Ranting and Raving

This was sent to me by someone respected in the old school rave community and a current DJ & producer of electronic music. This was in response to me wondering why all these new school (and old school) ravers and rave DJs think that unless they know about it or is what they like it must not be good or relevant; and that not everyone who likes a particular genre of music wants to be involved with these parties, especially if you were a part of it the first time around.

"I suppose people want to hold onto the "knowable past." Yeah, I'll pop on a few classics AT HOME on Serato once in a while, but mostly I keep it out of my [rarely] playing out or catering to any semblance of a rave scene. Of course, some classics transcend the scene because they were pre-rave or just plain timeless. My attitude is that I only play, write, remix or produce for the music heads to give them and myself a good journey. Perhaps that's why I don't play out so often - too high a standard and too few willing to bring it up.

Anyhow, people shouldn't talk smack just because a lot of us grew out of it and took lessons learned elsewhere. The lack of historical knowledge is appalling. The lack of re-evaluating or inability to re-evaluate history and the present against historical knowledge is even more so. Historical sources should be inherently distrusted and cross-checked because the only true history that exists is that which lies wordlessly within. Rave culture had its time in human history and rarely are its echoes truly humanistic, adaptive and forward-looking.

Whew, a small vent :)"