I do agree to a certain extent with what you're saying. What's changed about raving/clubbing more than anything else in my memory over the last 15 years, are the amount of people posing for photos on the dance floor. So many people are getting their 'I'm popular photos ' in whilst the dj's...
I've been listening to Bicep quite a bit recently. Only discovered them a few months ago. Very good indeed. Would love to have been there myself.
Love these tracks:
The music has changed. There's a lot more variety in a set now. The rave scene, I agree, isn't any more about glow-sticks and ecstasy tablets. It's now becoming more about the music.
There's a much more of a 'hippy vibe' at a rave these days. Woodstock/Isle of Wight era sort of stuff (on an...
They're not the sort of DJ's you'd relate to when using the word 'rave'.
Have you heard of Ritchie Hawtin, Joris Voorn, Dubfire?
There's a lot of top quality producers and DJ's out there right now. If anything, we're in the golden age of electronic music right now.
It definitely hasn't died.
Since when did people stop raving?
The Techno festivals all around Europe don't suggest the rave scene has died.
You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing.