In August, we spoke with sober ravers at Shambhala 2016.
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Ravers make pilgrimages to Berghain from all over the world.
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The light comes in and you see all the ravers.
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Hippies mingled with ravers, gangsters with hairdressers, students with shop assistants.
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Lim's allegations were echoed by several other ravers we spoke with.
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However, ravers aren't the only ones using (or abusing) illegal substances.
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The Mirage, however, isn't just a party spot for sun-worshipping ravers.
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And the rainbow-painted ravers were hardly classic Merkel or SPD supporters.
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Gina: There were these two ravers who wore unicorn horns, it killed me!
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He was the mascot and leader of a whole second generation of ravers.
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The freaks and ravers are ready brother and this year will prove that.
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Jordan Barbour's Mark Antony, first discovered with the Lupercalia ravers, remains a cipher.
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The spec back in those days was to just fuck with the ravers.
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Old school ravers like me used to make fun of those type of people.
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Some ravers have even posted videos of themselves dancing at home to the music.
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Noticing that some seasoned ravers dismiss people as lame if they wear it, Rinsky argued that they should be more generous and less judgmental, especially if these young ravers are new to EDM and just getting a sense of its cultural landscape.
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Lastly, anatomical examinations have since revealed a complete lack of balls among the modern ravers surveyed.
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Last week the venue, packed with ravers of all varieties and nationalities, had a different feel.
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Too creepy for the ravers, too neon for the goths, cybergoths occupied a new space entirely.
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During the night I spoke to a number of Kiev's young ravers in the smoking area.
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Webber specifically loves Grave Ravers, a series of Halloween characters that ran from 2005 to 2015.
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Do you feel like the freaks and ravers are ready to take over the big festivals?
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The cultish color was taken up by American club crawlers, the emblem of cybergoths and ravers.
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Lots of ravers under 30, shifting from the casual to the committed as day turns to morning.
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I eventually learned she was a Kandi Kid, part of a subculture of California's most devoted ravers.
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Jean company JNCO, for example, sold ultra wide-legged jeans that were popular with 90s ravers and skaters.
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Aleksandra Domanovic's hypnotizing 2010 video of teenage Serbian ravers, 19-30, shows the another culture influenced by rave.
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Seriously, I'm pretty sure the Financial Times ran a "10 Reasons Fabric's Elderly Ravers Give Us Life" piece.
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Every full moon, hundreds of ravers ventured deep into the desert to experience the phenomenon known as Moontribe.
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While pill-testing is hotly debated, there is anecdotal evidence that the services help ravers make better choices.
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But the importance of fliers in 1988 is clear — and they still evoke strong memories for old ravers.
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To the ravers out there: Rest assured, our teen years and twenties were spent as recklessly as yours.
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The friendly couple was a refreshing sight after a night spent in a crowded venue with Vegas ravers.
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How other ravers saw me, my hands darting skyward and my head bobbing to the beat, didn't matter.
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It's for the ravers, it's for the hippies, it's for the emos, and the people that don't fit in.
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Do you think that our generation of clubgoers and ravers have a different attitude towards sex than previous generations?
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Already, substances that were once the exclusive purview of ravers and hippies are finding therapeutic validation in clinical settings.
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The Guardian reported that witnesses saw about 300 ravers carted off on buses and taken away for drug testing.
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They lie via the radio ravers, and the podcast conspiracy-buffs, and the overgrown children at the Murdoch media.
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We were all old ravers and wanted to bring what we had in the clubs into the restaurant environment.
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The first The Glow was a collection of multimedia works inspired by Mykonos and a 1995 documentary on ravers.
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It went more the other way around, many years down the road, when ravers started getting into house music.
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In rare cases, it can trigger psychosis in susceptible individuals, which is an unnerving experience ravers have shared on Reddit.
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Photo: Dusty Volkel/Lockheed MartinCalling all space ravers: Here's an absurdly large sound system that will never blast galactic beats.
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Alcohol was the easiest to quit—most experienced ravers barely drink anyway (it makes you tired and go home early).
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The city's ongoing appeal to "easyJet ravers" has meant clubs are now able and wholly advised to pick and choose.
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In a series of art experiments, they watched the microbes lighting up like color-clad ravers dancing under black light.
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We've got mad love for Ders, Blake, and Adam, but full-blown PLUR ravers the Rancho Cucamonga telemarketers are not.
