"The Rise and Fall of Rave"......May 1, 2005

[@shLEy]

Rave has been and gone, but it left its mark on the social landscape...


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[junglejunky]

dope asss article....

[@shLEy]

My thoughts exactly. My favorite line was:

"'Rave' per se is dead, but what has come out of it has survived."

I love that thought because I have NEVER once thought about it in that way, but it makes total sense.

"Rave" in it's truest, original form, IS dead.
The scene we have now is what came of it. Our scene has struggled to survive, and has made it through....But, it will never again be what it was back in the day when it was TRULY "Rave".

[redeuphoria]

Cool article. However, I still see the underground raves as keeping the rave alive.

[~Ows~]

rave will never die!

raves have been around since the dawn of man, tribes people taking mushrooms and dancing into a frenzy to repetitive drum beats? ? sounds like raving to me mate

they've come along way since then, and they got alot further to go..

maybe one day we'll all be partying on the moon until the earth rises

[Mei Jewleh]

An interesting perspective, definitely better than the usual media representation of rave culture.

"Van Wyk, however, says that rave offered individuals a complete escape from prevailing ideologies. Unlike the hippie movement of the 1960s, "raving" was not a way of life. Rather, it was an activity confined to attending a rave, and quite divorced from normal life."

The present day scene has very much lost this.

"The idea was not to use mainstream advertising.... What LSD does to you is it takes away your ability to be comfortable inside your social norms and forces you to look at yourself and your society with a critical eye... taking ecstasy is the complete opposite; it's about reinforcing your ego. It doesn't create any mental unease."

Raves of the 1980s and early 90s are depicted by Paul began responses to the social sytem, challenges to the status quo, the steps toward totalitarism, urbanisation, production of the material, commercial world - ravers are not responding to these issues on the same scale today. The use of drug transition is an interesting aspect again, reinforcing where raves were coming from, to where they're going now. The focus is fairly far from analysing ourselves and society, that's undeniable.

Thanks for a good article, social context was impecible.

[Xmuzik]

net labels are the new rave

[lilelf]

Originally Posted by redeuphoria

Cool article. However, I still see the underground raves as keeping the rave alive.

What underground raves?

[~Ows~]

Originally Posted by lilelf

What underground raves?

The ones over here

[LeftSideProductions]

GREAT READ!! thanks

[freefall]

I havn't read the article yet but I already know what I'm gonna get outta it. Although i havn't travelled very far nationally to go raving I do say from what we have here in the Southwest that it's all commercial and it just keeps getting worse. It's because the prompters and dj's alike are bitches and don't want to get in with the law. Nobody likes to take risks or chances and that really pisses me off. Now everything's in a secure location (usually a club which makes em 21, everybody tries to make a buck during the event so pills are like 20-25 bucks a hit, water like 2-5 dollars a bottle and not a damn thing is really ever free. Oh don't forget it's like 10 bucks just to get in after being searched.
Also it's so f'n commercialized and alot of people are in it for the name. All this openess to the public draws a varied crowd which makes the dancefloor negative. EVERY FUCKING NIGHT I go out AT LEAST two fights break out in which you can see by looks alone they arn't ravers and don't give a damn that they are ruining everyones time. It just not friendly anymore period.
Oh yeah I know its always been this way but quit thinking youre a hotshot E-tard that is cool cuz he can get E. Nobody really cares that youre rolling or that you have rolled. If youve raved youve rolled and everbody knows that.
So yeah those who know what I'm talking about get youre UFO's on grab a handful of smarties and walk into that event with those glowsticks in youre hand. Because if it wasn't for you, nobody would know that it was a rave, even with the music playing because the dj is commercial. I try my hardest keeping with the plur but you can only do so much right?
Peace and love people

[detroitPLURkid]

Originally Posted by freefall

I havn't read the article yet but I already know what I'm gonna get outta it. Although i havn't travelled very far nationally to go raving I do say from what we have here in the Southwest that it's all commercial and it just keeps getting worse. It's because the prompters and dj's alike are bitches and don't want to get in with the law. Nobody likes to take risks or chances and that really pisses me off. Now everything's in a secure location (usually a club which makes em 21, everybody tries to make a buck during the event so pills are like 20-25 bucks a hit, water like 2-5 dollars a bottle and not a damn thing is really ever free. Oh don't forget it's like 10 bucks just to get in after being searched.
Also it's so f'n commercialized and alot of people are in it for the name. All this openess to the public draws a varied crowd which makes the dancefloor negative. EVERY FUCKING NIGHT I go out AT LEAST two fights break out in which you can see by looks alone they arn't ravers and don't give a damn that they are ruining everyones time. It just not friendly anymore period.
Oh yeah I know its always been this way but quit thinking youre a hotshot E-tard that is cool cuz he can get E. Nobody really cares that youre rolling or that you have rolled. If youve raved youve rolled and everbody knows that.
So yeah those who know what I'm talking about get youre UFO's on grab a handful of smarties and walk into that event with those glowsticks in youre hand. Because if it wasn't for you, nobody would know that it was a rave, even with the music playing because the dj is commercial. I try my hardest keeping with the plur but you can only do so much right?
Peace and love people

chill out chill out