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so my post about the rave piano sounds seemed to get some people quite excited. i have always been so interested in the 80s/90s rave culture we had over here in the UK. admittedly i was born in 84, so was too young for the summer of love in 89. however, i have a much older brother, who was right in the thick of it, and at the time was someone i looked up to very much. anyway, i can't really remember much apart from the music and the clothes, but i found a really cool documentary on youtube about the summer of 89. its very entertaining and shows, in my opinion a really cool part of history that the youth should be proud of!
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04/04/08
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Zanf
ignatius said: "thanks Zanf. nice concise history lesson. i feel like i should know more about that era in the UK. now i do."
It accounts for some of it - that was some of what was going down but you have to remember, even though there was this massive youth movement going on, we still went into the 1st Gulf War, just under 2 years later and the general consensus was, 'that Saddam bastard properly deserves it for invading Kuwait and throwing sick babies out of their incubators', even though it was propaganda/completely false intel.
Im planning a trip over there this year so we can talk about our respective cultures in depth then. I always feel too incoherent and unstructured when my posts get past a certain lenght [im constantly going back over and editing it before posting and feel it loses it].
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"commercialized and homogenized really quickly"
I dont want to say that you kids never really knew what it was really like but after the police busted the Mutoid Waste Factory in 1988 and stopped them squatting the old courier depot next to Kings Cross station on Battlebridge Road, the whole scene went downhill and it was never the same ;)
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i saw mutoid waste co at glastonbury festival in the lates 80's (not sure which year- couldve been 88)- great stuff- all weird machines and scrap - made me think of mad max 2
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i had no idea about raves/techno in them days
wasnt til 94 that i found out about the good stuff
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cheers zanf
04/05/08
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it's funny 'cause the Spiral Tribe came in france after they were kicked off from UK.
the whole free party movement started in france because of them, uh thanks to them i have to say.
it was really good years until 2001/2002. then the scene started to fall apart: the music became sadly more and more like 180 bpm stupid techno, made by overdrugged kids who could dance all night on a ridiculous and oversimple techno made with fruityloops and 5 hits sounds.
there was a law then, and a lot of sound systems were taken by the police. now it's absolutely ridiculous and so far from the spirit of the beginning: the government allows 2 teknivals in the year, and they lend an area for this, there is cops in and all around the place, it's all organized and managed by the police... but there is still stupid kids to continue. they obviously forgot about some freedom and utopias that were strongly present at the beginning.
before that moment the music was really awesome: mixing hardcore, breakbeats, ragga samples and accelerated pop hits. i remember some wonderful sunrises in front of massive sound systems, with livesets by Crystal Distortion or FKY, or big dj sets by a tribe called sound conspiracy... at the time i used to take 12 acids in the night and i never laughed like that again.
i don't regret stopping raving though.
but it was good 
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Haha, sounds like utopia . I can't wait for a some happy hardcore revival to hit the semi-mainstream coolness radar. It's pretty much the perfect soundtrack for these troubled times. Happy 2 B Hardcore comps 4 life...
haha happy2bhardcore is not happy hardcore. . its horrible spedup pop cheese..
For anyone interested in old hardcore (happy/rave/breakbeat/whatever), luna-c & a devout following are still producing good music.. and were releasing even on vinyl up til a shortwhile ago/possibly still.. I havent kept up for a year or so I'm all raved out
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