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You can bet ravers will be the earliest adopters once this research moves from the lab and into the streets.
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He'd also been watching YouTube videos of early-90s ravers at Shelley's Laserdome, a famed club in the north of England.
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Chelsea was one of the original San Francisco ravers, representing the Mission District before it was taken over by PayPal employees.
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Now, standing in the DJ booth and looking at the ravers in their K-holes, I felt like a deluded idiot.
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Thousands of ravers descended upon the National Orange Show fairgrounds to hear the likes of Moby, Carl Craig and Frankie Bones.
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"We were almost like ravers, doing these drugs to have an out-of-body experience, especially through music," Mr. Sandoval said.
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Paradoxically, she was tripling down on the advice given to ravers to drink more during and after dancing for hours on end.
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In the early days, it was common to see diverse groups of teenagers and families hanging out next to the candy ravers.
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But what was obvious about the ravers at CXEMA was that they didn't want to be anywhere else but Kiev right now.
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While seasoned users are aware of its risks, many ravers don't fully understand how it works and how to mitigate its dangers.
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In the early 90s until about the mid 2000s, ravers, goths, and the unemployable wore extra wide-leg pants as a fashion statement.
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The ravers had won the right to use large city-owned venues, but the crowds just weren't big enough to need them anymore.
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Making it was a bit chaotic - one of the CDJs started glitching halfway through - but that keeps it extra real for the ravers.
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In the first episode, we headed to Romford to ask the ravers of Essex a very important question: is there life after death?
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Pre-internet, this was how parties were organized, via flyer, pay phone, and beeper, as "map points" led ravers on an underground scavenger hunt.
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In fact, Wooldridge argued that the law has had the opposite of its intended effect by putting ravers in even more danger than before.
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But she endeared herself to groups all over the city — women, queer kids, drag queens, ravers, punks — who saw themselves reflected in her music.
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We're trying to reeducate people and encourage ravers to party in a different way and therefore we need to be able to host more people.
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Most of the people that send stuff have been old ravers who used to go out and were into the golden eras of the scene.
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Whether for the mainstream EDM bangers, the underground techno, or hip-hop, the festival's lineup attracts approximately 150,000 ravers to sunny Florida once a year.
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The art of moving hands encased in LED-embedded gloves—commonly referred to by ravers as "gloving"—is a still growing phenomenon in rave culture.
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Meanwhile, laser shows penetrated the atmosphere, and confetti fell onto the crowd of shirtless teenage boys and seasoned ravers old enough to be their parents.
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Some things make it easier: My friend recently started an email chain for people in the music scene struggling with addiction—a virtual AA for ravers.
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As for yoga's potential to change misconceptions about partying and festival culture, DJ Drez believes the practice can help ravers cast aside their inhibitions—sans substances.
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As depicted by Efron and his gang, tank top and neon hat and/or fanny pack wearing bro-ravers now epitomize one kind of EDM fan.
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Over the 16 years the former Burning Man Chief of Public Safety has provided emergency medicine at festivals, he's seen a lot of misinformation among ravers.
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As China quarantines millions of people — meaning ravers can no longer go out to party — nightclubs are livestreaming DJ sets on Douyin, China's version of TikTok.
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It's found on dancefloors across North America and Europe every weekend, as thousands of ravers use it to get wobbly in the early hours of the morning.
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There's also the small matter of local councils and licensing boards swallowing our nightclubs up faster than the hallowed ravers of '88 swallowed those extra strong pingers.
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Blynn said he met many young ravers who specifically came to the city for this particular show and did not know what to do after the shutdown.
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First come the ravers, then the Halloweeners, then the high fashion models in New York Fashion week and all the dazzling celebrities at the next Met Ball.
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A farmer in the Southeast of England has accused ravers of decapitating one of his newborn lambs during an illegal party in the countryside over the weekend.
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" The Argus interviewed some of the ravers and everyone they spoke to expressed strong disapproval of animal cruelty, and said the party "just was not like that.
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Fortunately, organisations like The Loop in the UK continue to do a stellar job keeping users, ravers and the public at large informed on all things MDMA.
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Just to remind you of how damn beautiful everything can be in the summertime, photographer Benjamin Diedering went to Ultra to document the coolest ravers of 2018.
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Then I went to a day rave thing at Disneyland and there were a bunch of little ravers and tons of kandi, big fur, caps, and visors.
