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- From: alexpace@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Alex L. Pace)
- Newsgroups: austin.music
- Subject: Re: New Year's Eve Rave ???
- Message-ID: <86066@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 09:48:37 GMT
- Sender: root@ut-emx.uucp
- Distribution: austin
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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- A guy named Dave asks:
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- >Alex, I really hate to ask this, but---
- >
- >what is a "rave?"
- A large gathering of people, usually young adults but not exclusively, with
- a focus on dancing. Raves are typically held in warehouses or other large
- facilities and feature DJs playing techno music over a huge sound system
- and accented by a high tech light show. In austin, raves have attracted
- over 1500 people on occasion but raves in england have drawn 20000.
- Virtual reality/interactive computer simulations, performance and other
- artsy effects distinguish a rave from a normal "party". Another difference
- is that raves usually last until dawn instead of fading out around 2am.
- Also, alcohol is not usually widely consumed at austin raves, raves in
- california are completely alcohol free...
-
- >what is a "zues?"
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- A name for that particular rave, each rave is different and has a different
- name although raves put on by the same group may have similar names.
-
- >finally, what is a zues rave?
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- As above, Zeus The CyberRave is the name of this rave, other ausin raves
- have had names such as Twilight Zone, Lumen Nation, Pandora's Box, and
- Ghoul just to name a few.
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- I know I've left a lot of detail out but I'm just trying to give a quick
- overview at 3:45 in the morning.
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- alex
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