rave on avon Did anyone else go to rave on avon on saturday? got any vids etc? Had a wicked night was the first propper legal night out... well almost :wink:
Big Chill 2009 So who was there? I had a fucking blinder, highglights got to include Orbital, Congo Natty (dubstep), as well as the totally unique atmosphere of the Chill. Truly the closest thing to Woodstock, sure its infected with overpriced food stands and cash machines onsite, but for a BIG weekend you cant go wrong...
psy party in the woods london anybody go? was gonna try and make it down, but ended up getting pissed in the end. looked like it was gonna be a big one. :weee:
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Old Skool Video’s I started to come across some old skool classics recently, so started to bookmark them:
Just As Many of the Video's that I had bookmarked. I add to it every few days that I find something pretty worthwhile adding.
Hope that you like these.
I will add more as I find them.
Documentry about Shelleys In Longton before it shut
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Altern-8 Live PA - Shelleys LaserDome - Longton, Stoke-On-Trent
http://media.putfile.com/Altern8-Live-PA-Shelleys-Stoke
Altern-8 live apparently at Elev8 Dublin
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Altern-8 - Evapor 8
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Infiltr 8
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Altern-8 - Hypnotic St8
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Prodigy - Wind It Up
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Prodigy - Fire
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Prodigy - No Good
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Prodigy - Charley
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Acen - Trip To The Moon
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Old Skool Video in Sunrise Circa '89
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Another Sunrise Video Apparently
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Energy 1991
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Fantasia @ Donnington Park around 92?
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SL2 - Way In My Brain
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SL2 - On a Ragga Tip
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SL2 - DJs Take Control
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Together - Hardcore Uproar
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Kicks Like A Mule - The Bouncer
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Adamski - Killer
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2 Bad Mice - Bombscare
Rachel Wallis - Tell Me Why
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Moby - Go
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n:joi adrenalin
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n:joi Mindflux
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Human Resource - Dominator
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Messiah - Temple Of Dreams
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Top Buzz - Book Of Love '92
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The House Crew - The Theme
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Bizarre Inc - Playing with Knives
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The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
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DJ Seduction - Hardcore Heaven
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A guy called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
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sonz loop da loop farout
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Cubik 22 - Night in Motion
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Sy-Kick - Nasty
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Liquid - Sweet Harmony
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Then The Comedians:
Urban Hype - A trip to trumpton
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I hope that you like as much as I do.
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Dub4Life – The History of Dub , Area , Lambeth, London Any one been to this?
any info on the venu/night/crowd ect. would be apreciated as a friend from afar is going there and want's a heads up on what it's like but i have never been.. ta v-mucho :group_hug
Quarry Free Party Near Milton Keynes This was a sikkkkkk party!! 1st time ive been to this location, i thought this was probably the best party ive ever been to!.. Got there at about 1/2am, police car was at the entrance of the track but was letting peope down.. There was already loads of people there already, vibes were gooooood, the rig was good too!
Done some Acid, was the 1st time ive done it at a free party, it was sikkk! Couldnt see what was goin on when it was dark though :| :| At about 11:30am they were rinsin out some dirty drum & bass tunes which got me ravin out hard!
I got a vid here:
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YouTube - Quarry Near Milton Keynes Free Party - 15.8.09
So yeaah, sikkkk night anyways! Easyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
illegal party CYCLOPS HYPNOIDE 10 years birthday [YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVCorakNiDU[/YT]
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really good party in france, somewhere in britanny, i think post an other info for an other big tawa soon, be aware !!!!
Success! MONKEY BUSINESS! Summer Beach Party comes of age, 5 years in the making. Last week we celebrated the solstice on the beach at Carskiey Bay,Southend, Nr. Campbelltown. And what a celebration it was! The music kicked off at 5pm on the Friday and continued until Sunday lunchtime.
With over 20 Dj's from all over Scotland and one Peruvian(furthest traveled, Carlos!) mashing it up for our pleasure. So please visit the site and put this one on your calander for next year.
www.bebo.com/solsticeparty
We're also intending to do the same for Clunie Dam/Midge Death in September. A joint Monkey Business! - Elbodrop sound system with all the Dj's from the beach party invited back again. I was told it'll be September anyway but I dont have a date for it, does anyone out there know where I can find out?
