Is Raving becoming trendy?

[Palisadon]

I think raving is becoming very trendy, its like...Hey lets go rave. I mean it used t be hard to find a rave now there everywhere.

[maxim303]

what? you were born when? 1988? that makes you umm... 15? it used to be hard to find a rave when you were still crapping in your dipers!

[krystal]

rofl ............................I've only been going to parties for like 7 years and I think that some NOT ALL of the younger people that go now are more into the drugs more than the music.................but weren't we all at one point some of us just grew out of the whole drug thing.....but hey I could be wrong

[Chayla]

I promise you, where I live...they are hard to come by...literally 2+ hours away in any direction...It's Nashville, Knoxville, Atlanta, or Memphis...and Memphis doesn't have a big scene from what I've heard.

Chattanooga doesn't have jack shit.

[DjStephenDaniel]

I think that the raving now is totally different than it used to be. It was pretty underground. Now, the line between Club and Rave is getting thinner by the day. And kids just go to it now for the drugs when really, its all about the musik. It pisses me off sometimes....

[DarkPsyde]

definately not trendy from the promoters point of view. numners are WAY down from 2 years ago. if anything its gone more underground again.

[industriaLravEr]

I think it became trendy and is now dying down to make way for the new trend of *rap* everything *blingbling*

It used to be difficult to find :good: parties, while now its hard to find :any: parties ( i don't really count an event where you have to be VIP, dress nice, and be a kissass a party)

its always been about drugs and dancing, always with enough balance so there was a group of dancers and a puddle of pill eaters...it just seems that lately everyones forgotten how to dance and the pills have become so shitty that everyone just sits around and looks unhappy.

or starts fights.

and that's what the ghetto hip hop clubs are for, but sometimes junglists get that confused.

-->cristaL

[moka]

Shit, I remember making fun of all the the cheerleaders at my highschool that used to go parties. And this was like '95-98! Now they could be pretty old school compared to most people. We need younger peeps to get into it, just for the right reasons!

[Ellen]

^^^i def. agree! If you don't want it to die....you have to pass it down.

[gonzo23]

yuppers!

[fuzzydigital]

yes, you will die if you eat pills forever, yes people have forgotten how to dance, yes the pills are shittier,

i wouldnt know who is or isnt messed up these days. im ussualy not but maybe i am, i just spin some records and try to dance though it only works sometimes.
sometimes when i try to talk to people they look at me crazy like do i know you, it didnt used to be that way.

bottom line when that dj is droppin those magic tunes none of that shit matters, and everyone knows it, messed up or not....

[DarkPsyde]

i still dance:)

[EnjoyTheSilence]

I'm proud to say that i'm a youngin that just started partying this year and that i don't have to do drugs to have a good time, the music is whats its all about and i dance, maybe not great but hey when you are into the music as much as i am it doesn't matter, and i know there are plenty of people that are into as much and much more than i am

[Palisadon]

Look just because I am young doesnt mean I dont know the rave scene. I have friends on top of friends that agree that yes raving has become alittle trendy. So heres the thing. I am not in it for the drugs and anyone who thinks that, that is all young ravers are into your full of crap. Get over the fact that if your a senior raver you know what your talking about!

[Section 8]

dude, chill out. & btw, raving is def not trendy now. 3 years ago, yeah it was. you're only 15 bro, there's no way you were partying when you were 10, 11 or 12. you shouldnt take it like a personal attack on you, but your statements are pretty far fetched. 3 years ago, there were MASSIVE parties thrown in atlanta, with close to 10,000 at some. now, even for a huge headliner, it is tough to break 1000 for some of the bigger parties & hard to break 200 at some events.

& don't take this is as a negative post towards you bro, you just are too young to know. & your friends that you're asking have no clue what they're talking about.

its cool that you're getting into the music so young, but just be smart about it. since you spin, keep buying records & remember that drugs can really fuck your life up.

