on the route and the stages set up around the Zurich lake basin.
204. 2022 — The 2022 livestream, recorded at home. A capture of the official livestream from the 2022 Street Parade on 13 August, taken from a computer screen. The accompanying note marks the parade's return after a two-year Covid break, with more than 200 artists on eight stages and thirty Love Mobiles.
205. 2022 — The parade returns to Zurich, 2022. A short piece on the 2022 Street Parade as the return of the city's biggest party after the Covid pause, filmed from the water side of the lake basin.
206. 2022 — A participant's diary of the 2022 parade. A vlogger's run through the 2022 Street Parade, mixing crowd footage with short interviews with other ravers and following the day through to where she ends up at the close.
207. 2022 — Joe T Vannelli at the 2022 parade. The Italian DJ and producer's own aftermovie from his appearance at the 2022 Street Parade.
208. 2022 — Seven minutes at the 2022 parade. Short handheld footage from the 2022 Street Parade in Zurich, posted without commentary.
209. 2022 — Official aftermovie, 2022. The organisation's recap of the 2022 Street Parade, the first edition after the pandemic cancellations, shot by Black Frame Studios.
210. 2022 — Fourteen minutes at the 2022 parade. Handheld footage from the 2022 Street Parade, the first edition after two cancelled years. The 2022 parade ran under the motto 'THINK.'.
211. 2022-08-13 — The parade crowd on the return in 2022. The crowd on the Zurich route at the 2022 Street Parade, the first edition after two cancelled years. The parade planned for 8 August 2020 and again for 14 August 2021 was called off because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2022 return on 13 August drew not quite one million people.
212. 2022-08-13 — Lake Zurich at night during the 2022 Street Parade. The Zurichsee photographed from the Quaibrucke at night during the 2022 parade, with the lit city along the shore. The Quaibrucke is the hinge of the parade circuit, carrying the route across the outflow of the lake. 2022 was the first edition after the 2020 and 2021 cancellations.
213. 2023-03-12 — An amateur's first Street Parade. A short first attempt at filming the parade by a visitor who calls it his first video of an event that big. The upload thanks the parade, the city and the country, but names no edition reliably.
214. 2023 — Lilly Palmer on the We Love Techno truck, 2023. Lilly Palmer's set at the 2023 Street Parade from the We Love Techno truck she ran herself, close to an hour long.
215. 2023 — Tito Torres's Love Mobile at the thirtieth parade, 2023. The aftermovie of the Tito Torres and Friends Love Mobile at the 2023 Street Parade. The upload is framed as a tribute to Torres, described as having taken part every year since the beginning, this being his thirtieth.
216. 2023 — Official aftermovie, 2023. The organisation's recap of the thirtieth Street Parade, shot by Black Frame Studios and released as the record of the anniversary edition.
217. 2023 — Aftermovie from the 2023 parade. A visitor's cut of the 2023 Street Parade centred on Bürkliplatz, set to music by Brina Knauss, who played that year.
218. 2023 — A short clip from the thirtieth parade, 2023. A brief clip from the 2023 Street Parade, filmed on the Saturday afternoon as the crowd gathered for the thirtieth edition.
219. 2023 — Two and a half hours at the thirtieth parade, 2023. A long, near-unbroken record of the thirtieth Street Parade on 12 August 2023, which ran under the motto 'I wish'. The camera stays with the route as the Love Mobiles pass, giving an almost real-time sense of the day.
220. 2023-08-12 — DJ behind the decks at the Street Parade stage, 2023. A DJ works behind the decks in front of the lit Street Parade backdrop. Each edition has an official anthem and a stated motto, and the line-up runs to hundreds of DJs across the trucks and stages. The 30th edition was held on 12 August 2023.
221. 2023-08-12 — Main stage and crowd at the 30th Street Parade, 2023. The main stage with its Street Parade branding faces a packed crowd on the lakeside site. The 30th edition was held on 12 August 2023 and drew about 920,000 people according to the organisers. Federal President Alain Berset attended, the first member of the Federal Council ever to do so.
222. 2023-08-12 — Yellow Tolerance Lovemobile, Street Parade 2023. A yellow Lovemobile decorated with large smiley faces and the word tolerance carries its crew past the crowd. Tolerance has been one of the parade's stated aims since the 1992 permit named love, peace, freedom, generosity and tolerance. The 30th edition drew about 920,000 people.
223. 2023-08-12 — The 30 anniversary float, Street Parade 2023. A float carrying a large figure 30 marks the thirtieth Street Parade on 12 August 2023. The first parade was held on 5 September 1992 with one or two thousand participants behind two Lovemobiles. Attendance at the anniversary edition was put at about 920,000.
224. 2023-08-12 — The 30th Street Parade in Zurich, 2023. One of Peter Arnold's series from the 30th Street Parade on 12 August 2023, released under CC BY-SA 4.0. The organisers put attendance at about 920,000. The parade has been running since 5 September 1992.
225. 2023-08-12 — Street Parade 2023 in Zurich. A view of the 30th Street Parade in Zurich on 12 August 2023, photographed by Peter Arnold. The anniversary edition drew about 920,000 people. Federal President Alain Berset became the first Swiss Federal Council member to attend.
226. 2024 — The 2024 parade and the mess it leaves. A walking tour through the 2024 Street Parade that also records what the day does to the city: overflowing bins and rubbish across the lakeside as hundreds of thousands of people pass through. A rare look at the clean-up problem behind a free open-air event.
