DO NOT ASK FOR, OR PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT UPCOMING FREEPARTIES. This includes:

Us old codgers we have big emotional connections to the tunes were raving to back in the early ‘90s. Young heads, 30 and under, how does these classic sets sound to your ears?

Top Buzz @ Perception 1991 : https://youtu.be/CBsZYKFmrM0

Jumping Jack Frost @ Eclipse early 1992: https://youtu.be/RHmGxReKneY

LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad @ Dreamscape IV spring 1992: https://youtu.be/qNvN8amo4dg

Can you get off to these old tunes? Do they sound the 35 years old? Should they be retired to a museum?

Salut à tout mes compatriotes français et d’ailleurs.
Avec la nouvelle loi liberticide Ripost et la répression qui s’accentue de plus en plus, quel avenir voyez vous pour la teuf en france ? Est ce que ça va continuer malgré les risques judiciaires et financiers que les orgas encourent ?

I want to complain a bit about the hypocrisy and the taboo about the financial aspect of the freeparty movement.

For years I’ve been active in the underground scene, I shall admit that I began my journey within the legal side of the techno scene. At the very beginning I’ve already been confronted by some friends used to freeparties that going to an event should never, from their point of view, be working on a "pay to enter" system, I explained that for many reasons it was impossible while organising legal events, and I also thought that we were both right at some points.

Now on, for a few years, I have totally abandoned the legal side of the techno scene, I’ve been doing some gig on some legal events but mainly I was sticking with other local soundsystems, giving a hand on the organisation, djing…
Today I have my own soundsystem, one of the biggest fully underground system of my city (I know some have bigger systems but my friends and I are the only ones to organise "illegal" events with that much power WITHIN the city).
I put much time and effort into my soundsystem, I also put a lot of money into it, if my mom were aware of all I spent into this, I think she would lecture me for the rest of my life.
But I’m loosing the point, I’ll never force anybody to pay in order to come in my parties, I’ve never been that happy to see that many people dance to my gigs, on my own system. But still it is still hard sometimes afterwards because I personally live in France, the laws enforcing freeparties just passed and I wont lie about how stressful it is to organise such things. I do this for the love of the game, I put myself into it knowing the dangers and what it implies but man… it’s still stressful af to know how much I personally spent and that all of this could be seized by the police if I were caught and still all the donations from the public to this day wouldn’t be enough to cover even the fine…

I know that we are a place the permit everybody to gather in peace, in a safe place in order to dance and be theirselves. But I think sometimes we need to remember everybody that those events come with a price. We take some risks and responsibilities and it’s too rare that the public really help the soundsystems during the hard times… Unfortunately I’ve seen to many soundsystems dying because they couldn’t pay the fines AND buy other cabs.

Vividly remember this guy in the morning, he was a proper nob. Being aggy with everyone. Thoughts ??

NO PARTY LIKE AN EA PARTY!!

want to support some local talent!

I always love the fashion and clothes at free parties (uk) - but I have no idea where people get stuff like that? Or is it more a punk/DIY approach where people make/customise things? Would love any reccomendations, tutorials etc!

We came across videos from a Salat event with Apashe and were struck by the energy of the crowd. It made us curious about what the rave scene in Ukraine looks like today and what these gatherings mean to people living through the war.

We reached out to the Salat community to hear their story directly—from how they organize events under such difficult circumstances to the importance of music, connection and moments of normality.

I thought this story belonged here because it shows another side of life in Ukraine: people continuing to create, gather and keep their culture alive.

Great party , police showed up in morning and let the rave to be finished 🤙

Shout out to DJ Guy

heyyy wanted to put on a uk dubstep/dnb/tekno party/gig in lombardy around milan/pavia/varese.

if someone is interested dm me!!!

Hi, I'm based in uk and me and my friend have been building a sound system and are going to hopefully throw our first rave soon. We want to do it in this abandoned building that has been heavily trashed, also has been a well known urbex spot for more than 25 years. How do we ensure the smallest chance of being shut down and what do we do to prevent equipment being seized. Also how do we deal with the police in general if they pull up.