"In 1993 The Criminal Justice Bill forbid all rave parties that were multiplying across the UK" "Because of the violent oppression, many soundsystems such as the famous 'Spiral Tribe'" "Left the country, spread all over the world and started organizing new types of techno parties that were free and alternative." "The fresh party' movement was born." "Different groups started forming all over Europe" "Claiming for the right to have 'free parties'" "Heretik system was amongst them and became a symbol of the movement putting all their hope into extremes and provocation." "At 16 I discovered a different way of thinking where I didn't feel judged." "I wanted to totally distance myself from the way I was raised." "I read anarchist books by Bakcunine, Proudhon etc." "And finally I discovered something that matched my interests for that point in time." "The first party I went to was a 'Spiral Tribe' rave" "When I saw these guys getting out of their truck" "Their way of living, how they connected, and how they partied" "I said to myself" " Yeah!" "This is the way I want to live my life!" "It was techno, drugs and sex" "Well I gave up sex tuck lots of drugs" "And listened to a huge amount of techno." "My first teknival was the one in Tarncs." "I went with Jano and Nout." "We didn't have a soundsystem or nothing, we had just a rented truck." "We met up with another group through Christine, a mutual friend." "Where you had Monmouth, Popof and Aness." "We were all starting to DJ and were just doing it for the fun cf it." "So we had one month of fun..." "And now it's been 11 years we haven't separated." "Yesterday a police raid took place amongst 3000 people that gathered in Tamos, in the Southwest, for a techno festival." "The manifestation took place in an army field." "There was no trouble whilst filming the party, but as we were leaving the Tamos dunes, we got mugged by 15 young guys that broke our equipment," "and stole our videotapes." "After our first teknival we were called 'the newbies'" "Well, it was funny at first..." "But we realized that we needed to find a real name" "Lec came to see us one night and told us he had found it." "At the time I was playing a video game called Heretik." "It was a plot about a wizard that put spells on guys like" "Heretik, Heretik, Heretik ." "Well...most of us had to check the dictionary to understand the exact definition of the word Heretik." "It fitted everyone, and you'll have to ask the others what it meant for them." "'Do not conform to established standards of conduct'" "This still sticks to us now and always will." "I'm an officer, ex-officer at The French Police Intelligence Unit" "And now I am an officer of DRPP Paris." "It's the head office of the Police Intelligence in Paris." "My role back then was to shed some light on the free party movements." "This is a summary of the work that I did with my co-workers" "Where we tried to determine who they were." "You had soundsystems in different areas of Paris." "In my opinion you had the Heretiks in the south east suburbs." "You had the TNT sound system in the south." "UFO were based in 'Ris Orangis'." "Our role was to observe the movement to understand." "Initially that was our goal because we didn't know what they were up to." "We didn't know who these people were." "What motivated them..." "What was behind it all..." "If they were drug dealing..." "If they were subversive cells." "We didn't known." "And what was their reason for getting together." "For me it was 'no future', I'm gonna die before 30... 'rock'n'roll' you known." "It's a way of life. it's living in a truck Living outside of society, living far from Capitalism." "I want to follow all these people that are a bit freaky, that are open minded, that..." "That have an impact you known." "That know things." "We organized our first party in September '96." "We are scouting the place with KRS" "Then we see three little shadows coming from a farm." "And we say to ourselves - 'It must be the first ravers arriving'" "But then 2 meters before bumping into them, 3 mag-lights are flashing right at us and saying 'police'" "They do a random check and search us." "One of the 3 police officers finds at least 2 of my stash" "My stash were LSD, ecstasy" "I also had a bit cf coke, in fact I had a bit of everything." "I'm about to go and say goodbye to my friend thinking I won't see him in for long time" "At this moment I got a huge stroke of luck in life, 'cause by the end of my legal detention the public prosecutor was unreachable and thus unable to sign the cider for my imprisonment." "So they let me go." "Coming out from police custody I went back home" "And he left for Holland." "At this point I told myself that this was going to be 10 years in exile min." "The parties led to a more or less excessive intake of drugs" "Which is undeniable." "Having witnessed it, I know that they consumed mushrooms." "Some of them would make an art out of growing them." "Cannabis wise - they would grow it too..." "To say that there was an organization of dealers behind each group" "I don't think so." "I