not good on so many levels
haha, they all look healthy at least.
Girl at 0:40....someone pass her some water.
Thanks for that. Ouch my eyes/ears etc.
If i had a time machine Holland(?)1997 would'nt quite make it in my top ten.
disturbiatrisationated
Shall watch later, ta.
Do I need a Citroen Saxo and some "Woofers"??
Do I need a Citroen Saxo and some "Woofers"
A Nova SR with 6x9's is much more appropriate 🙂
Were people (largely spindly blokes on their tod it seems)still raving in 97?
Techno is, and always was... shit!
I genuinely think I recognise someone in the OP's clip :-\
Middle distance stares and manic chewing, like a pro tour evening meal.
are you Polish, Nobby?
I'm not Polish but the person concerned has worked there over the years.
Techno is, and always was... shit!
Agreed - always lots of very serious techno bores around when i was into dance music.
I genuinely think I recognise someone in the OP's clip :-\
Well Junkyard off here features from around 9 seconds in. 😛
'm not Polish but the person concerned has worked there over the years.
hahahah that's awesome. Email the clip to them and get some blackmail on the go 🙂
It's already been sent.
I know he had some grief in a similar club in Sweden back then so it is entirely possible......
I think Binners be talking rubbish.
Name a genre and we can all point to a single example and write it all off as shite.
Techno 😉
Alright, i'll give you that one in the circumstances!
97 people were still raving, helter skelter was still going strong.
I was an original raver and cyber kid. Proud of my clubbing roots.
Erm, pass the duchie on the left hand side.
Pants.
LOL, Brings back some memories. God they were the days 8)
Ha ha I was at this one , when Raves were good and more alarmingly the guy at 2mins and 8 (Raiders hat)seconds drove me there and back . 😀
Great nights , wish I had a time machine and some Disco Biscuits.
That's not techno, that's gabba.
That's not techno, that's gabba
Yes! The original trolling - get the argument going about how many bpm defined what type of electric thump/vocal was what, while a selection of some individuals adorned their obsession/dreamscape/bright white Tommy H jacket, which they would wear EVERY day.
Them were the days...not sure what type of days, but I remember a few of them.
Is that Michael kilkie Dj'n in the sweatbox one??
I guess it all depends on what your flavour is, but for me techno had a lot more soul/funk that went far beyond BPM and hoovers.
Raving was only any good in the early 90's - the drugs became crap in the late 90's.
Best times of my life
Shelleys
Kinetic
Eclipse
Donny Warehouse
Stanfree, where's that it reminds me of Angels in Burnley?
Raving was only any good in the early 90's - the drugs became crap in the late 90's.Best times of my life
Shelleys
Kinetic
Eclipse
Donny Warehouse
this Donny Warehouse..? I must admit, the drugs do indeed look smashing.. which one is you..? 😀
Quaddy Park 🙂
Stanfree, where's that it reminds me of Angels in Burnley?
Nah , It was 'Ballys' in Arbroath . They had great events we used to get a bus from Elgin and have a raffle for 'Recreationals' for the night.
It had some decent Dj's and Pa's at the time and Sasha and Digweed played a few times. 8)
The DJ is Jackie Morrison from Aberdeen in the clip but kilkie is in one of the others.
Mugboo - Member
Quaddy Park
Now a recycling centre! you should check out the unofficial quad cd's
Doncaster, 9:50, playing with knives - he means it!
this Donny Warehouse..? I must admit, the drugs do indeed look smashing.. which one is you..?
Thats the one yunki - although that video is a poor representation of a good night in there.
I'd literally pay thousands to replicate a night I had in there.
I'd already come out the other side by 97 🙂 Must be getting old...
driving round the M25, waiting for the announcement at a fixed time on a certain frequency on the radio for the location before turning up at some random field/cattle shed/disused factory/where ever and going strong until and beyond dawn. People there to enjoy themselves, the music , the atmosphere. generally no attitude and no tryhards. That's my memory of it.
Good times 😉
And I did it all clean...
And I did it all clean..why??
And I did it all clean...
Thats what Lance says. 😀
I started going to Raves around 91 after the whole Madchester scene and had pretty much stopped clubbing by around 97 when I lived in London . The last time I had the E'd up feeling was 'The Roses' at Heaton Park and that was just on beer and Nostalgia. 😆
A lot of the music hasn't stood the test of time but Im so glad I lived through It.
By 97 a lot of us had been kicking the arse out of it for the best part of ten years. The drugs were shite! And techno, to return to my original comment... Is, and always was.. Shit!
#showingmyage 😉
why??
simple as it goes. I was doing a sport where I could have been drugs tested and after a while I figured that I was having a brilliant time anyway so why bother. Like some teetotallers I guess.
People there to enjoy themselves, the music , the atmosphere. generally no attitude and no tryhards.
Funny that; I remember a far better attitude towards folk back then.