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R.A.W.'s New Year's Eve performance at Plantasia introduced many West coast ravers to the nascent sub-genre of Jungle, which later evolved into Drum and Bass.
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Stacey Lock, Shambhala's harm reduction director, said she's found ravers will ditch their baggies if they find out a drug is not what they thought it was.
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But the day's programming ends at the stroke of midnight, and that's just not going to cut it for the ravenous ravers who descend annually on Motor City.
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THUMP and Julie Adenuga are acutely aware of this, which is why we've been setting out to ask ravers all over the UK some of life's biggest questions.
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From ravers sucking spaghetti off one another, to live alpacas strutting around the club—there's hardly a part of Berlin nightlife that Jesús Pastor hasn't caught on camera.
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Jack and Tim hope the film's loving but satirical depiction of amateur DJs provides a laugh and a gut check for ravers and music-makers of all stripes.
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Pasty white kids bop about in workingmen's social halls, and drunk teenagers boogie under strobe lights; Northern Soul fans in bell bottoms give way to ravers with whistles.
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Left to right: Bryan, Timmy and the author as young ravers in Baltimore (Photo courtesy of the author) I was 15 when I first stepped foot in Paradox.
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The same properties that make ecstasy-fueled ravers hug between dance grooves also make the drug uniquely suited to help scientists figure out how the brain supports social behaviors.
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Viewers can create a "choose your own adventure" experience and interact with different areas of the VR experience, including a dance floor and 150 of "Berlin's most dedicated ravers.".
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But even if this is just a trend, it's one that's disrupting the way that ravers and live music spaces coexist, offering a new way to experience dance music.
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The isolated area is great for ravers who don't want to stress about waking up sleeping people, but it also means that the bathrooms are a long journey away.
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You'll mostly find it parked outside Trädgården, a thundering nightclub in Södermalm, until 5 AM, or providing much-needed fuel to ravers at music festivals in the summer months.
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Lightning in a Bottle went down this past weekend in Bradley, California, and with it came 20,000 bright-eyed idealists, burners, ravers, hippies, hipsters, outsiders, and generalist weirdos alike.
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They were flamboyantly nicknamed guys from a Jamaican dance troupe called the Ravers Clavers who had created a dance known as the Nuh Linga, and suddenly it belonged to Bolt.
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Perhaps most importantly, it created an opportunity for the various fragmented scenes to finally come together, uniting the gay community, the house music crowd, and the ravers under one roof.
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If PLUR ravers dosed Boys II Men with blue dolphin ecstasy pills and everyone ended up having the best night of their lives, "Chop" would be in some way responsible.
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As a result, the restriction of movement continues to obstruct ravers wanting to get to venues on the other side of the Israeli-built wall which surrounds the West Bank.
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Here's what ravers predicted dance music festivals will be like in the year of our Lord, 2050: Noisey: What do you think dance music festivals will be like in 2050?
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These ravers aren't hungry for a pounding 22014/21982 beat or waves of bass—they're here for the DJ duo called Discodromo to take them on a journey through time.
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" Most Poignant Lyrics to Hear Today: "She's uncertain if she likes him / But she knows she really loves him / It's a crash course for the ravers / It's a drive-in Saturday.
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Musically, the ravers seem way more diverse these days and are more accepting of a lot of what we have to offer so can you can play across the board too.
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Other than some dancing in the fountain, the ravers were on their best behaviour, likely a result of community peer pressure to put forward a good image and combat perpetuating stereotypes.
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It's nearly a rite of passage for ravers (or maybe just my friends) to post their solid-color photos to Snapchat as proof that they've made it past Sven's tattooed face.
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Originating in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, the group of eternally young, EDM-obsessed ravers—mainly teenagers and young adults—populate the underground free party scene along the West Coast.
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These days, though, Kandi Kids have taken on the responsibility of keeping their community as safe as sober ravers, a mantle that has evolved out of necessity, working to prevent harm.
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I still see it in my mind like a scene in an art house film—walking in to this writhing wall of people, freaks, dancers, jet-set, ravers—like a bacchanal.
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And just like about every other subculture that exists on the internet, Facebook has given ravers a place to bum rides, pawn tickets, or just post PLUR memes all day long.
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He says the low end rumbling bass tones actually scrambled the LIDAR scanners, which Young used to his advantage, allowing the ravers to disappear into clouds of static as the film ends.