was drug-dealing." "I can say that now 'cause I don't do drugs anymore." "At the time I was dealing, I was living the good life." "I had money..." "We are not into consistent drug trafficking." "We take drugs to party." "Rather than buying a beer each..." "You buy a pack and it turns out much cheaper" "Along with the drugs"." "Well we all pay for our mistakes." "I believed I was living in another world where we were free, where life is beautiful" "I got busted again, they were like: 'Mister that's forbidden!" "' and it was back to police, handcuffs, prison." "I spent 5 months In jail, and when I got cut they told me..." "That I was released but that I was forbidden to attend any of these flourishing parties that were taking place in the woods, these so-called 'free parties'" "Well, this is over for you." "From that moment on we played a game of 'cat  mouse' for all those years because they had prohibited me to do what was closest to my heart, and for me, what had became my life." "Their need for self financing was limited" "I think that they constructed the speakers themselves..." "There was a lot cf homemade stuff" "Fabien came up with a great idea" "Which was to fake tickets for commercial rave parties" "For us it wasn't normal that people paid to attend parties" "So from our point of view it was normal that we had our share cf the cake" "It allowed us to develop as well" "We were making a bit of money which allowed us to buy speakers .tumtables etc." "When we got the house in Aulnay it really changed the group dimension" "Because there was a place where everyone was living - a HO so there was a constant emulation" "People would come by all the time" "The equipment was stored in the garage" "Trucks were parked in front" "Guys from other sound systems would come over to see us" "There was an enormous energy at Aulnay" "We prepared everything from there - the parties, the equipment was there..." "We lived over there." "It was really our base." "We need to go see the police they can lend us a warehouse on a military base" "Where'?" "Where is it'?" "Not far from here" "Yea but where?" "What are you talking about?" "We were caught inside, we weren't thinking" "We had lots of stuff going on, we didn't reflect at the time" "Are we going the right way'?" " Yeah it's on the right." "Ls the warehouse really isolated?" "Yeah, Yeah it looks familiar ...it's further down on the right" "There's lots of machinery here" "We're idiots not to have taken the crow bar!" "We always arrived late" "Maybe our strength in the police HQ's" "was to try to understand, hoping we would arrive at the same time as them or if we were lucky a bit in advance" "Let's go!" "It's time Let's go" "We have a party to organize, set the deco and so on." "Yeah, exactly..." "We didn't infiltrate the environment in the sense that" "We created our own sound-system." "No, we just attended some parties to see what it was about." "Katie says there is loads of people over there" "There is so many people!" "it's crazy!" "The cops are already there." " Yeah the cops..." "When we arrived at a rave in Crancey for the first time" "It was foggy and in a warehouse." "We heard." "I think it was the Heretic." "It was weird" "Then we see people coming with their flashlights like zombies" "We were like - where are we?" "!" "When the bass is pumping, it lifts you up!" "When I got in the place at Crancey, you feel yourself lifted up." "That was the first one we went to." "They were playing with the TNT, that we had tracked down in the south of Paris." "These groups were really good at organizing parties because I remember once, and that surprised me at the time," "they had a problem with a generator and they managed to get one on a truck all the way from Belgium despite the fact that this truck wasn't discreet at all, it made it to the party." "This is why out of habit we started following the Heretik exploits..." "And they didn't let us down because they made loads!" "In the end of 97 we made a party with UFO, LSD and Allan who was still there at the time." "The chief of police was angry because he didn't want parties to take place on his turf all the time, so he decided to hit hard and tuck it out on us." "So the cops burst in and dragged us by the hair over 50 meters" "Leo will be able to speak about it better than me." "At the time I had dreadlocks and I was shaved on the side" "I had long locks at the back and totally shaved on the side..." "In fact I was totally drunk at the party." "When the cops burst in the place they set their dogs on me the dogs had muzzles and jumped on top of me and push me like this..." "Then the cops grabbed me by the hair and dragged me 50 meters." "They seized our vinyl, our life basically" "For us our vinyls are our soul, it's our sound." "Vinyls are things you buy and won't necessarily find again" "They seized everything." "Actually they burnt all of it" "The message was clear: there would be no more parties in the 77th district." "Ladies and gentlemen, good evening." "Last weekend a rave party got out of hand" "The police arrived in