I was also surprised to learn from Wikipedia of all sources about a dance style that is now internationally recognized in the rave community called the melbourne shuffle.Which originated from the melbourne rave community in the late 80's I found is explianed on wikipedia as:
"The Melbourne shuffle is known by the movement that has been called the 'T' Step combined with the Running Man. Once learned, those movements form the basis of anything that the shuffler wants to do. Spins, kicks, and hat tricks are all part of the additions that a shuffler can make."
The emergence of the internet and youtube has popularized this dance and helped it gain wide spread international recognition dances now dancers now can show off there skills and learn new skills over youtube and can comment on each others videos.
There is also a documentry on this dance which i could not get my hands on but found the trailer on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Snfyqe-PHw
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Drugs at raves
Through out the new and media raves are usually connected to major ecstacy use.
Whilst looking up articles for the Australian rave scene I noticed alot of the articles about drug use and I was interested in seeing the differences between Raves and Doofs. It seems that at raves there seems to be alot of ecstasy. At doofs there is a higher use of psychedelic drugs such as mushrooms and LSD.
The main reason I belive in the different pattern of drug use is the different forms of music played at these events. Raves usually have Electronica, Trance, and Techno whist Doofs have mainly Psy Trance or psychedelic trance and have a better and safer enivroment for these kind of drugs.
Whilst looking up articles for the Australian rave scene I noticed alot of the articles about drug use and I was interested in seeing the differences between Raves and Doofs. It seems that at raves there seems to be alot of ecstasy. At doofs there is a higher use of psychedelic drugs such as mushrooms and LSD.
The main reason I belive in the different pattern of drug use is the different forms of music played at these events. Raves usually have Electronica, Trance, and Techno whist Doofs have mainly Psy Trance or psychedelic trance and have a better and safer enivroment for these kind of drugs.
History of Rave in Austrailia
So not knowing much about the history of Australian rave culture I read a few articles to familiarize myself. What I found was quite interesting as I away though we just adopted the culture straight from Britain. Whist the rave communities did adopt a lot of the ideology from Britain.
Here is a excerpt from Austrailian Dance Culture by Micheal Park and Gareth Northwood about how the rave culture started in Sydney:
While the English rave culture stemmed from an island off the coast of Spain called Ibiza - "everyone goes there on holiday, does ecstasy, and stays up all night. We got back to England and decided we didn't want to give it up and started raving on weekends"5, Sydney's (concentrating on Sydney as the dance capital of Australia) rave culture came from a slightly different angle - emanating mainly from a combination of the infamous dance parties at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, and drawing a lot on the inner-city avant-garde crowd and the gay community. Once the Hordern had been ruled by the authorities off limits as a venue (an indication of things to come with the rave scene), the rave scene became fully-fledged (while the gay community branched off) in the early 90's.
What I found interesting about this article is that it steamed from one main venue and that there where only a smaller communities attending these events.
Back to Sydney - and by 1992 the rave scene had exploded. 1992 is regarded by all who were there, and even by those who weren't there and joined the scene later, as the 'peak' of the rave scene. When interviewing DJ Jim Jams, who is one of the few DJ's to still remain in the scene throughout the last 5-6 years, we encountered both nostalgia and bitterness towards the past - "1992 was the year of the 0055……(referring to the phone lines ravers had to ring up to find out the locations of the parties)……it was a fantastic time but people have got to realise it's over and it's not going to come back, stop complaining about the present condition and try to move in new directions - or just shut up". Parties in 1992 such as Happy Valley, Ecology, Prodigy and Aztec are now part of rave folklore.
The author describes when raving in sydney gained more popularity and that the scene and that it's current state is getting to commercialized and popular and that the rave culture cannot handle it.
This is where "bush doofs"fit into the puzzle because they are promoted mainly via word of mouth and there location is not revealed a few days before events this helps them be more underground than raves which are also normally held in easyer to get to locations than "doofs"
Here is a excerpt from Austrailian Dance Culture by Micheal Park and Gareth Northwood about how the rave culture started in Sydney:
While the English rave culture stemmed from an island off the coast of Spain called Ibiza - "everyone goes there on holiday, does ecstasy, and stays up all night. We got back to England and decided we didn't want to give it up and started raving on weekends"5, Sydney's (concentrating on Sydney as the dance capital of Australia) rave culture came from a slightly different angle - emanating mainly from a combination of the infamous dance parties at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, and drawing a lot on the inner-city avant-garde crowd and the gay community. Once the Hordern had been ruled by the authorities off limits as a venue (an indication of things to come with the rave scene), the rave scene became fully-fledged (while the gay community branched off) in the early 90's.
What I found interesting about this article is that it steamed from one main venue and that there where only a smaller communities attending these events.
Back to Sydney - and by 1992 the rave scene had exploded. 1992 is regarded by all who were there, and even by those who weren't there and joined the scene later, as the 'peak' of the rave scene. When interviewing DJ Jim Jams, who is one of the few DJ's to still remain in the scene throughout the last 5-6 years, we encountered both nostalgia and bitterness towards the past - "1992 was the year of the 0055……(referring to the phone lines ravers had to ring up to find out the locations of the parties)……it was a fantastic time but people have got to realise it's over and it's not going to come back, stop complaining about the present condition and try to move in new directions - or just shut up". Parties in 1992 such as Happy Valley, Ecology, Prodigy and Aztec are now part of rave folklore.
The author describes when raving in sydney gained more popularity and that the scene and that it's current state is getting to commercialized and popular and that the rave culture cannot handle it.
This is where "bush doofs"fit into the puzzle because they are promoted mainly via word of mouth and there location is not revealed a few days before events this helps them be more underground than raves which are also normally held in easyer to get to locations than "doofs"
This blog I am going to contract on doofs which differ from raves in that they are usually weekend event in held in remote location in the bush. I am going to look at the type of people that attend these events.
Here is a abstract of a article from D. Tramacchi article Field Tripping: Psychedelic communitas and Ritual in the Australian Bush the journal expains the authors expercience at such event:
The attendants seemed to be 18-40 years old, with the majority being in their
late-20s to mid-30s. The gender distribution was approximately even, but with
slightly more males. All the people with whom I spoke appear d highly literate,
culturally aware and socially condent. There was at least one child (under 10
years, female) , one older man (late 50s ) and one canine. We saw the cows in a
distant paddock the next morning.
This reltates gives some insight into the demographics that attend these events it also states throughout the article the mixture of different communities that inhabit these events.
Here is a abstract of a article from D. Tramacchi article Field Tripping: Psychedelic communitas and Ritual in the Australian Bush the journal expains the authors expercience at such event:
The attendants seemed to be 18-40 years old, with the majority being in their
late-20s to mid-30s. The gender distribution was approximately even, but with
slightly more males. All the people with whom I spoke appear d highly literate,
culturally aware and socially condent. There was at least one child (under 10
years, female) , one older man (late 50s ) and one canine. We saw the cows in a
distant paddock the next morning.
This reltates gives some insight into the demographics that attend these events it also states throughout the article the mixture of different communities that inhabit these events.
Greetings
So I have decided to look at rave culture and the different communities with in the rave culture it self.
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