Right on! Following you now. Interesting to find such a topic on here. The rave scene was great in the late 90s where I lived in Dayton Ohio. Each weekend there would be a rave either there, Cincinnatti (south of Dayton), or Columbus (north). They were magical events that would usually only happen that one night at that location. Everyone felt like best friends, like we've all known eachother forever. You could trust others. It was like heaven on Earth.
After the anti-rave law was passed in 2003, the scene changed. To avoid prosecution in the land of the free, promoters have events in mainstream clubs. People go to big festivals now, and still call it a rave. Raves were underground. Well organized, but under the radar. The vibe was totally different than it is today.
EDM festivals are more like concerts now. Everyone is facing the DJ, as if it's some spectacle. It used to be about the party, not the DJ. We would constantly interract with each other on a level deeper than any other situation I've ever encounter. We'd be damn near telepathic. I've even had multiple telepathic moments, as well as countless other fascinating experiences, many of which I'm unable to articulate with language. No wonder our government sneakily revoked our right to peaceful assembly, not to mention pursuit of happiness.
You know I really feel that I want to hear you express those telepathic moments in words
Exactly my experience as a late 90s DJ/promoter :)
Are you really in that business now. I mean do you work as a promoter still? I'm a DJ. And love to learn stuff from you ..Im educating myself on marketing and the music business to sell get my music delivered to people more these
Well, the telepathic moments are fairly easy to put in words. It's the countless other stuff that I felt and experienced that can't be put in words. I had a few times where I did things like jump in on a conversation out of nowhere, as if the person was talking about it, and then they freaked out and asked how I knew what they were thinking about. I've seen other people do this too. Once, when I was on K, me and a budy were mumbling to each other at a rave and were having a conversation, and didn't know we weren't actually saying words until our girlfriends found us and told us we weren't saying anything. Stuff like that. Towards the end of my peak times, near year 2000, I used to walk by, or sit by, people and try to tune in to hone my skills. It was there, but the best moments happened on accident.