The HATED Subculture.. That Changed the World 

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E makes you love each other and Alcohol makes you fight. No wonder E is illegal.

Please stop using AI Thumbnails

A drug researcher who attended raves says the police would turn up and ignore the drunks who were fighting and arrest the people on drugs who were hugging

Interesting side note concerning the US military's experiments with MDMA. Their trials concluded that subjects became too empathetic, too passive, and far more willing to engage with an adversary on non-adversarial terms, thus the chemical had "limited to no tactical value."

If you didn’t experience it directly, the late 80’s early to mid nineties was amazing. Getting garried up, dancing like a tit, hugging everyone around you and just being with 100’s of people with no trouble. No showing off, no pretentiousness just good vibes, amazing tunes and a lot of come downs. Partying will never be the same as long as people care more about how they look, over having an amazing time whilst out of your tree. Garries will never be the same again

I'm a proud 90s Raver and don't regret it at all. It was the best time I will ever have.

No camera phones. No social media. Just avin' it. I raved for around 15 years with no photographic evidence (thank fck)😂

I remember going to one rave in the 90s. that ended up with about 600 of us baracaded into a warehouse while the cops tried to break down the VERY heavily baracaded doors. Took em an hour to get in and then things went fucking haywire. Brilliant night, managed to even escape before getting arrests lol

"What is your name? What have you had? Reach for the lasers! Safe as f*ck ;)"

Something id like to add. Illegal freeparties still happen every weekend, southwest UK especially from my experience. It’s come full circle as you mentioned and is most definitely on the rise once again!

Let's ask the Miners about how Thancherism "worked for a bit". Also great video. I love your culture videos. I think the bosuzoku would make another great video.

crazy to think all these people are like 55 now

It's hard to describe the feeling to someone who's never done it, but dancing at a rave while fueled with X was an amazing feeling

Ecstasy = ❤️. Thank you ecstasy for all the awesome experiences you have given me.

you got me on pillgrimage

bad ai thumbnail is bad

nobody will understand it if they've never had a pill, its all so lovely

As an old Dutch raver I really like this video, brings back meteorites

When you discussed the impact of ecstasy, I was very suddenly and deeply moved. For a second, I was taken back to those times and that feeling. The value of that time, something that changed forever those who were there. I am 52 now. I won't bore you with my story, but suffice it to say - I lived full time in Ibiza from 2009-2021. The rave ethos is very personal to me. P.L.U.R. 🤪🤩

lol the girl with the parking situation just wants to have fun. I hope she's doing well today.

In the early to mid 90's I used to get booked for Raves and took between 30 and 60 fire / stage performers, put on massive pyrotechnic shows with flame throwers, explosives and big trucks with 40ft towers and all sorts, performed with Orbital, Fat Boy Slim, Carl Cox and loads more, they were the daze. The main outside shows would get up to 20k people watching.

Great vid. Human Traffic quote at the end, safe as f**k 😂

The moral panic at the time was real. Telling a bunch of reception/year 1 kids at the time about Ecstacy, the week after Dunblane happened was one hell of a mood whiplash EDIT: To be fair the way I've always heard it from people who were deep into rave culture was they were going for industtrial estates and not rocking up and taking over a town hall and blasting beats. Then you had the club scenes too with club ravers. Hello there Hacienda club for example

17:48 Orbital :) Back in highschool (early 2000's) I started to listen artists like Future Sound of London, Orbital, The Prodigy, the Chemical Brothers, Juno Reactor, et cetera. Back then it was all "techno" to me, maybe slighly more intelligent than what was commonly known as "techno" (read: cheap and silly pop dance music, popular at discoteques at the time). Then "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music" came along, allowing me to educate myself in the matter... Getting into this music was just a matter of time, I always liked electronic music and artists like Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre and "Synthesizer Greatest" compilations. First heard the term "rave" when I was reading about The Prodigy - "Music for the Jilted Generation" was supposed to be reaction to the British law essentially banning the rave parties in 1994 (f___ 'em and their law!). I really liked the MFtJG, since two tracks, "Voodoo People" and "One Love" were used in the movie "Hackers". I also liked their first album "Experience" made in style of "breakbeat hardcore" (aka "oldschool rave" - common ancestor of jungle and happy hardcore) and "The Fat of the Land". the phenomenon so far known as "techno subculture" became known as "rave culture". I never was at the rave party. But I really like the music, like house (Daft Punk), actual techno (Jeff Mills, Underground Resistance, Chris Liebing, Siasia), trance (Astral Projection, early Juno Reactor), drum and bass (4 Hero, Omni Trio, LTJ Bukem), et cetera. Sadly the internet radio "Digitally Imported" which provided live shows for many electronic music genres, became more and more annoying with ads and then disabled playing links in external music player like Foobar 2000. Luckily the single-style radios, like jungletrain, BassDrive (drum and bass) or deepinradio (deep house) still work. When it comes to the culture, I think the PLUR (peace love unity respect) was not only nice, but also very different from how "techno" fans were stereotypally portraied, mostly by metalheards (read: gopniks/chavs constantly high on drugs (usually amphetamine), making lots of noise and acting violently towards anything that moves). I like the idea that people may throw away their differences, like race, nationality or sexual orientation and just party together like there's no tomorrow. After all, we're all humans, you know? Place where you can be accepted no matter who you are sounds like a paradise to someone like me - socially anxious, awkward and not really feeling welcome anywhere. It's really sad that moral panic around rave parties made MDMA illegal, despite being successful in treating PTSD and could be very promising for severe social anxiety disorder. Taking drugs at the parties is risky (to say the least), but if they can help people, they should be allowed for psychiatric use, at least IMHO.

