The Chemical Generation - Acid House documentary
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2024
- 2001 Channel 4 documentary, presented by Boy George, looking at the history and legacy of the UK acid house, rave and clubbing culture since the 1980s.
The program goes into detail on the way UK society and attitudes changed after the dawn of acid house culture and, perhaps, more importantly the introduction of chemical of choice, ecstasy to the party diet of the young people of Britain.
Tony Wilson, Irvine Welsh, Danny Rampling, Mike Pickering, Paul Oakenfold, CJ Mackintosh and Nicky Holloway all feature; as well as the kids who were there at the time from dealers to clubbers. Ibiza, Shoom, the Hacienda and the Criminal Justice Bill all featured properly too.
We raved under bridges, docklands, old farm houses and beaches. There was no clubs, no high heals and no chrome handles. It was simple: trainers, doves and acceptance. The hippies had the sixtees , we had something special. I'm so glad I was part of that. It will never happen again.
Doves 😂😂 turned up early 90s if you were part of the original Acid house party scene New Yorkers were the first and the best 87-90
@bobby dukes it's beginning to happen again now. There are several free party sound systems around the country, hosting little raves in fields and stuff.
And in long sleeves :D
Every 30 years...
good memories and so glad i was a part of that too
00:20 Moby - Go
02:07 Jaydee - Plastic Dreams
03:46 Larry Heard - Can You Feel It
06:53 808 State - Pacific State
08:15 Frankie Knuckles - Let The Music Use You
10:00 Some mix of Blue Monday
10:20 Stone Roses - Fool's Gold
10:45 Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
13:32 Aly-Us - Follow Me (Club Mix)
14:15 Derrick May - Strings of Life
15:42 Underworld - Born Slippy
17:30 Liquid - Sweet Harmony
18:50 Sound of Eden - Shades of Rhythm
21:55 Hardfloor - Acperience 1
29:20 Heller and Farley - Ultra Flava
43:30 Nightmares On Wax - Nights Interlude
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Thx, u know songs in between?
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@@googlefacebookinstagram Moodswings - Spiritual High is on there soon after Pacific State
an Acid House documentary and they don't play a Dj Pierre track, Phuture?
First person to offer me a pill was Weatherall. We worked together in the late 80's building sets for tv and film. He told be about the effects and I asked about the comedown and when he said it's no problem at all, You feel great, I told him if it's that good, forget it.
Few years passed and I was at a party in Wardor Street. Monged out my head. Bit my tounge BaD and Andy turns up with an entourage, comes straight to me and says.. I knew you would get into this. Lovely moment.
25 years or so pass and I've moved to Bucharest. Friend I'd met here, Logan said he's bringing Weatherall in and I insisted to pic him from the airport. We both knew him but in the car he started to tell his story and when he got to "selling pills in clubs" I stopped him and said. I wanna talk to you about that. You said they'd be no after effects but I'm still listening to this fukkin music.
One overdose on ecstasy the media goes mad .but alcohol kills every second
As well younger generation now - you can't imagine how repressed and straight (in being sober, and normal ) society was - my dad told me nightclubs were dangerous & all about fighting & birds. Dressed in your suit. First " club "(cheesy one) I went to it was brutal - sticky carpet, glitzy look n feel, lads drinking lager on one side of club girls all herded together on other dance floor empty early on and going dancing before it got busy took nerve and was stressful - it was only to cop off you did it. Finding out that the spirit of the clubs in the acid house vibe were still going was a revelation. It's hard to describe what a transformation of the U.K. acid house heralded. It is like the difference between watching a tv programme on the earths beauty on black n white portable tv then watching it on a 3D cinema screen in colour - that's the change from pre to post avid house
Look at how repressed kids are now. They could do with a few pills. Never been so divisive.
the society was everythijng but sober
Now we're lockdowned & the only culture we have is nostalgia.
Beautifull thought, precise words.
Sadly you are so right :(
that's hauntology for you
I miss that Loving feeling. Time? WTF was time and Senses?
And we still don't have access to clinically pure safe legal pills over 30 years later that's 0 progress IMO.
I was born in 88 so completely missed this, for some reason this 90's movement of underground rave has always fascinated me. The more I research it the more special it becomes
Same! Was born in 89 and was just telling my bf how I would've killed to have been old enough to experience this!
I said the same about the 60s, wishing I’d been born in the early 50s, so I could witness and experience the explosion in psychedelia, LSD, heavy rock/metal in my teens. Then I discovered dance music in the late 70s/early 80s Jazz funk, it was an epiphany (or if you were into Northern Soul that had a massive scene too in Northern England), then electro, house, techno, acid house and the many derivative genres that followed. I’m in my fifties and I still have my ear out for great dance music with cool vibes, it never dies🙏🏽
I was born in 87. Exactly the same mate.
its a lot of hype buddy. i saw it from the start. a-lot of gansters fights and robbing. not all the time but it was pretty ruff unless you were with a big group or in the loop. quite a few people shot and killed over getting ecstasy into raves and clubs. who ever bought the pills was part of a nasty problem.
You're in for a magical ride guys...stick with the tunes and the vibe of the 90s because it WILL come back in your lifetime...only in a slightly different form! I was born in the 70s, so the 90s and its drug scene were a massive part of my life and something i would never change!
It's just a shame that the only real drug of choice nowadays is cocaine...it doesn't open your mind, it slams it shut! So remember kids, drugs are bad (if you don't know how to handle them 🤪) so stay away from them!
Never watched this documentary, seen most of the others. Cracking watch.
You talk to anyone 45 plus, mention es and raves and their faces still light up, magic.
Todays generation have no idea.
I liked your comment til you said "Today's generation have no idea". I'm sorry but you don't have to generalize everyone in my age. Avid trance and house listener here.
I dunno, the pills were pretty good in the 90's
Thinking a whole generation of people is exactly the same is the sign of an unrealistically sordid idiot!
Raves where the places that those people that were not good enough for the club's went too - and caused a multitude more deaths and destruction than any other genre, including to police. We didn't need illegal drugs to have a good time.
And the end result of raves, the mass amount of new British drug dealers - so still causing much death today. More like Eyes Wide Shut!!
@@notdon245 I just left a reply aswell, then saw your comment after, and I'm saying the same as you.
Its astonishing how some people think they are doing so great - but are still not bright enough not to title a whole generation of people as exactly the same as each other.
I'm only 15 but all I want to do Is be a rave promoter your all invited!!! Clun culture has gone real downhill half of it is because the pills are shit and we haven't grown out of it we have been given shit pills and it's became easier to buy if ecstasy was as easy as it was to buy we wouldn't care o wish I was with u guys I really do xxxxx
Went to see prodigy live at 15 years old door men were seriously slack back then.they played pretty much all the tracks off experience,the evening blew me away. R.I.P Keef ! Love you always man.✊
Me too, at the MK Bowl - a little bit older - but the biggest drug was a pack of 20 Marlboro.
trance Carlisle1992 the Prodigy experience 😋when I shut my eyes YOU know what I can see👁️❤️😱😍🤩😊👀👅🧠💥🐜
Great documentary.....lots of nostalgia !
Shame Tiktok and social media has destroyed all this.
Don’t be so negative. There are still great vibes, great tunes and great times. It’s just different now, that’s all.
The problem with the scene was that it got too big. Every wannabe drug dealer saw how much money was being made off pills so they decided to sell them cut with every type of crap known to man. When I first took one around 1992 it was the best experience ever unfortunately within a few years the quality had nose dived
you know why? because firt ten experience are unbeliavable then come the habit.. that's why every 5 years people say that the xtc was better 5 years before...
@@davidegatti4689
I was there in the 90’s
And yes I have taken E😃 and it’s no matter what peoples says. Pills back then way way way better.
Around 2000 changed everything. And E just getting soft.
Not becauseI was get used to.
I don’t take them every weekend.
More like every 4-6 weeks.
Trust me on this 😃 is not the same
@@peterreichardt1494
I use to think that as well but I found out the chemical has stayed the same it’s our brain that’s changed and so the effect.
Interesting. I was a mid-2000s clubber and the pills were heavily stepped on back then.
Years later I had a chance to try some deep indigo, high grade, straight off the rock stuff and it was a very different (and enlightening) experience. Much cleaner come up than ever before. Never found it again, but my days that was fun haha.
