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90's Rave Generation - Music Thread
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This takes me back to one of the fantasia do's, just as the sun was coming up, I'd lost everyone I had gone with and done loads of drugs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeldFRMyyM4And this to going back to someones place when things had calmed down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlMECmu3aJoAnd this of my first few months in manchester when things had got a bit more house in the mid 90's.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxsSzPy6WT8and now I'm just another fixie riding **** monkey.
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Can't believe no one has shoved this up yet!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTBFZ-To2Eyossarian - Member
Great thread evoking great memories, I grew up in rural Oxfordshire and my village was a regular meet up point for people heading off to parties up in the hills and at abandoned aerodromes.
Ahh, the nights we spent driving around having heard the buzz about something going down, small groups meeting up in lay-bys, petrol stations, motorway services and Little Chef car parks.
Someone get's the word on the location. We head down to this hooge aircraft hangar and find 4 local coppers trying to stop by then at least a thousand ravers from getting in. The sound system cranks up, several k, the opening strains of Charly, we all charge forward push down the perimeter fence and are in! Rave on!
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Can't believe no one has shoved this up yet!
because it is shit?
The problem for me with rave was that it became androgenous, all the sex got taken out of the music, it was just about being caned and listing to silly novelty records. Yeah it was fun but **** knows why you'd want to listen to it now, and for that reason, I'm out.
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I was never a fan of Charly I have to say. Some of the Prodigy's stuff was ace though - No Good is one I really like.
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Nick as I said 2 or 3 posts ago , Rave / Breakbeat / Hardcore hasn't aged well . That said original house or progressive house hasn't aged at all In my mind. If you were about In the late 80 and very early 90's you knew that Hardcore and mixes like trip to trumpton etc were the end of the Rave era. In Scotland the scene was even worse but ran on for years after It died down south .
That didn't stop us all form pursuing recreational pursuits and enjoying the vibe... Thank god.
One of my favouritetunes of the time and not a whistle in site.
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You can't say that breakbeat hardcore was all about Trip To Trumpton and Charly. Progressive House has always been dull and pretentious though.
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Grum the thing was Charlie and Everybody in the place were absolute classics at the time . I'd reckon even now at any 40 th birthday party dropping Bassheads or felix would bring the 'House' down because we at that age grew up with them. I'm not knocking Rave because they were the best times of my youth but It's not aged well.
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"ill dig out me whistle, British Knights trainers & TROOP shellsuit!!"
the cheese posseHelter Skelter in Stoke on Trent Club UK in London and Free Parties in Wales... ahh good ol days
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ah funtimes
nice thread ... some soudndsystem came and set up in out local riding woods (which still harbour some of my all time favourite riding even today)...early mountain biking escapades with a real time acid house soundtrack blasting thru' the trees u couldn't make it up today!...then off to Lakota for long lost school nights. Grand
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Hmm, a rave night with a bunch of 40-something STWers...
Drum and Bass nights were always quite heavy with lots of people who didn't want to dance and liked fighting,
I really liked the dancing part too actually.
Quite enjoyed a good pagga though. DnB was good cos you din't get loads of poncey pretentious Middle Class kids coming down to raves acting all w4nky; they got put off by the myth that DnB was 'dangerous' because raves took place in (God Forbid) Hackney and places like that and there were lots of Black people there. What a load of crap. I was too busy dancing (y'know, really dancin') to notice much untoward.
I'd need ambulance now, if I tried to emulate me raving days. Lord above it weren't good for you I'm sure.
Still got it though, if the need arises...
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Probably my first "rave" track. "Mr Kirk, yuor son is dead, he died of an overdose.." lovely lol!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THCj2AJuNVEanyone goto Lost in Brixton? The club was ace, really underground. We went to quite a few NY do's with them - it kept changing venue as they couldnt keep a license. I remember one being near Charing Cross. Lots of Sven Vath, CJ Bolland, that sort of thing.
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I finished my apprenticeship and went down to work in London just as the Sunrise raves were becoming commercial.After that lots of meetings in pub carparks in Croydon and off to farms... . Like GF I used to go through to the Rez in Embra and various locations for the Glam and Rhumba. Weird thing was I grew up listening to metal and hated dance music. It was just the vibe for me me of so many people with a united interest,oh and SuperMarios...FTW!
Sorry for linky stupidity
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DnB was good cos you din't get loads of poncey pretentious Middle Class kids coming down to raves acting all w4nky; they got put off by the myth that DnB was 'dangerous' because raves took place in (God Forbid) Hackney and places like that and there were lots of Black people there
Its funny but my memories of the scene were very different to this. It was all about a good vibe and a movement that had no boundaries, pretty much everyone was sound and their background was irrelevant. Maybe it was more edgy and less innocent in London, we never went there for parties, the movement was away from cities and out onto the land.
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anyone know the name of a very dingy little rave hole right by the station in Embra in 92/93ish..? I was staying up that way for a bit and remember dancing on a stage about the size of a parking space while Moby banged out his current techno hits on a keyboard next to me..
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Could be the now decesased 'Venue' at the back of the station .
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Got some mates who stayed here and said it was ace - apparently they were fine with them setting up decks/PA and having an all night party.
http://www.baskervillehall.co.uk/
Any biking nearby?
I've been to Freerotation there a few years ago. Its an amazing little place to have a festival
'A mate' tells me that MDMA powder is the way to go these days.
'A mate' tells me that 'rockstars' are pretty good these days
of course I'm way too old for this sort of thing but gonna be coming out of retirement for Bloc this weekendPosted 1 year ago # -
That bloc line up looks pretty interesting, would love to see DJ Funk.
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Man, funny this thread should pop up as I spent the weekend decorating and getting nostalgic listening to some old essential mixes.
Brought back fond, fond memories of my first rave in a warehouse in Aldershot, e's and speed, what will that do? You'll have the time of your life was the answer. He was right.
Favourite club nights ever were Feel at Preston Uni 94-96 and Back 2 Basics at The Music Factory and the Pleasure Rooms in Leeds.
Happy days indeed
Found this little beauty on You Tube, Awesome 3, Don't Go
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Ooh and I've just remembered my trip to Tribal Gathering. That was messy
I remember spewing up in someone's hood in the VIP tent (the owner was wearing his jacket at the time) and tripping over people lying on the floor in the middle of packed tents full of people dancing.Amazing.
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Probably my first "rave" track. "Mr Kirk, yuor son is dead, he died of an overdose.." lovely lol!
Almost broke Dj. Rap that did. Allegedly dropped it at a rave just after a kids was stabbed. People thought it was deliberate and wouldn't hire her.
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Started out raving as a spotty 17year old at the carlton in morecambe on a friday night in 91.For the next 10 years I went to some of the best clubs in the north of England.Hacienda,,bowlers(manchester),angles(burnly),empire(morecambe),maximes,wigan pier(wigan)love shack(blackpool),feel(preston),orbit(morly),back to basics,up your ronson(leeds)gatecrasher(sheffield).Good times.Looking back I've probably had more drugs pass through my hands than a line manager at glaxo 8O.Do I regret those times ?.No,not at all.Esp. since I met my wife on bowlers car park 16 years ago and were still happily married.
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