How many old ravers on here?

[PeterNC]

Although I was never a "raver" in the UK sense I did enjoy my techno period in the German nightclubs in the mid / late 1990s and early 2000s. int:

Cosmic Gate, Rotterdam Terror Corps, DJ Paul Elstak, DJ Jean, U96, Paul van Dyk and so on.

 

[ColourWheel64]

In my youth I was either listening to Rock or Techno. I really enjoy Prodigy and Chemical Brothers in particular, and was at the Prodigy hosted Worlds on Fire gig in Milton Keynes. The greatest thing I like about Prodigy going mainstream is that I got the gig on dvd to watch later. Watching them live I realised they haven't lost their edge.

I have always loved festivals. I have attended Creamfields, Global Gathering, Homelands, Reading, Leeds (one year cos Reading had sold out), Glastonbury and many local gigs.

Back when I was at university, I was still in Leicester and there was a club called Weavers which hosted a Lisa Lashes Sunday Service night. Inside, it was themed like a street (with the bar, dance floor and stage) and then a face of what looked like terraced buildings containing tables and chairs on the ground floor, and the upper floor was full of beds to lounge and chat on, with the ability to look out on the street below. A great idea I think as far as themes go.

That was very awesome. She plays hard house I believe, but then not all music is cut from he same cloth, is it?

I certainly prefer Gilted Generation and Experience albums to anything Prodigy have made since (bar a few excellent tracks here and there).

Streets of Rage has excellent music too, and spending as much time on the sound test screen as I have should not be considered "sad" or "tragic".

...AWESOME!

I would love to go to a real rave.

 

[cosmicfrog]

Its all techno
of course I raved I had an amiga

playing follow the car in front or whos at the next layby, N giveing the police overtime so we knew where to go

 

[ColourWheel64]

Its all techno

I was born in 1980, so I was growing up while rave was going on.

It was all simply "music" to me.

That takes me back. Like most kids, when I was pre-ten, breakdancing was the thing for me. Not necesarilly the music, as I would just as happilly dance to the muppets as I would the Citizens on Patrol theme tune.

I have never ever limited myself to a single scene. I just cut bits out e.g. Mariah Carey, Enya and Badly Drawn Boy. They just don't sound right in my ears.

...and I remember things like Alisha's Attic and Babybird fo no particular reason.

I never liked Meatloaf's music, but I enjoyed singing it in a silly way at the top of my voice. He was great in Fight Club too!

 

[woodycool]

I'm glad this topic has come up, I'm a big fan of rave music, especially some of the underground genres such as 'Happy Hardcore', 'Drum N Bass', 'Gabba' etc. which all played an important part to my late teenage years.
I still listen to this type of music quite regularly as it's rather nostalgic and I do still follow the rave scene even now.

As a side project, I'm in the process of converting all my old rave tapes (Helter Skelter, Dreamscape, Hysteria etc.) into MP3s. I've already got almost all the Helter Skelter and Dreamscape tapes ever in existence as MP3, but if any of you own any rave tape packs, please let me know, I'll happily convert these into MP3 for you (as long as I can keep an MP3 copy myself) - all in the name of 'preservation' - you just can't download this **** anymore.

I was aware that the Amiga played a big part in the dance music and rave music scenes back in the 80s and early 90s, I do even have some MODs of a few commercial dance and rave tracks on my A1500's hard drive

I'm going to work in the next few minutes, but when I get back I'll post a few YouTube links of a few favourites of mine.
I was a big fan of Force & Styles, Dougal, Vinylgroover, Brisk, Fabio, Grooverider, M Zone, Mark EG, Loftgroover and The Music Maker (amongst many other DJs/Producers of the 90s)

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I was a "gabber" in the 90s.

Gabberhouse for those who don't know it was a pretty heavy version of hardcore, mostly popular in Holland and Belgium. I've been on a lot of small and big parties, from 200-500 people in a small club to parties from 10.000-15.000 people (Thunderdome). I was also quite fond of the Belgian trance scene (Bonzai Records and the like), and since I lived close to the Belgian border I visited a lot of clubs there as well (Club X mostly)

Awesome - Glad I'm not the only one into Gabber/Gabba.
Shame you quit the scene 1995 ish, although Happy Hardcore was increasing in popularity, the Gabber scene was still going strong.

 

[moijk]

Rave and (happy) hard house/techno/core is just my cup of tea. I however also love heavy metal and most variations - and if it also include operatic voices it's even better. The more intense classic music pieces is nice too, as well as Opera. Well, plus a lot of other things - like chip music.

Well, almost everything beside religious music, and music made for young boys and girls. For some reason the music industry pile up the biggest lumps of crap for this audience. Like hiphop, rap, boybands and annoying solo artists that constantly frequent the news for anything beside their music.

For those who have an hour to spare:

[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVKJuFeadQ[/m]

One of my favorite youtube mixes

 

[bagpuss22]

Anything electronic 80's for me!

I do like a varied selection of music but am going through a phase of going to concerts. Got The Prodigy, Howard Jones and Blancmange concerts in the next 8 weeks! :wooha:

Currently buying to a lot of NEW vinyl releases like Mike Oldfield, Prodigy, Genesis, Ultravox.

BP

 

[edd_jedi]

Some great stories! Glad I'm not the only one, I didn't think I would be to be honest. Everybody I knew was in to rave music in the early 90s, and most of them had an Amiga too! I guess "Jesus on Es" was one of the best known Amiga demos with a proper hardcore soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJy87Pt87cc

Did anybody here make hardcore/jungle on their Amiga? This guy is worth checking out, he's still going strong:

https://soundcloud.com/ultrafine

 

[McVenco]

I guess "Jesus on Es" was one of the best known Amiga demos with a proper hardcore soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJy87Pt87cc

I wouldn't call it hardcore (at least not to Dutch standards ), it's more acid house to me. Nevertheless, Jesus on E's is by far my absolute favourite Amiga music demo. Back in the day I recorded it to both sides of a 60 minute tape and listened to it on repeat everyday for a while when I went to school

 

[edd_jedi]

Haha yes, I know dutch/german hardcore is very different to what it was in the UK The '4 beat' stuff didn't arrive in the UK til roughly 1996 and was generally called happy hardcore.

 

[Chinners]

I could never attend raves, or nightclubs or anything like that. I just can't handle crowded areas

As some people have bobbed up little playlists, which I have really enjoyed going through, so here is a bunch of tracks that have strong memories from me in the early 90's. I left it at the first 10 from that era...

anticappella -- 2v231
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjmzyLm0vYk

Liquid - Liquid Is Liquid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVm8TLNr9-Q

Underworld Rez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6XOuiqW0WI

Zyon - No Fate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQI21UzrC4E

Prodigy - Hyperspeed - gforce part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwiMfPq_eco

Future Sound Of London - Cascade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVRAPIXzb1o

Scanner - Safety (may have naughty words in it - may not even be a song!!?!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8I1oA9uBFU

Scooter - Rhapsody in E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRh3UK89daU

Rofo - Rofo's Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tXjEHErgcQ

S-EXPRESS - "Theme From S-EXPRESS"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqidtHktME

 

[kronuz]

*fistpumpingwithwhiteshirtandpants*

But seriously, I never listen to anything that does not have drumsticks and guitar strings

 

[moijk]

I wouldn't call it hardcore (at least not to Dutch standards ), it's more acid house to me. Nevertheless, Jesus on E's is by far my absolute favourite Amiga music demo. Back in the day I recorded it to both sides of a 60 minute tape and listened to it on repeat everyday for a while when I went to school

I was in Den Haag and Amsterdam on a school trip in '95. It was like a child in a candy store. While they had a selection here, like a shelf or something, it was an entire floor there. This compilation was one of the cds i brought back home,

[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-D5ya9j7O4[/m]

but beside hardcore, i got this. One of my favorite compilations still today was 'mayday reformation' by 'members of mayday'. This is their music video featuring video from a rave:

[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE8tDNp4o1M[/m]

 

[Chinners]

but beside hardcore, i got this. One of my favorite compilations still today was 'mayday reformation' by 'members of mayday'. This is their music video featuring video from a rave:

Bells of reformation - what a great track that is, and it's video is pretty odd to boot.

As for people saying today's music isn't as good as it was. I'm not sure about that. I think it's just in our teens, we had more time and enthusiasm to go hunting down great tracks. Daft Punk's latest album is a work of art.

Oh, and back to linking with the miggy - If you like hard beaty electronic stuff, and liked u4ia/f8 from Cryptoburners:

http://www.soundclick.com/members/default.cfm?member=u4iaf8


Buy now to support your fond memories! I did, and love the album!

 

[McVenco]

I was in Den Haag and Amsterdam on a school trip in '95. It was like a child in a candy store. While they had a selection here, like a shelf or something, it was an entire floor there.

There were entire stores, selling ONLY house cd's/vinyl, DJ gear and clothing. I've been to the Mid-Town Records store in Rotterdam numerous times, and almost everytime there were one or more DJs walking around. DJ Paul Elstak practically lived in that store, I've talked to him a few times there - very nice guy

The most legendary hardcore parties took place in Rotterdam in an old sports hall called the Energiehal, I think I went there 5 or 6 times. It's been demolished well over a decade ago, but it's name apparently still lives on in the house/dance scene. I just found this documentary from a few months ago on Youtube, it's well worth a view if you're interested in a bit of dutch gabber history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaFBXrP8QZQ



Ah, the good old days....

 

[edd_jedi]

I was in Den Haag and Amsterdam on a school trip in '95. It was like a child in a candy store. While they had a selection here, like a shelf or something, it was an entire floor there.

There were entire stores, selling ONLY house cd's/vinyl, DJ gear and clothing. I've been to the Mid-Town Records store in Rotterdam numerous times, and almost everytime there were one or more DJs walking around. DJ Paul Elstak practically lived in that store, I've talked to him a few times there - very nice guy

The most legendary hardcore parties took place in Rotterdam in an old sports hall called the Energiehal, I think I went there 5 or 6 times. It's been demolished well over a decade ago, but it's name apparently still lives on in the house/dance scene. I just found this documentary from a few months ago on Youtube, it's well worth a view if you're interested in a bit of dutch gabber history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaFBXrP8QZQ



Ah, the good old days....

Awesome. I have big respect for Paul Elstak and the dutch hardcore scene of the mid 90s. I didn't like all the music, but they were professional and are the only people to succeed at making hardcore 'cool' by doing it properly. They had music videos, CD albums, full colour artwork, proper recording studios, and of course the biggest and best raves on earth. The UK scene was a bit of a joke in comparison, which is probably why it got slated so much.

 

[Harrison]

Metal/Goth/Indie was my scene in the 90s, and I hated dance music in the charts at the time. I also remember a friend playing me a tape of Scooter and thinking what a load of rubbish it was.

Never really into this type of music because I never really viewed people remixing other people's work as music in its own right. More as making money out of other people's work. I think that is the artist in me as I also can't stand "found art" whereby an artist doesn't actually create artwork, but instead just collects objects together and gives them a name. I also think it was due to most of my friends being musicians or artists and none of us could stand it either. At the time viewing it as "townie" clubber music for people whom didn't understand what real music that used instruments and involved real musical ability was all about.

When the music is original though, like The Prodigy, then it was a bit different, as it is created as original work. I was a big fan of the Prodigy f.ex. However its influence in the indie scene was more what I was into. Anyone into Curve, My Bloody Valentine, Loop etc? I loved the "shoe gazing" music scene. I expect some of you into the more mainstream dance/rave scene never heard this type of music?

Listen to this Curve song as an example:

[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2ZX8UqHaQ[/m]

For the demoscene however I think it was quite different as this style of music works really well when combined with visual art and motion graphics. I always enjoyed dance music in demoscenes. Just never listened to as audio only, and I expect this was true for most because they enjoyed it at raves combined with motion graphic visuals. So it became for if a dance music installation.

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[edd_jedi]

You're absolutely right Harrison, a lot of the commercial music released at the time was dross and made purely to cash in. A lot of it was sample-based or reworks of other tracks that had little musical merit and, like you say, were basically ripping off other people's work.

However, if you had dug a little deeper in to the 'underground' hardcore and jungle of the early 90s you would have found a lot of original and 'intelligent' music that was far from mainstream and you may have appreciated more. The Prodigy would in fact fall in to the above 'commercial' category in my opinion - I like their stuff and he was indeed a musical genius, but that was by no means as good as it got. And the rave scene of the early 90s was a far cry from morons in townie clubs getting sloshed and fighting to a backing track of 2 Unlimited

 

[cosmicfrog]

Happy Hardcore', 'Drum N Bass \o/ " head down ass up thats the way we like to ****

nobody likes meatloaf, esapecilay when we have floyd, sabbath, deep purpel, hawkwind and motorhead, pah punie fat american hehehehhe, nice ablum covers though

 

[ColourWheel64]

I don't suppose anyone here has seen Jeroen Tel, Reyn Ouwehand or Yuzo Koshiro play at a venue have you?

I don't mean to limit the question to these three artists either.

It's just that these are the ones that stand out from what I've seen via YouTube.

I would love to see a venue performance.