Why you must listen to this. Amazing anecdotes. Banging tunes. Sorted.
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“Thoroughly researched with amazing anecdotes from various players who lived through the time including ordinary people without whom none of it would have happened. Sparkling throughout with genius selection of the greatest rave anthems. Outstanding production brilliantly explains how an authentic youth movement emerged from the ground up unlike others such as punk, which was manufactured by Malcolm McClaren Vivien Westwood et al. I learned new things from this podcast, it doesn’t follow the well worn standard narrative.
However, it can only tell part of a wider ongoing history. Electronic dance music had emerged earlier around 1979 - 1981 in the gay clubs and its my belief AIDS put the brakes on this, briefly, only for it to emerge again but this time manifested as house music, pumping out from Chicago and Detroit with, once again, black and queer people at the vanguard. By the mid nineties rave had gone mainstream, however parts of the movement remained determinedly underground.
A nostalgic trip which makes me sad that a time when we lived totally in the moment, when there was always a sense of excitement, anticipation, sheer spontaneous joy is gone forever never to be experienced again in a digitalised world. I can’t imagine anything like rave ever happening again today when every experience is now mediated through social media and everyone’s turned into a nerd, too busy filming themselves and posting online to even know what fun, unity and community mean anymore.
Or maybe I’m just getting old.......”
Trenton75 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
09/18/20
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“Thoroughly absorbing story that’s has kept me entertained from start to finish. Marvellously written, superbly presented and memory evoking music. An outstanding series.”
Neil Hallsworth via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
09/12/20
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“I remember this time but hadn’t really understood the extent of the darkness that took over what had started as an innocent and idealistic dance scene. Interviews with clubbers, punters and the police plus monologues written by Danny Brocklehurst make for a compelling and informative series,...”Read full review »
FloweryMonkey via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
09/28/20
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“Amazing podcast giving a varied view of what to me was just somewhere to go and party. I didn’t realise all the behind the scene stuff going on, as all we wanted to do was party the night away.”
jjjonti via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/15/20
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