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Who killed the rave?

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Re: Who killed the rave?

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Post by edm0nd »

tombert wrote: post #165
deadbabe wrote: post #158

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Used to do at least a line of coke before raves but with the way fent is laced into everything these days, no more

Yeah, that's what terrifies me now especially. As far as I'm aware, "cutting" drugs with other drugs is hardly new, but the fact that fentanyl can be made so cheaply and easily and added to everything means that all this stuff is a hard-pass for me now. Honestly, I'm in my mid-30's, I think that I'm too old to "start" doing this stuff. In a lot of cases (and this is still something I'm not 100% used to), people look…

On the flipside, it's also easily detected using a test kit or test strips you can throw into your pocket.

https://endoverdose.net/

>Honestly, I'm in my mid-30's, I think that I'm too old to "start" doing this stuff.

Certainly not, you are still young :)

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Post by clmay »

KeplerBoy wrote: post #170
jamestimmins wrote: post #157

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It's shocking how often the answer to "How come X changed?" is either the creation of the internet or the cost of real estate. Surprisingly often, it's both.

It's interesting how the creation of the internet still hasn't caused real estate prices to plummet. Even two years of covid couldn't do it.

Maybe Ricardo was onto something.

Re: Who killed the rave?

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Post by latchkey »

kstrauser wrote: post #120

One big change is that they got better and much more organized. I go to an annual event with a few hundred of my friends and family. We rent a lodge in a national forest, set up an enormous sound system, and dance for 3 days around some very confused deer. There are food trucks and coffee bars and dozens of portapotties scattered around, plus daytime poolside sets while we swim around and listen to 100dB house. We gr…

> One big change is that they got better and much more organized.

If I'm thinking of the same groups you're mentioning, they were already super organized. Mostly because they've been going for decades now.

Re: Who killed the rave?

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Post by _spduchamp »

Just putting this out there for those who may be interested. If you are into making electronic music and want to get started performing, check out the EMOM movement. https://electronicmusicopenmic.com/how-to-start-your-own-emo...

I've been participating in Toronto version (TEMOM) and it's developed into a wonderful community.

Re: Who killed the rave?

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Post by myrandomcomment »

jjulius wrote: post #161
tombert wrote: post #155

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I have friends who really like EDM, and as far as I am aware 95+% of the time that they're listening to it they're stark-raving sober, so I don't think that being stoned is a prerequisite for liking it. That said, I think that a possible explanation for the decline in club popularity is that a lot of people don't actually like it unless they're on drugs. Not just the music, but the whole club scene. It might be an ac…

Oh, it's definitely not for everyone. I love most of the broad spectrum of electronic music (sans the more mainstream "EDM" crap, but I digress...), so my wife gets exposed to all kinds of weird, repetitive shit. And she can't stand most of it, it makes her very anxious and over-stimulated. There's one particular kind of electronic music, called Deep House, which is heavily rooted in Funk, Soul, Disco and Jazz, that…

Thanks for sharing this. I have a similar wife it seems. Does not like most EDM, but Downtempo, ambient house & deep house she loves to dance to. That with a bit of Molly can be a ton of fun.

If you have SiriusXM their Chill station plays this type of music.

One of my favorite DJs is Nora En Pure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_En_Pure

It is amusing to me that she was born after I graduated high school.

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Post by daxfohl »

berlinbrowndev wrote: post #94

I love electronic music. Been listening to it for 30 years. Mostly drumbass, dubstep, some house. Groups like subfocus. I used to listen to tiesto, bt, etc. One, I hated the term "raving". I was thought raves were finding an abandoned house, playing music and drugs. I just like the music and don't need the dance clubs or the drugs. But with the said, I think the "club" scene has dropped off. Expensive drinks. Expensi…

Enshittification

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Post by alephnerd »

marcosdumay wrote: post #167
yoyohello13 wrote: post #144

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I do find these kinds of articles funny. "Why are the younger generations not destroying their bodies like we did?" Maybe we just don't want to bro.

> Maybe we just don't want to bro. There's nothing wrong with it (quite the opposite), but keep in mind that this is not a normal thing. Most generations didn't act like this.

But most generations before us also didn't have the same awareness about the health risks associated with a lot of those acts unlike younger people today.

And the generation after us will probably think we were dumb about stuff as well (eg. social media, disinfo, Delta9, etc).

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Post by smt88 »

KeplerBoy wrote: post #170
jamestimmins wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's shocking how often the answer to "How come X changed?" is either the creation of the internet or the cost of real estate. Surprisingly often, it's both.

It's interesting how the creation of the internet still hasn't caused real estate prices to plummet. Even two years of covid couldn't do it.

That's because most people live in cities because they prefer it, not because their office was there.
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