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CYBER TRIBAL//YOU UPGRADE// feb 20 2001
Cook on the Wild Side
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADVERTISINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGcreative, alternative cuisine for private parties and secret gatherings "Discretion is the better part of dinner" RAINBOW LIZZIE (as seen on TV) 0208-992-3657 Leicester FRI FEB 23 MAIN ROOM - perry, jon bradley, freaky bob playing their own brand of techno, acid, trance CHILL OUT - boba fett, mr. rob (trancemission) debs (babble) playing a blend of breakz beatz and tech house. 9pm - 2am, Oxford Street. £5 b4 10.30, £6 after http://www.peek.org.uk YOU 2304 Hello Fraser, Thank u ever sooooooo much for all your info and humour...its GREAT. We need more people in this world like you ...with insight & humour. Shayne/filthycrew YOU 2305 London SAT FEB 24 CHRIS LIBERATOR, BEAMISH, JOHN ASKEW, ED PETERSEN, ZAK FROST, JOHN MUTO, AFTERSHOCK £6 before 11pm, £7 after - (£5 nus/cons all night) @The Telegraph, 228 Brixton Hill YOU 2306 GREAT NEWS RAVE CRACKDOWN (cont) BITS & BOBS FROM THE ORLANDO SENTINEL FRONT LINE WHO'S DOING THE MOST DAMAGE? Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary again spilled his anguish over having to tell parents that their children had died of overdoses. He said nothing of having to tell parents of surviving drug users that their children would be going to jail for a decade or more. …. One speaker who identified herself as a teacher relayed her early teenage students' descriptions of clubs they said were frequented by other kids their age, clubs whose floors were lined with razor blades, syringes and all manner of drug paraphernalia. She talked about acid guns, squirt guns used to fire LSD across the room. She described cologne-based firebombs being chucked across dance floors. Think the students exaggerated? I'm no club kid, but I go out a bunch, and I've never seen anyone at a club chuck a lit bottle of CK1 or High Karate. Nor have I seen anyone waste perfectly potent liquid LSD as squirt-gun fodder. [don't suppose these kids might have read shit like this in certain (like all) overground madia?] A VERY VERY GOOD QUESTION But the drug issue is bigger than clubs, he said. "If parents and law enforcement can't stop people from using drugs, how can a business-owner be expected to do that?". …. "This is a problem we can't solve. This is a problem of our youth," said Commissioner Teresa Jacobs while facing a crowd filled with young people. "You're the ones that can solve this issue better than anyone. You all are the only ones you will listen to. You won't listen to us." [guess why not.] tgray@orlandosentinel.com GREAT NEWS RAVE CRACKDOWN (YOU FEEDBACK) Let me just say that I thoroughly enjoy your ezine. It always informs me and gives me a good laugh with its spirited approach and warm and humorous sense of humanity. It always makes me feel proud to be an acid house casualty, yes one of the old, original ravers who danced to the early Chicago, NY and Detroit shit, who chased the early Phuture and Adonis records while taking a summer off from college in Ireland and working on the building sites in London. Who shit a brick when A Guy Called Gerald's Voodoo Ray came and who still gets teary eyed when he reads about the Hacienda (even though I was never there) or listens to the tunes that made that magical summer so magical. chris orr. GREAT NEWS RAVE CRACKDOWN (YOU FEEDBACK) >>Readers in Europe should know that this story is beginning to be covered nationally in the USA. American readers should understand that Rave Culture has been established in Europe for 5 years now, and idealists among us have been praying impatiently for American culture to GET MOVING! > This is the most weirdest deviation of your device, so to speak. I am well versed in this history. Its almost perverse, rave has been fully in effect, at the most conservative effort, in the UK and EU since 87. In the USA since, again, conservatively, 92. ESTABLISHED, i meant, as a CULTURE. it did say elsewhere in the article that just having raves isn't yet a culture etc. i said 5 years ago because that was the second year of megatripolis and i stand by the date. :-) > Such a gross statement of fact from you (I mean I know you're fanatical and all, but I DO agree with much of your thinking) is NOT helpful to you, especially when you don't know who you are talking to through these mailings. From someone who for months thought you more knowledgeable and versed from an elder point of view on social issues, it seems as