I used to be a RAVER...

[TheT Organization]

Yeah...I said it.

I wore Kikwear/Jnco jeans and baggy camo pants that you could pick up at any army/navy store. The first rave I went to was in 1999 in March, and all of that year til about 2002. Needless to say, the scene died in my city when numerous dealers got busted for exctasy. This was my inspiration to DJ mainly, as I bought my first pair of decks and a mixer in 2002. But damn, what great days and great music!

Cassius- 1999
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSeBalEQrhc

[JunkYard AkbaR]

Yea i went thru a little phase over a summer about 7 yrs ago, never switched up my hiphop style but I still went and rolled my azz off. It was cool discovering a new scene and genre of music. I used to love them cute azz dancing girls wit the glowsticks :laugh:

[frush11]

I used to smh @ people like you, while strolling to the D&B or Garage rooms when I used to go to Buzz back in the days. I remember us D&B/Garage heads used to hate going to those type of parties. But when I got older, I got over the image stuff and stop giving a damn.

I remember how distinctly different the Trance, Progressive House, Hard House, Techno and Breaks crowds were from the D&B, Garage, Soulful House, and Downtempo crowds, it was night and . Many of us who were part of the latter crowd, used to hate the fact that our genre was associated with that kinda "Rave" stuff.

[Art Barr]

i was an exclub kid raver,....from 95, till about 99.

i still own the pill covered mix cd's,...and the incredible adventures to get to the actual parties and the whole nine.

did you go to the greatest midwest rave party they advertised used to advertise?

the straight after party sleepovers..........

it was great as an alternative to my culture,..when the toys and gateway rap fans started to try to be hiphop,and didn't know what a bboy/bgurl was all of a sudden.

i kinda miss it now,....too.
plus i loved dancing with the women, and they dance all phuckin night!

art barr

[infamous003]

*raises hand*

I partied from about 1999 to '03....the pills got bad, I said f*ck it and went back to school, etc etc etc......still, that may have been the most fun four years of my life, however drug-addled they were.

Saw Dave Clarke spin a thrree-deck techno set in my city and ended up buying my own decks. Played out a few times, spent thousands of dollars on vinyl, ended up sellin' it all for a fraction of what I paid for it, and I don't regret a single thing.

[frush11]

Played out a few times, spent thousands of dollars on vinyl, ended up sellin' it all for a fraction of what I paid for it, and I don't regret a single thing.


Same here.

[frush11]

i was an exclub kid raver,....from 95, till about 99.


Those were the good time, before the scene became just another "it" to do for the trend whores. Being into a D&B really cut me off from the whole "Rave" experience, wish I would've gotten more into that side of the Electronic music scene.

[Art Barr]

Those were the good time, before the scene became just another "it" to do for the trend whores. Being into a D&B really cut me off from the whole "Rave" experience, wish I would've gotten more into that side of the Electronic music scene.


imma bboy so i didn't look at raves or the music as having any division.

it was all mixes,...of everything, and the scene and social atmosphere always was cool.

the only thing i got tired of was that i like black women.

then you go to a rave, it isn't enough black women/latin women i like.

art barr

[infamous003]

Those were the good time, before the scene became just another "it" to do for the trend whores. Being into a D&B really cut me off from the whole "Rave" experience, wish I would've gotten more into that side of the Electronic music scene.

Is the sh*t still big over there? I heard of places like Fabric and The End closing down. I woulda killed to go to either back in the day.

I still go out occasionally, only if it's a DJ I like, and even then, by like, 2:00 am I'm out. I can't stay up for days on end anymore. Takes my body and mind far too long to recover. There's a little club in Toronto called Footwork that I'll f*ck with every once in a while, it's tiny, dingy and sweaty. Can't mess with the superclubs (Guvernment) though. Too many people period, but WAY too many people outta their minds.

*remembers listening to the Essential Mix on Saturday nights before going out*

[frush11]

Is the sh*t still big over there? I heard of places like Fabric and The End closing down. I woulda killed to go to either back in the day.

I still go out occasionally, only if it's a DJ I like, and even then, by like, 2:00 am I'm out. I can't stay up for days on end anymore. Takes my body and mind far too long to recover. There's a little club in Toronto called Footwork that I'll f*ck with every once in a while, it's tiny, dingy and sweaty. Can't mess with the superclubs (Guvernment) though. Too many people period, but WAY too many people outta their minds.

*remembers listening to the Essential Mix on Saturday nights before going out*

Oh no, I live in the US, but I do have a lot of family in England, and did used to go there a lot. The D&B scene is still solid, Fabric and the End were just a very small part of the scene, big parties like Breakin Science, Innovation, Fever are still going strong, and the smaller nights like Movement, Swerve having been going on for over a decade. And that's just in London, Bristol, Birmingham, and Brighton have big scenes too.

[TheT Organization]

Fabric is still around. they put out great mixes from some of the best Djs in the world.

I got news from Resident Advisor that The End is re-opening as something else this month.

I guess the thing for it for me was that I was one of the people in the scene that genuinely liked the music. i listened to hip-hop, punk, and reggae at the time, so I naturally gravitated to house/techno/DnB because I like beats. Alot of other people only liked the drugs so when they weren't on drugs, then that was it. Lukclily, it was always my love of that music thta kept me going.

Now, I still have my vinyl...but I now have SERATO and that keeps it going for me. I've never been excited to be a DJ at this point in time. The new stuff that I've been doing is an extension of that sound...but it incorproates baltimore/philly club, kuduro, juke, southern rap, dancehall reggae, baile funk, fidget house, and other good stuff.

Mainly, I want to change that scene up...so it's accessible and easy to get into for people who don't like electronic dance music neccessarily, but could get into it no matter what. As well, I think it's great to expose alot of other people to Baltimore club stuff because that's what really gets the place popping! :yayo: When I spin out, it's just party music dammit...I'm not trying to get on some intellectual breakdown or anything else, it's basically a way to connect the dots between dance musics that people would not neccessarily associate in those contexts due to the "genre" label that makes people blind.

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

i used to go from about 95 till 2000, went from jungle raves straight into the garage raves, i used to love jungle music, bought all the tape packs when i was growing up, couldn't afford decks and sh1t, so i was a jungle MC :sadcam: i can't believe that myself haha used to try to rock local parties and that, luckily when i was about 16 i grew out of that, i coulda been someone though :laugh:


remember seeing DJ Randall at paradise club in upper street in north london when i was 14 after bluffing the boucner i was 18 :yes:


raves got to be too much trouble after a while though, lots of bad attitudes and we used to have loads of fights, it all got a bit ridiculous, i bet its better now, now that it isn't the in thing.


its weird, cos i can't stand jungle music now and i used to love it to bits, its like my brain changed overnight, all to fast for me now, dunno what happened :laugh: