To anyone interested in giving a hand, here's your chance!
I now have full access to [ rave.ca ] and it is my plan to relaunch it this year to the new scenes in Montreal and in the rest of the country.
To do this, I am building a team of people interested in giving some of their time and effort to manage our rave community's portal.
[ rave.ca ] and [ ravewave.com ] is one of the oldest and biggest remaining portal aimed at rave communities and you can help make it live on!
If interested, please send me a private message and we can discuss your skills and interests that would help make the site live again stronger than it ever was :D
We need help from anyone including:
- Web Developers
- Web Designers
- Server admins
- Forum/Communities Moderators
- Calendar Moderators
- Calendar Posters (Gathers nightlife events and post the calendar)
- Promoters (to promote the site at events, online, etc...)
- etc...
Tickets are now available from the promotion team and will be available as of Friday evening (May 9th) at Psychonaut!
People who would like to use a credit card can pay in person by Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express if you find Hugo Danick Samson in a party! You will be provided with a receipt by email! MMMM Technologyyyyyy
Online tickets are also available via Paypal. Be sure to provide your full name and address so that we are able to ID you at the door. A $1.00 service charge will be applied at checkout for online purchases.
$15 until May 31st
$20 June 1st until the event
$25 at the door
I first heard Happy Hardcore 10 years ago and it completely changed me! The people I've met through the scene throughout the years are amazing.
At some point I decided to help make it bigger and I started throwing HHC parties for a while and then I stopped for life reasons. Now, 3 years later, I'm back and I'm extremely proud of all the support the Montreal rave scene is giving me to get Happy Hardcore going again here!
Everyone should get to listen to Happy Hardcore! It's an amazing style of music!
The music for one is almost entirely different. You will find much less mainstream music in underground events. Which brings me to my next point..
People drawn to raves (and keep coming back) usually have a different view on music and are much more open minded to meet new people and share thoughts. You will also find a lot of people who do not identify with "society" for a bunch of different reasons. If you go to a party, you are guaranteed to find new potential friends throughout the night. Drugs do play a part in this for some people but in my experience, the ones who stay usually do because of the music and the experiences they get from socializing with others. At the risk of sounding super cheesy, the underground scene is like a huge clan or family (depending on how you view things).
As far as free parties are concerned, there has been surge of these events in the past few years. They happen practically every weekends during the summer. I honestly don't know whether they are more popular in Europe or America but they sure are very present in Montreal.
Finally, I strongly recommend you come over to at least one event for your research so that you can see for yourself. Who knows, you might like it a lot :). PM me if you're interested
Originally Posted By THATGUYOVERTHERE
First, drugs is a part of raves. A lot of people at raves are taking some drugs, my question is, why do you guys take drugs? What does it change?
------ Straight off the bat a lot of people are going to tell you that drugs are not that big of a deal within the nightlife culture.. well those people are either full of shit, plain ignorant or advocate to give the rave scene that beautiful image of love & sobriety to reassure society that there is nothing to be feared about by letting your 16 y/o daughter attempt an event. Well .. no ..Drugs are & were a "huge" part of the nightlife culture since even before the disco years ..and why not ? They keep you up, full of energy, puts you in a state of euphoria that make you feel like you're on top of the world, and can turn the most reserved / shy person into a party animal (I'm talking about drugs in general here.. not stating one in particular..) Let's not kid ourselves, people do drugs because they are fun .. dangerous yes!.. But fun nonetheless regardless what people say. It is up to the individuals to set themselves limits.
Secondly, why are you going to raves?
------- Well, there are many reasons why a person would attempt an event, I would say that the most popular would be because it just feels like night long party filled with music they really enjoy, surrounded with people that share common interests (Maybe an specific artist playing for example). I suppose that some people are taking it to an other level, celebrating a spiritual state of mind .. but I am not going to elaborate to much on that one ..
What is the difference between raves and clubs, what are the mains reasons that make you go to raves?
-------- In a nutshell, raves a more liberal (free minded).. Clubs on the other hand are perceived as more conservatives (within the scene) and often considered as more glamorous.. (Rest assure that look's can be rather deceiving on this matter.. Speaking from experience I've seen more sad sight in clubs then in raves. )
Hope this helps !
I'm totally with you on this!
Tangerine, it seems you have a bit of an understanding of the mentality as well. You said in your earlier message "...than ask questions to douches who go to Bal en blanc for example...". Although I appreciate events like the Bal en Blanc, the mentality there is much different. In the scene people tend to have more of an open mind and are just there to have fun.
And at the end of the day, I have rarely witnessed a bad experience at a rave... On the other hand, I have seen some really bad shit go down in bars/clubs/afterhours.
One of the first things I see after loging on for the first time in years...THIS THREAD HAHA. Glad to see some things will always just stay the same LOL. :)
Let me apologize right here to Deadfunk. The lineup originally planned was in a far better order than this one. Unfortunately I was advised that Yoji requested the 4:30 timeslot only recently which force me to rethink the whole lineup. Clown was kind enough to accept to do two timeslots instead of one.
Originally Posted By MELOODIE
We are Fucked up! We are Ravers.We rave in parties called Rainbowwww trip.what would you expect! but for the ballin' part,JEsus,We are balling downtown instead of Crap Island.Too far for our debauchery