Old Skool Rave
I was an early adopter of the rave scene. I ended up the full on E'ed up twat with fluorescent clothes and a boring line in conversation and as time progressed I accumulated a lot of tapes most of them were bootleg recordings that would just have "Slipmatt" or "Easygroove" on them so my chances of tracking them down are precisely 0 Even though I'm not exactly proud of the personal journey (I was a bit of a dick) I wanted to hear the music again (the tapes are long gone)

Now these days you you can find things on line and I though of looking for some of the tapes I had with more memorable and identifiable names ie DJ @ large organized mega rave.. I found a few on Youtube and used a program to rip them to MP3 then to my iPod and eagerly listened to them on my way to work.

What a pile of shit. The MC's!!!!!11eleven!! how the shuddering fuck did I put up with them. As soon as it started part of my brain remembered every but of inane gibbering bollocks the arrogant wankers spouted. Even the tunes weren't all that ....a crushing disappointment.

Still the techno after the early rave is still fucking awesome. The Reactive series ...yes please
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 15:21, 28 replies)

The early years of rave were fucking amazing
Best time to be a teenager since the 60s I'd say.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 15:50, closed)

unless you were the sort of bell end who wore fluorescent clothes

(alright alright, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 15:58, closed)

I was being polite and not mentioning those.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:04, closed)

never quite got the hang of that politeness thing

(alright alright, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:35, closed)

look I'm not proud
but i was taking an awful lot of drugs at the time, and it was just to the raves not all the time I'm not that much of a dick ;)
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:08, closed)

HA HA LU-MO LU-MO *points*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:09, closed)

*gurns*
*doesn't give a shit*

*dances like a gibbon*
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:13, closed)

Sorry mate can you speak up, I'm having a bit of difficulty hearing you over THOSE CLOTHES

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:18, closed)

Don't get me wrong
at the time I had an amazing time, truly amazing but the MC's were shit though weren't they? and the music doesn't hold up well*?

People are hardly looking back and going yeh Rozalla she was a seminal artist of our time

*apart from the prodigy....and utah saints were quite good......that SL2 was a commercial hit but not too bad.....oh joe Beltram was quite good wasn't he?..and LFO.....and a guy called gerald's one that's a classic .....but apart from that...

look I had shit tapes then okay?
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:07, closed)

'N-Joi Live at Manchester' is fucking brilliant. Proper time capsule.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOkTh1B4nrg
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:08, closed)

is there an MC on it?

(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:09, closed)

Yeah but barely
They released it as an LP and I have it to this day.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:10, closed)

listening to it now
sounds good so far.

The problem with the ones I had was the MC's didn't fucking shut up at all. It was like inane nursery rhymes over the whole thing....terrible

I have no idea how I put up with it however it maybe connected with the reason I wore a florescent orange hoody given above ;)
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:22, closed)

I had a white hoody with a massive pink and orange om on it :o(

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:23, closed)

you fucking hypocrite
PINK!!! I never stooped that low

Om's though eh?
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:26, closed)

Eh? EH?
All I'm saying here is you should be proud that you were there, right place, right time, for the only really new youth culture since punk. There hasn't been one since either. It was an exciting time and I for one wouldn't trade it for anything.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:28, closed)

But the OP was mainly moaning about the MC's
later admitting poor judgment in my 'tape' selection

I had a fine old time fucked up my head & my degree but it was laugh though wasn't it?
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:37, closed)

Fucking right it was.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:39, closed)

I like this so far
Good work.
(Eukanuba, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 16:49, closed)

I think I have that on CD....wasn't it the extra track on one of their singles or something?
edit: no, was a CD single in itself, have to look it out for a listen, buried under the stairs with the rest of my ex-uni cds I think!
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 17:14, closed)

I saw them doing a live PA around the time that was recorded, it was pretty much identical.
I think in some aircraft hangar in Stratford or something. Magic.

*misty-eyed*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 17:28, closed)

If I can find it there should also be some Altern-8,
Eskimos+Egypt, SL2, and a few more. Students.....
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 17:30, closed)

I saw SL2 performing that tune in the Brunel Rooms in Swindon.
It had a revolving bar which was a) really lame and b) really fucking confusing when you're bollocksed on really smacky pills. You'd put your drink down and two seconds later it had gone.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 17:34, closed)

The only big rave I ever went to was Tribal gathering '96.
It was alright, but we had always thought of big raves and clubs as a bit cheesy.

Coming from the Westcountry, small barn dances with less than 500 people was where it was at, and Eat Static ruled supreme. I stand by that, but I did get into hardcore after the fact, and still think it's good. Not the Fantasia tapes with the annoying MCs, but you should check out this album. It's tops.

www.discogs.com/Various-A-History-Of-Hardcore/release/103777

Edit: scrap that. I just dug out the CD, and put it on. It's shit. Back to House and techno it is.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 18:26, closed)

by the end of 92 it was bollocks

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 18:59, closed)

Nah, Oblivian, Sugar Lump, DIY and Circus Irritant were still doing shit hot parties until at least '94.
Plus, there is still fun to be had right up to the present day. Two years ago, I was a little sweaty ball of arms legs and love hugging strangers on the dance floor every Sunday morning in Stadium, Jakarta.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 19:10, closed)

one of my old pals used to dj for diy as half of 'digs and woosh',
I'm pretty sure he was Digs.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 21:00, closed)

Nonsense.
The digidub scene was awesome; Leffield, Renegade Soundwave, Transglobal Underground, Banco De Gaia, Afro Celt Sound System - it just evolved, old man.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 10:02, closed)