[dr00]

raving was "trendy" like 3-8 years ago..... where the fuck have you been? where you living under a rock? my god.... it's nothing now like it used to be

[Palisadon]

Thax for the post clueless, it seems you are one of few on this web site that knows what they are talking about.I probably dont know what I am talking about, cuz I am so new to the scene. I just feel like it has got more people into it then when I used to hear about it. My friends just say it was harder to find an unground rave then it is now. Cuz all you have to do know is go to a club. I just figured he knew more about it than me so I took his word for it. Then I firgured out obviously that hes not the only raver with an opinion.

[Airy]

please dont call it raving....

[subliminalhoney]

well where i'm from, its sort of backwards, all the major parties are out in eastern mass, or NY, or PA.

yeah i dont think it is as trendy as it was like 4 or 5 years ago, thjen the feds and the drug-busts happened nationwide and it became synonymous with raves. thats probably why its not so trendy. or at least one reason.

[Bufferkiller]

please dont call it raving....

yes. please don't call it that

[shroomy]

from what i've experienced "raving" is getting less trendy. even a year ago there were a shit load more people at parties than now. you know it's going down hill when an omar santana party still can't make promoters cash. i think it's only gonna get worse.

mc dekor

[CozmikEyez83]

i think partiees are so awesome , i only wish i knew about them 5 years ago b/c from what i hear they were so awesome..... although they were good i think b/c the scene is really fading more people are REALLY getting into the music more than ne thing now like they should have in the beggining...

[shroomy]

i dont mean to sound like an ass, but people now dont know shit about electronic music. back in the day there wasnt any dnb or jungle, just hardcore(not happy). dnb and jungle came out of oldschool hardcore. thats when "the scene" was at its peak. there was no such thing as a bad party, or a bad dj. all the new electronic music doesn't come close to oldschool. listen to some nicky blackmarket or ratpack if you want to hear some GODLY shit.

nothing but love

mc dekor

[moka]

I started going out to parties in Miami in 1995. Been into electronic music every since I could remember, just wasn't exposed to the rave scene until I moved to Miami. There was the exact same groups of people there that exist today. Those that were there because they were into the music and those that weren't. You even had the jaded oldschool heads that talked to no end about how dope the party scene used to be. The notion of trendyness comes in waves. This is because the trendy people drop out of the scene. Like I was saying before, people we used to laugh at for being trendy newschool ravers in 97, might be big time players now. Age/experience means nothing to me if you like the music.

[shroomy]

i'd say you hit that shit on the head.


dekor

[tripeboi]

please dont call it raving....yes. please don't call it that
That’s what it’s called in the UK where it started. That’s the original name for it.

Take pride in it.

The "parties" now days do not hold anything to the parties in the late 80 early 90s. That’s when it was truly "RAVEING"!

Now its just go and watch the new kids screw it up. But its not their fault, Its the older generation who did not properly school them. Or you are just jealous you see people having the fun you use to have and you can’t figure out why. When I started I was taught proper respect before I stepped my foot in a "rave".

The schooling is gone. There is no right way or wrong way to party. That’s what it’s about be your self do what you want, be respectful.

"Do this don’t do that" and you wonder why its "dieing"



Every one is complaining, but a problem with out a resolution. GETS YOU NO WHERE. Take it back under ground. Throw it in old where houses, abandoned houses, caves, in the woods...

[MUSE]

I promise you, where I live...they are hard to come by...literally 2+ hours away in any direction...It's Nashville, Knoxville, Atlanta, or Memphis...and Memphis doesn't have a big scene from what I've heard.

Chattanooga doesn't have jack shit.


I KNOW how that feels! I used to drive 2-7 hrs EVERY WEEKEND... sometimes 2 times a weekend to party. haha I'm a trooper.

Nowadays I live in Charlotte and Mythos is 10 minutes down the street but I still go to DC almost every saturday and Atlanta quite a bit as well. haha Oh well.

