Watch the entire documentary below. As much as it’s a fist-pumping celebration of that music, the film’s primary interest lies in how the DJ’s personal relationships are affected by his success, and how he copes mentally when his audience wanes.

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Rave is available on iOS and Android. Eden – which is loosely based on director Mia Hansen-Løve’s brother’s life – follows a DJ who rode those coattails and built an audience in the US during the height of EDM. With a soundtrack featuring Roni Size, The Crystal Method, LCD, and more, this doc is both inspiring and informative in its chronicling of the different branches EDM spawned, including drum and bass and trance. The party in this film – set in San Francisco’s underground rave scene – is going ahead despite a series of obstacles, including a police station just three blocks away. Registered charity 287780. Rave has users in almost every country in the world, so you never know who you're going to meet. A documentary produced in 1995 for the Greek Television. Known in the 90s for his neon rave aesthetic, all eye-popping colours and day-glo threads. Whether it’s binging Netflix together or listening to music with friends, experiences are better when shared. | Privacy Policy Terms of Service. Rave has recently expanded from shared viewing to creating new content, with RaveDJ, the world's first AI DJ, capable of autonomously composing seamless mashups from user-selected songs. We help people come together around content they love on tablet and mobile, perfectly synchronizing videos while talking and texting.

It’s all about the spectacle, the flamboyance and the parties in the back of trucks. Late nights and lasers abound in Better Living Through Circuitry, a documentary that looks at the 90s EDM movement. Dig out your glowsticks and prep your whistle. Watch with your friends or join public raves and meet people from around the world. “It’s an intensity that you can’t feel anywhere else,” explains one raver. RaveDJ is available at www.rave.dj. The drug-fuelled rave descends into a Lynchian nightmare, with visions of reptile-like aliens and blood-splattered walls. When Daft Punk skyrocketed to global stardom in the late 90s, a spotlight shone on the French electronica scene. It’s a classic in-too-deep tale with a tagline that says it all: “A weekend wasted is never a wasted weekend.”. “I’m not addicted to drugs, I’m addicted to glamour.” Party Monster is set in the dark heart of the NYC club scene of the early 90s, with Macaulay Culkin playing ‘king of the Club Kids’, Michael Alig. Watching movies about raves is a strange experience. This was a group of people who embraced modern technology with open arms, who embraced the modern age and its sounds. Hand-picked. Go is a freewheeling late-night trip, shot through with a stylistic overload that offers its own contact high. Think of it as a cautionary tale about partying just a little too hard. Whether the feds break it up or not, this is going to be an all-nighter for the books, as guaranteed by the film’s poster: a smiley guy on the subway with a giant disco ball placed between his legs. Human Traffic (1999) Director Justin Kerrigan. We hear from Moby, DJ Spooky, Genesis P-Orridge, as well as the ravers deep in the heart of the culture. Strobe lights, psychedelic projections, thumping house music. Rave features content from YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Viki. We’ve dug into the BBC archives (inspired by this weekend’s self-curated list) to find some of most important and informative documentary films on rave culture it has produced over the years.. Dance music pioneer Stuart ‘Scoobs’ Cochrane and his club promoter pals decided, as one does, to put on an all night rave at their local zoo. Text or chat by voice while enjoying content from YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo, Reddit, Google Drive, and more! Beats is in UK cinemas from Friday 17 May. Known in the 90s for his neon rave aesthetic, all eye-popping colours and day-glo threads, Gregg Araki delivered a trippy visual feast with Nowhere, the third part in his Teenage Apocalypse trilogy following Totally F***ed Up (1993) and The Doom Generation (1995). Of course you see the wrap-around shades and bucket hats, but Iara Lee’s film is more concerned with the evolution of the music, peering into the nooks and crannies of the culture. “It’s all about mixing things to get new hybrids,” says one DJ, emphasising the experimentation. Frontman Shaun Ryder (Danny Cunningham) invites him up simply because he “Adds to the vibe”. How is it made? This cult curio, hailed as an Australian Pulp Fiction for the rave generation, stars Kylie Minogue and Ben Mendelsohn in early roles. What does it do for people? With heartbreaking clarity, Eden captures what it’s like to fall in love with EDM to the point where nothing else exists. Some examined it with a critical eye, others simply looked to celebrate its hedonistic inclusiveness. Just like Go, Groove is about one epic night.