FREE PARTY INFO I'm sorry if I'm annoying anyone by asking this, but I really wanna :crazy_diz party too. Been out of the seen and need some info. I live near Manchester, so that Shefield and Nottingham are what interest me most, but I'd be interested in everywhere. I'd have ways of thanking you if you were heading for the same party. :bounce_fl
Cheers guys.:group_hug
big green gathering was intending to go to this.. only just found out about it being cancelled.. bit of a shitter TBH
http://www.big-green-gathering.com/
Chimaera Chimaera interview:
Can you tell us when Chimaera started?
Chimaera began in the summer of 1997. We played a couple of outdoor parties with our newly built rig and it just took off from there. Outdoor parties are still our main thing but we began playing in clubs just to give us something to do in the winter. and now we can't stop.
What was the original idea?
There was never any real masterplan, except that we wanted to put on outdoor parties and have a wicked time. That still remains the same today, we get involved in anything that appeals and try to keep the vibe laid back and positive. We're trying to get ourselves a bit more organised, but we didn't set out to be a business, we were a group of friends first and foremost holding together our own little space in this culture. As we've developed we have got it more together and the key seems to be to let everyone do what they enjoy and do best and take things very slowly.
How many people are now involved?
Hard to say. There's about 10 of us who are the core members and make most of the decisions on a collective basis then maybe another 7/8 djs, a crew of dancers and other people who help out when they can. We took a crew of 50 people to the Sunbloc festival recently, so a lot of people are involved and people fall in and out depending on how mad for it they're feeling.
How are the club nights at Electrowerks going?
The last one could have been more successful, it's a big old venue and they weren't particularly financially successful. We'd been in the 4 Aces up until it closed, playing New Year's Eve and a monthly (ish) night. We never seemed to be able to get the same kind of vibe at Electrowerks, so this Autumn we're teaming back up with the crew who ran the 4 Aces and starting a new monthly night. The night will be called Convention and it's at a new venue in Hackney. More details to come, but the first night is on Saturday, 25th September. It'll be a vaguely Legalise Cannabis themed night with a Techno room and Breakbeat room which'll give our D&B DJ's a chance to play better longer sets and experiment a bit. The venue is called Geneva's and will be donations on the door, after that we'll charge about a fiver, couple of quid less for concessions.
Charging £8 at Electrowerks was a mistake I think, in retrospect, we were known for being cheap or free, which is the way we want to keep it, since no-one gets paid then we can afford to run cheap nights, but the cost of venues sometimes forces the price up. Maybe we'll pop up at a few squat parties in the near future which would be a new thing for us, but something we're keen to try.
Are you playing at any festivals this summer?
We spent 10 days at the Sunbloc festival over the Eclipse, running the dance tent for them. A wicked time was had by all, with our tent pumping out chemical beats 24 hours a day for 9 days. It's definitely something we'll do again. Hopefully another Cannabis Mayday festival will take place next year as well and we hope to keep up our involvement with that.
How did you become involved in the Mayday celebration?
We just went along to the meetings and got involved. It's an issue that we're all passionate about and felt very strongly that we wanted to do something about it. Although this year our involvement was limited to us running one of the dance tents and helping with publicity as much as we could, we learnt a lot and made many new allegiances. We'll continue to be involved in the cannabis coalition distributing information, throwing parties and helping in the organisation of next year's do. I think its very important that we keep involved with areas such as the cannabis movement, it affects us all and if were in a position to make a difference even in a small way then we will.
What are your views on the party scene in Britain at the moment?
It's good, squat parties seem bigger than ever, more and more outdoor party crews seem to be springing up and generally I think things are very positive. A lot of people talk about how it's changing and isn't what it was. I think maybe ecstasy use is falling and new drugs will always change the scene, but if it doesn't change and develop then it might as well be fucking heavy metal. The dance music movement was founded on innovation music, drugs should always stay fluid and as long as we keep loving each other we can't go far wrong.
How do you think this differs from the rest of Europe?
Don't know much about the European scene, except we do a yearly party in a castle with Luxury sound system of Luxembourg (18th Sept this year). It seems much the same as here, lots of wicked smiling people having it. It's the same all over the world isn't it?
How do you see Chimaera developing in the future?