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About the trendy issue... it is for some ppl. When I went to college at ECU I;d go to a weekly every wednesday that hardly had anyone there so then I started promoting on the campus and on partyecu webboards. Cuz I knew so many ppl on campus from partying too much - haha oops - I got tons of kids to go to the electronica event and even took some outa town with me when I traveled for raves.

At 1st it was really kool to see the place packed out and for it to become the new hip thing to do on a Wednesday night, but then it started to piss me off when kids were just there to have a place to chill and get drunk and not know a damn bit of the music. *le sigh* Happily I turned several ppl onto the music tho and one kid is even djing now.

I think college towns and bigger cities have the most problems with it being popular to do cuz ppl are just out in town looking for fun. *shrug* In smaller towns u have to pretty much already know and love the music to be dedicated enough to travel to hear it.

[DJFMSKY]

I think the distinction between rave and club is very thin right now do to The Rave Act passing and especially in Florida because of all our local rave ordanices. In terms of trendiness the scene and market is saturated,...in other year or two the scene wil be up and again and those that keep spining and party-ing will be leading the forefront of the rejuvinated scene. But it will probalely remain dormate for a while,....that's just a prediction you never know though,..I just try to stay positive but sometimes I get negative but I'm hanging in there.

[sunnie]

please dont call it raving....isnt that what you are doing when you go to a rave:rolleyes:

[steffachu]

I think raving is becoming very trendy, its like...Hey lets go rave. I mean it used t be hard to find a rave now there everywhere.*scratches head* I thought clubing was the "in" thing to do now? Maybe I don't go to enough events anymore, but from what I see raves (why does everyone get so upset when you say that? Too good for raving? :rolleyes: ) are dead. No one goes anymore. No one can draw a crowd anymore. Places like The Atrium used to be packed. The last time an event was sold out was PVD - at a CLUB.

If you read any of the current Mixmag's they are covering this issue right now (about the UK scene). There raves (yes, "raves") seem to be flourishing again...pulling 10,000+ people in warehouses. The trend there has been clubs...that what the Atlanta scene only seems to be into now (we're a bit behind as always).

[AB3]

i just want 1000.

[*Jungle~Bunny*]

I don't think raving is a trend .

[featherraver]

I agree with steff... I (John) have been around a long long time.. since 88 when everything was underground and a morph of the punk scene....things change constantly... 3 years ago you would hardly ever hear DnB or Breaks... now trance is the hard to find art...everything is cycling...and yes as usual we are about 6-8 months behind europe... just wait...things will return in time....

John

[Airy]

isnt that what you are doing when you go to a rave:rolleyes:
not so much...

[xChrisx]

...

who gives a rats ass

[Section 8]

3 years ago you would hardly ever hear DnB or Breaks... now trance is the hard to find art...i totally disagree. 3 years ago, Atlanta had one of the best dnb scenes in the country. now it's hard to get even 100 people out for some events.

& you can find trance or progressive almost anywhere in Atlanta... & the club scene (where'd you find em) has been blowing up...

[StarGazerrr]

umm does a fat bear fart in the woods?

[moka]

i totally disagree. 3 years ago, Atlanta had one of the best dnb scenes in the country. now it's hard to get even 100 people out for some events.

& you can find trance or progressive almost anywhere in Atlanta... & the club scene (where'd you find em) has been blowing up...
I agree. 3 years ago ATL's dnb scene was off the fucking hook!

[Indy]

come up to vancouver,
we have the best outdoor parties in the world.

nothing spells fun like 400 people partying on native land while the police cant do anything about it.

[Plurizma]

techinically,yes it is because its being to be more advertised in different forms and more of the ppl just looking for a good time is getting involved for lets say (one night stands)!

always follow the white rabbit!

[zan]

everything is about the clubs now.

[IDeal]

why is this in audio stimulation?

[Remus83]

oohhhhh delia oohhhhh little blue....come get this one