227. 2024 — Raver church service at the Wasserkirche, 2024. A church service held in Zurich's Wasserkirche on 10 August 2024 to open the thirty-first Street Parade, with the congregation and the parade crowd mixing in the medieval church. An unusual record of how the city's institutions have absorbed the event.
228. 2024 — The Hardcore Identity truck, 2024. Love Mobile 24 at the 2024 parade, run by the Hard Music Association under the motto 'Hardcore Identity' with a hardcore and uptempo line-up. It is consistently the hardest-sounding truck in the convoy.
229. 2024 — A visitor's film of the 2024 parade. Twenty-three minutes cut from the 2024 Street Parade, which ran on 10 August from the early afternoon until midnight. The filmmaker's notes place the event in the lineage of Berlin's Love Parade.
230. 2024 — Highlights of the thirty-first parade, 2024. A highlights cut from the 2024 Street Parade, the thirty-first edition, filmed in severe heat as the city around the lake turned into one dance floor. That year's motto was 'Prefer:Tolerance'.
231. 2024 — Official aftermovie, 2024. The organisation's recap of the 2024 Street Parade, shot by Black Frame Studios, closing on the parade's stated themes of peace, love, unity and tolerance.
232. 2024-08-10 — DJ Tatana at the Street Parade, 2024. A portrait of the Swiss DJ Tatana, photographed at the Street Parade on 10 August 2024. Swiss DJs have anchored the parade line-up since the 1990s alongside international headliners. The 2024 edition ran under the motto Prefer:Tolerance.
233. 2024-08-10 — The fifty shades of pink Love Mobile, 2024. The Love Mobile fifty shades of pink, designed by Vince Voltage, at the Street Parade of 10 August 2024. The 31st edition fielded 28 Love Mobiles and eight stages under the motto Prefer:Tolerance. The file's only EXIF timestamp is 15 August 2024, five days after the parade, so it is a processing or edit date rather than a capture date.
234. 2024-08-11 — The main stage at the 31st Street Parade, 2024. The main stage rig with its LED wall stands over the crowd at the 2024 parade. The 31st Street Parade was held on 10 August 2024 under the motto Prefer:Tolerance, with 28 Love Mobiles and eight stages, and drew about 920,000 visitors. High temperatures contributed to 470 people needing medical treatment.
235. 2025-05-18 — The 2022 and 2023 editions side by side. A short film cutting together the twenty-ninth Street Parade of 13 August 2022 and the thirtieth of 12 August 2023, comparing two consecutive years of the parade around the lake basin.
236. 2025 — Deborah de Luca at the 2025 parade. The Naples DJ Deborah de Luca's full set at the 2025 Street Parade, recorded by ARTE Concert on the shore of Lake Zurich.
237. 2025 — Trym on the HÖR Love Mobile, 9 August 2025. Trym playing the HÖR and Technoabteil Love Mobile at the 2025 Street Parade on 9 August, the first time HÖR streamed live from the parade. Just under forty minutes of hard techno recorded on the moving truck.
238. 2025 — The Orbit Events Love Mobile, 2025. Orbit Events' own film of its bright yellow Love Mobile at the 2025 parade, its twenty-eighth appearance, running under the truck's own motto 'Children of the Sun'.
239. 2025 — Walking with the Love Mobiles, 2025. A long walk alongside the Love Mobiles at the 2025 Street Parade, which ran under the motto 'Live Love, Love Life'. The camera stays close to the trucks and the sound systems for most of the route.
240. 2025 — Aftermovie from the thirty-second parade, 2025. A visitor's cut of the 2025 Street Parade, described by the uploader as the thirty-second edition, filmed across the lakeside route in high heat.
241. 2025 — Highlights of the 2025 parade. A highlights cut of the 2025 Street Parade, filmed in heat that hung over the city all day, with the crowd filling the lake basin from the afternoon onward.
242. 2025 — Official aftermovie, 2025. The organisation's recap of the 2025 Street Parade, shot by Black Frame Studios and released under that year's motto, 'Live Love, Love Life'.
243. 2025 — Walking the 2025 parade route. Forty-five minutes walking the 2025 Street Parade in 33 degree heat, moving through the crowd along the Zurich lake basin.
244. 2025 — The 2025 parade in the heat. Half an hour filmed at the 2025 Street Parade on 9 August in temperatures around 35 degrees, following the Love Mobiles and the crowd along the lakeside.
245. 2025-07-04 — Official trailer for the 2025 edition. The organisation's trailer announcing the headliners for the 2025 Street Parade on 9 August, with 200 or more artists, thirty Love Mobiles and eight stages.
246. 2025-11-29 — The route around the lake basin. A short film of the Love Mobiles on the parade route, which runs about two kilometres from the Utoquai in the Seefeld quarter and then around the Zurich lake basin. It shows the geography that makes the parade what it is.
247. 2026-06-30 — Official trailer for the 2026 edition. The organisation's trailer for the 2026 Street Parade on 8 August, announcing more than 200 artists, thirty Love Mobiles and nine stages under the line 'Together we move'.
248. 2026-07-29 — Founder Marek Krynski on how the parade began. A long studio interview with Marek Krynski, who started the Street Parade, on the night-time idea that became it, the fight against Zurich's dance ban, and how a first turnout of about 1,500 people grew into an event that fills the lake basin. He also argues that Chicago rather than Detroit was the cradle of techno.
249. 2026-08-08 — A stroll through Zurich on parade day. More than an hour walking through Zurich on Street Parade day, from the packed quays to the side streets, filmed in 4K without commentary.

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