From the late eighties and all thru the nineties, I really got into electronic 'dance music'. I spent quite a bit of time in the trance scenes of Goa and Thailand, first as a punter and later as an occasional DJ and sure, theres a lot o' sh1te music in that scene, but I had some bloody wild times.
Rockin' your nuts off on a beach in thailand, to a banging choon, spinning off your nut, watchin the sun come up surrounded by dozens of grinning idiots, is a fine way to spend your free time.
Imagine my delight to get back to the UK to discover that the 'dance party' was alive and kicking there too!
I wonder if there any others here who went to the Castle Moreton festival? A full week and more of drug induced, musical insanity, that was directly responsible for passing of the Criminal Justice Bill. What about the Pagan parties held at the Linford Film studios in the early nineties, the early TIP parties, the last few Stonehenge festies, the warehouse parties, the 'free' parties held in aircraft hangers outside the M25 (with a free 'e' on entry), even the 'reclaim the streets' parties held on motorway junctions on saturday afternoons, or the one held in Trafalger Square in 98, and soooo many others, from San Fran to Portugal, Tel Aviv to the Himalayan valleys and the islands of Thailand.
Fantastic times. but that was then, and this is now. More into drum and bass, breaks, and the more chilled forms of electronica these days, even listening to proper instruments and singers again now. But just as Motorhead concerts and the Reading Festivals got me thru my teens, 'Tekno' 'trance','doof' whatever you call it, was the soundtrack of the nineties in my world.
If you don't like it....tough!
But you know what? I Fucking loved it. Cool times in hot places with some fantastic people.
So there! stick that in your chillum and smoke it. bom shankar!!
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