the middle of 400 ravers" "To stop the rave party." "Violent fighting began" "This party was illegally organized" "This incident stirred up the problem of Techno parties a part of these raves are organized legally but some ravers prefer to be in hiding" "Loads of other young people are also living this adventure across France" "Even though all of this is a bit messy, we are all trying to keep our independence." "And we use the lack of laws to make our parties freely." "It's 4 AM, an army of cops, about 180 of them is closing down the neighbourhood and about 400 ravers are ordered to leave" "The reason is an illegal use of this abandoned warehouse and night noise nuisance" "We told you to leave - so scatter!" "The problem concerning free parties is a problem of public order and this does not involve infiltration." "Infiltration is used with terrorism." "Free parties were not involved in terrorism" "It was just people that disturbed public order." "The total disproportionate outcome of this brass knuckle operation 2 bags of grass were seized..." "Sound systems were damaged..." "And 12 people were put in custody" "In fact we wanted to do a party at 'La Ferte sous Jouarrs' and there was already about a 100 cars at the meeting point so when we arrived at the place and wanted to do the party the cups were already there." "I thought it was going to take place in tho month of June or May so it was a long week-end where we had some time to track them down." "We went to the meeting point where all the people were waiting for us and one of us went on the roof of a car and said the cops had gotten on to us" "and that we needed everyone to follow us so we could find a place." "We had a cortege of cars and we were driving for 20 kilometers across the countryside" "We thought it was going to take place in Marmeuil," "Because there had already been a 'Mas i Mas' and another sound system's party" "That took place in the periphery of Meaux" "After that we went up to 'Mont de Mirail'" "We were speeding through the roads not knowing our destination with 300 or 400 cars that were following us." "A police car in front and the rest of them all around us" "And the moment came where someone took the initiative" "I think it was a ram raiding car, a 4/4, that smashed into a fence." "We smashed the gate of the public dump with the trucks" "We went in, set up the sound"." "ls techno tough or what?" "We arrived in what I thought was afield" "But in fact was a huge waste recovery site that was out of use." "And everybody had gone in and taken position everybody had settled in with the cops surrounding them." "That totally sums up the spirit is." "No-one gave a fuck!" "If the cops came to tell us to go," "We would answer them " "'What are you talking about, We just made a party!" "Thats all'" "We reacted politically you see we started to politicize, to make claims." "Leo had this political view on things he knew how to give another dimension that pushed the movement forward." "We claimed the right to make a party as we wished" "Leo started to write texts." "Free parties should be recognized of public utility" "They try to isolate us in order to suppress us." "'Utopie' said that we are not just fuckers with our feet in the mud and our head in the stars." "It was that it's also a right to party freely a right to go crazy, a right to take the time to live!" "I remember a party that we made in a warehouse it was the first time we rented equipment on top of our own, so we had really invested money." "6 cops turned up at the warehouse before any people were inside and told us to get out" "'Enough youngsters!" "' Put your g-strings back on and pack up all your stuff, there won't be any party going on tonight" "Leo went towards the cups with his ID card in his hand " "'If one of you guys touch the speakers I'm gonna fuck you up!" "'" "There you have it, for me it sums up his character." "At the time I didn't think but I was pursuing an idea where we had to hit hard" "Without aiming for success, but more aiming towards great achievements to go for it 'cause you feel supported, but even at my level" "I wanted to dream and succeed in 'Bladerunning' the thing" "We lived like this for 2 years full on" "We partied every weekend, and did drugs, with no limits to getting fucked..." "In my opinion we lost the fun part of it..." "It became evil and a split started to take place within the group." "For some of us we had reached our limit." "My friend Seb writes me a letter with some 'blabla' on the first page and I ask myself why he's writing pages with 'blabla'" "No one ever wrote me in the 5 years I spent abroad." "So I receive a letter with 'blabla' on the first page and on the 2nd page I read that my friend Derek is dead." "Everyone was fucked and some of us were like" "I'm going to kill myself, but no I'm going to kill myself before you." "So the suicide competition ends with a real suicide," "It was Derek who lived with us in the house that jumped under a train at Aulnay train station." "Derek's suicide took place in the month of November and a month later in