No long term plans as always but many ideas are being discussed. We'll see how Convention goes then next Summer we'll be back on the outdoor free party mission we love so much. Other plans being talked about include a label, DJ agency and maybe trying to find our own premises. I'd love to have a party venue/community centre/ hang out which may be a fantasy but fantasies can be made to happen. Working with Exodus on Mayday has shown us what can be achieved, they've been through their troubles but now seem to have their shit very together and are making a real difference in their community. It would be good if one day we could try something similar in London.
Any parting messages?
One Love.
Paul Shurey: Master of the Universe Paul Shurey: Master of the Universe
WHEN the Universe '98 festival went tits up after a legal battle with former partners Mean Fiddler over the rights to use the Tribal Gathering name, legendary promoter Paul Shurey seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. Now he's back, and promoting a new night at the Matrix in Reading. The two years in between? Well, it's a tale of Mexican beach parties, ungrateful big name DJs, energy lines and an enchanted forest, as Ben Child found out.
PAUL Shurey is a figure from a different epoch in dance music history.
The man who launched Tribal Gathering onto an unsuspecting nation of pillheads, (cyber) punks and posers was heading up the scene at a time when the spirit of the early raves was still present despite the semi-commercialisation of the culture. Tribal Gathering had an edge, a sense of being right that modern day dance festivals will never have.
Homelands and Creamfields are highly-organised, money-making machines run by huge corporations. And you can bet their owners won't be putting on a free party in an enchanted forest on the Dorset/Devon border as Paul Shurey is when I speak to him.
"We've got 10 teepees set up in 30 acres of Old English woodland. We've got loads of fresh water lobster which we're going to be barbequeing all weekend long and the boys from Full Cycle are coming down to play.
"We've even set one of the ponds up as a swimming pool with a diving board and we've done a deal with the local gliding club so people will be able to go gliding."
Interviewing Paul Shurey was always going to be interesting. I wanted to ask him so many questions. What happened to Universe after they lost Tribal Gathering and the Final Frontier night at the Complex? Why now to come back, and why Reading? And why the hell does it say dress code: effort required on the flyer for their new night Frontier Spirit at the Matrix on Friday, August 11?
"It says that? I'm absolutely horrified at that! Can I say now to anyone who wants to come to the night to have no concerns. It's completely against the ethos of what we are doing. People can wear whatever they want." Excellent. Got that one over with. Where the hell have you been, Paul?
"I've been in a place called Tulum in Mexico. It's like an international crossroads with some really cool people from America and South America.
"It's like an Ibiza starting to happen. I've got a stake in a beach hut resort over there, so we've been running some mad parties next to the sea. We've even done one in an ancient temple which is the only one on that coastline."
It's hardly surprising that Paul felt the need to get away from the UK to somewhere more chilled out. Universe had done a deal to run Tribal Gathering with Vince Power's Mean Fiddler Organisation, the men behind the Reading Festival's early nineties rejuvenation and the Phoenix Festival, and who now run Homelands.
The '97 event went fine, but the two sides then fell out and a legal squabble began over the rights to the Tribal Gathering name. Universe put on the Universe '98 event, while Mean Fiddler teamed up with a certain Liverpool superclub to run the first Creamfields.
No-one bought any tickets for the Universe event, and it had to be cancelled. Tribal Gathering was over, and probably for ever, and Universe also lost their long-running Final Frontier night at the Complex club in London - also owned by Power.
"The reason I decided to go was because after our big legal battle with the Mean Fiddler it totally disillu-sioned me with the whole dance scene. It was like rats leaving a sinking ship. There were people who we'd supported the careers of for years and they just left without any loyalty whatsoever. I just wanted to get away."
So why has he come back now? "Everything is about timing and I'm a great believer in the 13 year time cycle. '63 was the Beatles, '76 was punk and the Sex Pistols and '89 was acid house. I t feels like the right time to come back and prepare for 2002 when the next big thing will happen. "I just think the whole thing has lost what it was originally about. It's just a load of old men who run everything and cream off the profits plus big name DJs charging extortionate amounts. It's time for something different.
"We are not going to be a slave to the big DJs charging ridiculous amounts of money. What we plan to do with the club is what we used to do with Tribal Gathering. It's going to be a completely different environment every month and we are going to have a famous TV personality talking on stage as our Cosmic MC.
"Every now and again the music will stop and a gurning face will come on the screen and say "stop raving." It's just to inject a bit of fun and energy into things. We want to fight the ethos which is around at the moment and get something good going again."
