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He's a good documentary that I'm sure some bluelighter's will enjoy. It was aired in 2001.
ABC - 4 Corners - Ecstasy - Beneath the Mirror Ball - 4th-Jun-2001.avi
Description: Beneath the Mirror Ball
Every week around 100,000 young Australians head out to raves and dance clubs — marathon parties driven by the incessant beat of electronic dance music.
The rest of the community, more familiar with pub culture and live bands, wonders: what’s the attraction? What’s to like about a scene dominated by a monotonous “dooph dooph dooph” thumping out of samplers, synthesisers and drum machines?
Plenty, say the devotees. And anyone open minded enough and willing enough to explore the dance scene will discover an extraordinarily rich vein of sub-culture.
Four Corners has spent the past two months delving into dance culture to meet a generation defined by its own music, politics, technologies and its own drugs. The program traces dance culture as the latest in a line of youth movements, borrowing from, but different to, hippie culture of the ‘60s and punk of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Producer Lin Buckfield’s program explores and reflects emerging sub-cultures to the wider community. Dance-scene participants say it’s all about equality:
* “It’s totally pro-diversity.”
* “We want to be in a group of people that want to love each other…We are all sort of wanting that sort of connection with the rest of the world but it just doesn’t happen because the world is pretty hard.”
* “The greatest thing is a sense of living for the moment. As humans we’re normally not very good at that.”
The ravers’ unifying motto is PLUR — peace, love, unity and respect. But they’re no bland homogenous force. There are subtle but important distinctions in the styles of music and these distinctions often define which sub-faction a person identifies with.
For some, it is mostly a matter of having fun. At the other end of the spectrum the music is an anthem to anti-materialist, anti-globalisation politics.
Now corporations have begun marketing to this new expression of youth culture. The result is that some dance culture is being dragged into the mainstream, to the scorn of anarchic underground groups.
Lin Buckfield looks at the role of ecstasy and the dilemma it presents for law enforcement and public health. Unlike alcohol, which fuels violence in pubs and clubs, ecstasy produces waves of warmth and good feeling. But it’s believed to be potentially harmful to users in the medium and long terms.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/dance/default.htm
If you have trouble viewing this video, you should download the codec package: K-Lite. Available at: http://www.free-codecs.com/K_Lite_Codec_Pack_download.htm
He's a good documentary that I'm sure some bluelighter's will enjoy. It was aired in 2001.
ABC - 4 Corners - Ecstasy - Beneath the Mirror Ball - 4th-Jun-2001.avi
Description: Beneath the Mirror Ball
Every week around 100,000 young Australians head out to raves and dance clubs — marathon parties driven by the incessant beat of electronic dance music.
The rest of the community, more familiar with pub culture and live bands, wonders: what’s the attraction? What’s to like about a scene dominated by a monotonous “dooph dooph dooph” thumping out of samplers, synthesisers and drum machines?
Plenty, say the devotees. And anyone open minded enough and willing enough to explore the dance scene will discover an extraordinarily rich vein of sub-culture.
Four Corners has spent the past two months delving into dance culture to meet a generation defined by its own music, politics, technologies and its own drugs. The program traces dance culture as the latest in a line of youth movements, borrowing from, but different to, hippie culture of the ‘60s and punk of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Producer Lin Buckfield’s program explores and reflects emerging sub-cultures to the wider community. Dance-scene participants say it’s all about equality:
* “It’s totally pro-diversity.”
* “We want to be in a group of people that want to love each other…We are all sort of wanting that sort of connection with the rest of the world but it just doesn’t happen because the world is pretty hard.”
* “The greatest thing is a sense of living for the moment. As humans we’re normally not very good at that.”
The ravers’ unifying motto is PLUR — peace, love, unity and respect. But they’re no bland homogenous force. There are subtle but important distinctions in the styles of music and these distinctions often define which sub-faction a person identifies with.
For some, it is mostly a matter of having fun. At the other end of the spectrum the music is an anthem to anti-materialist, anti-globalisation politics.
Now corporations have begun marketing to this new expression of youth culture. The result is that some dance culture is being dragged into the mainstream, to the scorn of anarchic underground groups.
Lin Buckfield looks at the role of ecstasy and the dilemma it presents for law enforcement and public health. Unlike alcohol, which fuels violence in pubs and clubs, ecstasy produces waves of warmth and good feeling. But it’s believed to be potentially harmful to users in the medium and long terms.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/dance/default.htm
If you have trouble viewing this video, you should download the codec package: K-Lite. Available at: http://www.free-codecs.com/K_Lite_Codec_Pack_download.htm
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