December" "This morning 6 young people, one girl and 5 boys between 20 and 23 years old were found dead. 2 others were seriously injured by carbon monoxide gas." "The gas came from a generator that was installed in the garage." "The firemen found them sleeping on mattresses on the floor on the first floor of the house." "The young girl and the 5 boys died in their sleep intoxicated by the carbon monoxide gas." "They had been renting the place for over a year and didn't have electricity or gas to heat the house." "The D-system, a generator initially installed in the garden, and was later placed in the garage because of complaints from the neighbors." "2 youngsters survived and are hospitalized." "It was a black hole for me." "I was the only one who woke up" "I only managed to awake one cf the guys, that was with me in the house." "I lost my girlfriend who was sleeping next to me in the same bed." "I was devastated but personally, didn't react." "Numb." "Then again everybody reacts differently." "Did I recover from it'?" "Well I will tell you that in 20 years time." "I mourned for the past 10 years and now little by little I'm beginning to reconnect with things." "We thought that the accident in Aulnay would devastate them" "and they had all the reason to be." "When we found out what happened we were like wow, this is tough for them" "But because they had the means, they succeeded in starting up again after such a tragedy." "This tragedy glued us back together and we all went in the same direction again." "Before the accident we were a group of friends, a crew, a sound system, but after this happened we became a family." "This connected us for our whole lives." "We can all argue thousands of times" "We had planned a Halloween party, the party of the dead and it was either we stop everything or we continue" "and for them we are going to do something great" "Also for us, for them, for everyone." "I had been contacted by journalists to give my side cf the story" "But I refused." "I didn't think it would be right to expose all of this in the media." "But they managed to find the only one of us that couldn't say no." "It was shocking phrases that displeased," "It was clear that this journalist got these 6 pages to make a scandalous article based on the death of the heretik members and not at all to talk about the musical soul of the group" "From then on we decided to use the journalists for our parties." "Excuse me could you repeat that?" "Your goal is to prohibit freedom of speech in the press?" "Oh no, no, no you don't have the right!" "We were really in a period where all the parties that were taking place around Paris finished in the worst way" "Or in best case scenario they were cancelled" "Police forces really wanted to demonstrate their power and violently prevented us from doing our jobs." "I think it was at that moment guys like Leo and me truly believed we had to become musical terrorist activists." "Meaning that when we're gonna do a party now we're gonna do one but big style, and in Paris." "The first one was at 'Bercy and we said to ourselves" "We're gonna fuck Paris up!" "No, no, no, we go to the places, we don't have time!" "Once we go we can't help you anymore!" "We don't have time to shake hands etc." "For those who don't know what to do you can clean the place," "And Fabien - do it quietly!" "Why should we be restricted to the cold and shitty warehouses?" "Why should we be doomed to little pieces of forest?" "I thought about the side of the Seine that had a parking and i said OK we can get people to the parking spot" "They can come on foot." "We'll go faster than the cops and organize a mythical party!" "You're in the middle of Paris" "You've gathered hundreds of cars on the bank of the Seine," "There's 3000 people so you split 3000 with 4 or 5 people per car which makes 6/700 cars in total." "I said OK we're gonna block the express way" "That runs along the Seine to get the convoy through" "You see Bercy expo over there'?" "The party is under 'Bercy expo' in the freight station of Bercy!" "To be able to do that in Paris at 11 at night without anyone seeing us ifs amazing!" "What are the police doing?" "!" "There is a vinyl business in the techno underground scene," "And we had artists like Popof and Sam that were doing their first EP." "We made a Heretik label that was called 'rock and fuck' a piss-take of the article written in 'Rock and Folk' magazine." "We started many homemade small labels, we didn't declare taxes or anything, it was just black money." "In the beginning I was into trance core, then I got into something more like break, post apocalyptic, hard breaks." "I had a hardcore phase, slow, really heavy/hard, rhythmic." "And then I went over to speedcore, noizecore." "The desire was to liberate ourselves from rock and roll, hip hop that was upcoming at the time, pop etc." "And do something different." "I was really doing music without thinking and that resulted in stuff that people more or less liked." "A sort of sculptural music". drop lots of stuff at the same time squeeze it to the max