#uk rave

[ravefmradio]

Yo yo RAVERS! 😃 Maybe you’ve heard, maybe you haven’t — but a brand new music video just dropped under the RaveZeroSIX banner! 🚀 Come check out this mad RAVE energy — and guess what, we’ve also got a little giveaway for you! 🎁

It’s super easy to join: just drop a cool comment under the video on YouTube 💬, leave a thumbs up 👍, and boom — you’re in! 😎

We’ll be announcing the first winners soon — stay tuned! 🔊🔥

[audi0gynephile]

out of hand (fonk vibe) - the bassbin twins (1997)

[erintaj]

massive18 rave zine, from the archive

massive18 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

massive18

[mobs-masses-crowds-collectives]

Acid house in Blackburn, UK - from Museum of Youth Culture, "Spit, Sawdust, & Spirit: The Ingenious DIY Culture of Blackburn's Acid House Parties"

[argotpowell]

pub band

[gobang]

[morethanboomtschk]

UK Rave culture in the early 1990s has become one of photographer Tony Davis’ staple subjects, revisiting the pictures he originally took at parties, some of at legendary venues, in the Midlands. This 36-page, litho-printed zine UK Rave 1991 is curated from the archive of picture Davis shot on 35mm between 1988 and 1994, focusing on the feeling, fashion and dance moves of 1991: expect a sea of bucket hats, sweat and dilated pupils. Older and possibly a bit wiser than the ravers he photographed, Davis described his perspective on these scenes as one of an outsider, rather than a participant. Luckily for him, his subjects aren’t exactly inhibited by the presence of his camera.

[viciouscyclesradio]

Network to Network

Network Records digital re-issues

Network Records had re-issued a portion of their back-catalogue on digital services, including Apple Music/iTunes and Bandcamp. A few of these releases are exclusive, previously unreleased material dating back as far as 1989.

Launched as a UK techno-focused spin-off, founded by the owners of its parent UK house music label, Kool Kat (Neil Rushton and Dave Barker). Network Records are responsible for releasing the majority of Stafford's own Nexus 21/Altern 8 catalogue and the licensing and trans-Atlantic releases of Detroit artists such as Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May.

Altern 8 in New York, December 1991

The UK had just picked up on Chicago house and Detroit techno, following the second Summer of Love in '89. Network Records had a similar mission to R&S Records in Belgium, for American imports to be brought over shore, directly onto the label for local and international distribution.

The 2020/2021 re-issue package contains the quintessential releases from the notable artists mentioned above. Additionally, to that is the 1989 debut full-length The Rhythm Of Life by Nexus 21, where it all began (re-issued and remastered in 2019).

Listed below are direct links to some of these re-issues via Apple Music. Physical copies of these re-issues are available via Bandcamp.