90's Rave Generation – Music Thread

Whilst at the time not being old enough to attend proper “raves” I was massively influenced by the music 8)

BTW I am not in the picture 😉

Up until recently I had forgotten how good the music actually was Very Happy

Here are a couple of favorites:

Then there were all the Fantazia bubble pack cassette tapes ….. 😆

The scene was recently bought back to life in Chase & Status’s video for blind Faith:

http://www.chaseandstatus.co.uk/video.php

Anyone else hear a fan?

hardcore uproar – cant get to You Tube at work
There are pictures of me gurning on the Internet 😯
I am not linking ot those either

Junkyard – Member

There are pictures of me gurning on the Internet

😆

They were simpler times that I re lived a few years later ……

I was 11 when something good came out 😯 (1992)

And who will admit to being in the whistle posse and wearing white ravers gloves and a smiley t-shirt?

I was also a teeny bit young to go to the early raves but very much enjoyed some of this stuff – the golden era for dance music imo.

I thought about making a similar thread the other day – I think there are quite a lot of people who used to go out and take ‘recreational substances’ who are now into mountain biking: my theory is that it is trying to get a similar buzz but in a more wholesome way. 🙂

I think you’re onto something there Grumm!

my theory is that it is trying to get a similar buzz but in a more wholesome way.

The correlation is looking good so far 😆

Best days of my life the ‘rave scene’, started on a friday night and finished monday morning, young free and single, clubs, all nighters, illegal raves, great fun! Lived on the Wirral so had Quadrant Park and then Creme in Liverpool, studied at Stoke so had Shellys and Entropy, life was perfect. Sasha and Alistair Whitehead were gods.

Quad reunions at Isis weren’t up to much 5 or 6 years ago although was good seeing K Klass again, shame it can never be repeated….got alot to do with the drug scene changing, pills werent essential but definitely made the night. Zanzibar in Liverpool used to have Hazydayz a ferw years ago run by old ravers…..they were the best reunions but sadly not running anymore. Oh well, on the bike it is then!!

the golden era for dance music imo.

It was, but this isn’t the music to represent it for me.

There were some great tunes about though:

TUUUUUUUUUUNNNNEEEEEE!!!!!

(STILL GOT THIS ON VINYL)

Nice B side to playing with Knives ^^

I used to play this one out at the end of the under 18’s disco. Crowd loved it. Good times

It was, but this isn’t the music to represent it for me.

For me, a big part of the appeal is the crazy energy from the fusion of hip-hop, reggae, acid house, breakbeats etc in rave music – the more straight house/techno side of things never really did it for me.

I also like the way the breakbeat hardcore side of things didn’t take itself too seriously unlike lots of house/techno heads that I knew. (of course the other side of that is that the ravier stuff then turned into happy hardcore 😯 )

89-94: The golden years: great events at clubs, warehouses, fields and beaches around the country. Unbelievable music, people, drugs and laughs and some of the fondest memories of my life!

hardcore will never die!!

I thought most rave music was in the 80’s? I vaguely remember it having a second coming at Uni around 1991.

Is that the david brent dance above?

I turned 16 in ’92…love early house music and acid house.

Listening to that early stuff reminds me of me youf.

By the time I was 18 dance music was much more mainstream and we used to spend all our money at the weekends driving to different clubs across the south (and sometimes further afield) on Friday and Saturday nights. My group of friends were never into drugs, we just liked the music.

I don’t listen to music or the radio as much as I used to as I have severe tinnitus and my hearing isn’t great (apparently it wasn’t caused by loud music) – which sucks as I love listening to good music. As a result I don’t know much about modern pop music…but if you ask me it’s all shite compared to the music of my youth.

I never thought I’d think that…it’s exactly the same thing my dad would say when I was playing a ‘rave’ tape from my room.

I guess every generation thinks that their music is the cutting edge…many people think that acid house was the first music genre really owned by the youth. But it’s exactly the same thing when rock and roll emerged in the 40’s/50’s…adult generations tried to ban it and claimed it caused unrest and hooligans listened to it.

Sasha and Alistair Whitehead were gods.

Sasha is still one of the best IMO.

My raving days started at Dreamscape in 1994 and I was blown away by LTJ Bukem’s style linked with Conrad on the mic.

http://dnbforum.com/showthread.php?8582-LTJ-Bukem-MC-Conrad-amp-MC-Ribbz-Dreamscape-10-1994

I give you THE ONE. THE ONLY. RAVE GENERATOR[/url] (again)

I also like the way the breakbeat hardcore side of things didn’t take itself too seriously unlike lots of house/techno heads that I knew.

I was living in Bristol in the early 90’s and it seemed the other way around. In those days it could be broadly broken down into Techno and D&B. Drum and Bass nights were always quite heavy with lots of people who didn’t want to dance and liked fighting, Techno nights were always filled with people painted fluoro pink and hugging.

Techno techno techno notice. Happy days.

I can remember going to the G-Spot in Blandford for a DJ Ramos set.

It’s in an industrial estate and we couldn’t find it at first…we opened the car windows and drove in the direction of the bassline.

Then we saw building with steam rising off the roof.

