Rave Days: The Birth of Melbourne's Rave Scene 

This is one of the most accurate docs on early rave culture. There were scenes like this all over the world.

Went to almost every Techno event in Melbourne from 1990 - 1994..... Incredible times 🔥

I love how everyone’s not facing the dj. They’re just dancing and taking it all in

I miss those days so much, there was so much love and freedom on the dancefloor.

This is one of the best rave docs I've ever watched.

Crazy to see how these parties were once upon a time. Now we've taken these from indoor warehouses to the bush and I can say the party scene is still well and truly alive in Melbourne. Thank you for creating this for the new generation!

My first rave was Emerald Forest somewhere in Footscray or maybe Global Village probably 1994. I still remember the excitement of walking through the dark alleys with a bunch of lost partygoers trying to find the venue and hearing the music somewhere in the distance. Was a great party and after that I was hooked!

3D nightclub in Melbourne used to be so much in 2007-2009 many great nights

I am so appreciative of growing up through the 90s it was brilliant....some people go through their whole lives without feeling the unity we felt....it shaped me and made me gentle towards all people which sometimes is used against me.

Only got to experience a few of these but ill never ever forget it, incredible times with incredible people. we was so lucky

I'd like to thank you all for all the hard work you put into this. Seriously - these were the best time ever and I feel privileged to have attended. (Also, if anyone gives a damn - the Keith Harrings that used to be on the walls of Dream and got moved to Bass Station got found and are with NGV).

Hey, represent. Home of Melbourne Shuffle

Let's acknowledge that the guys who make the music are incredibly creative and skillfull.

3D-PHD-Bass Station-Bubble The weekend tour in the early 00’s ❤

When the sun came up it would start raining in the main room... The condensation from everyone sweating would built up on the ceiling, and when the sun hit the roof it started raining down on us. We were literally in our own little rave ecosystem... But that was 30 years ago... "Altona Sports and Leisure Centre" 11 Altona road; Altona, VIC 3018 Melbourne Australia

Started at the Tunnel (Gold Coast) .1990. It was all acid then, then 91 E's. Did that blow people away! Flew to Amsterdam in 94 and OMG it was 1000X more insane! Then returned to finish the 90s in Melbourne which had some of the best recovery clubs ever. That decade truly memorable..

I grew up in L.A. in the 80's. As a young adult, I used to attend these secret events just like this. The edm scene started blowing up in the late 90's and by the 2000s it was global and very commercial. However, the underground scene never went away and I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and I found myself deeply involved in a wave of underground dance parties that lasted from 2009 until 2019 in this one little corner of Los Angeles called Culver City. It's a very square sort of place for this to happen. Yet somehow we managed to have 3 different warehouses, each with its own club throwing some events that were legend. It was the best time of my life. If you ever went to Area33 or Purple or my personal favorite, Mission Control, then you got to experience a moment in time that has now faded away for too many reasons to list. There are DJs and Visual Artists and Performers and Technicians that are working at the biggest Raves and Festivals in the world. They cut thier teeth and developed their craft inside my home. Bless them all. I knew them when, and I'm stoked for them now. Our mission was to be a springboard for talented people to become masters of the scene. It was EDM dance party culture at its best. We did it the same way these guys did it. We got incredibly talented people into a large space, then pooled our ideas and got very creative and it worked. It was special. There were a few times that I can remember thinking, "Right now, this is the coolest place on planet Earth and there is nowhere else that I'd rather be." So much fun! I truly enjoyed this documentary. Thank you. Love, Nibz

Those Every Picture parties were awesome! They really were magical parties. Such a great time in the Melbourne scene. And the dock parties were unforgettable. So glad to have been apart of that generation. Unforgettable times.

Hardware. Belfast. EarthCore. Global Village. Sonic Animation. Psy Harmonics. Black Lung. Ollie Olsen. Hard Kandy. Salt. Filter at The Lounge. Good times. Crazy times.

I was 10 years too late for this. Being a part of the beginning would of been amazing. My introduction to house tunes and dancing was working for years at the 21st in Frankston..

wow some good footage in this. Thanks.

I was part of this loved it Perth and Melbourne...was about love the trip, the images and the music 🎵❤️♎🎶

All good things come to an end. Until last year I went to my first bush doof and loved every minute, although nearing 40 I can no longer do all nighters, its wonderful to see young and old still enjoying electronic dance music. Still such a peaceful crowd too

Love you guys. How am I only just seeing this now??❤❤

Being from the U.S., it's so cool seeing how the rave scene developed down under. Our rave scene may have developed separate, but still similar. Rave on brothers and sisters!