Four DJs from London went to Ibiza and brought Ecstasy and the Acid house scene was born in the uk bollox we were already on one in Manchester 😂😂
fellini fendi I’m not denying house music has it’s roots in Detroit,Chicago and New York brother it’s this fairytale that four DJs from London brought it to the uk
fellini fendi Yes my friend I used to be a regular from late 87 until early 91 the so called Rave scene killed it for me the early Acid House parties in abandoned warehouses was my thing it was something new with a feeling of belonging to something only certain people were aware of then it went mainstream ,parties in fields with funfairs and thousands of people 😌not for me.Take care my brother
The Coke fucked it all up... (Ecstasy was a FUN and pretty harmless drug, but those of us who got above ourselves and started getting heavily into Coke took on more than we could cope with... I had great times on Coke, (WOW!) but it's a NIGHTMARE of a drug... I NEVER had an argument on "E''... After a few years on Coke, I had previously close mates who FLATLY REFUSED to even speak to me... "Fuck Them," I thought at the time... Also, (and I'm Bi-Polar...) Coke can mess with your MIND in a way that 'E' didn't seem to... (I've been TOTALLY drug-free for over 10 years and I'm still living with the effects of serious Coke abuse/addiction...) 'E' never made ANYONE an ASSHOLE... (Coke ALWAYS does...) xx SF
Coke is good no doubt but it. But you just said. Coke is fucks you up.
E is different.
I use to say when people’s coming at me about E.
“ go to the rave party with 2000 people and give them E. and no one even raises their voice.
Give alcohol to 5 peoples in the room. In 2 hours will be a violent physical fight. “
Coke makes people think they rule The World. E made people realise we are the world.
@Robbiedagobbie shiiit...yea so true 👍 ❤..90s revival now...and shit yea we are the fukn world❤😂❤
this takes me back to my mid 20's and the blur of warehouse parties, Sunday morning clubbing, Saturday nights having no clue of where we were going in my ford transit van with upwards of 10-15 people in search of a rave somewhere in London. my first pill was at Camden Palace then onto an old & disused place in Greenwich, the first place where it was reported in The Sun or the Mirror, can't remember really, but the sheer fun of it was unlike anythng I'd ever done before. Every weekend for monhs waas spent raving wih the best people I've ever met....they were all in search of this mad ecstacy fuelled Utopia. Nothing has ever matched it and so glad I lived it. Met a few people who were there or thereabouts in my lifetime and everyon else can only imagine the vibe. we were lucky enough to live it. Saw Boy George at a mad gaff in Hackeney one night, I think it was during his heroin days but who cares, the maddest spin out was Andrew Ridgley turned up with an arm full of glamours done up to the nines...not sure they stayed for long, but who knows...there were no VIP rooms at the kick off...I then went travelling in 1990 and ended up in HK for 7 years where it all kicked off...every weekend was a party weekend. All the Big DJ's turned out and I got to call Lee Burridge a mate...Thanks to everyone who was there and had a go...if I died tomorrow I can go to heaven knowing I'd been to some seriously real kickarse warehouse raves...cheers y'all 🍊
I just missed the acid house explosion - started clubbing first E in 1993 aged 17 - in my generation we had some absolutely amazing times and E still changed people's lives overnight - as soon as you had an E your social life, clothes, friends, attitude towards drink etc all changed. New Year's Eve 1994 10 of us went last ever Renaissance in conservatory derby from Manchester. Not one drink all night. Given the role booze played in our culture growing up that's an indicator of the power of E and the culture. It still felt underground then in sense the first superclub cd's hadn't been released, the media hype had gone. You could only really buy live mix tapes from certain clothes shops etc. Lots of my pals who enjoyed fighting etc pretty much stopped through E & club culture. They got to viva Le difference & be more accepting of others and more comfortable with themselves. If you are good at fighting & a situation is stressing you hitting someone may seem a good idea. Fights for those reasons stopped in the main. It dominated my life totally for 4 years until 97 and a night at gatecrasher where it felt like a changing of the guard - a younger generation whose clubbing sensibilities differed to mine where on the scene. I still go out once or twice a year and we get on it - all in our 30s/40s here in Sydney - we keep the vibe alive and still love the music & the principles which the culture was created from.