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Buying habits have changed too, and nowadays we sell out in advance, whereas when we started out we'd sell half our tickets before the night and the rest were walk up ravers.
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This year Global Drugs Survey launched their "don't be daft, start with half" campaign—reminding ravers to dose sensibly with half a pill rather than consuming a whole pill in one go.
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For more than 20 years now, the Hospital Naturista has been watching all this, evening after evening—accompanied by doctors, ravers, criminals, ghosts, and more recently, kids who come to play paintball.
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These sweaty ravers, desperately screaming for help, their glazed eyes red and staring, are the same figures who pop up in the kind of drug educational tools that, ironically, we're so lacking.
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The restaurant world is littered with DJs-turned-chefs, usually frazzled ravers keen to embark on an equally nocturnal, adrenaline-fueled career but with little in the way of actual culinary skill.
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According to multiple ravers THUMP spoke with, event staff have resorted to aggressive tactics such as tackling and grabbing glovers—and in some cases, soliciting bribes in exchange for returning their gear.
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It wasn't until the second half of the 90s, that the lines between the two would start to blur, when the first generation of ravers outgrew their phat pants and discovered house.
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Lollipops and acid house T-shirts aside, if there's one thing that unites ravers all over the world, it's that they probably have a water bottle clenched firmly in their clammy embrace.
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When ravers understand their movement as the right to take drugs and dance all night, they lose sight of the deeper political potentials unleashed by reclaiming public space or separating recreation from profit.
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The Orientalisms they mix in are fresh enough to engage not just gullible U.K. ravers but an openminded outsider like yours truly; their trance grooves don't go for that overbearing Ibiza-style attack.
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"I actually think comedowns are an artifact of ravers and the way in which they take MDMA and other drugs," says Sessa, who leads clinical trials into using MDMA to treat mental disorders.
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From Astrid Andersen's sports-inspired ravers to Stine Goya's feminine extravaganza, the collections proved just why Copenhagen Fashion Week is fast on its way to taking its place beside the other cities of style.
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From his records on Chocolate Industries and Ninja Tune to his "Bounce Le Gros" parties that helped introduce ravers to the joys of dancehall, it's hard to imagine the city's musical culture without him.
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In April of this year, renowned drug researcher David Nutt and the Beckley/Imperial Research Programme team confirmed what many ravers already knew to be true: listening to music enhances the experience of LSD.
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The battle to retain a culture so many revelers and ravers hold dear to their hearts is very much on, with the police and the state—in London at least—very much a threat.
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I once ate breakfast with a posse of French Canadian ravers who were so fucked they were pretending to be snakes and trying to "slither" into the hardest-to-reach corners of the living room.
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On today's episode of Daily VICE, we head to We Are One, a substance-free club party in London that focuses on positivity and community, to meet the ravers who like to party without drugs.
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You can see NYHC punks in hockey jerseys, breakdancers in parachute pants, ravers grinding their teeth in visors and kandi, metalheads with leather vests and Slayer tees, and blond bros in Nautica and Abercrombie & Fitch.
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In contrast to big-budget festivals of today, events like Funky Blue Banana offered ravers only a few simple features: a handful of lighting effects, a few select DJs, and a booming wall of speakers.
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Beyond the aforementioned headliners, the festival will offer attendees sets from Colorado bass duo Big Gigantic, South African rap-ravers Die Antwoord, Porter Robison, RL Grime, and the politically-fueled hip-hop duo Run the Jewels.
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Although during this period, stories from ravers who swore they had seen apparitions reinforced the ghostly myth, it wasn't until real horror struck that the hospital took on a malevolent character in the minds of locals.
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Running off to London as a teenager meant that Heidi Lawden was hanging at the coolest clubs at an age when most ravers are still dreaming of big nights out from inside their parent's suburban homes.
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A dancefloor fuelled by hardcore usually favors the only the ravers, the cultish few who've built their life around this stuff, but if the Dallas-born producer Lil Texas has his way, that could soon change.
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From my vantage point on the fringes of the packed concrete amphitheatre I spotted ravers old and young, punks, #realhiphop enthusiasts, and proving a famous ODB quip true, at least one child on his parents' shoulders.
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On the night of the event, even a heavy downpour didn't deter scores of ravers from showing up and dancing in the outdoor courtyard, though some took shelter in the cavernous indoor space of the Great Hall.