The government hates when people all get on well and have a great time. MDMA should 100% be legal.

If I could travel back in time to any point, it would be to the early days of raves and free parties in the late 80s and early 90s. Forget ancient Rome or 1960s San Fransisco.

Funk and Soul all-dayers in the 70s and 80s combined with jamaican soundsystem culture had people raving before house music

This was a masterful assembly of information dude. Always look forward to your content.

A friend of mine tried an "E" for the first time a couple of months ago, at the age of 54. He had a great time and wished he'd done it when he was young, if only to make the music more palatable. I should point out that "he" would never condone the consumption of amazing illegal pharmaceuticals that make you feel awesome. 😉

Ah yes I remember everyone on ecstacy, going to jail and getting addicted while I was sad and listening to Nirvana.

Thank god here in brazil everything arrives late so the golden age of eletronic is just begining 😂

I was a candy raver in the 90s. This is quite the throwback 😊

14:45 "Evil dealers openly peddled drugs..." Oh pipe down, Mildred. You used to be a Flapper. (Were there "Flappers" in GB in the 1920s?)

Half a dove in ‘89 - 🤩 3 Mitsi Turbo’s in ‘98 - 😴

Ravin from the 90s and still ravin now 🥳 keeps you young

I was a Raver back in The 90z in Philly. We where Polo raverz. Triple xl Polo from head to toe bleached hair and nike air-max..lots of outlaw raves. It was a wild ass time. Glad i was there.

great vid and thank you for being 1 of the few who knows when it really started, I'm 51 and people refuse to believe me when I say 80s. Here in Australia, they call raves a doof, they hold them in middle of the bush to this day, only it's mostly ket they use. Human Traffic is my all time favourite doco (lol), it was so on point as a movie portraying the scene and the story was a banger too

If they hadn't started cutting the E wi all sorts of shite, we'd all be hugging with sore jaws right now. 😅

"Member", Mitzies and dolphins, biscuits, cowies up toonside, garries elsewhere, rockshots, the basement, arcane, arches, powerhouse, digital... Madheds, charvas, gadgies, little Gav and all that crew... Life was mint❤

You should do a video on the people that would travel around and follow the Grateful Dead back in the 70’s/80’s

Great video as always Jimmy! A good documentary about house music is Pump Up the Volume.

This is probably a weird thing to say, but your eyebrows remind me of Mac Miller. 🙂

"What's your name? What've you had?...Reach for the lasers.... Safe as Fuck" hahaha :)

went to a rave once, no drugs for me though, never have never will. I hated it wasn't my thing at all! Breaking into people's private property and leaving all that mess behind and keeping locals up all nite, good job it all got shut down!

That clip at 7:48 was sampled by Slam Inducer in the song "You Know Acid", watchers of Babestation in the early days will recognise it well! Loved this vid, took me way back!

Loved this! So happy that i experienced 90's raves every weekend. Best times of my life \o/

Dem think it’s over but we not done yet

Loved up. 6ft monster of a man ,holding the toilet door open for you ,asking if you'd luke a massage from his girlfriend and a hug from him. The beautiful friendliness, and chilled togetherness was comforting, exhilarating and extatic. Loved the loved up feeling.

anybody know the record at 11:56? It's the rave footage from when Hitman & Her filmed at Eclipse in Coventry? Frantic, early 90s hoover-sounding techno. Sounds like the nightclub was about to blast into orbit at a moment's notice.

All my friends downing fancy pills in the 90s are now OH MY MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES...

You should really look into the dutch Gabber scene

You forgot to talk about the Essex and what that lead to in 1996 with the Essex's boys

Ecstasy changed in the 90s when that coppers daughter died who had one at her birthday.

And I lived through it all and loved every minute. 1989-2004 I was a major clubber, Tribal Gathering, Big Love 96, Sundissential, Club Country, Passion @ Emporium.... there were so many raves and events, they were great times, best nights of my life, never to be repeated!

I saw Paul Oakenfold, Sasha and Digweed, Goldie, The Chemical Brothers ect. All while roiling hard. It was a great time. I stopped raving around the time foam parties were getting popular.

Mate you may want to put a flashing lights warning around the 3 minute mark

This is such a fuckin zoomer take. You should talk to someone who was there.

