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All the rave flyers that I've gotten specifically at Los Angeles raves in the past 5 years! I generally save all the flyers I pick up at parties, record stores, head shops, etc. that are within my sphere, and I have a decent pile from other states in the past few years (plus hundreds from the past 17yrs of raving combined) but everything in THIS pic is from the new gen 2021-2026 ravers in my home city!! I've been in attendance at the majority of these, and either performed at, helped rent gear to, loaded sound, scouted locations, or even assisted logistics in printing and designwork for at least 1/3rd of them too!! true warehouse raves and renegade freeparties have been BOOMING all across socal the past few years and I'm so lucky to be at the center of the action!! =)

#plur #raver #rave #90s rave #oldskool raver #kandi kid #los angeles #underground rave #happy hardcore

What is your opinion on modern Kikwear (late 2024-current)? Because they have changed quite a bit.

current stuff sucks shit and I truly truly truly wish I didn't feel this way because I so badly for the past 17+yrs have wanted to simply be a consumer of a product and have it be good, rather than having to manually rebuild infrastructure myself so that clothes can suck less modern kw is owned by one of the jnco brothers, which the current incarnation of jnco truly does have higher quality products in design and material, but their models are alienating from their actual audience and their price point is for rich kids only and that's my gripe with them lol the current kikwear designs are lacking in imagination imo and don't have cool tags or packaging (or advertising etc.). The current kikwear 69s are abysmal in design because the bottom hem line doesn't align with the top waistband, which is required if you want a non awkward silhouette for any design featuring openings larger than 40". It causes the inseam hem to be about 5+ inches longer than the outseam when you wear them (compared to every original 69' cut that solved this problem easily). things like this lead me to believe the designers don't functionally understand the garment they are creating, which leads me to my overall tldr mantra I have shouted for the past decade and a hill I will die on forever: I don't trust any brand owner that isn't also a consumer of the product they produce; if you make rave gear and you don't wear rave gear regularly youself, you are a scab and you will make a shit product lol

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source: @/skibid on instagram munchies too ! 4.20.2025 los angeles

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I played at the midway in sf the night prior, got on a plane immediately back to la, drove home from lax and took a nap, loaded into this party around 5 or 6 maybe, played the sold out lil texas show at the palladium mainstage, dropped off gear back at home briefly, then ended up at this party until the end and I thiiiiiink unloaded my gear after while the sun came up? party was great, huge mono stack monster

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evil turntable conditions

crowd photo from Transit (houston, tx 4/8/00)

#plur #raver #90s rave #rave #oldskool raver

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Here are pages 5 and 6 from Issue 1 of Groove Generation! They interview the one and only @flapjackthekandikid! Check out "Flapjack's Record Break" and more in issues of Groove Generation!

juliternity

Kobby TV Commercial #2 (1997)

Director: Takeo Hatai

Animator: Hidekazu Ohara

ps1fiend

Euro Demo UK 57 / 2000

hi!! Just wanted to drop in here and say I love ur stuff and how you keep the 90s rave alive, when did u first start raving? I wanna start but I’m not of age yet sadly lol. How do u find underground raves? I know it’s usually Through close friends but none of mine are into the rave scene.

again, love ur stuff!! :D

I started going to raves at 15 in the summer of 09' and my first rave had scott brown headlining in a warehouse downtown haha. I remember elysium played on the infoline promo. It's been 16 years now =) I think anyone of any age could go to a rave if they seek it out and want to!

there's a site in LA called 19hz that has moderately up-to-date rave info, but it's all-inclusive of every nightlife event and you have to kind of sift through the mid stuff to find the underground rave-raves, which makes it harder for law enforcement to discern what is and is't legal; but it's usually just following people posting the flyers around on instagram and irl flyers is how to find them. Parties in LA and as a result arizona, boston, and some other places have now had a huge influx of diecut flyers the past few years that very much scream "warehouse rave" when looking at them, but they are just distributed at parties really

mechmunky

Toy Town December 16 2000

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Xque? merch from 1999

Hi!! I was wondering if you have a list of 90s raver t shirt brands (including for women) I always see brand names for pants, and I would love to know what to look for online, thank you!

man I didn't see this in my inbox until now haha.

unfortunately there's not like, a master list of shirt brands really aside from those already connected to rave pants brands (jnco/kikwear kikgirl/gat/etc.) mostly because manufacturing shirts with prints is/was incredibly accessible (especially in the 90s) for just about ANYONE to do; so some of my favorite men's brands like clobber or freshjive that were heavily rave-influenced were simply screen printed in people's apartments in the early and mid 90s. They were either sold to shops on melrose in like 20-30pc amounts, or just out of backpacks at raves, but to my knowledge and from looking at catalogs, any of the stuff even like early anarchic adjustment were made in maybe 100-140pc amounts at MOST and just in sizes L and XL usually. 26red and some others got their start that way, caffeine was a record shop first before they ever made clothes, I have a handful of their tapes and records they used to put out.