if you've just recently (couple years of good E) been rocked by a few good parties, and its got your tail spinning. i see how you made the mistake and maybe i wrote rather loosely there. for the record i went to the acid house parties of the '80s. as is described in the previous article REPETITIVE BEATS. > As I said, your thinking and commentary are extremely appreciated, and should be disseminated on the whole. BUT, as EVERY "been through the wash" raver knows, the party ends when it all wears off. Hunter Wilson-Hysteria Records. hmm. no. watch for my Five Stages of Rave Culture, coming up on the UP soon. MOST rave clubs even today in the UK still have hardly reached Stage 2. the scene i deal with now have mostly gotten to the 3rd or 4th. :-) or you could let your fingers do the walking and check the BOOK OF RAVeLATIONS on my web site. i was actually the first writer/magazine to celebrate the ARRIVAL of RC (rave culture) but hey, lissen, hunter, thanks for CARING!!! and i mean that sincerely. fraser. Dear Frase! Looking good you do, not like an old goat at all. I love what you´re doing. kat/ germany. GREAT NEWS RAVE CRACKDOWN (YOU FEEDBACK) >and now a dear friend in LA writes me that she and her posse felt chills down their spines when they heard the news from orange county, and she's not sure if she's ready for a revolution. babe, the good news is You Just Don't Have A Choice! we've been rebelling over here in the UK for a decade and it's the greatest!) hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe! You crack me up, Fraser! i guess I haven't talked to you about this before, but here on the west coast, in particular Southern California, where people like myself think nothing of packing up our cars with a weekend's worth of supplies and driving 100-300 miles EACH way to a remote desert location where we can be free, and make as much noise as we want, and not bother anybody else -- we're STILL getting shit! They have even created a "Rave Task Force" by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management governing national park land) [Come on you early london ravers, what was the name of that police unit Thatcher set up to stamp out the acid house parties? they closed my very first club, "DESTINY",the poor Know-Not-What-They-Dos!] and they monitor our e-mail postings, etc. They're trying to introduce legislation against amplified sound of any kind, and make it illegal for more than 50 people to be together without a permit. [see Newsweek's report below on my response when they tried to prevent the Zippy sound system from getting to the GRAND CANYON ZIPPY MEGA RAVE] when you apply for a permit, they tell you they would have to do an environmental impact study that would take approximately 2 years, ad nauseum, ad infinitum The Florida uprising happening now pertains to commercial venues. The legislation in California is attacking non-commercial events organized by nature-loving, tree-hugging, ecstatic-music dancers. We are uniting on this end...Will keep you posted! BTW, I've been going to raves in Los Angeles since 1990. We were watching the culture and music emerge from the Manchester scene way back then. It was what I had been waiting for for so long. zenbaba/los angeles GREAT NEWS RAVE CRACKDOWN (YOU FEEDBACK) DEAR UNCA SHAM, the part that gets to me the most (especially as I'm becoming older and more "mature" -- ha! snort!) is the element of drugs. I'm not willing to become a martyr for a completely unnatural synthesized derivative of methamphetamine (i.e, ecstasy). I've been feeling very conflicted on this issue, and am still sorting out my feelings on it. It's so synonymous with our "scene" (from this point on, I'll be using the term "community" because it more accurately reflects my true feelings) and it makes me SICK! I want to distance myself from it, and bring attention to the IMPORTANT parts of what we do, and what we represent. My mission has become to be an example for the younger people to see (I don't want to make up anybody's mind for them, what I want to do is show them that it is POSSIBLE to be another way). Lord knows, I am no prude when it comes to these things, and I have tried almost everything under the sun (when I was younger and stupider, my enthusiastically repeated motto was "I'll try anything THRICE!"), but now I feel I have outgrown the urge to ingest massive amounts of chemical substances to alter my consciousness so I can "enjoy" a gathering or being with my friends. For over a year and a half now I have been attending events drugfree, and have never enjoyed myself more! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... (heavy sigh). I'm stuck on this one groove, and I haven't moved because I haven't made up my mind where I stand on it. I cannot compromise myself by ignoring something that has come to bother me so much -- but I can see that obviously it doesn't strike everyone else the same way. How can I reconcile these feelings? - - [UNCA SHAMAN REPLIES: i agree with everything you say, enquirer, and actually do the same (not counting the erb, "our daily bread" as terence mckenna used to call it) but surely this is the very test for democratic shamanism? in the age of DIY SHAMANISM into which we are accelerating, each individual must find out for hirself. a younger shaman probably needs more boosters to reach the other states (testing the limits) while the older shaman has found a more natural, balanced way to access them more regularly. in other words the older you get on the shaman's trail, the less conditioned you become - conditioned by the unnatural society we are raised in. a more matured shaman cannot possibly BAN anything to the younger explorer (unless they have evolved into a guru/chela role) but the price of freedom, of course, is eternal vigilance. it is your DUTY to disperse your information/ knowledge/ experience as openly as possible - up the point of tedium. The young must learn what they can where they can find it and a big part of that will be us older uns. It is our sacred duty as I see it. GREAT NEWS RAVE CRACKDOWN (YOU FEEDBACK) BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT PROPOSED NEW GROUP USE REGULATIONS The BLF, a federal agency, has proposed new Group Use Regulations that will more clearly define the permit requirements for all types of group use, including the "non-competitive, non-commercial" gatherings that we are all involved with. I have briefly reviewed the proposed regs and here are the main points: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) If we choose not to get permits, which is always a viable option, the new regs could give BLM footing to issue citations that could stick and possibly result in fines on the order of thousands of dollars (as the Forest Service has done with Rainbow gatherings). Here's the link to the BLM page with the general info on the proposed regs. http://www.blm.gov/nhp/news/regulatory/index.htm#2930 Within the regs you will find more instructions on commenting, and contact numbers of real people who you are encouraged to call speak with about what these regs mean in real terms. Please read the regs before calling these guys and submitting comments so we can present a well informed and coherent front. http://www.blm.gov/nhp/news/regulatory/2930/2930p.html YOU 2307 NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE, SEPT, 1994: CYBER-TRIBAL TRANCE DANCE Subcultures: Zippy Ravers get wild out West EARLY FRIDAY MORNING, ON THE RED clay slopes of a remote mountain in Arizona's Kaibab National Forest, a couple of rangers are offering Fraser Clark a list of reasons why amplification and lighting equipment are prohibited on national forest land. Behind the rangers' backs, a white truck carrying two dozen speaker cabinets and 24,000 watts of power bumps its way up a closed seven mile dirt road - sans headlights. "They're smuggling sound" Clark says a half hour later. He's directing the truck to an impromptu rave, part of the World Unity Festival, a grandly envisioned weekend gathering of spiritual seekers. "Those rangers overreached themselves and allowed the zippies to move in behind them" Welcome to the world of zippies, or "Zen Inspired Pronoia Professionals" - pronoia is the sneaking suspicion that someone is conspiring to help you. The largely European movement is the brainchild of Clark, a 51 year old hippie from Glasgow who espouses a philosophy that attempts to unite the spontaneity and flexible aspects of the hippie right brain with the logical, pragmatic left. Zippies live on the internet, where they commune, philosophize and alert each other to upcoming raves (all night communal dances) by posting an 800 number. They also complain a lot about consumerism. As for the right brain, zippies like to dance all night to computer-generated rhythms, surrounded by colorful synchronised computer-generated images, until they reach a trance-like state. "It's redefining the ancient tribal ritual for the youth of the 21st century" says deejay Goa Gil, 42, one of a handful spinning three nights of raves on the mountain. The 800 to 1000 zippies were joined about 50 miles south of the Grand Canyon by as many as 