+ToPayIsToFail word up! 100% agree and feel the same
+ToPayIsToFail I was reading the comment and read the last part about Sydney. I started going out mid 95, house nights at the Rooftop, The Underground, Club 77, Angel Place and raves at Minto Stadium, Graffiti Hall, Toast Gallery and The Phonecian Club. Mid 96 I started going to doofs, and soon stopped with the raves and then the house nights. Scary to think all those venues are gone and most of the punters left the scene years ago. I am still going to doofs and I will admit I am started to feel about jaded about them too. Its funny talking to all the youngsters at doofs about the old days and at the same time its sad to think most of the crew I was partying with back then gave up years ago. People think I am strange for not dancing and not staying up all night at parties these days but if they are still going to parties when they are 44 they might understand why. Glad to hear you are still going out, although the way Sydney's night life is these days, I am surprised there is still anything to go out to. I
The Sydney Rave scene was already changing in '92/93. The early ones 89/90 were totally underground and chilled ......miss those times a lot !!!
I remember in the hacienda them giving out free pints of ice water, but you could score drugs quicker than going the bar, the bass vibration was amazing there. We had amazing skin going home for for the morning/ spliff efterparties wind down with lots of strangers you'd invited from the dance floor lol. Sankey soap was brilliant too and strange ways once a month by the bus station. It felt like a big secret then , that's what made it more exciting, everyone I knew worked dreary jobs or scraped thir dole together for our big monthly 3 day blow out , those were the days haha
El' Duderino STEERTRAVE ROOLS, M/WELL ROOLS..🍀☘️🇮🇪🙏✌️OUT
Proud to be part of this whole scene and 50 years old now and dropped a pill last weekend at home raving listening to 88 89 tunes
I'm sixty this month , still partying, love it .
Lol
Is it the same chemically to what was around in the rave days? I hear it's rubbish now..
@@springrain9438They ain't no Doves 🕊 that's for sure!
@@mbull7458 yeah.. I've heard it isn't like the X from the 90s and that's why it's called something different. Would be interesting to know how different it is but I'm not gonna find out! I'd be hung over for months!
"We won. We drove it underground, we drove into warehouses and, alright the violence increased and the problems increased". What???
Exactly as the police would admit.. We don't care as long as its not on our district.
The first thing someone says when they know they lost, like he said "it was a DRAW" he obviously LOST cause it carried on, underground or not, IT CARRIED ON! and carries on to this day!!!
Holy hell I had to pause and check to see if anyone else caught that 😂 He has a reet stick up his arse and it's turned him all accidental Partridge.
It was people like this ex copper who created the violent clubland that existed for a few years. I watched it first hand. He didnt win, he made gangsters rich and the scene dark and violent. Why the fuck would you invent a fake pirate station to send ravers to " fucking Colchester " and not expect them to kick off. Clueless, privately educated , fast tracked moron.
What a pig
Showed Carl Cox but no mention... He's the superstar dj here.. Pete tong.. Tsssk.
oh NO its all gone Pete Tong! ;p
17:14 Partying is taking drugs, then they drop Liquid sweet harmony! I peaked on this tune quite a lot in early 92.
after the miners strike was over i left the employment of the N.C.B. and jumped in the car a drove south until i got to Somerset, i got out the car in to a different world to the north east of England it was 1986 and i spent 18 months looking for raves and other none profit music events (there were lots back then) when i got back to the north east in 1988 everything had changed, dance, doves, and love had taken hold, big style, football hooligans were hugging each other, gangsters who had looked down on us druggies were gurning they way through massive amounts of pills and then coke turned up and everything went shit just as quick as it happened it disappeared..like magic eh :-[
it was magic, i knew every night i wet out that this was a one in a lifetime thing.It was this brilliant.
This is a very inspiring story, and I would love to talk more about it. Ever think about coming on a podcast
@@PatrickJMcF id be up for that mate.
@@MacStoker shoot me an email at pjmcfarland94@gmail.com and ill try to set this up give me a lil about your background and about your experience
Just like coke and speed helped destroy the Love Generation of the 60's in America
The channel 4 bit at the start on the VCR brought back the most memories for me
The main reason that the police and the government wanted to stop the raves in fields and the like was because they weren’t getting any money out of it. That really annoys them when they can’t line their pockets by way of tax or whatever
And the fact that the Government and police couldn't work out what could mobilise so many young people in one place, they didn't get that kids just wanted to dance, they though it must have been political, so they went in heavy handed and then by doing so, made it political. idiots.
Theres more to it than money. Spiritually people want fun, the authorities are drones, they have to turn anything positive into negative. People were expanding their consciousness, coming together and enjoying themselves together and they don't want that.