Nice, they had so much space to actually dance and express themselves. Nowadays clubs are very packed i have the feeling.

I experienced for a decade UK rave scene , nice to watch what happened here in Melbourne

Geez, this brought back some memories

Good times. I miss those days.

This is awesome!

I love you guys. Thanks for the memories

The dance floor was the safest place for me. Loved it.

Track ids?????

What a lovely story about the parents checking it out 🥰

COMMERCE !❣ needed a Mention for Sure ~ ...... Best Time's ☮🙌😘💗💫 I remember Ollie Olsen & Kate & Richie Ritch & all those Parties ~ Literally the BEST TIME'S EVER ❣☮💫💗

Didn’t do clubs in the 1980’s, did clubs and raves in the 1990’s and loved my time out enjoying the night, stopped in the 2000’s. I loved my 1990’s so much because of music, dance, creativity

I’m 18 and from Melbourne, turned 18 in lockdown, pumped as fuck to go see this after it ends

Melbourne knows how to party that's for sure

Grew up playing indoor soccer at the Westgate center, I had no idea they’d hosted events like these, shame to have missed out

Melbourne owes a huge debt to Heidi & Richard, along with Mark & Emily (if you know you know) God I miss those (Summa)dayze Those few years, 89 - 96 were the happiest I have ever been in life. If only I had a time machine.

i just cried

Brilliant! 🎊

I was born in 91. This makes sense

Great job Melbourne- got out of the Navy in '92 and dropped into San Francisco for the next 8 yrs. Wouldn't trade those years for anything. Best, *A.

I was there. From about 95' onwards. I frequented a lot of day clubs/ after parties in Melbourne like Strawberry Sundays. I started off in the rave scene completely drug free. I just wanted to dance. Unfortunately towards the year 2000, I started taking pingers. Only ever half or a quarter. They were full of smack and you'd be giving your jaw a huge workout. I think I preferred the rave scene more when I was sober. It was so much fun. We went to so many festivals where you went to enjoy the DJ's. Not like festivals today. We would get dressed up in wigs and so much glitter. Bindi's on your face. Huge fly glasses and wide leg track pants and glow in the dark sneakers. I had a group of friends who were so amazing. They were so much fun. I now see why they were so much fun....... they were all on drugs. HAHA!! Some of them were Aussie celebrities, so we would get into all the clubs for free and the drugs were free and so were the drinks most of the time. I found hanging out with these people completely wonderful but so overwhelming. We had a friend group of about 20 people. I am no longer in contact with any of them because I moved away from Melbourne. But these were the best days of my life.

9:57 Rockin that Aphex shirt

What a good watch

Best times of my life,

Went to some insane raves in Sydney around 89/90 and epic raves in Adelaide from 92 to 96.

Looks like a proper cool scene. Well done Melbourne 👏

I want some of the posters!

amazing times....

To bad nothing lasts forever. It evolved so fast, just like my age

Where is Will-E-Tell?? Jason Midro these days I wonder

War of the world's @ Westgate Leisure Centre ? With some sound from Xtreme Sound Lighting / GLT

this was fucking amazing to watch! so inspiring !

fantastic times and was lucky to go to a few events before they got too commercial in the late 90s. was asked once at a rave (forget the name, was over in a (silo?) warehouse around Footscray) if i had anything but I was just high off dancing for 6+ hours. dude followed me into the toilets while i was trying to refill a plastic bottle with some water.

The parties at Shed 14 .

Gives me goosebumps. Wish I could’ve been around for this era. What’s that second song??

This ending song tho ❤

Anyone have the track IDs for this?

Melbourne underground Techno scene is still strong. Reminds me of the dudes who runs Sleepercell now. so much good new underground dance music coming out of Melb

IF YOU SURVIVED THE RAVE YEARS WELL DONE. /pats u head

Every Picture Tells A Story Car Park Gang Reporting ahahaha that was the shit

DJ Lee Harvey here. Wow. I went to the LEGENDARY PARTY In Perth called ... TELEPATHY . NEVER seen anything like that. Came to melbs , went to M.U.D house n FUCK ME , IT WAS A FOUR FLOOR , MULTI MASH , INTEGRATED, SEVEN TIMES OF TELEPATHY. respect . Got gigs . Played 4-5 times went EVERYFKNTIME. GOT the T-shirt

What song was that at the start?

