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What Does “Rave” Mean in 2018? 18/12/2018 What does “rave” mean in 2018? NOW READING: What does “rave” mean in 2018? SHARE THIS: (https:/(/thwttipttse:r text=Whua=th%t2tp0%d Our privacy policy has changed - please go here to PRIVACY POLICY (/PRIVACYC-OPNOTLIINCUYE/) NO, THANK YOU update your preferences. What does “rave” mean in 2018? BY SCOTT WILSON (HTTPS://WWW.FACTMAG.COM/AUTHOR/SCOTT/), DEC 15 2018 FACT logo by: Olivea Kelly (https://www.factmag.com/2018/12/15/rave-2018/) On the cover of The Prodigy’s recent seventh studio album, No Tourists, is a vintage London bus. Its destination: The Four Aces, Dalston Lane, Hackney – the first club that the rave group played in 1990, seven years before it was closed and 17 years before Hackney Council demolished it to make way for three residential tower blocks where a three-bedroom flat will currently set you back as much as £825,000 (https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/49773866? search_identifier=b3e12df5e1b087c5e3f7acd43d952c9c). If there’s a more bleakly appropriate visual metaphor for the way in which London’s social and cultural fabric has changed over the past three decades, I’d like to see it. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Learn more (/privacy-policy/) OK + https://www.factmag.com/2018/12/15/rave-2018/ 1/7 18/12/2018 What does “rave” mean in 2018? I’ve spent a lot of time in 2018 thinking about this cover. Do The NOW READING: What does “rave” mean in 2018? SHARE THIS: Prodigy know The Four Aces has been shut down? Do they know it’s been turned into luxury flats? Do they understand the irony (https:/(/thwttipttse:r of using a transport icon associated with a certain kind of twee text=Whua=th%t2tp0%d jingoistic Englishness (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk- england-london-37323431), especially in the year Brexit consumed us all? Knowing now that two of The Prodigy spent much of the ’90s racing go-karts and bikes in their neighboring mansions (https://mixmag.net/feature/the- prodigys-liam-howlett-rave-hasnt-been-given-the-props- it-deserves), I’m not so sure it’s much more than a nostalgic gesture towards their rave roots. I’ve thought a lot about what the term “rave” means in 2018, Our privacy policy has changed - please go here to PRIVACY POLICY (/PRIVACYC-OPNOTLIINCUYE/) NO, THANK YOU tuopoda. Oten yeo uirn ptreerfperreentcaetsi. on pitches rave as a sonic signifier or stylistic choice – the genre’s pitched chords, breakbeats and the 303 squelches were familiar fixtures on many of the year’s club releases. Last month, a little over 27 years after XL Recordings released The Prodigy’s debut single, ‘Charly’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTBFZ-To2E) (a track that perfectly captures the essence of the typical ‘rave sound’) it released ‘The Core’, a track by a new Shed alias (https://www.factmag.com/2018/11/27/shed-xl-higher-core/) full of pitched stabs and tumbling rhythms that could have come from the same era. “Top tune takes me back to 1990,” says one YouTube comment. “Averagely oldskool ya feel,” says another. I was only eight years old when ‘Charly’ was released, but I still remember vividly how transgressive that track and the raft of rave hits that followed were when they appeared on television, usually on BBC1’s prime-time chart show Top of the Pops. The Shamen’s ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9opP17P0hm4) – a barely-veiled love letter to MDMA sung by a charismatic frontman wearing leather bondage gear – had to be toned down for the show to remove some of the lyrical references (the chorus is quite literally, “Es are good”) to the drug. Much of the music I’ve loved this year, from artists including D. Tiffany, Lone, Neville Watson and Eris Drew, has referenced the rave era in some way, either directly or indirectly, but it’s hard to imagine any of it causing the same kind of moral panic. Of course, this music couldn’t cause a moral panic now because, despite The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett saying “rave hasn’t been given the props it deserves”, it’s part of the UK’s cultural fabric in the same way the ’60s counterculture, in time, became mainstream. Where the hoover sound popularized by Joey Beltram’s ‘Mentasm’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=vMrgcLcFy0M) and ‘Charly’ was once a kind of a primordial call to arms for ravers, it’s now a cozy sonic reference point. Online clothing stores such as ASOS have entire sections devoted to “festival clothing”, outfits that may not be identical copies of We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Learn