And the fact many kids were turning up for work {if they did} ghosting on a Monday morning and quite dangerous in the factory and fields haha..
So true
I really enjoyed this documentary, memories come flooding back.
Once organized crime caught wind of ecstasy the scene defiantly changed.
"When it hit I was sitting on the loo having a crap" lol we all know that one coming up on the toilet 😂😂😂😂😂
We passed the Baton,to each subsequent generation. The one thing in 2020 that can never be stolen from us,is the love of the music. And instead of three nights a week,my personal hedonism,takes place two or three times a year. And as for winning or losing, virtually every copper who was around during my heyday is retired. I on the other hand like many of us,are still at it. Think of all the police overtime and the money they made,trying to chase us around the place. AMAZING TIMES AMAZING PEOPLE AMAZING MUSIC.😀💊🎶
Well said son, well said ❤
You may like this band from Todmorden then.....ruclips.net/video/kyHc00hjo5A/видео.htmlsi=6HrtpZ8CoKjTbbN2
1988 - 1993 RoXY Amsterdam and the iT Amsterdam... lived it, loved it.
Miss the early 90s soooooo much.
Top 1 Nice 1 Get sorted
29:10 - that is true. But, it was exciting. Even in the early 2000's I've been handed a flyer to go to a huge big abandoned building and when we got there it was completely fenced off, it seemed like it was so secure that there was no way in. There was no sound and no lights could be seen - when we were shown the way in, it was incredible. It was like something out of a film. I've been to a lot of clubs (Bagleys, Sanctuary, Garvey, Q club, Nation, Republic, THE BOMB! and a lot more) but this memory is one of my most treasured. DJ's, dancers, artists, food, drink, other 'bits' and the greatest people. Big up Nottingham!
Hope everyone, everywheres doing good :)
even in the 2020s you do oldschool stuff to keep police away
Montreal in the 1990 using all the church basement . Best epic time ever
Hello to all listeners of house music around the world 🌍 🎧
I would like to see a documentary about the northern angle, Blackburn, Manchester etc. I mean the fairy tale about the southern boys really,and this from a Londoner.
Same here, but to be honest the whole northern thing is over hyped. Manchester - yes. The rest of the north, no. The south west had more going on, places like Newcastle never really got it at all.
@@2112jonr Blackburn started acid house mate just Ibiza sounds better .
Daryl Pandy was on soul Train summer 86 love can't turn around.
Ground zero was certainly not Ibiza 88 as many claim
If Boy George hosted a show about the history of paint drying on the wall I'm sure it'd be top shelf material. I've never actually watched him host a show of any sort, I hope this won't be the last.
Watch the trailer for my upcoming film SECOND SUMMER OF LOVE - an acid
house mystery crime thriller set in the late 80´s London! ruclips.net/video/YUV9FXX-0mo/видео.html
This was our version of northern soul movement only a few knew the scene then it blew up all over the country, I was there in 88 with all my brothers and sisters until we got, hacienda, quadrant park, shellies, monroes, legends, zone, back to basics, entropy, floral Hall, etc etc
I went the quad and the hac both unreal clubs in there day
@@brenhughes1975Quadrant Park❤😆✌️
Need to visit you lovely people from UK again!
Cool KAMUI - Just don't bring the drugs.
@@karendegenerous600
Nah, but I guess some beers will do the thing. :)
It's always interesting to see these clips from the acid house era but I really wish they would focus on the music, which was infinitely more interesting than the drugs.
Still is, actually!
NOWtheband yes to that
Pump
Up the volume is a good one to watch fella
This is about drugs you fool.
@@irielion3748 - Don't call me a fool because that's not very nice but at least it displays for all to see where your thought processes quickly go.
Acid House is a type of music, you sillybilly.
@@kells77 - Thanks. Yeah, I've seen that one.
:-)
Snot bad!
Judge Jules is the bear from Bo Selecta
Still looking for clips with parties i went to.... cant find any lol guess we were too busy dancing to be filming...
That was a good video, cheers for the upload.
I used to love it when you were on your way to a rave, and you could hear the bass feom afar, the anticipation was awesome. My fiest one was in a disused quarry, in Derbyshire, 1996. Ill always remember it. ❤❤❤
Maaate that is one of the best feelings EVER! Can't beat that bass building up in your rars and then your chest 👊😎
"Oi, mate, what you on?", "dunno, but I'm fcking smashed", "I fcking love you mate!", "fcking love you", "sorted"
it did not begin in Ibiza,,the place your after is Chicago....
