they were fucked before covid tbh, less and less people are going out, it's too expensive and tiresome to be hounded by airport security. covid just hit the accelerator.
Summer of Illegal Raves Expected
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they were fucked before covid tbh, less and less people are going out, it's too expensive and tiresome to be hounded by airport security. covid just hit the accelerator.
Bicep are so odd. They did so many great remixes before the album and the blog was full of great stuff but the album is like the most boring, unexciting take on dance music imaginable. So predictable and obvious, zero thrills. The best dance music does expected things in unexpected ways, they're nowhere near that.
Leo
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agree, and they ended up getting pretty huge with that album.
I didn't post that video for the tune, exactly, more for the video storyline. a friend in London sent it to me with the message "Saw this video at the design museum yesterday and was swept way back in time..."
I didn't post that video for the tune, exactly, more for the video storyline. a friend in London sent it to me with the message "Saw this video at the design museum yesterday and was swept way back in time..."
Leo
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really? what's so bad about it? seems more melancholy. does it not reflect a certain truth, for people of a certain age?
WashYourHands
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Lots of violence about already. Not much of it’s reported, particularly when it involves drug robberies at various tiers. Robin Hood be fucked. One of the sanest men I know has placed a hammer under his car seat.
Leo
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gruesome nostalgia in front of a grim future, tricky true
yeah, guess I just don't get it. it's kind of crass, but seems to be a wistful reminisce of good times past. certainly not gruesome!
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Crackling with malevolent energy.
One of the things about the canonization of rave and the 1988-1992 story is that it simply doesn't make sense to me through the lens of my own experience.
Like, I dont doubt that pills were better then and the music was good. But nightlife and clubs is a middle-class hobby. Being able to drive up and down the motorway in a car all weekend looking for parties and hedonism is a luxury that would never have been available to me. Retail workers, hairdressers, hospitality workers - they're not the people who can sack off a Friday and Saturday shift.
Also the idea that it was a big coming together of people because these parties had little-to-no security to stop gays and POC attending, old ravers saying they had their eyes opened because they talked to a black person while coming up is not great.
Like, I dont doubt that pills were better then and the music was good. But nightlife and clubs is a middle-class hobby. Being able to drive up and down the motorway in a car all weekend looking for parties and hedonism is a luxury that would never have been available to me. Retail workers, hairdressers, hospitality workers - they're not the people who can sack off a Friday and Saturday shift.
Also the idea that it was a big coming together of people because these parties had little-to-no security to stop gays and POC attending, old ravers saying they had their eyes opened because they talked to a black person while coming up is not great.
Oh shit, now rave is fair game for tedious Marxist analysis.
Rave is cancelled. Decolonise rave. It's so tiresome.