and see the results." "The 3 of us had a live setup called 'Golgoth 21'" "We arrived without preparing in advance we hooked up our machines, and we mixed everything that we had created by ourselves." "If it was good we kept it for a while longer" "If it was bad we quickly got rid it cf it." "Lots of machines had to be plugged together through M.l.D.l." "Resulting in a lost of latency time creating grooves that we didn't have to start with." "Plugging effects into each other, to send sounds through them which resulted in new sounds." "Artifacts, as we call them, were made by the machines." "When people said: 'Don't saturate your sound' well that made us roar with laughter 'cause that was our 'thing'." "At the beginning our sound gave us a bit of a reputation because it was a bit... chaotic." "It was the music that got me into the group." "When I create my live sets at home," "I try to imagine the reactions it will get." "I don't create my stuff in relation to myself because for me it's always good." "Theres stuff I make that I love, but I know it won't work at parties." "Because people won't react to it or understand." "Or-won't be in the same state of mind as I was that day." "So in fact know what works live at parties." "I kind of know what to do in order to make people dance, so that's what I do." "The old school Heretik sound, the so-called techno/hardtechno leans towards acid and dance-floor" "and its a bit faster than the average" "I started doing live sets later than Popof, Noize and Beuns." "It was much faster and harder" "So I was the hardcore side of Heretik's live sets." "There was about 500 people at first teknival I went to" "Which made a huge impression on me" "Now there's 40.000 people and that doesn't do anything for me" "I feel completely lost and I can't identify myself with all of that." "Hello!" "Live from the teknival" "I don't know how many sound systems there are" "In the end they all sound the same" "$0..." "They 2 arrived in this small plane, Awesome!" "Look!" "They fly in a small plane like this" "There was a phenomenon that made it explode." "We still can't believe we put 3000 people in 'Bercy" "it's at that moment that the government really started taking an interest." "What are rave parties'?" "It's a culture that exists and has its own charm..." "Nowadays what we refer to as 'free party' creates problems." "What we want is to bum the capital down," "Putting up the sound system in the middle of Paris is really satisfying" "We want to burn down places that are significant." "Here we are all undressed and it is probably not only to swim, but more to be seen." "Beautiful girls show their bikinis before the public and the jury" "Who looks more interested in the girls than in the bikinis." "One of my friends calls me one day and says I have a place to show you." "And he takes me to this swimming pool in the 16th district of Paris." "We had to climb the wall to enter the building." "We were outside so we thought that we should check it out." "We found ourselves in a place, I had never seen anything like it an open-air swimming pool in the middle of Paris, with booths spread out on 3 floors with balconies on the sides." "And I sat down at the edge of the steps of 'Molitor" "I looked..." "We have to do a party here!" "And we start the Molitor adventure." "This is an attack. it's a month of preparing the place." "We were coming back every day to clean it, because it was a well known graffiti site, filled with exploded beer cans everywhere, so we had to clean it for the public." "We had reserved the parking places all around the entrances weeks in advance like on movie sets." "We had to break down the walls, we had to disguise ourselves as construction workers with walkie talkies to keep an eye on the street." "Wait, there's a little old lady, you have to wait." "OK!" "Go on, and 'hop' we hit it 3 times with the sledgehammer and twice with the heel bar" "We put up fences in front of the walls that we were breaking, to hide the broken walls." "No one could fuck up at this party" "Every guy that was a part of the organization had a job to do." "We had printed lists with stuff like:" "'You do that at that time' and 'You do that at that time}" "Everyone take a stroboscopic light and place them like that" "At each barrier where there has to be a strobe there is a black mark OK?" "And at each black dot we put a strobe on the other side of the barrier." "The metallic door that hides the entrance is going to make some noise." " We don't touch it do we?" "Don't touch it." "It will be held with a wire." "And you slowly let it go down and the truck will pass over it." "We did it like a SWAT team." "It was all timed." "At this hour you will come in with the trucks with the sound system" "'You, you, you guys are at the entrance to unload!" "'" "'You, you, you put everything in place' 'You you, you plug it!" "'" "You place everyone where the turntables are, and nobody moves" "Not a sound!" "And you don't move!" "You don'!" "walk around the place!" "Nothing!" "You crouch along the walls and that's it!" "This