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After cutting her teeth among a small community of ravers in Arizona, she quickly rose to international acclaim via a series of skyscraping singles and sets in and around the orbit of Skrillex's speaker-shredding label OWSLA.
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Considering the ongoing debate about whether Generation Y even goes clubbing anymore, and the inflammatory remarks from Bloc's founder about his disdain for today's ravers, this might just be the perfect timing for a cinematic ode to nightlife.
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Customers pile in at every angle, from a drunk girl who refuses to take her hoodie down even when eating to ravers leaving The Nest and a guy who did a little dance when he got his food.
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"I would go to church with my nan, and then after we would go to Clapham Common," she says, referring to the large South London park where ravers would congregate and dance on Sunday mornings before going home.
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Sure, plenty of people, Asian and non-Asian, are ravers and fuckboys but aren't named Kevin Nguyen, just as plenty of people named Kevin Nguyen aren't rich or into EDM or drive a Lexus or even drink boba.
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Jeffrey's were a nod to ravers in canary-yellow raincoats, while Parnell-Mooney's navy and black velvet hoodies — one part monastic, one part "Star Wars" — evoked a delicate dialogue between the church and the school uniforms of dispossessed youth.
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Every day, there's a long queue of people waiting for seats, often with a few late-comers trying to blag their way in with the waiters, like underage ravers trying to flirt with unimpressed bouncers before being turned away.
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But as always, Nicholas abides with a care and total respect usually reserved for the old and infirm—with "On My Mind" he attends to the weather-beaten "Turn Me Out" like Jacob Husley with two elderly Polish ravers.
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Wolstencroft issues chrome-coated compositions to pose an important question: If techno is in fact the forward-thinking endeavor it claims to be, why do so many warehouse ravers stare at their feet all night instead of the stars?
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But he has also never minded being adopted by the club kids, the ravers, the fetishists and the freaks — all the people who occupy the fringes, who want to look different because looking different makes them finally feel seen.
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Together, they would lay the foundations for an influential but oft-overlooked Latin dance subculture that offered community for Chicano ravers, queer folk, and other marginalized youth, and gave exposure to influential DJ-producers like Drumcell and Doc Martin.
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New York City is full of characters walking around in costumes—the topless women of Times Square who perform for money, the bankers roaming Wall Street in their double-breasted blazers, the cops and ravers and Bloods and aspiring fashionistas.
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While it's true that the majority of the early ravers were off their heads on pills, a single tablet would set the average punter back £25, so not everyone was able to bosh an E at the drop of a hat.
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After the last event in 2011, which was a partnership with Oxfam, I decided to focus on my music journalism, so it feels dope to be able to bring it back, via TRENCH, for a whole new generation of ravers.
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ChockABlock events have always had a mixed crowd, too – from nu-ravers to street kids and trendy/media types – and that, I think, is what makes the UK and London so great: different scenes and cultures coming together for greatness.
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The next day, after pounding the walls at No Way Back until noon, we traipsed off and explored an abandoned, stalactite-filled warehouse with a crew of nomadic ravers, one of whom threw a brick at us (in a friendly way).
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He handed it to me as a sign of his conscience after remaining Ravers and me begged him to play another load RecordI kissed his hand, He Kissed mine and the Banana was the physical bond of ours, of this moment.
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That's how he's built a sort of church that, from an economic standpoint, barely scrapes by, but thrives on the philosophy of voluntary simplicity and minimalism, pushed to an extreme in order to create a special connection with its ravers.
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There's a reason so many ex-ravers comment nostalgically under YouTube videos of techno mixes, or why older millennials who grew up just before the internet tut and sigh at 'kids who can't stop looking at their bloody phones to check Instagram' now.
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When scientists tested the blood concentration of ravers at Awakenings Festival in the Netherlands in 2013, they found that 27.3 percent of the women they tested had blood so diluted that they had mild hyponatremia, compared to just 3 percent of the men.
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All photos by Daniel Zetterstrom Tucked into a forest outside the town of Dufur, Oregon (that's pronounced "Doofer," by the way), What The Festival brought thousands of hippies, bassheads, woodsfolk, club kids and ravers alike into its illuminated forest of trippiness last weekend.
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Highlights include the reunited alt-rockers Ween (June 6-7), who were genre-blending and offending when most of today's ravers were tots, and the Venezuelan dance alchemist Arca (July 6), whose electronic sludge will bounce well off the venue's black walls.