more (/privacy-policy/) OK + https://www.factmag.com/2018/12/15/rave-2018/ 2/7 18/12/2018 What does “rave” mean in 2018? the clothing worn at illegal countryside raves in the ’90s but that NOW READING: What does “rave” mean in 2018? SHARE THIS: acknowledge these events changed the way people dress and experience music in an outdoor setting — even if that setting is a (https:/(/thwttipttse:r council-owned park or refurbished warehouse. text=Whua=th%t2tp0%d This leads me to the other key interpretation of rave I’ve thought a lot about this year – not as a sound, but as the communal feeling created when people get together to dance. Holding or even taking part in a rave in the ’90s was, in its own way, a radical political act, one that forced the government to bring in new laws (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england- hereford-worcester-39960232) to squash them. A rave today, however, is more likely to take place at a city festival, on a branded livestream or a former industrial space where the party Our privacy policy has changed - please go here to PRIVACY POLICY (/PRIVACYC-OPNOTLIINCUYE/) NO, THANK YOU sutpadarttse ayot u1rp pmre faenredn ceens.ds at 10:30pm on the dot. Spanish party brand Elrow’s confetti cannons and set dressing (https://www.instagram.com/p/BqEzTT9DuyK/) are so important to its core concept that the parties come across more like a Cirque du Soleil performance than a rave. The obvious reason for this situation is that the collapse of physical sales and paltry streaming revenue has led artists to do whatever they can to make money – even if that means playing a stage or festival sponsored by an alcohol or energy drink brand. Nobody begrudges artists doing what they need to do to make money, but is it possible to have a transcendental rave experience when flanked by corporate logos? Everyone is different, and I had a great time dancing this year at Primavera Festival in Barcelona despite omnipresent brand sponsorship, but there’s no way that anyone could consider throwing shapes to Four Tet’s remix of Bicep’s ‘Opal’ at the Aperol Spritz Beach a radical act, as fun as it may have been. Whatever the situation at these gigantic events, it’s never particularly clear where the money is going. The artists will get paid, but beyond that, who knows? As Ostgut Ton artist Barker pointed out on Twitter (https://twitter.com/samvoltek/status/1068620305248239616) recently, the producers making the music being played by the DJs at these events don’t get any royalties either. “Dear promoters, please book more producers you love, and book more live sets,” he said. “Otherwise, you’ll have a bunch of instagram DJs with nothing to play because we all had to get day jobs.” Nothing could be further from the utopian ideals of rave than a trickle-down model where wealth is replaced with the vague notion of “exposure”. Even at an underground level, where corporate sponsorship is largely absent, the age-old issues of overzealous door staff, overcrowding and expensive rates for everything from the cover charge to the cloakroom still plague clubs around the world, particularly in London. Objekt recently asked his Twitter We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Learn more (/privacy-policy/) OK + https://www.factmag.com/2018/12/15/rave-2018/ 3/7 18/12/2018 What does “rave” mean in 2018? followers which London venues were the “most relaxed, NOW READING: What does “rave” mean in 2018? SHARE THIS: comfortable and safe” to be in, and the resulting thread (https://twitter.com/keinobjekt/status/1068127336367820800) (https:/(/thwttipttse:r is illuminating, though no real consensus is reached. In my text=Whua=th%t2tp0%d experience, ticket prices have skyrocketed over the past few years, and at some of London’s bigger venues, you can expect to pay the same amount as a ticket to a day festival to go to a daytime party. It’s hard to have fun if you’re already broke on arrival. So what does all this mean for “rave” as a movement in 2018? For some, our obsession with the past may be preventing us from realizing our true potential. “A picture of the future, imagine a 90s bootleg club facsimile blasting onto human ears Our privacy policy has changed - please go here to PRIVACY POLICY (/PRIVACYC-OPNOTLIINCUYE/) NO, THANK YOU —up dafotree yvoeur ,p”r ePfeAreNn’cse sM. at Dryhurst recently tweeted (https://twitter.com/matdryhurst/status/1060579976628654081). “What we are witnessing is a consolidation of a mythical golden era in lieu of newer and less obviously saleable ideas”. Whether he was talking specifically about the current obsession for rave is unclear.
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