Stop Calling Everything“RAVE”!

Why? Because the word actually stands for something important in the history of electronic music, which is heavily shaped by cultural, political, and historical gravity.

“Rave” has a very specific history, and we distort it when we use it for everything. Raves were created in the late ’80s as a counterculture outside the club industry, rooted in early acid house, breakbeat, techno, and hardcore.