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For longtime ravers, the biggest draw at this year's Electric Zoo festival is the return to New York of the British D.J.s Sasha and John Digweed, whose late-1990s residencies at the now-defunct club Twilo are the stuff of dance-floor legend.
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In the neighboring city of Hamtramck, the sprawling abandoned Packard Automotive Plant played home to some of the Detroit area's earliest techno warehouse parties, when trespassing, wide-eyed ravers filed in to dance to the likes of Richie Hawtin and Gary Chandler.
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Think about it: when they emerged at the end of the aughts, demonic wobbles offered a genuinely shocking break in the continuum of popular music, unleashed from deep within the Ableton matrix by a generation of Monster Energy™-fueled ravers seeking something harder.
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What gives me the most hope for our future is that looking out into the crowd, I saw people of all stripes—EDM kids, crusty old ravers, finance bros, Euros, and even rave snobs like me, dancing together under the shadow of Lady Liberty.
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As aging ravers gushed with praise and gifted Tunisian stones, I caught up with the duo to learn about the vibe of their shapeshifting hometown, the first Burn, and well as scored a hot tip that a new album may be on the way.
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"These were relatively niche and informal tourism destinations that initially did not have a professionalized tourist infrastructure built around [them]," Garcia says, referring to how ravers in the 90s would often hop in cars, buses and trains to attend underground parties in nearby cities.
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The festival's relationship with the city isn't always rosy; this year, many German media outlets, including our THUMP colleagues in Berlin, reported that local authorities searched an unprecedented number of ravers leaving the festival this year, resulting in a record number of drug seizures.
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It was the heydey of the blog house movement then, so Cudmore and his friends spent their nights dancing to the day glo strains of that microgenre, and eventually friendships with seasoned ravers helped school him and his peers about turntable culture and vinyl.
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According to the actually hilarious 2014 Seth Rogen comedy, a frat house is a perfect place for a rave, "brothers" and their scantily-clad college co-ed counterparts are the ravers, and all the beer stain'd lounge is a stage fit for a dance-off.
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Hairstylist Guido Palau had spoken to the issue Thursday, saying he was inspired by ravers, '80s cultures, Harajuku girls and Boy George but "not at all" Rasta culture, and Marc Jacobs took things a step further on his Instagram Friday (though now he probably wishes he hadn't).
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Afrika Baby Bam - The Music Saves Me11 Appleblim - Fabrication12 Audion - Fun House13 Broken English Club - The Gentle Art of Murder1033 Bruce - Cables15 C.A.R. - Voodoo Moon (Thomas Von Party Cover)16 Calyx & Teebee - Loose Ends17 Caspa & Rusko - Ravers Tears18 Clams Casino - Time19 Clark - Shadow Banger20 Coldcut Feat.
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If there were two dealers at a party and one was selling orange peace signs and the other peddling purple ones with the Superman emblem, fellow ravers would be able to say the peace signs were pretty decent, whereas the purple ones were way too speedy.
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Someone he shares this in common with is Detroit don Seth Troxler, who has made no qualms decrying the state of modern dance music, in particular EDM, an area that Seth feels devalues club culture's heritage and is turning a generation of ravers into mindless drones.
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All the same, their "acid house" sound comes to soundtrack the Second Summer of Love, an explosion of drug-fueled free parties across the UK. While it's an era remembered now for its ecstasy, plenty of ravers are dropping LSD, which is available at far cheaper rates.
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The artwork for Adoldesscent, a close up of one of the cryptically graffitied, otherwise stark residential towers that peer above Berlin's manic Kotbusser Tor junction, will ooze meaning for the thousands of ravers who's inevitably pass through the area on the way home from a club.
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What started off as an ad-hoc club night became a brand so big it spawned 22007 albums, played sold out venues around the world and hosted a millennium party that saw 225,25 ravers descend on its "spiritual home" of Sheffield to welcome in the noughties.
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They look like a mixture of locals, regulars, kids who worked Ibiza for a summer and never left, and some original ravers from the 90s who probably now avoid San Antonio, come back to this hotel every summer and run a reputable printing business back home.
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Ravers, grebos, blitz kids, soulies, roadmen, punks, skins, teds – these disparate factions may seem to belong to different movements and moments in time, but they all owe their existence to one unavoidable reality: that Britain is, and has always been, really, an isolated, grey, boring little country.