With a soundtrack including LFO, Rob & Goldie, and Coldcut, Modulations shows how ravers reach euphoric states through music – as well as other means. The ultra low budget indie, directed by Clinton Smith, weaves multiple plot threads that eventually come together, as if it were Australia’s answer to Go. Contact us at Jobs@Rave.io. Like a transatlantic flip side to Human Traffic, “This is it: the birth of rave culture, the beautification of the beat,” says, “I’m not addicted to drugs, I’m addicted to glamour.”. It also underscores the genre’s anti-establishment roots and how it grew from music lovers tired of the endless stream of guitar bands. WARNING: contains copious amounts of strobes. Subscribe now for exclusive offers and the best of cinema. Unfolding over the course of one wild weekend in Cardiff, it’s an uncomplicated coming-of-age tale that celebrates its drug-fuelled rave culture, pulling back the curtain on a non-stop party scene of clubs, pubs and house parties. All rights reserved.

Whether it’s binging Netflix together or listening to music with friends, experiences are better when shared.

What is the sound? RaveDJ uses AI to create 'mixes' and 'mashups' of user selected songs, just like a real DJ would. Rave is the purest form of social media. Rave is all about bringing people together around the media they love. In Michael Winterbottom’s dizzying ride through the Manchester scene, the director lays out what came before rave culture: Joy Division, New Order and the subsequent hybrid dance acts such as Happy Mondays that lit up the scene. Cue shots of pagers and old school AOL email accounts. It details the new technology enabling artists to develop their beat-centred sounds, while underlining the DIY ethos of all involved. The documentary includes rare and unseen archive materials and draws lines between protest movements, illegal warehouse raves, ’80s hedonism, Thatcherite politics, the rise of neoliberalism and Brexit. Kerrigan’s low budget movie, made when he was just 25 years old, shows little interest in critiquing the pilled-up adventures of his protagonists. Beats: Brian Welsh on his 90s rave scene banger, Cinema obscura: Daft Punk on film, from DAFT to Eden. Based on the memoir Disco Bloodbath by James St. James, it charts the rise and fall of Alig, a former party promoter who was involved in the murder of another Club Kid in 1996. In all of them two things are guaranteed: a euphoric joyride and a wacky wardrobe – because when else is it socially acceptable to wear ski masks and chandelier hats indoors? Justin Kerrigan’s cult classic captures the ‘live for the weekend’ mantra of club-dwelling twentysomethings across the UK in the 90s. Find out about international touring programmes, BFI Film Academy: opportunities for young creatives, Get funding to progress my creative career, Search the BFI National Archive collections, Read research data and market intelligence, Search for projects funded by National Lottery, Apply for British certification and tax relief, Get help as a new filmmaker and find out about NETWORK, Find out about booking film programmes internationally. Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. Invite some friends, or start a public rave and make a new friend. Set over a wild weekend in Sydney, capturing “48 hours of clubs, chaos and kebabs”, as its tagline boasts, Sample People follows the intertwining lives of young Australians caught in a tangled web of guns, drugs and dodgy deals. The blissfully hedonistic early 90s era is neatly summed up in the scene where Bez (Chris Coghill) hops on stage with Happy Mondays for the first time, despite not officially being in the band. The movie is a nightmarish, never-ending party set in a world of candy colours, where fun-seeking ravers waltz into the New York night, chandeliers atop their heads, sunglasses on 24/7. Everybody in The Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 aired on BBC Four on 2nd August. Like a transatlantic flip side to Human Traffic, Go centres on a group of twentysomethings who work crappy nine-to-fives and love weekend warehouse raves. He’s pointing out the applause that greets the DJ at The Hacienda, the birthplace of rave culture in the UK. Rave is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

As Beats, a Scottish indie about illegal raves and friendship, hits UK cinemas, we’ve rounded up 10 of the great rave movies. Come together for a international movie night, or combine your phones to create an instant speaker system! And what a party it is.