is the intoline that thousands cf people will listen to" "Come by the outside ring road" "Exit at 'Porte de Passy', at the red light go right towards the racetrack." "Take first left following the lake" "Keep going straight into a little road that goes into the woods of Boulogne." "OK!" "BIG party!" "Can you imagine people waking up with 5000 people in their garden and 45000 watts of sound" "We burnt down the capital under ground at 'Bercy'" "And now we're going to do it in open air." "And we knew that this was completely insane!" "They didn't follow the directions." "What can I tell you!" "People don't listen!" "Park all of your cars!" "We're going by foot!" "It's coming out of the woods, whats up with that!" "Now it's certain that secret service know it all," "But cops don't know shit!" "One thing is certain - if we had known, it wouldn't have taking place so if it took place it's because we didn't know." "We saw the consequences" "I know people that came up to me and told me it was insane." "To do a party in Paris, in a classified monument, moreover the number of people wasn't a dozen," "I don't know how many they were, but at least hundreds, maybe even thousands It was really a great achievement!" "I was playing in Strasbourg that night." "I managed to leave around 00.30" "Stressed out, like I want to go, I want to go" "So I arrived around 8am" "They had stormed a place in the middle of Paris classified monument etc." "And unlike people had expected" "There weren't any accidents, damage, theft or violence confrontations with the police etc." "So there was a strong political meaning to it all." "To say" " Look"." "We can gather 5000 people in the middle of Paris, in a crazy place." "With people that you don't really like, a culture that you don't particularly like, or not at all." "And everything goes well." "Thats super politics to do that!" "I loved the place so much that I shed a tear for trashing It." "To have brought so many people in it and after the rain in the morning it became muddy" "I had to apologize to the place by telling it 'l'm sorry swimming pool we might have trashed you a bit but I hope you had a good life.'" "And from what I've heard she wanted us to come back!" "The sound is blasting until 11am, we are in the 16th district" "We're stuck in between 'Parc de Prince' and 'Rolland Garros'" "The building facing us is where the deputy mayor lives." "For us it's an achievement." "We saber the champagne standing on the speakers." "It's insane." "We outlived our greatest moment." "At 11am we stopped everything, we packed the stuff up," "We came back 2 hours later, the wall had been rebuilt, painted!" "I was hallucinating, I went OK!" "For them nothing had happened, it's cool!" "This means nothing will happen to us either." "Regardless of what has been said" "And even-though there weren't any problems at this party, where everything went well" "I think that from the authorities' perspective, they said to themselves" "Watch out now - they came into the 16th district outdoors, and put together 6000 people in less than 2 hours" "There's a problem here." "Live from the senate" "Ladies and Gentlemen, hello and welcome to the senate," "Where the government will answer questions asked." "You may know that this was the main topic of this past weekend as well as last week." "The famous rave parties will be in question" "There is no real freedom without constrains and rules it's impossible to make parties, without them being stopped by force if possible." "The lack of precise laws resulted in gigantic custody." "The purpose isn't to ban music. it's not against the young people." "It's about allowing our youth to party and listen to music, but making sure no-one ends up in the morgue next day." "Without most of them getting completely wasted and that no owners have to look at their property with tears in their eyes seeing their lifetime work destroyed" "Around this date Leo completely lost it, it was in 2001 , at the teknival." "I had a flash and after that it wasn't the same thing anymore." "In the accident we lost 5 of our friends, my girlfriend and 2 people from the group." "And the last victim of this accident was Leo." "All of a sudden you discover that there are angels that people died." "You lose your friends and you go looking for them." "In fact he lost his mind." "And at one point we thought it would last up to 1 or 2 months" "He talked shit, he talked to the TV," "He locked himself in the dark for hours, he screamed" "He talked to the trees" "What happened, is that a transcendental world opened up before me if I tell you about it, it will sound crazy." "You won't believe it." "It's talking, it's knowing, it's listening, it's passing, it's living!" "In fact rather than it getting better it got worse" "He attacked Jano with a hammer to knock him cut." "He's completely crazy!" "Let's say I live in another world, I'm above you," "Well some people are near" "In fact he slipped away really fast" "For a long time we thought we would get him back" "But in fact he slipped away really fast" "And we never got