TEK — Techno, Trance & Dance Music’s Hidden History

TEK — Une Histoire de la Techno is a traverse through the history of electronic dance music, spanning from the early experiments of the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète in the 1950s through psytrance, jungle and the free party movement. Electronic music is everywhere now — in adverts, concert halls, supermarkets, woven into rock, rap, pop, and even jazz and swing. TEK traces how we got here, mapping the evolution and reach of a culture shaped by technology, repetition and the dance floor.

This Wednesday, we’re celebrating the launch of a newly revised and expanded edition of the TEK fanzine. A long-running collaboration with Compagnie les Comploteurs (since 2020), TEK combines audio documentary, fanzine and DJ-Conférence into a single compact, accessible format. The new edition includes a previously unpublished chapter on the history of jungle and drum’n’bass, an expanded bibliography and curated playlists for each musical genre explored. At 7:30 PM, the DJ-Conférence — a live reworking of the text in sound and rhythm — will unfold for approximately thirty minutes.

📖 TEK — Une Histoire de la Techno — Fanzine Launch with DJ-Conférence
🗓 Wednesday, July 15th | 🕓 from 7:30 PM
📍 Le Grand Jeu, 15 passage de Ménilmontant, Paris 11