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Dance before the police come

Len — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:48:43 -0800

"Shut Up and Dance’s 1991 hardcore LP ‘Dance Before the Police Come’ was released at a time when the UK authorities were struggling to contain the massive explosion of raves. Thousands of people each weekend were playing a cat and mouse game with the police to party in fields and warehouses, and if the state was often outwitted by meeting points in motorway service stations and convoys of cars, it tried to keep the lid on the phenomenon by staging high profile raids."
Dance before the police come: a social history, covering UK (and US) raves, queer activism, morality police (both figurative and literal) and racial discrimination. Found via Dan Hancox's excellent article on the disaster that was this past weekend's Bloc Festival in London (during which people danced before the police came, and after they left, via the medium of turning shipping containers into huge drums). Also: the title track from Shut Up And Dance's 1991 album: Dance Before The Police Come.

LOLMusicFans

empath — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:22:41 -0800

Heavy Metal Parking Lot, 1986 -- Raver Bathroom, 2001.

Rave Culture In North Carolina

y2karl — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:43:59 -0800

Rave Culture In North Carolina
See also Digital music and subculture: Sharing files, sharing styles Yet another internet subcultural oldie right up there with Spatial Boundaries, Etiquette and Interpersonal Interactions at a Gothic Club in its venerability.

Post RAVE act, post PATRIOT act America

deusdiabolus — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:29:07 -0800

Krick of Evol Intent offers a firsthand account of the events that took place at a party that he was scheduled to play August 20th in Utah. The event was fully licensed, fully legal, and non-violent. Halfway through the party, authorities arrived in full riot gear and ended the event like a full-scale riot (tear gas, attack dogs, and assault rifles). One attendee managed to escape with actual video footage of the shutdown. Another DJ at the event who goes by Syne offers her own account of the same event, and the Utah Raves forum is lit up like a switchboard. Lawsuits are pending...

February, 1989.

Tlogmer — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:45:57 -0800

February, 1989.
The U.S.S.R. leaves Afghanistan, a fatwa is issued for Salman Rushdie, Tim Berner-Lee is writing a proposal for something called "hypertext", Salvador Dalí is laid to rest, and Terry Gross interviews William Gibson.

Satan and the fallen angels now inspire music in many different styles as they seek to divert worship from God.

grabbingsand — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:05:56 -0800

Truth About Rave? "Raves are a means of the devil to solicit worship. The Raver who commits himself to ingest drugs and dance the night away is unsuspectingly presenting his entire body as an instrument to express worship to demons and satan."

And here I thought God was a DJ....

Jairus — Thu, 07 Mar 2002 08:20:28 -0800

Designer Drugs and Raves - Second Edition (PDF). A Royal Canadian Mounted Police document designed to educate and inform police officers and social workers alike, complete with helpful photos of "The Candy Raver".

The result of a three-year 'intelligence probe' into the rave scene, it's an interesting read, and a fairly good indication of the Canadian government's attitude towards increasing drug use at raves and nightclubs.

"We recognise that for many clubbers, taking drugs is an integral part of their night out," said a Home Office spokesman.

Summer — Thu, 07 Mar 2002 05:23:16 -0800

"We recognise that for many clubbers, taking drugs is an integral part of their night out," said a Home Office spokesman. The government has produced a booklet advising club owners on how to deal with drug use rather than prevent it. A realistic attitude to (inevitable) drug taking?

Everything starts with an E

semper — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 05:17:12 -0800

Everything starts with an E - it sure does, and apart from nearly suffering from some sort of visually induced fit, i enjoyed this.

Environmentally Correct Dance Party Set for Amazon.

madreblu — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:24:13 -0800

Environmentally Correct Dance Party Set for Amazon. "Brazil's lush Amazon rain forest may be best known for its isolated Indian tribes and abundant wildlife, but local officials hope it will soon be a hotbed of techno music ... [the] four-day 'rave' that is expected to lure tens of thousands of clubbers from around the world to all-night 'environmentally correct' dance parties." Can any one give me a ride?

UK-Dance

hmgovt — Fri, 11 May 2001 07:54:15 -0800

UK-Dance This is a long-running community website, starting life as a mailing list way back in 1992. Since becoming a member in 1997, I've found it the liveliest, strongest and sometimes most seditious web site community I know. The main tenets are dance music (from jazz, through dub, reggae but most emphatically house, techno, drum'n'bass and whatever the scene throws up), hedonism, politics and networking. You have to subscribe to take part, but if you're a DJ, producer, music fan, clubber, raver, psychonaut or revolutionary, you'll be made to feel welcome. Check it out, but beware if you're a big fan of trance music.

Rave = crack house?

ritualdevice — Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:41:47 -0800

Rave = crack house? More drug war idiocy.

endquote — Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:44:35 -0800

Not that I'm into that sort of thing, but PillReports - apparently a spinoff of BlueLight (wonder how much KMart offered for that one) - offers moderated discussion about Ecstacy, so you might be able to get some idea of what that pill you just paid $20 for is likely to do to you. Things there aren't verified by actual lab tests like they are at DanceSafe, but it's better than being completely uninformed.

Rave culture is a strange thing,

endquote — Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:48:04 -0800

Rave culture is a strange thing, but the Lingua Ravia will tell you the difference between a hoochie and a twinkie. Unless, of course, all you want to know about is drugs. The site is filled with sarcastic definitions of commonly used terms in the scene. It's funny if you know what he's talking about, and educational if you don't.