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The criminalization of raves
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Did it have any effect on EDM culture? On the music? If so, what? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Which country are you talking about? |
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| distant |
| Probably England. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Yeah, that was what I was thinking of, although the U.S. had a similar crackdown later on. |
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| TazZ-erT |
They still happen. You just have to know where :gsmile:
We have huge ones about 4 times a year |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by TazZ-erT
They still happen. You just have to know where :gsmile: |
Wonder if there are any in Texas. :wtf: |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Well it helped kill off the rave scene and the old-skool hardcore sound that went with it, although a lot of people were already becoming jaded about the genre after the influx of commercially successful toy-town rave tracks. It didn't come into force until 1994, and the rave scene was in decline by then anyway, although the police had been enforcing restrictions on raves prior to the law change anyway, which probably contributed.
You can see a lot of reaction in the notes of Prodigy records at the time. They had an angry rant against restrictions in the inlay to One Love, and Music For The Jilted Generation was an anti-establishment protest against the Criminal Justice Act of 1994- the same year it was release.
What it really helped do was move dance music's emphasis back into the clubs, allowing for the superclub era to begin (lead by Renaissance) and a general "growing up" of the genre. Dance music became more accepted by the general public and former rave acts like The Prodigy and Orbital made dance music acceptable to the rock and festival crowds. |
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| Imagin |
Crackdown in the US. The federal goverment has an act instituted against raves. Albeit Sen. Joseph Biden (Delaware) had it reworded to not be as finger pointing.
Basically if you hold a rave (or any club for that fact, just Sen. Biden likes to focus on EDM clubs) and anyone brings drugs onto the premesies, despite strict security measures to prevent it, the land owners and promoters can be imprisoned for failing to keep drugs out.
I wrote a 14 page paper on this subject. If anyone wants a copy to hear about america's quells with this. Feel free to message me and ill email it to you.
(BTW the first bill Biden tried to pass, called the RAVE act, was shot down by congress. His reworded second attempt (same bill just took out the word Rave) was snuck in and passed with the Child Protection Act. Mind you the Child Protection Act came about when Elizabeth Smart was returned to her parents. So no senator really looked into the bill. But then again, most legislation that wont stand on its own two feet are added to "surefire" bills so they pass into law..... |
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| SPAWNmaster |
| quote: | Originally posted by Imagin
Crackdown in the US. The federal goverment has an act instituted against raves. Albeit Sen. Joseph Biden (Delaware) had it reworded to not be as finger pointing.
Basically if you hold a rave (or any club for that fact, just Sen. Biden likes to focus on EDM clubs) and anyone brings drugs onto the premesies, despite strict security measures to prevent it, the land owners and promoters can be imprisoned for failing to keep drugs out.
I wrote a 14 page paper on this subject. If anyone wants a copy to hear about america's quells with this. Feel free to message me and ill email it to you.
(BTW the first bill Biden tried to pass, called the RAVE act, was shot down by congress. His reworded second attempt (same bill just took out the word Rave) was snuck in and passed with the Child Protection Act. Mind you the Child Protection Act came about when Elizabeth Smart was returned to her parents. So no senator really looked into the bill. But then again, most legislation that wont stand on its own two feet are added to "surefire" bills so they pass into law..... |
while you pretty much got the essence of the legislation there are a few details...first of all that whole Elizabeth Smart thing happened in 2003. The RAVE act was passed (years before) as part of the Amber Alert bill entirely unrelated to the Elizabeth smart situation, but nonetheless the same bull. As some already have mentioned the legislation and anti-rave feelings forced the scene to commercialize and "legitimize" and moved from the fields into the clubs. |
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| Watts |
If anyone gets the chance read Wayne Anthony's Class of 88.
This book is from his viewpoint as one of the first promoters of illegal acid house parties. |
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