him back and it hurts me to this day." "Leo's madness destroyed many things in the group" "As some of the members started being scared of him." "I'm treated for latent schizophrenia and extreme violent behavior." "Not only we lost the guy that embodied the philosophy of the group, but he was also destroying the group from the inside." "Basically, I'm 33 years old now and I stand before you like a guy, that is coming back to life little by little after making sure that everything was okay and really deeply believed that he will see his friends again one day," "and travel through space." "I actually think that the moment when Leo disappeared, when he lost his mind," "I think that's the moment where I had to take over, because we needed someone with a certain view that corresponded with the rest of the group, which wasn't easy." "As he knew how to listen to others he realized we didn't want to give up so we continued." "After we did Monitor's swimming pool, we thought we should go back to doing small parties we should be 500 or 1000 people and benefit from the sun all together and rediscover our initial vibe." "But we can't do that anymore because if we do anything in Heretik's name, we end up with 5000 or 6000 people." "We trying to restore calmness, we are having fun but you can't trash the place OK!" "Ifs not our fault OK!" "Here ifs Heretik OK!" "It's Heretik !" "When we couldn't manage the crowd at the club 287 it's because it was a gig that was initiated 3 weeks before the date." "We said it would be free, at a door of Paris..." "We knew that it would end up in chaos." "Listen it always went well," "There's no reason that It should fuck up today" "There's 1500 people inside and 1500 people outside the bouncers didn't know what to do it wasn't the crowd they were used to dealing with so they started flexing their muscles and after that the crowd went after them, the club was run down," "the entrances were run down, the emergency exits were unhinged." "Stop before we end up with dead people or injuries!" "Listen up we are surrounded by the Police we are having problems outside people are breaking down the doors, it's dangerous, we want to continue the party but guys be peace and love!" "It all ends up with a cop raid on the parking lot." "And they forced everyone to scatter." "From that time on we changed our trip and asked ourselves what can we give these 6000 people, what can we do to do a beautiful huge party!" "The authorized rave in 'Marigny in the Marne' region is the first legalized Techno Music Festival organized in accordance with the Ministry of domestic affairs." "20.000 people will be dancing till the end of the night." "3 days after the end of the teknival, Nicolas Sarkozy welcomes the main organizers of rave parties in France" "addressing them with the implementation of the program of the new legislation of electronic music parties." "When the Iaw was put into force, the Ministry of Domestic Affairs speech was" "'We will find places for you'." "We intentionally said that if we won't get the authorization we're gonna make an illegal party anyway." "And we are sure to have 10.000 people there." "And we will make a huge mess!" "It was at the time of Tour de France so we had deliberately threatened to do something that we thought would pass on to the secret services to block the passage of Tour de France with 10.000 people." "And finally the solution came from an unexpected place," "At the Ministry cf Domestic Affairs meeting, our little 'Sarko' who must have had a political interest ends up giving us a requisition for the place" "How is it going to go down..." "Well it's going to be a big mess!" "The first Chevannes party we did on our own, was the first authorized party so we had to deal with the cups, the prefect..." "It was the only one where the people almost took over, and we just barely made it through!" "I'm not sure if the Heretiks were capable of judging their audience..." "I think they had said they would be 2000 people and they were 15.000" "I ended up with Moumouth we were on the edge of tears because we broke down physically half of the crowd was furious at us, because we were asking for an entrance fee." "It gets to a point where there's so many people that you are stressed out." "As soon as u got 2-3 000 people, you only enjoy your party the last 2 hours when it calms down and you get rid of the stress and everything is OK!" "In Chevannes the public had blended into one you had a blond, a brunette and they were all dressed in black and khaki with a cap, piercings, shaved heads and you had 10.000 others coming in that were exactly the same." "You can even find little underground magazines at the record dealers where they called the public 'little green peas'" "Change in clothing and in transportation means" "After a brief escapade to 'Belle Ile' the minister announces his new political warhorse - the security in rave parties." "A rave party is made for the youth to enjoy themselves but we also need to ensure the security for the people around, and the participants." "A rave party should