The early nineties were a strange time for us all, but while I was trying to be cool, checking out indie rock and punk bands at the DPC, there was an entire rave scene that I was aware of, but blissfully unexposed to. Thankfully, two U of A students at the time had the wisdom to document the happenings, and someone else was kind enough to put it on YouTube now.
If you don’t end up watching all 8 1/2 minutes, be sure to at least check out the wisdom of the guy at the 4:36 mark when he answers the question “What do you think rave and techno is?”:
“It’s a wave of the future, and you can’t be a wimp when you’re riding the future. When you’re surfing the edge of the future, you can’t be a wimp. You can’t stand back.”
Also, there are many whistles. Far too many whistles.
This article appears in Sep 12-18, 2013.
This was a cool little documentary, replete with the mildly goofy early nineties dress and behavior of the host. I assume the rave was held in that on-again-off-again night club across the street to the west from the TUSD headquarters, and across the street to the south from the Hussar Electric building they showed. In around ’94 or ’95 that club was the 1-2-3 at one point, and then it became the NYC Club and there was always an über-douchey crowd of UA students in line to get in. After that I think it was never anything again, unless someone held another rave there.