8000 refugees from the World Unity Festival, including Hare Krishnas, pagans, Native Americans and the mobile hippie commune known as the Rainbow People. The confluence of sub-cultures gave the remote area the aura of 21st century tribalism, a dash of Mad Max mixed with a Robert Bly retreat in the midst of a hippie love-in. 24 hours after its clandestine arrival, the system was up and the fat dance beat spinning. "This is an act of meditation" says Gil. "There's the ancient tribal feeling underneath and the cyberfuture on top." The centre of the zippy universe is Clark's club Megatripolis, which he opened in London a year ago last June. There he offered "smart drinks" (zippies do psychedelic drugs but not alcohol) the Parallel YOUniversity (lecture rooms given over to philosophers) market stalls selling zippy fashions, and ambient rooms where tired ravers rest and spin out their trance-induced ideas. The club draws some 2000 zippies a week, and a San Francisco Megatripolis is set to open on Oct 1. Next: Seattle and Vancouver. While zippies are gaining adherents on the internet, they're also dismissed by some online critics as another flash in the pan - "like the Shoemaker Levy 9" wrote one. But to JP Palamara, 16, from Westchester County, NY, the Arizona rave was a powerful experience. "I'm not sure many people get it yet" he says. "It's just a new way - finding spirituality through technology, you know?" Newsweek. Sept 4, 1994. YOU 2308 THURS FEB 22 Performance poetry by John Constable, Ged Forrest, Jem Rolls @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk/Camden Passage, Islington N1 (Angel tube) (doors 8.30pm start 9pm) INFO - 0208 536 0652. shortfuse@morethanwords.co.uk YOU 2309 I am against the drugs of the raves. I am all for dancing but I don't like the kids doing the drugs. I have been in the house scene since the early beginnings and while I listened to Joe Smooth and Steve"silk"Hurley, and Marshall Jefferson at the age of 18 I was not high!!!!! The clubs need to introduce a natural alternative for the kids. The govt has always been able to kill a scene because of the drugs they import. Stop falling for it. Get high on the music and high on life and PURE Energy!!!! Keep on dancin Tanya Louise www.mp3.com/tanyalouise YOU 2310 FEB 25 - MARCH 1 The Independent Art School invites you to present your current ideas/work at its next event at Dilston Grove in London. This can take the form of a talk/discussion, a workshop (experiments, interventions e), a practical demonstration (performances), and/or the exhibiting of archive material. An archive may include video footage, audio material, sketchbooks, publications, photographs etc. The event will be an opportunity for sharing/exchanging thoughts and knowledge. A platform for the ideas driving your work. For the continuation of discussions surrounding what individuals and groups are learning through their own practice and personal experiences. Everyone will at once be artist/student/tutor. http://website.lineone.net/~nschool/ YOU 2311 FRI FEB 23 Psychedelic trance, breakbeat pys-trance. - Chrisbo Pablo Gargano Baraka Ed Tangent Phil Ross The Dub Club Session DJ Perch (Zion Train) Dougie Wardrop DubTrees - LIVE Cloud 9, 67-68 Albert Embankment, Vauxhall £12. (020 7735 5522) http://www.rtts.com YOU 2312 HIP-HOP, R & B, 2 STEP, US GARAGE, LUSH HOUSE AND TECHNO TIP 1) Various - New York Grooves (Groovin' NYC) 2) Yukihiro Fukutomi - Music Is The Healer (Remixes) (Forma, Japan) 3) Sha-lor - I'm In Love (Gertie) 4) Bird - Game (Sony Japan). 5) Mondo Grosso - MG4 LP (Sony Japan)-this record is absolutely amazing, a fusion of 70s style jazz, R & B, hip- hop, latin house and 2 Step. Incredibly. Easily on of the best dance albums I have ever heard in my life. 6) Jovonn feat. Kaaye - Shout (Next Moov) 7) Spice Girls - Holler (Masters at Work remix instrumental) 8) Laws of Motion - Naima (dub)(File, Japan) 9) Cooly's Hot Box - Wasted Time (Purpose Records) 10) Aceyalone - Accepted Eclectic (Ground Control). 11) Jigmastas - Nocturnal Jam (Beyond Real) 12) Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23 (Luaka Bop) 13) Darryl James and David Anthony Project - It's Getting Bigger (Freeze) 14) Millsart - Every Dog Has It Day Vols 1 and 2 (Axis) 15) Big Pun - 100% (Latin Instrumental) (Loud) 16) Outkast feat. Erykah Baduh - Humble Mumble (La Face) 17) Soul Drummers - Medicine Man (Afro Art) 18) Audiomontage - Snert (track) (Freerange Records) 19) Five Special - Why Leave Us Alone (Larry Levan Mix) (Elektra) 20) Kerri Chandler and Jerome Sydenham - Ko Ko (Ibadan) YOU 2313 |