I do sometimes wonder if it's a rose tint but there definitely wasn't the whole this is shit or not cool vibe that came about later and IMO killed the scene off. I guess it's a natural cycle.
By 97 hadn't all the 'cool' people invented some sub-genre on a weekly basis? That you were meant to be into? Therefore sucking the joy out of it and making it totally train-spottery in a thoroughly English way?
Yes, in your own mind you're cool as ****. Nobody cares! Can we not just get back to doves-fuelled, crazy ape bonkers, sweaty, not even slightly 'cool', jumping around like a lunatic! That was fun! 😀
Used to love going to Wigan Pier then we started going to Bowlers in Trafford park then driving to the all nighter in Morecambe. We had some seriously twisted times and wouldn't change it for the world!
i still cycle through the odd rave in the woods on an early morning spin 😀
Another Wigan pier regular? Best nights I've ever had in my life!!!! Friday nights there were religious!!!
Grow in up in that area (northwest) we were privvy to the emerging scene (88-94) which was still evolving. I still class one of my best nights ever was in the Downtown club in (Rhyl I know...) when Dave Angel was there, it wasn't techno but more electronica. Favorite DJs were Nipper, Welly, John Kelly. Who were your favorite DJ's?
Who were your favorite DJ's?
No true favourites as such, but Chris Liberator or Surgeon on the list would always attract my attention.
Stopped in '93/'94. drugs became too much of a miss rather than a hit. '93 hastings renaissance was the turning point - woke up the day after and realised I'd already been to the rave, couldnt remember a thing! Gutted.
chewkw, that was my thing. Some Lenny D and some hard Roterdam Gabba, mixed with plenty of class A lol!
Dont regret a thing, great experience (just wish more were recorded!)
There was some stonking madman powder knocking about well after the 90's......
In London at any rate
Rave on
🙂
Still, it was hard to beat Ronson, SOAK, basics and Hard Times all in Leeds c1994
you do realise the drugs didn't get shit , you just got old, dont you ?
🙄
jesus, this place makes me want to give up cycling sometimes
'91 - '93 for me.. Southwest.. Plymouth and Exmouth
We were still pretty young in my circle, so the rave in the woods afterwards was as important as the evening do in the various big old clubs and warehouses in the area.. which was nice, cos our local free party crew was one of the best in the country 😀
I was just the wrong age so that I could fall into the trap of leaving school and raving full time, with drugs all week until the next one, forging a career in this blossoming new marketplace..
I still clearly remember the feeling of unease the first time I heard the scathing tone in an older kids voice as they berated someone younger for not having the right clothes, or dance or attitude.. it all turned upside down for me for a while after that..
and what matey up there says about the drugs being good still..
yup.. I've been back to the old ways a few times after a good few years abstinence, your synapses do recover eventually and people are still very much having fun, if you can get your head around it..
Who mentioned driving around the M25 waiting for instructions?
Lidd Airport 93 anyone?
Two big phases for me: 88-92: hip-hop was my way into dance music but then went to clubs playing acid house. The tunes that real blew me away though was the early warp and network stuff. To me at least, it still sounds fresh. Shelves also stacked with stuff that didn't date so well though 😉 Did Prodigy kill rave? Of course not, but there was a sea change in the early 90s and many of those who had been involved for some time reacted badly and got a little snobbish (IMO). Lots of great nights after but commodity/market logic got its teeth in and things weren't quite as good (for me). I moved down to Cornwall around 1997 and got involved with the free party scene that was as healthy as it has even been. Great times again! Much more techno-led this time and I was probably playing the softer end of the spectrum (although hard by other standards, e.g. Axis, Djax, Purpose Maker and a few Detroit-type labels). Lots of great soundsystems and parties in London at those times too with much twittery cleared out the scene, and with lots of fresh blood too. I'm in North Wales now so if anyone know of anything going-on, email in profile! 8)
TimC - I'll do that.
And whoever says that the drugs haven't changed was presumably not around when they were still £25 a pill... And there's no point even talking about that over rated Columbian crap, as that's real reason the scene changed and people started believing there own hype. From then on folks were more concerned with how they looked than how much fun they were having!
Having said all that, I'm on a stag do tonight in Leeds so bring it on, is Back to Basics still open on Lower Briggate 😉
Ahhhh the days.... 1990 to 1998 Sterns, laserdrone, club UK, Swansea (can't remember the name) and of course the big all nighters - Fantasia, Universe, Tribal Gathering and Helter Skelter to name a few...
This one was particularily superb, even got a pass to dance on stage whilst DJ Gachet was on.... Bloddy amazing when you have several thousand ravers seemingly going with you 😀 😀 😀
Sorry link only... But great tunes!
And whoever says that the drugs haven't changed was presumably not around when they were still £25 a pill..
