Doc’n Roll feat. Alessandro Ugo (06/05/2023)

This month we are interviewing director Alessandro Ugo. Alessandro is the director of a new documentary called FF{R}EE: BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE FREE PARTY MOVEMENT.
Tekno is a music genre that has seen enormous growth in the past twenty years. At its genesis in 1990, Tekno was played almost exclusively at small illegal rave parties. Nowadays it can be found across the world in massive music festivals and clubs dedicated to the genre. As is often the case with fully realized musical genres, Tekno developed its own arena. It’s a not very well-known scene, often riddled with stereotypes, but it has fostered a counterculture that has remained strong for over 30 years.
There are very few documentaries focusing on this world. The illegal nature of the parties in which Tekno thrived made it difficult to trace the parties themselves, arrange interviews or simply bring cameras to the clandestine parties. Most films on Tekno are lo-fi, so tracing the history of the genre from its conception with any depth becomes difficult.