The music is from Chicago... The spirit of rave culture comes from Ibiza ;)
Boy George? Really?
I mean he WAS one of that little club clique in the 1980s. And a lot older than most of us even then. Why not have someone like Paul Hartnoll narrate this, who was at least young in 1991 and part of the scene instead of being in heroin rehab and already in his 30's?
Even Tony Wilson would have been a better choice.
I remember my first proper acid house party. In some barn in Essex. I couldn't believe even now, how the DJ had all these crazy records before word had spread national. Red Window Panes were the order of the day. Then the legendary Tunnel Club, Lee bridge Road Dungeons, Energy 1, Sunrise (once in a blue moon) oh and a few dodgy tents in fields with luminous spray canned bed sheets.
Red Window was my first. Energy held a rave in an Essex aircraft hanger. Due to police blockades and lots of cat and mouse games the party kicked off at around 7am. Colchester. Lea Bridge Road Dungeons 10 rooms of madness = wonderful memories, as does Trip at Astoria London and Busbys next door where downstairs you could hear acid house and upstairs hip hop. I remember being turned away because I was too young by just 2 years but that all changed when in the following weeks I would don some dungarees, a smiley t-shirt complete with bandana and earing. On the following night, Saturday, I'd hit either Rave at the Cave, Elephant and Castle or Ratpack usually in the Euston area. Ratpack Evenson Allen and Lipmaster Mark knew how to rock the bass with their set. Jaffa cake style!
@@Dumphy100 i think that might have been Energy 2, not sure. I was there at energy 2. Outa control. I remember carl cox on stage and a police helicopter flying about 40 feet over everyone videoing. LBR was mental. The stream of people and the sweat. OMG. I remember wearing a jumper. Big mistake. By the morning it was like a skirt. :)
@@flyagaric1607 should we be talking about the same rave you might also remember a Toyota Celica that caught fire?
If I could travel back to any point in history I would pick summer of 89 every time ,fucking loved it
Why was I born this year and not enjoying it instead as a teenager, life’s shit when it deals you a hand that you were born 20 years too late
Don’t waste your youth wishing you were born earlier. We didn’t. Get involved in gif local
Electronic scene. There’s plenty of good stuff happening today
Same here 89-90 best year of my life. ❤ from a manc rave soldier
hopefully you dont land in eastern parts of the world ;P
SONG AT 4:15 PLEEEEEEASE. So much great music in this documentary and none of its listed :(
Mr. Fingers - Can you feel it
Graydon Fritzsching amazing tune.
its interesting that a in show made in the golden era of electronic music, everyone is nostalgic about the even older days. I remember myself going to Love Parade in 97 and thinking that I had missed the train and the good parties was several years earlier.
Leah Betts was tragic but it's generally accepted that she died of water toxicity after she drank too much of it.
Aciiiiiiid, fucking lush, mdma, changed my whole outlook on life, for the better in every way, iwas born in 51 and have been drugged up ever since, more or less, in my teens, real quality hash, and proper LSD, in my twenties, well you dont want to know, i will just say to much amphetamine and kilos of weed, then a magical explosion MDMA, now im 65 and i still love MDMA, everyone should try it, it will change your perception of everything, life, yourself, and bring everthing into focus, and by the way it is the best pain killer man has ever made, and the music side of things, well i still have my light show and pa, and still drag it out now and again.lol Skulduggery
Paul Jefferies Ive been into the house scene since the late 80's & spent the best years of my life raving, I gave it a long break, but last year I wanted to go out again, I developed arthritis some years back, thats getting worse and will do the rest of my life, But I wanted to relive younger days again, Including the MDMA, I never expected this but as the MDMA took effect my arthritic pain begun to disappear to my surprise, so went out again a month later same thing, reduction in pain. I googled it and found similar sources stating its painkilling propities. nice one.. Keep Raving! : )
clean psychedelics are good for you
mdma aint the best painkiller heroin is sorry
No smack is shit,ive more respect for myself,smack is evil,one thing i am very very anti about brown,if you do that shit your a fucking jerk.Iv lost to many nice pepole to it,that shit causes so much damage to family and friends,you either end up dead or in prison,your comment was a little naive.Skullduggery.
