vicky wrote:
(what was the first rave website? what was it used for?)
gl’s your man for this info i recon, fountain of internet history that he is.
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When did you first start using rave forums?
i had been putting on raves since only 2001 and i was doing a uni project on designing a rave site that was lightwieght, portable, safe, fractal, interesting, beautiful etc, and needed some supporting photos of the events. was directed here by someone at a bristol rave. had never used a forum before, so i stuck my head round. i think my first post was here: as far as i can rmember http://www.partyvibe.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1129&highlight=native+beats+washout
so im not exactly an old hand!
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What forums/ websites do you visit? What do you get out of them/ what do you use them for?
i use http://www.squatjuice.com for networking and keeping my ear to the ground (its partyvibe’s evil twin) it has a lot more traffic, and more parties listed, but they are all just uk freeparty, very narrow minded, blinkered veiw of whats going on. also full of drug fucked retards who spend all theirtime taking their own shortcoming out on everyone else. btu if i want to catch up with people ive done raves with, thats where i go. “foul and despicable place” is right.
http://www.psy-forum.co.uk/ is a much more happy vibe, as you woudl expect from a siteascociated wih that type of music. i really just use it to keep in contact with a few heads from bristol, and its good for a chat, but its a little too happy happy for me. pv has a nice balance.
http://www.vjforums.co.uk is exactly what it says on the tin. ive only recently joined but the ammount of quality info about vjing isincredible, and its full of helpful people. a little lacking in the criticism side, due to massive egos, but great none the less.
http://www.dogsonacid.com/ i go to occasionally, but its way mainstream and a bit boring i think. a lot of my mates swear by it, but im not a big fan. heavy traffic tho.
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How has rave culture’s presence on the Internet changed over the years?
in a word: security. even in just the last two years ive seen less and less illegal parties (what i would call proper free parties) advertised on the net, becasue of teh perceived police presence on teh forums. squatjuice in particular, because it used ot be totally unmoderated, and because of the paranoia that goes with drug use, never a day went by when someone was accusedof being a copper. and to be hinest once or twice it seemed quite likely. also recently they took thei gallery down as it was used as evidence against a soundsystem in court.
on here i have only had to remove one or two posts ever, and that was either because of people beingoverly offnsive, or giving out too much info on the net. i constantly get requests for partylines, which i am just not going to give out unless there are exceptional circumstances (like they can prove they are a freind of a freind and the middle man can vouch for them) its a sad state of affairs, and for a while i wondered what the point of partyvibe was if you couldnt advertise raves, but then i realised how far the rave scene could progress, and saw this as an important meeting point for people who wanted to push things forward.
as for recollections, im sure there are lots scattered around the site, i’ll sort u out some links.
if your interested, my freeparty crew;s site is here more info on the same crew is here and a load of press relating to it all is here.
