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Raves are events where dance music is played by DJs and occasionally live performers. The genres of electronic dance music (EDM) that have been prevalent in the United Kingdom since the late 1980s have been played at raves.
Fantazia was a rave music promoter and organiser based in the United Kingdom. [1] It was founded in 1991 by James Perkins, Gideon Dawson & Chris Griffin, [2] and held a number of seminal raves at the height of the breakbeat hardcore scene in the early 1990s. Fantazia Summertime rave, May 1992
Cyberdog is a store in England that sells rave-wear and toys divided into four categories: Kawaii, Neon Clubwear, 2090s (or Futuristic), and Cybertronic. Products sold include clothing, jewelry, shoes and rave-toys. Cyberdog was founded by fashion designer Terry Davy and business manager Spiros Vlahos.
A particular contributor to this in the UK was the Ibiza club scene, through which British tourists were exposed to the twelve hour clubbing cycle. [3] Numerous social changes have, however, occurred since then to transform this subculture into a mainstream movement, youth-oriented lifestyle and global activity.
The British music magazine NME is largely responsible for popularising the term throughout 2006 and 2007, until claiming in mid-2008 reviews that "New Rave is over". The genre has connotations of being a "new" version of music heard at raves, as well as being a play on the term "new wave".
Breakbeat hardcore (also referred to as hardcore rave, oldskool hardcore or simply hardcore) is a music genre that spawned from the UK rave scene during the early 1990s. It combines four-on-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats usually sampled from hip hop .
Dreamscape rave at Sanctuary, 1994. The venue became pivotal in the development of numerous underground electronic dance music genres, sub-genres and styles. [6] [7]Owned by Tony Rosenberg, [5] The Sanctuary played host to the UK's biggest dance music promoters of the time, including Dreamscape, [8] Helter Skelter, [9] Slammin Vinyl, Gatecrasher, Hardcore Heaven, Cream, Slinky, Uproar ...
Morning Gloryville is also cited as creating the concept of “Conscious Clubbing” [2] [6] [13] This term can be used to mean a variety of things, clubs such as Raha use this to distinguish Non-profit-making monthly night clubs from commercial night clubs, as they can have more "ethical foundations" and they aim to "altering the concept of clubbing". [14]