I love Rave Culture.

"They ruined it for us. Before, it was responsible people [taking drugs]. It wasn't silly. It got silly when they made it commercial. And that's when it got worrying 'cos you had young kids doing drugs 'cos they were told by the press that was what everyone was doing. Everyone became sheep. Our club was about individuals, characters. But it became horrible drugs, horrible people." - Paul Oakenfold, top DJ and producer, on media and Ecstasy back in 1988.

Ecstasy, back than, was part and parcel of Rave Culture. To many ravers, acid house and Ecstasy was the best marriage ever. It wasn't, in any way, threatening. In fact, there were hardly any deaths involved and no sexual assaults due to Ecstasy whatsoever. (well, until the kiddies abused it)

This miracle drug was the ultimate cure for emotional constipation, reserve, inhibition. Which means no matter how anti-social you are and how pigeon-holed your musical taste is, Ecstasy, together with acid, brings you out from that shell.

The central tenets of Rave Culture are:

• Openness: not to judge or condemn other people's style of clothes, hair, makeup, costume, sexual orientation, musical preference, race, age, gender, class or income.
• Acceptance: not to try to convince anyone of the rightness or wrongness associated with most human activities.
• Positivity: to subscribe to the notion that if something makes someone happy without hurting someone else, then that something is okay. Accordingly, fights or scuffles at a rave are rare, and the atmosphere itself is welcoming and loving.

Hip Hop fan, Nick Philip, says, "I was shocked, almost appalled, actually. Back in the late eighties, the club scene was quite uptight, you had to wear exactly the right clothes to get in. You might see the odd person there who was really out of it, but it was not the general rule. But at Spectrum (rave party), everyone looked like they were from fucking Mars. Drenched in sweat, wearing baggy shit, and all just looking at the DJ with their arms in the air, like it was some really weird religious ceremony. I was quite freaked by it."

Now, this is what I call HEAVEN.

Lets me understand better on why Singaporeans don't open up to trance/acid rave parties.

WHY?
Cuz to me, today's mainstream teens are pretentious, self-conscious, fucking judgemental assholes who are afraid of LETTING LOOSE, more concerned with what they WEAR or HOW THEY DANCE in some stupid commercial music top 40s shit club.

The same type of people use the word "techno" loosely, which is how people normally NOT associated with electronic music identify such music--as the umbrella term for electronic music. Not as the specific style of music arising from Detroit in the mid-80's (which is what techno really is)

Eg used in a sentence:
*DJ spinning progressive breaks (which is nowhere near techno) during RP Farewell Tanglin Dance night*
Random RnB lover: "Eeee is he gonna play this ah beng techno the whole night!?"

Ironically, HipHop and RnB fall under the same genre of breakbeats.
So I don't see the point of discrimination.

Oh yeah, plus law disallows Ecstasy D: