Great ravy

In his column, a music journalist and a musician with great experience, Andrei Bukharin (Rolling Stone) is reviewing the established opinions about famous musicians and musical cults.

I was late for the rave. In the most literal sense of the word: when I first ended up in England - in July 1990 - just in that month the infamous Bill was adopted to tighten the punishments in the field of entertainment events, the law, primarily directed against illegal raves. Namely, these free masses in nature to the euphoric sounds of the Eisid House and allowed to name the summer seasons of 1988-1989 “The second summer of love”-by analogy with the California “In the summer of love” of the Hippi of 1967. But all the same, the new dance music thundered everywhere, up to the very last provincial club, where the dance floor was shook the basses of the then hits imported from continental Europe, such as “ The Power » German Snap project or " PUMP Up The JAM » Belgian Technotronic .

The early tracks of Chicago House and Detroit technology, coupled with ecstasy, have long been penetrated into Britain, but the English djesi ideology itself was still taken from the bohemian resorts of Ibiza. At some point, all this exploded in England with a real dance boom. It is clear that the hymns of the raves became separate tracks of rather different origin, but since 1988, the first full-fledged albums recorded by English DJs and producers using sampler, dramas and one or two living instruments were slowly releasing. Today, they look extremely naive, for a person, pumped up with ultranism bass dabstep, they will not seem so powerful, even perhaps not too different from ordinary pop music. But you need to understand what effect this music that had never been heard before produced then. But today, these records, having lost their club utilitarianism, simply obey very well. Their special, unusually warm, still semi-analysis sound is largely due to the use of obsolete devices, namely, which was included in the legends of the Roland drama machine TR 808 and Roland's bass synthesizer TB 303 . Literally a few years later, in the booty -developing electronic music, such a sound was already, as they say, not to find in the afternoon with fire. Therefore, the list of albums offered to you is limited to 1991, because it does not have the debut album of Prodigy -the appearance of Hardcore just filed a line under the golden era of Eisid House. There are no indicative plates of the Americans Inner in it City (" Paradise ") or, say, Italians Black Box (" Dreamland ") - only British albums of this short and unforgettable insanity are chosen.

P.​ S.​ And, having doubted a little, I still did not turn on the two purely eice records of senior industrial comrades, in whom the new rave virus was introduced into the soil that was already well-fertilized with former psychedelic excesses. I mean, of course, psychic TV with " Towards Thee Infinite Beat " (1990) and Cabaret Voltaire with Groovy , Laidback & Nasty ( 1990 ) -if Pi-Ordge and his family were given an ecstatic, but still quite ominous version of the Aisid House, then their Sheffield associates went straight to Chicago and so overdid it that the result of this pilgrimage to the Housing Mecca Shocked their fans with his excessive poppies. But still, they were just guests at this holiday of life. So let them both go, so to speak, by bonus tramas.