Hapomen22
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Jun 11, 2012
- Messages
- 308
^ I can respect that. Well said. I myself am relatively new to the rave scene and culture, I was introduced when I was in grade 11 through some of my brothers friends. I'm on my third year in the scene and when I started off I only went to underground raves and parties and what not but now I only go to "mainstream" events.
As you've pointed out there is a big difference between a "rave" and an "american rave"... At all the underground raves I went to the DJ wasn't on a 20' tall stage the size of school gymnasium focusing on fist pumping, he or she was just doing their duty of dropping killer beats and keeping people moving. They all did this using basic inexpensive set ups cramming in the corner... So I get where you are coming from.
But at the same time I must admit I do love the whole "Rock Concert" set up the mainstream event have. *MOST* have a good vibe to them and tons of energy, especially if they are larger events, aka massives.
Sadly I have fallen out of the underground scene due to the people I used to go with moving away and what not and they were my way "in" so now I'm stuck with mainstream events until I can find more underground raves myself.
One thing I have to say about raving in general, it really brought me out of a shitty time in my life. The main thing that pushed me into raves was the fact that one of my better friends was moving to New Zealand for a year and he was pretty much the anchor to my social life (He would have people over every weekend and throw parties and what not.) Right as he moved away my long time friends stopped talking to me so I ended up going to raves on the weekends with the people who got me into raving. That was my "way out"..
Anyways I'm getting too lazy to type more haha.
TWO MORE WEEKS TILL PARADISO! :D
Underground raves are the real raves... I always see the same people and you quickly find your rave family in it and you always see familiar faces. It's a dedicated community of real bassheads and party animals. Mainstream events are usually full of posers, casuals and douchebags doing moshpits. Illegal raves have much better vibes.