global village was my church ❤

Yep i'd definitely love to go back in time to be here for this. I'm not gonna say its better or worse nowadays, but what it was back then sure looked pretty special. This was the time my whole family born and raised in melb where all still there mostly living together. My older brothers were raving on weekends and would come back home still going and i was just a kid lol, one of them who's now turning 40 gave me his old school phat pants from the 90's when i was just getting into raving around 2007, but there wasn't many events worthy of them in my opinion because i'd moved to brisbane by the time i was 'of age' and the raves up there where all a genre of music called 'happy hardcore' and 'gabba' and just plain 'hardcore' which to be honest sounded like pure meth in my opinion because i grew up on 'good' dance music in melb with underground radio and demo CD's from my bro's rave nights and movies like Groove, Human Traffic and Kevin & Perry Go Large and I couldn't wait for my time!, but these guys raving in brissy where all metal heads and punks, combined with the huge humidity and heat in these confined run down places made it all kinda shit in terms of 'raves'. Still a great experience I wouldn't take back, but I knew it was nothing compared to what my brothers had. At the same time Family Nightclub Fortitude Valley Bris were hosting some epic artists and their venue was tip top, along with that so where the pills for a while so that became like a rave every Friday night for my group when the trance lineups would play, people would wear rave candy, phat pants and be hugging everyone etc. It was beautiful, but it was still just a club meaning lots of rules, albeit fairly relaxed to todays club standards. We'd be munted and dancing like animals (we all shuffled haha), cuddling like crazy, sinking into fury walls and drinking heaps of water lol doesn't sound all that crazy but a lot of this stuff would have you targeted for eviction by security by todays standards. I can actually feel the energy around these 90's melbourne raves by the association to my older brothers, i feel connected to the air and the music and culture. Time machine PLLLEASE. Now i DJ, i make music, i study music and culture around the scene, I attend outdoor bush parties twice a year and attend my own local clubs here in Byron Bay to encourage the electronic music scene. I've chosen to live here for the past 5yrs as a way to connect to something like the energy we have at doofs and raves - a feeling of community. Electronic Music has come so far!

I had top fun in the early 90's Melbourne rave events Fred(E)ricK

It was scenes like this that made me want to begin throwing events. Trying to take it back to the roots of rave culture... here in 2024. be on the look out for Marvelous Productions our first event is in less than 3 months.

nice to see friends from the future past and present in the now then..1000plus mikes crew . I do find one thing funny., you funny lot talk about the past ehhhh yeah we still do what we do .booom this love y'all

Why is this on "VICE Asia"? Australia is not Asia.

Please track name ...time 14.40??

Tekno mandala super epic

ANABOLIC FROLIC HAPPY 2B HARDCORE

need a track listing.

nice

What’s the song at 10:14 ?

great times

psychic harmony

Anyone know the track ID from 5:36 - 7:53..?? 🙏✨

The sum of the parts is greater than any individual. Yay . Mad tech .

It was loving no fighting

Edm for life

whats the track at 10.18💥💥💥💥💥💥

Does anyone know what song it is at 18:41?

Julien Assange what the actual fck?! 😂

Track ID at 3.30? Wicked 👌

anyone know the track ID at 10:18?

3:20 what is that tune please?

Tune at 17.34???

finally glad to see dicko in all these types of doco's, without dicko there wouldnt have been such a robust scene, phuckenlostyeah!

I have a love/hate relationship with all of this. I LOVED the 80's and was eclectic before it became de rigueur, and a key aspect of that was loving the broad spectrum of Dance Music. I heard House before most people in Melbourne, but was not overly impressed by it. I HATE it that House just DOMINATED everything after 1988! However, one could not avoid any of this as we headed on into the 90's. So, I have some key experience with this, but never felt a 'part' of it.

Need the playlist of music ASAP

26:50 Jason Midro must either be a vampire or simply immortal.

What ist the ID of the Track at 3:28?

This is focused on when it started to become more mainstream accessible, ignoring how it got there and what came before. Which is kinda what you need to explain why it was so unique. If anything, while increasing mainstream accessibility created something of a heyday it was also the beginning of the end.

1:58 lol I love how that is still a thing to this day Also I can definitely relate to preferring raves over nightclubs 10:32 lmaoo they held it at a climbing gym?

EPTAS, Madass oh and the Docks 😪 But Class Wars did them all. Rudeboy, Voitek, H2O, Honeysmack and the Acid Agency, Suga. Ah hell yeah.

Anyone remember the Betty ford clinic on St Kilda Road.The Feds didn’t like it as much as I did!