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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.
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 ...
Fuelled by the drug MDMA (Ecstasy), nightclub goers in London were desperate for events that catered to their needs and went on until the early hours of the morning. Genesis’88 found empty warehouses in London and transformed them into state-of-the-art dance arenas that consisted of professional lighting rigs, sound systems and colourful decorations.
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.
DJ Slipmatt's brother, Paul Nelson, was one of the original promoters. The original idea to hold a rave came from Slipmatt himself. [3] But, by 1993, with pressure from the authorities (Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) and the rave music scene splintering into different dance genres, Raindance took a break from holding mass events ...
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
Fantazia Summertime rave, May 1992. The rave scene expanded rapidly in the very early 1990s, both at clubs up and down the country including Labrynth, Shelley's Laserdome, The Eclipse, and Sanctuary Music Arena, and large raves in Warehouses and in the open air attracting 20–50,000 whether put on legally from promoters such as Fantazia and Raindance, or unlicensed by free party sound systems ...
Helter Skelter was one of the longest running dance music promoters in the UK, which began organising megaraves in the early 1990s. [1] Its largest-ever rave was "Energy 97 – The Carnival of Dance" in Northamptonshire which attracted 18,000 revellers. [2] The electronic dance music featured at its events was characterised as "happy hardcore". [3]