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- From: aragorn@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Steven J.)
- Newsgroups: alt.rave
- Subject: Re: Rave is dead.
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 22:24:11 GMT
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- phuag@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr C J Tilbury) writes:
- : In article <1992Nov19.105241.6172@bristol.ac.uk> ccjy@bristol.ac.uk (APATHY=) writes:
- : >In article <BxwrEy.FHy@dcs.ed.ac.uk> djts@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Sumpter) writes:
- : >>It seems strange that in the clubs all over our country, the top DJ's are
- : >>not playing rave music but good old house music. Why is there no
- : >>alt.music.house or something.
- : >
- : >Well, probably because thats a step backwards.
- :
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- :
- : Get it. House is here to stay for a long while yet. Its not one type of music.
- : Its the great grand-daddy of whole styles of the stuff. Its the foundation
- : of your "raves", and of modern (post disco) dance/club culture itself.
-
- Have you ever heard any acid-jazz? This is the best example of music that
- is a combination of a number of musical styles ... jazz, house, hip-hop,
- pseudo-rock, progressive rock/jazz fusion, and now it's even getting salza
- influences. Salsa, IMHO, is the best flavor to add to this already globally
- sounding musical style.
-
- : Above, you said that rave has gone back underground. 60,000 people is an
- : UNDERGROUND event?!?!?!? Yeah, thats REAL underground. I'm sure the police
- : don't have a CLUE that 60,000 e-d up ravers resplendant with whistles and
- : bobble hats, vicks vapour rub in tow, are turning up in exeter in 2 weeks.
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- Didn't this many people show up for raves when they first began years ago?
- I thought the original outside raves would get between 10-50,000 people to
- show up.
-
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