Awesome Vid! Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany

Hated subculture? According to whom may I ask? Because I remember being a teenager in the late 80s early 90s and it was only Maggie Thatchers government and the police and the occasional up themselves parents that had something to say. Almost every kid was at it having a good go at it.....and those that didn't weren't worth knowing. It was our time and most of us smashed it and had a great old time of it. I went to many great nights, plenty of raves at the Sanctuary Dreamscape 11, Dreamscape 15 vs 16, Helter Skelter 29th April 94, I enjoyed Pleasuredomes, Distruxions, we had Dreamscape 5 in my own city in club Evolution we had it laaaaaarge. Tough titters to those that missed it.....well.....look on the bright side.....you've got Taylor Swift to help keep you going 😂😂

I was a 90's kid going to raves in Austin...gooooood times I miss those days! Didn't even do drugs was just there for the music lol.

Sounds like all of the problems could have been solved with making it legal and giving them a place to be.

Yes! Do a video about that cult. Thank you and please.

Being into "rave culture" I've watched a number of documentaries on the subject and your video here is an excellent update and explanation for the younger generation(s). I'm old enough to have lived through part of it at least... If i had one critique, i'd say calling the 1986 electro snippet [9:12] as house music incorrect, but otherwise a great video! EDIT: unless your wanna refer to it all as BDM (Body Dance Music) EDIT EDIT: For anyone interested i do recommend checking out ishkers guide to music for a great breakdown and example of electronic music history

Amazing video! Not sure about the thumbnail though.. the ai image just makes it uncanny

was waiting for this video since the research stream. great one mate

Watching the hitman shit himself round a load of loved up ravers when previously he'd played sleeze god of the pissheads..and its true at early raves we had everyone there inc skinheads true. I went to early acid house then to licenced and then back to unlicenced with new age travellers festies(where hundreds of rave tents pitched up and the travellers sold the drugs, food and drink) happy dazE.

Good breakdown again, Jimmy. Could've had another 15 minutes on that topic. Love how yr new style is evolving. Respect.

Love the footage of raving gabber people that was filmed in a Dutch disco near my hometown. I always have the feeling that I remember all of them from the local bus station back in the nineties. And all of them were constantly chewing. 😀

By the time this started The Beastie Boys had already released Paul's Boutique, what hip-hop historians agree is the first modern sampling techniques, so house music probably suppressed real hip-hop for a while.

its sad to see the state of some dance music events and 'raves' (if you could even call them that) today, rooms filled with teenagers looking for fights, filming the DJ 24/7, £4 bottles of water and they go to hear music they already know. Wish I was around in these days

Nicely done ☺ From an old skool raver

You're my new favourite channel. Narration style is concise and entertaining. On top of that the topics you choose shed a new light and give new perspective on events that I have lived through.

I'm a simple man, I see a new video from Jimmy, I like. Simple as.

I've never heard of this "Eye-Bee-Fah." The word you're showing is pronounced closer to "Ee-Bee-Tha."

great video keep up the work

Big commercial raves nowadays have nothing on a bunch of lads crammed into a shitty car calling the party line and driving out to the middle of nowhere

very dissapointed that the gabberhouse and movement from rotterdam wasn't mentioned

I can't get into a music scene or subculture where drugs are at the center of it. More so than the music. I'm not against drugs. I like them too sometimes. 😂. This whole scene is cringe to me.

Saying raves never died it's like saying disco lives on forever 😅

Love your presentation style. Hope you hit 1 mil subs!

I loved the very early days from late 1988 to early 1991, i sold my SL1200's in February 91 as i knew it was over then, picked up a guitar and got into rock n roll instead and i'm still on that boat today!

The British pronunciation of Ibiza as "Eyebeefa" is CRAZY omg Love your videos btw.

IN 1988 racialism was in steep decline in football and youth culture how much of this was down to house music culture i dont know

It didn’t end in the 90’s.. it carried on and it’s still happening today. on the illegal side techno prevails. In the early 2000 ketamine arrived, and completely destroyed the peace a love ecstasy scene. The Era of the Zombies started. 😢

Human Traffic must be to the UK as Party Monster is to the US ill have to check that out asap

You're doing something special that changed the lives of millions for the better a massive disservice by using that thumbnail

This is the most English video on the Internet. Love it.

At the heart of every musical genre is a black American dude somewhere.

Been waiting for this. I’m a DnB DJ from London and am completely obsessed with 90s rave culture. I also partake in throwing parties in not so licensed venues. You can’t kill the dance

Jimmy Jimmy keep up the good work loving the evolution of you videos from the early days.

the free partys are still going on most weekends in the uk its not really died out but more so the news doesn't report on it much

man i love your videos but you’ve got to stop using these heinous AI generated thumbnails. it’s lazy and unethical not to mention the art is so ugly it doesn’t justify the use in my opinion.

Safe as fuck. 🙃

To say that rave started with House in the 80s in the US is daft. Electronic music had been pioneered in the 60s and 70s in Europe already.

I remember back them, one pill would keep you flying for 12hrs straight. Great times😊

Please do the unwanted subculture of the charva

I was part of the 90’s rave scene from across the pond. Many fond memories. Also, check out the movie Technobabble, loads of cringe.

Excellent video. I love your cultural reporting, Jimmy. Safe as phúc.

I loved taking shit loads of drugs in these times. I put a reeeet good shift in. Retired now.😜