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In techno's birthplace of Detroit at this year's Movement Festival, we pulled a few people out of the crowd to ask ravers how they view the political nature of the genre, as well as how they think the age of Trump will affect the communal power of dance.
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No one knew if any shuttles were coming up to the mansion to take us back to the bottom of the hill, which is when everyone started get upset and anxious that we were trapped and would have to sleep on Krispy Kreme boxes like the ravers at TomorrowWorld.
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Nowhere else in the world are Instagram models, crusty burners, shitfaced frat bros, normcore daytrippers, dad rock...dads, professional ravers, doomsday preppers, suburban high schoolers, and all sorts of other niche subcultural scene dwellers shoved into such close proximity for half a week of overindulgence in the stifling heat.
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It would have made great interstitial music as the ravers rush to find the warehouse where their night will transform into a Bacchanal of ecstasy, crop tops, and make-outs, or during the film's climax, when the tripping masses throb with joy as they dance to the breaking dawn.
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There is a lot of evidence to support that statement: doggers, ravers, striking junior doctors, crews of cruising boy racers, every Facebook profile you've stalked post-Tinder/happn/Bumble/3inder, and cocaine, its stubborn, continued rise making it as visible on Britain as Premier League football, more popular than poetry.
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" DanceSafe's Wooldridge sees festivals as a valuable platform for educating ravers so they can make informed choices: "From a public health perspective," she asked, "where else can we get 20,000 to 100,000 young people all in one place, with messaging and services in place to really educate around drug use?
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Overheating caused by the swelling crowds worsened when taps were cut off around 63 AM, several hours before the event ended, meaning the only option was to purchase water at 26 pesos ($21) per bottle—a high price by Argentine standards—using a complicated ticketing system at a bar swarming with thirsty ravers.
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The 50-odd exhibitors corralled there — a mix of art, antiques and contemporary furniture dealers — join neighbors Uber and L'Oreal; on the building's cavernous main floor, where ravers once hallucinated, is Porchlight, a Danny Meyer restaurant, one of a few in what will become a food court along the lines of Eataly or Chelsea Market.
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Slouching against a wall and grinning like an idiot, I surveyed the wacky scene: grey-haired ravers eating plates of fruit on worn-out car tires; bearded gay men bumping chests to Pittsburgh DJ Shawn Rudiman's live set in a nearby tent; a crew of Brooklyn kids in all-black climbing on top of some rusting bulldozers.
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Mija had to lie about her age to get her first full-time job, but by the time she was actually of legal working age (16), she'd made supervisor at a pottery painting shop and convinced her boss to buy her Heelys (the wheel-affixed sneakers popular with local ravers), so she could attend to customers quickly.
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From what I gleaned, Aoki bounces between two modes during his sets: half of it is comprised of, for better or worse, exactly what the popular perception of EDM is, with all the squelchy, screechy, treble-y synths one could ask for, and booming bass dropping at the exact right time to spur the maximum amount of movement from Pavlov's ravers.
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In the above video you can see how this rave—the first in a series of May Day parties which ran until 2008—drew hundreds of revelers from every downtown scene to dance under the spring sky in Tompkins Square Park, which served as an inflection point for punks, metalheads, art school socialites, anarchist squatters, ravers, and every other category of freak.
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A random Harajuku sample could turn up Goth Lolitas sulking in Edwardian cupcake dresses; glamorous Gyaru with spray tans and blond hair; Mode clotheshorses in high-fashion labels down to the socks; Decora ravers collaged with a rainbow of plastic barrettes; sylvan Mori girls looking like forest nymphs — and all of these constantly dying off, fusing, or morphing to create new styles.
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Colin Nightingale and Stephen Dobbie's installation, titled "Getting To The Rave", immerses the visitor in the dark and furtive adventure of it all: the petrol stations where would-be ravers would congregate to wait on word; the phone boxes and clunky mobile devices; the designs printed on ecstasy tablets; the walks through unlit surroundings, suddenly opening up into light and music.
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There are the middle-class millennials priced out of the housing market; the retirees seeking sunnier pastures in their home-away-from-home RVs; the remnants and heirs of the new age travelers and ravers who have found Europe more welcoming after Britain criminalized nomadic ways of living in 250; as well as people for whom vehicle-dwelling is a way to stay off the streets and keep a roof over their heads.
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