I wasn’t a huge happy hardcore fan but that was a good night…the other people there were an enthusiatic bunch – I’ve never seen so many people with pin sized pupils.

I was another one who was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time (and the right age, it appears). A true Epithay = Sasha at the Hac and White Doves – Aaaaaaaaaaaah happy days 🙂

Drum and Bass nights were always quite heavy with lots of people who didn’t want to dance and liked fighting, Techno nights were always filled with people painted fluoro pink and hugging.

I would agree with that…perhaps it depends on teh area. I went to a D&B night at the Brunel Rooms once and there were a few scuffles.

I was another one who was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time (and the right age, it appears). A true Epithay = Sasha at the Hac and White Doves – Aaaaaaaaaaaah happy days

We always planned to drive up to the Hacienda but never got round to it…

In those days it could be broadly broken down into Techno and D&B. Drum and Bass nights were always quite heavy with lots of people who didn’t want to dance and liked fighting,

Most of the stuff posted above is before D+B really existed as a genre in it’s own right though. Raves at that kind of time would just play everything from the housier stuff to the more breakbeat stuff all in the same room.

I would agree there was a darker element to D+B when it split off. I have to say though, that I used to sort of enjoy the edgy atmosphere that you got at some dnb nights/raves – made it more intense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Fditzd-JM%5D

the edgy atmosphere that you got at some dnb nights/raves – made it more intense

Fair enough, I always liked to feel safe to get off my face and dribble into a strangers lap. 😯

Went to a few raves that got nasty, tried to go to one on Solstice night in about 1996 and a massive crowd formed in a car park in Amesbury, some local hard nuts turned up in their Cavalier SRI’s and started trying to run people over. We would have tried to call the police but they had already turned up, formed a human barrier around the entire car park, watching and informing us that if we rioted, they got paid extra. Not the best night out that one. 😀

I think there are quite a lot of people who used to go out and take ‘recreational substances’ who are now into mountain biking: my theory is that it is trying to get a similar buzz but in a more wholesome way

Definitely onto something there.

Coming through from the acid jazz of the 80’s into house and then, much more to my taste, trance, this always epitomises a truly wicked time for me which was sadly coming to an end around when this came out 😀

god id have loved to have been old enough for this era 🙁

my contribution

Occasionally comes up on the ipod, great for riding through traffic

and a classik

I went to see the ratpack about a year or so ago at a festival, they did an old school set on an out door stage. It was amazing…! 😀 I was off my T*ts.! 😯

I was also a touch too young for the early stuff but we used to listen to it on cassette in my school days. I went to a lot of the helterskelter’s during the mid to late 90’s. Shite loads of drugs and some brilliant time were had.

“And who will admit to being in the whistle posse and wearing white ravers gloves and a smiley t-shirt?”

[GF puts his hands in the air]

Yes, pretty much. First allnighters were in about 91, Top Buzz, Ratpack, Carl Cox, SL2 etc.

Later on I used to go to Rezerection in Edinburgh a lot. Went to every one for about three years while at Uni. Used to go to Club Kinetic in Stoke quite regularly too, even ended up DJing there a few times.

My top tunes would be Bomb Scare by 2 Bad Mice, various bits and bobs by The Scientist, Acen, Prodigy, Altern8, Messiah.

Later on I was quite into the hardcore stuff (DJ Brisk, Billy Bunter etc) that was popular in Scotland at the time. Not so keen on the Force & Styles sort of cheesy happy hardcore though.

I still like to hear the music now and again and Hit the Decks 3 is in my car CD player at the moment and Messiah is in the player in the living room. 🙂

Nothing can save us London…

Two songs that stand out massively from my 90s “raving” days.

Love the SUF stuff too. Going to be seeing Chris Liberator and D.A.V.E. the Drummer again at Bearded Theory festival in May! 😀

Alright mate, what’s your name, what you on?

FEEL THE RUSH!!

I am, unfortunately, old enough to have been there at the time. Revenge and Hardcore Uproar’s Blackburn Raves from Sett End, Quadrant Park, Shelleys, Hac, Shaboo, Hacketts… etc etc.. Happy days.

My collection of Late 80 and Early 90’s house music on MP3 is currently over 17 gig if you have any requests!

OK so who’s up for a Singletrack rave revival weekend – go out biking all day then get mashed and dance to early 90s rave music?

I could DJ for a bit, anyone else? Just need a suitable venue….

😀

Remember similiar thread a wee while back that had some good tunes on It , I was a space cadet from the end of the Madchester scene till probably about 95 -96 when I had kids. I used to frequent the Rumbha , Rezerection , Fantazia as well as local nights In Elgin and Aberdeen . When I moved to London In 95 it was The End, Gardening club , Leisure lounge and Turnmills. Great nights and I think Grum has a decent theory regarding Raving And mountain biking.

Classic

Awesome

Theres talk of my old club the Bishops In elgin doing a 20 year reunion which would be a laugh , I cant be arsed with partaking in any recreationals these days so would probably be a sorry drunken mess doing the running man whilst steaming. 😆

OK so who’s up for a Singletrack rave revival weekend – go out biking all day then get mashed and dance to early 90s rave music?

I could DJ for a bit, anyone else? Just need a suitable venue….

I’m in. 😀