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- From: tedwards@wam.umd.edu (technopagan priest)
- Subject: Re: rave?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.120640.25560@wam.umd.edu>
- Keywords: rave
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- References: <1992Dec29.154926.3009@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 12:06:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.154926.3009@cnsvax.uwec.edu> drumm@cnsvax.uwec.edu (Danny) writes:
- >o Is the music limited to techno billion BPM disco new/wave/age/noise....
- > (read "why couldn't you call a grateful dead concert a 'rave'"?)
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- Raves are about entering another dimension. Grateful Dead concerts
- are about doing this in a mellow fashion. Raves are about doing
- it in a high tech, blinding lightshow, fast thumping beat,
- digitally produced sound fashion. It is highly centered on
- music which not just encourages dancing, but is difficult to
- avoid dancing to. I can't tell you how many people I've brought
- to Raves who have never felt comfortable dancing in a club who
- just go for it and start dancing up a storm at a Rave.
- While it might be possible for raves to happen with more housey
- or tribal or trancey techno, I think the basic nature would be
- changed greatly by loosing the BPM.
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- But you are never going to know what a Rave is, until you go to one...
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- -Thomas
- resident technoshaman
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