🙄
there was undoubtedly a ton of dodgy pills that went around.. but discounting that side of things, most of the changes were in yer 'ead son.. 😆
bikebouy - wasn't there myself but : www.worlddance.org.uk/events/wd310793.htm
Mugboo, Basics is at the Warehouse now and it's their 21st birthday party tonight with Basement Jaxx, get yourself there, it will be messy 😯
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Jeff Mills at Atomic Jam playing real techno with drums that actually have some rhythm and not just bouncey boing boing crap
jonah tonto - Memberyou do realise the drugs didn't get shit , you just got old, dont you ?
Nope, the drugs got shit
£15-20 and as said above, even £25 for one pill, that would have you smashed out of your tree for 8 hours plus, to £2.50 for something that would give you a fuzzy head at best for 30 minutes. The drugs changed massively and if you weren't aware of that, then you weren't there pal.
+1 TAFKASTR. They definitely got sh*t. well around the south anyway. Ask1974, I was at Sterns pretty much every week 91-93 🙂 And lots of visits to Lost in Brixton, then various warehouses around London
Jeff Mills at Atomic Jam playing real techno with drums that actually have some rhythm and not just bouncey boing boing crap
I had a great view of the man at work that night, I've never seen someone got through records at such a rate.
IIRC he had a 909 on the go as well 🙂
Well I went to Slammin Vinyl 'Westfest' last weekend and still had an amazing night.
Best lasers I've ever seen, amazing venue, etc.
Pretty sure people just get old and think it's all gone rubbish when really they have just been left behind.
I think I love that Doncaster video - except for how nostalgic it makes me feel. I miss some of those times + people 🙁
Do love the fact it was taken from security video footage - those two girls must've been seen as the key threat to a peaceful event!
Favourite DJ's of the time were Carl Cox, Stu Allen, Daz Willot, M-Zone to name a few
I seem to remember it being acid and beers on a Friday night planning the Saturday night, and then Saturday night being spent driving around the M25 and stopping at random phoneboxes (this being the early 90's) before ending up in a field somewhere, glorious days.
Pretty sure I went to some rave weekend in north Wales at a butlins camp (Starworld?)as well, 3 days of being very Doved up, maybe in 91 or 92.
Kind of stopped it all around 95 when it all got a bit clubby.
Favourite DJ's of the time were Carl Cox, Stu Allen, [b]Daz Willot[/b], M-Zone to name a few
Heh, I played at a thing he was on at - christ was that 2004. 😯
http://feelthebass.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=5616
which one's you then grum..?
I was too big time to get on the official lineup - I was actually just scratching with an extra deck/mixer over the set of the wonderfully named CHEEKY MUNKY & MR ED.
While that was a pretty big gig with a good few thousand people it was also one of the shittest I did as we were on first when there were precisely no people there. 🙂
It was around that time that I started DJing out, we ended up having a little crew between the three of us - did some pretty good gigs and it was a lot of fun while it lasted.
Cheers for the heads up Ben
Many happy memories of Basics. And Soak in the Corn Exchange, which was possibly the best venue ever. Happy days! 😀
If you make it there Mugboo I hope you have a good time; I last went to Basics in 2005 at the ripe age of 32 having pretty much spent 14 years there, I enjoy these nostalgic threads but I really couldn't cope with the mornings after anymore
Well, tis been an afternoon of Old Skool here today whilst decorating....
After last night it got me thinking again and have managed to dig up these gems:
John Kelly & Derrick May Obsession 93)
Snipet of he John Kelly Set one of the best sets ever!
Most of the Derrick May set
http://www.mixcloud.com/minesh-surti/derrick-may-john-kelly-obsession-3rd-dimension-311092/
LTJ Bukem - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6L1rpt8Xnc&feature=fvwrel
The complete Nipper set from NYE 94 in Bowlers, we were there and we rocked it. I seem to remember one of the lads cars windscreen wipers had broken and the lad in the front was leaning out cleaning the screen as we went!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwVV_b0z46k&feature=related
Corn Exchange was awesome, a few top nights in there but the Arks in the old Leeds poly were better (Gary Norman - whatever happened to him??)
I'll be reliving the old techno days in a couple of weeks at Orbit Reloaded. Should be a messy middle aged affair. Dave Angel and Huggy are playing. Be interesting to see if I can still make it through till 6am even with (ahem) assistance!
Some good venues listed they guys!
When i bought my first house the girl next door was in the Stoke Drug Squad. I used to meet her and her colleagues in Kinetic and Golden. They were so crap and undercover work, we used to have a right laugh with/at them!!
Hacienda is also a place i'll never forget.
As other have mentioned it was a special time in the early 90's. The musice and culture was new and most had a great time....and lived to tell the tale! 😀
That's a properly crap line up for the orbit reloaded thing. I bet nige walker hasn't touched the decks in 10 yrs and Dave angel and marco zefferano were always pretty average. Could have been so much better.