Why choose Reading to return? "The reason for Reading was that we all used to do our parties along the M4 corridor, so geographically the place is excellent. A lot of our crowd also come from the Bristol and Bath area, so it's not so far to come.
"When I first went to the Matrix I liked the spirit of the building. The fact that it is an old ballroom and people have been dancing there for decades is really cool. I'm also promised that for the second night the third room will be open, and I've always believed in giving people choice. We are going to do some really mad stuff in that third room."
The line-up does look promising. Master of tech-funk Dave Angel will headline August's gig alongside DJ Dagg, Mixmaster Morris, Simon Shurey and resident Aztech (Spiral Tribe), while Stevie Kerr (SubStance, Wax) plus Float residents will be also be helping out. And it's only £8 compared to the Matrix's usual tenner.
Could this be for real? Only one way to find out...
Lab 4 Lab 4 interview:
How long have you been running?
About 5 years as LAB-4, though Lez and I have been working together for about 8 years.
Where did the name come from?
An old French Sci-fi film called "Mad man from LAB-4". It was about a scientist who tried to make a gas to make people love each other.
What has been your best live experience?
It would be impossible to pick one but it would be between Universe's 2nd birthday at Club UK, Pendragon Solstice party at Brixton Academy, our launch party at Samsara and the first Match Made in Heaven at Fevah.Having said that we have never had a bad gig at Havok in Manchester!!
How has "Neuricide", your new album, been doing?
Neurocide has been selling really well, the feedback from the people who have bought it has been overwhelming.
Why did your distributors put it "under investigation"?
Something to do with the name "Neurocide"…we think!!
Are you looking forward to the USA tour?
America should be good fun, hopefully we can show them how the English can rock at a rave like no-one else!!
What are your future plans?
We are playing at Dance Valley in Amsterdam in August, where we're also being interviewed for MTV Europe.
We are going to Japan on the 11th and 12th of September, taking the rest of the year off, then playing somewhere (secret at the moment) and then we will hopefully be doing a new album for March 2000.
Do you plan to get more involved in remixing?
The trouble with remixing is it's time consuming and it's difficult to decide where to draw the line e.g. whether or not to 'give away' new riffs or sounds. In general we prefer writing new stuff. Having said that, there is a certain amount of freedom that comes with remixing someone else's work. Usually if we hear a track that we like so much, that we would want to remix it, then it's already in it's perfect form. This makes it hard to know what to do with it!! We could do a different take on it but it's kind of unrewarding when you still prefer the original!!! Or it might inspire us to write a completely new track. Having said all that we have done quite a few remixes eg. Chemical Imbalance (Alien Trax), See No Evil (Hinotori), Mask Hysteria (One Inch) etc.
Personally, "Alien" is one of my all-time favourite albums. Could you tell us a little about the ideas being it/making it?
When we did the Alien EP we didn't really know what we were doing!! It's very natural in that it was just our very instant take on the electronic music at the time. XL5 was just intended as the biggest crowd wind up, we could come up with! It was basically us finding our way!
Where will you be at the time of the eclipse?
Tuesday 10th Megadog festival (about 4pm)
Tuesday 10th Pendulum/Insanity at the Sunshadow festival (about 9pm)
Wednesday 11th Midday Mooners - between St Augutall & Truro
Thursday 12th Pendragon at Sunshadow (about 8pm or 9pm)
When is your next single "Orphan" being released?
Mid August..I think on One Inch Records. It will be Havok Vs Lab-4.
How do you think the internet is changing dance music?
Hopefully it will make the music more widely available, people often find it difficult to get hold of our stuff. We are a bit worried about bootlegging, although we would love to give our music to anyone who likes it, we also have to earn enough to have time to write it! Also the quality may not be very good. But the internet is making music more globally linked, and accessible from everywhere which is brilliant.
You've already built up a healthy Net presence. Do you plan to develop this further?
Our web site is organised, designed and run for us by André Flitsch. We don't actually have any internet access yet, so we rely on Annabelle and André's help, getting messages to people etc. We get loads of questions and really nice comments from people through the web site. The internet etc. is something we would like to get more into, we are also working on a deal to get our music available online.
Any parting messages for your fans?
Thanks for all your continued support - we love you all - particularly the really mental ones!!
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