Most of the early ravewear was just skate stuff that ravers /liked/ like hookups or split, the thing that made it "rave" was just ravers /wearing/ it, they weren't really "raver" brands. Today it's still kind of like that, I'll wear like a bugsex shirt or a 'mr clean' shirt or just local artists I like that have cartoony graphics; early happy99, souldog, I have a guess jeans shirt that has a synthesizer mockup on it, a modern phug shirt that had an acid print this one run, and other stuff, but none of those are "raver" brands per-se, you have to style them with other raverwear and accessories and such for them to be in "raver-style". The "rave"-ness is in the inherent diy perspective or clever re-appropriation towards rave (in the same vein as sample-culture in mid-90s rave music as well) and why it's so hard to truly sell "rave" to the masses even today hahaha.

in the late-90s you had stuff like newbreedgirl or random in-house hot topic brands making stuff more "rave"-oriented like the rainbowbrite shirts or the wonderland bootlegs, but ravers would also go for tinkerbell or ppg shirts sold in the same shop; it was kind of up to the shop to curate what vibe they wanted to sell. The only rave-specific brands I can think of (aside from ones attached to rave pants brands) were mostly just one-offs from record labels like the untranslatable, pureacid mixtapes, dr. freeclouds; printed flyer parties themselves like jujubeats and stuff; or random fuct, pimpgear, or thc one-offs that were usually just a play on drug culture and not so much rave. I have a thc shirt that has the nasa logo spelling "mdma" on a pill, but those were sold at skate shops or record stores.

the tldr is really that there aren't many "raver" brands and that if ravers wore them, it /was/ a "rave" brand in that haha. The few that did cater to ravers were either fully diy sold at parties themselves and/or record shops, but most "brands" were just one guy that made 2-3 designs at most for him and his friends hahaha. A lot of current clothing I see at underground raves in LA is the same or sold directly from vendors at little tables at some renegade under a bridge

How do you get a whole salers license?? Did you get it just for Kandi?

you can apply with the CDTFA (in california), I was tired of getting turned away at places asking for it so I just kind of got one for a few years but barely ever used it lol. When I first got bins and bins of stuff in 2012 when I made this post, most places didn't really ask me for certification proof because I was like 17 hahaha. For smaller bulk stuff you can just kind of go around downtown still and most of the stalls haven't asked me for proof of one (I haven't renewed mine in like a year or so because I haven't needed it) I think at the time it was like 70$ filing fee but now it seems like it's free and they require some kind of mystery deposit.

TIN is the big one for bulk imports, but you can still find places that don't really care hahaha, you just tell them to bill you a sales tax instead, and you have to order a LOT for it to be worthwhile. I have more beads and toys than I know what to do with though so I only really buy stuff when I visit other states and other import places that get different stuff than I can get at home. Detroit and the outskirts of toronto have insanely sick stuff, sometimes chicago as well, and the ohio ravers used to have insane stuff I would see from when they were having hhc raves during that period, but I've never been to ohio so I can't verify that currently

omg can I know where you got the fry and block beads from this https://www.tumblr.com/flapjackthekandikid/29541971736/some-more-kandi-i-made-this-week-i-was-super post?? or just where you get your beads in general! sorry if you've gotten this question before!

the fry charm was a plastic hairtie I got in a big pack of them in the wholesale wig and salon supply district of dtla, and the cube beads I got in the craft district in a big sack of them and I just put dollarstore stickers on the sides and coated them with clear nail polish after haha.

most of my stuff either comes from dtla with a wholesale license or I now import a lot of stuff in bulk direct from suppliers in guangzhou with a TIN for various little toys and clothes/etc. imports haha. I have considered doing a little shop online though for weird beads I can only order in bulk weights at some point. The majority is just in-person finds though