not be a drug party!" "Thats how they managed to kill it, there was a media buzz after that law, and in reaction to that the government said: 'Don't worry we will find places," "You'll just need to ask for an authorization'" "But they never gave any!" "There's been at the most 5 authorizations for parties in France." "The French law isn't too harsh." "It gives to those that want to stay under the rules." "The possibility to do things" "And for the ones that do not respect the protection of our youth to be punished by justice." "Our vision got bigger." "A kind of alternative thing that would not only bring together DJs and techno but also street artists, graffiti painters..." "We knew we had to be more of us to handle 10- or 12.000 people." "And this was the moment we decided to work with the 'Mas i Mas' with whom we already organized parties with a very long time ago, that are really good with decoration and that we always respected." "And with another group that Jano introduced us to - 'Troubles Fete'" "They were a bit more 'square' than us, we were still all over the place." "Anyway for me Molitor, was the last Heretik party." "And then came the 'Grand Magic Tekno Circus'" "We met K-roll, who did the decor for Nawak and we realize stage decoration really makes a difference" "Even on the musical level," "We have been playing hardcore music for 7 or 8 years now, we wanted to change, so we decided to unite everything and organize a party all together." "Beware, if you're taking the road south, towards the Italian border, the techno amateurs of free parties have announced a 'snail' operation tomorrow night" "They are protesting against the law that obliges them to ask for authorization for their rave parties," "This results in the teknival on August 15th," "A huge rendez-vous for techno amateurs to take place in Italy this year" "We can't even represent what we have in our own country" "We have to go hide in Italy" "France use to be the center of the free party movement" "But now everyone is getting busted" "Since the application of the Mariani law it's just that we want to live the way we want." "And you try to knock us down!" "Well if you had gone through without saying anything you would easily have passed." "We waited 5 hours for nothing, dogs died, people were beaten up" "We were gassed for nothing." "If they want to beat us down they'll do it!" "In result, sound systems are afraid cf organizing free parties" "We can't do free parties anymore. it's impossible to get authorizations." "In fact we don't even have our right place of scene." "I think that they would have continued to do free parties, had there not been the legislative reforms but they didn't have a choice." "The Zenith was crazy." "It started with an encounter with Daniel Colling the founder of 'Printemps de Bourgss' and we knew that he was the boss of the 'Zenith' in Paris and at one point the guy said: 'go on boys, do it!" "'." "It was a dream" "It was the 'Beruriers Noirs' that did the Zenith at 50 francs per head when all the concerts were 300 francs." "So that was what we wanted to do." "It was a huge risk for us, because we had always done free parties or charged 10 or 30 francs." "But at the Zenith, even if we would try to do it as cheap as possible the entrance fee would be at least 'IO or 15 Euros." "In the end we decided to go for it." "And the place was sold out a month in advance and there were guys trying to buy tickets on e Bay" "For , 120 and 130 Euros to go to that party" "Thank you!" "That's done!" "I'm all for a musical attack." "I'm all for the politics and the music." "Initially Heretik was into the political aspect but now it has become the quality of the music and the show that rules." "Nowadays we are giving people what we can" "But not liberty and resistance to norms the same way as we used to." "Some would say that the change of direction was motivated by money," "But in fact they did it because it was their only way to stay alive" "And keep on doing what they loved." "After the Zenith we had an idea." "The only thing that was above that in terms of prestige and that seemed completely inaccessible for us, was the 'Olympia'" "The Olympia was like we were offered a huge cake" "So I went for it and i swam in that cake" "It might have been 5 or 10 years that we didn't have a party" "Where we really were able to enjoy it." "Where it went smoothly and where the music and the show went as we wanted it to." "It was crazy because we started in the woods and ended at the Olympia" "This was the first party that was a 100% sucess." "For once!" "Since 1996 Heretik has organized more than a hundred parties" "Played in over 600 clubs and festivals" "Produced more than 250.000 vinyls and 30.000 CDs." "The group is only a drop of water in the alternative movement." "In May 2009 more than 40 sound systems have been seized and put down in France alone." "The french government considers that they have crushed the movement." "But with a renewed energy, hundreds of groups continue to be active throughout Europe and the world to share their ideas."