So, a couple of days and many hours of thoughts later, I am ready to share my views of the evening. Leading up to this party I was certain that its reception would be with discomfort at best, and at worst absolute rejection. As it turns out, the result was somewhere in between.
There was a bit of a problem with ravers not being sure what was being handed to them. This event, while very raveish to coin a term, was not an ACTUAL rave. It took elements of rave, industrial, IDM, and other cultures and mashed them all together with live acts to become the show it was. Ravers in Phoenix are VERY resistant to change, and if you’re not giving them the same party with the same DJs playing the same tracks in the same sort of venue week after week, they’ll turn their backs on you quickly. I like to, with the events I throw, or my partners and I throw, try to introduce the ravers to new concepts or new music that can eventually become part of their weekly intake. The decision to do this for the entire duration of an event without any of “the usual suspects” to fall back on, in retrospect, may have been a poor one. It was my honest hope that the party kids out here would be willing to expand their minds a little bit and try something new. A few people have agreed with me when I said, “I am disappointed in our ravers.” Please take into account, this is ONLY in regard to the INTEREST in the event. The older and more seasoned EDM crowd showed GREAT interest in the idea and its execution. The actual attendance needs to be addressed with 2 factors in mind.
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The following is a quote from a post I made on a local rave forum.
personally… I wouldnt cry if the chemical aspect of our culture went away, I’ve never indulged in it anyways… but… I would certainly rather IT than alcohol. And as far as the strength in numbers…. well.. that works when you have great numbers… unfortunately for those numbers despite what the post statistics on this forum may say, it’s not extremely viable. This forum is definitely NOT a microcosm of the edm scene. Most of the kids who just wanna go have a good time could give a damn less what any of the worn out ex ravers longing for the scene they remember through clouded recollection have to say. Seriously so many of us started raving way before we were 18, why should it be any different for the ravers today? And while it wasnt really mentioned in this thread, I guess I’ll breach the can of worms… While happy hardcore dont do much of anything for me, I get it. Are all of you seriously turning into such geezers that you cant remember loving a kind of music because of how it spoke to you regardless of what the older generation thought? Are you really that out of touch that you dont hear yourselves sounding like the parents who blasted rock and roll as ruckus and noise and their kids who grew up to pontificate against hiphop? You are all old and becoming the parents who many of you struggled so hard against. Do as I say, not as I do, and TURN OFF THAT NOISE!!! Why can’t you listen to REAL music?
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