90's Rave Generation – Music Thread

ill dig out me whistle, British Knights trainers & TROOP shellsuit!!

I would be, but I’d probably be asleep by 1am.

Or maybe not?!

(got some Tiger Balm knocking around somewhere)

Few more for the mix

I cant really remember 1990-1993, about the time of my a-levels. I spent most Sat nights and often all nighters at Sterns nightclub, Worthing.
Lots of festival raves, Universes, Big Loves, Vision, early Fantasia’s inc Bournemouth one, which was epic! Lots of additives, god knows how I afforded it! And how the f did I manage to work most Sunday mornings?? Come to think of it, I did get sacked quite a few times 😆

What an experience 🙂

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!

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….

Lee Quarry free party 🙂

My techno days were spent in Liverpool (93-96) at either Cream allnighters with likes of Carl Cox and Laurent Garnier on the decks, or at the much seedier Voodoo held in a tiny club down Seel Street. Even there they had the likes of Ritchie Hawtin, Dave Clarke, and Dave Angel. Happy days.

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 would say yes – but a bunch of middleaged men with no recreationals? It’ll be horlix by 1 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzbb-UNKtzg&playnext=1&list=PL7FC80F931B8C0C3E

In the last thread on this theme I promised to do a mix for the STW massive, stuff packed away for moving but will do it when we are settled

I’d be in too.

Not done any mixing for a long time, but could bring all my vinyl.

Altern8 still do the odd PA here and there…

ooooooooooooooooooh FREQUENCY!

all we need is a venue

surely as a loosely tangled web of woodland.. misty mountain and moor dwellers we should be keeping the faith and organising our dadrave in the great outdoors.. preferably in a nicked marquee or a second hand big-top.. I loved those days and embraced the whole ethos wholeheartedly… culminating in me running off to live with the hippies for most of my adult life..
love life and unity man.

I’m getting goosebumps reading this thread. I got into rave in ’89 (I was 23) and partied on a reasonably regular basis until about 5 years ago (kids, sensible wife and crap quality recreationals)
They were the best times! What would it be like tryin to recreate now? No idea until you try! I’d be in to the STW revival weekend (family ties permitting)

Great Thread 🙂

Eclipse, Coventry = AWESOME

surely as a loosely tangled web of woodland.. misty mountain and moor dwellers we should be keeping the faith and organising our dadrave in the great outdoors..

I didn’t say it had to be an indoor venue 🙂

It would actually be pretty sweet, but I’m not sure if I’m up for the organisational challenge – anyone who’s not too addled from all the partying and is actually capable or sorting it out? 🙂 I would help.

I was DJing fairly regularly in clubs up until a couple of years ago – not done owt since then. I did a gig with Altern8 actually – you could hire them for not massive amounts of money. Could be like the rave version of the BBB.

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?

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

FEEL THE RUSH!!

Sooo True, Kellys Portrush 1992 Harmony with The Time Frequency and Carl Cox, euphoria like you would not believe, got any vicks mate? 😆

Charlie Heggarty’s Bangor with Gleave (my first pill).

Went to the MET Arena Reunion with Robbie Nelson on 28th December last year, amazing, pills are not what they used to be though 🙄

pills are not what they used to be though

‘A mate’ tells me that MDMA powder is the way to go these days. 😳

Hate to spoil the nostalgia trip but “the scene” went downhil not long after it went mainstream 1990ish IMHO. Along came all the new genres and subgenres techno,hardcore etc with their speeded up bleeping rehashes of rehahses and the early inspirational fusion of diverse musical styles got lost.
Got back into clubbing mid 90s when soulful house music re-emerged in the clubs .
I’ll still come 😀

‘A mate’ tells me that MDMA powder is the way to go these days.

I heard that too.

Hate to spoil the nostalgia trip

lol… no you dont!

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.

Still got a deep house crew here in east Kent who put on free parties every full moon. Music is a little more sedate these days but still a great vibe.

Would be bang up for a ride/dance

IMO most proper rave stuff sounds dated and pretty crap now. It was even then probably only good because of the scene and the fact you were off your tits on doves. There is very little that still sounds fresh. This does though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G34WFkqVbJA&feature=related

All the good tracks on this thread are not really rave, they are techno.

Oh look those boring techno heads (that take everything too seriously) I was talking about earlier have arrived. Yay! 🙄 😛

Guilty as charged, but rave was still S&!t.

Hmm couldn’t find the tracks on YT I was after for Speedy J and Black Dog some good stuff though .. LFO too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVfTxkhXSJg

Yunki> tuuunnnes!

Loving the ‘Son’s of a loop da loop era’

Would kind of agree with ianv in that I’d struggle to listen to some Old skool rave these days , there are still some epic mixes that survived from that era Jumping jack frost and Grooverider but an awfull lot of shit as well (Bass generator and co). Still the house stuff from 92 Is still great , Im away to listen to a Michael Kilkie mix from the tunnels and If Its any good I’ll stick up a link.

Michael Kilkie House 92 Glasgow. 😀

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 😯

And this to going back to someones place when things had calmed down

And this of my first few months in manchester when things had got a bit more house in the mid 90’s.

and now I’m just another fixie riding **** monkey.

Can’t believe no one has shoved this up yet!

yossarian – 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!

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.

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.

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.

You can’t say that breakbeat hardcore was all about Trip To Trumpton and Charly. Progressive House has always been dull and pretentious though. 😛

Fantazia have started putting events on again this year in Stoke.
Fantazia!

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.

“ill dig out me whistle, British Knights trainers & TROOP shellsuit!!”

😆 the cheese posse

Helter Skelter in Stoke on Trent Club UK in London and Free Parties in Wales… ahh good ol days 🙂