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In 2019 Dr. Motte did something that many veterans only talk about. He built a nonprofit structure to protect and advance the culture that shaped him. Rave The Planet is a practical answer to a question that often floats above nightlife. How do we keep this alive and recognized in the civic sphere. The organization took on policy work, education, archiving and advocacy. It sought not only permission for events, but respect for the culture itself. In 2024 that work reached a public milestone when Berlin’s techno scene received recognition from the German UNESCO Commission as intangible cultural heritage. It was a bureaucratic sentence with a human heartbeat.
The recognition did not close a chapter. It opened one. If you declare a culture valuable, you accept a duty to care for it. Rave The Planet frames that duty in terms that feel clear. Access, safety, sustainability and historical memory. The parade returnred to the streets in July 2025 under the motto Our Future Is Now. The line reads like a challenge and a promise. It says the spirit of the early street demos still matters in a city that has learned to sell its nightlife as tourism. It says public space belongs to the public, and the dance floor can still function as a school for solidarity.
The music follows the message. A new hymn with Marc van Linden arrived as well, built to carry the idea as much as the crowd. Across decades, Dr. Motte has treated the DJ booth as a pulpit without hierarchy, a place where message and pleasure cooperate. Rave The Planet takes that cooperation into daylight and paperwork, into the committees where culture is defined. This is not romance. It is institution building, done by someone who knows that parties end unless someone fights for the right conditions. The anniversary gains weight in this light. Forty years do not only summarize a career. They produce tools and a memory bank that can guide a culture through its next tests.