Skullduggery ✌🏼
I was late to the movie. 94-97 I was into raves. The KingFish in Breaux Bridge Louisiana. Also Club Outer Limits in Duson Louisiana. Funnest 3 years of my life.
God I wish I'd been old enough to have lived these times. Acid house is a drug in itself. e's tho just made it 100 times better. 18.52 Easily one of the greatest tunes ever! Here's another chance for you to dance with me! Absolutely untouchable and nothing and I mean Nothing from today's sorry excuse for Dance Music can touch it. My acid house and early rave vinyl will never ever leave me!
love that tune
S.O.R., Sound of Eden
You’d be surprised - the new generation are putting out bangers all the time! #Defected #Anjunadeep
Plenty of good stuff out there all through the naughties and 20's just avoid the mainstream, the music on television and radio is mostly corporate sponsored crap. keep an open mind.
everytime i see Boy George,i think of the poor bloke who was chained and beaten by him....(peace and love indeed ).
It is true about the unity and oneness between users.. It did unite people. We were all one. And I'm sure for one short time it was great to speak to someone from across the country where decade's before the two would never have mixed together at one venue.
Oh blimey it's just like now with social media vis these comments connection❤😅
True change, real change comes around not by attitudes shaped by drugs but by a change in awareness and consciousness. Oh i was there in '88 but it was parting and fleeting, but boy it was a great time!
Some of the best times of my life driving round the M25 in the middle of the night....yes the Berlin wall came down but unfortunately the digital wall went up
That is not what happened to Leah Betts from my memory. She got hot as you do on ecstasy., and then she started drinking water. Lots of it. So much that. it caused her brain to swell and she died. She consumed seven litres of water in. 90 mins. which resulted in water intoxication. and hyponatremia.
Made people happier within themselves sameway did reggae and cannabis
Yea very True👍 ❤
Maybe it's time for a new Generation to beat the 90's
+Ben Anderson Isnt going to happen as the social dynamic is completely different.We were growing up under the Thatcher regime which was awful,going out was full of violence so when House/Acid and then Raving came along it was like a breath of fresh air,I cannot begin to tell you how it felt other than being in a big family of love rather than having to look over your shoulder all the time..Dancing in a room with thousands of other people with big smiles on their faces was amazing,almost spiritual.
Like many of the other people who were there I wish I could go back,even for just one night :)
Also any new scene just gets swallowed up by Social Media these days, and doesnt incubate in an organic way... There were distinct regional differences back then, even one city to an other. Nowadays things are generic...
Current generations are firmly riding the corporate dick, the majority chose greed over peace.
Won’t happen, social media and phones have killed it.
You can’t hide anymore and be yourself.
The so called "Stars" were the "Punter and music" mostly at the start. Those "Superstar DJs" were generally a bit ponsey!
It was about 87, when at a works after party, work colleagues invited me to put one of my cassettes on. Cue "A split second" - by Flesh. I don't they realised what happened!!!!
I got into the rave scene in about 95 missed the initial explosion but had great times but it's all cocaine and bars now.
@Archie Leech I was going to a place called Goldenh Hill Fort in 94/95 and went to United dance 2 in 95 it was still going strong. Even in 2001 there were beach parties on the Isle of Wight.
@@danielfinch362 I went to Golden Hill Fort, had forgotten until I read your comment and it all flooded back! 😃
Cocaine users are SO bloody boring.
i remember my mate telling me that my ex was at a rave picking up an ecstasy tablet that someone had dropped and stepped on a pissy muddy floor and she actually scooped it all up and swallowed it. thats was the reality of it. never think other wise.
They fail to mention the mental problems that were left with many young people. Anxiety , depression, etc. The intro to x led to more serious drug abuse. The victims of crime associated with the drugs. They make it all sound rosy , well i can assure that it wasn't all fun , games, peace and love. Many died, many left with permanent mental problems.
what a load of bullshit....people suffer from those problems all the time without ever having taken any drugs at all, hell, people who didn't ever eat ecstacy die every day too believe it or not.....
I've met a few cabbages, to be fair
I got off Heroin by using E
Doughroaster Bushcraft And Survival for real? You gotta msg me
Great documentary, too much emphasis on big name house DJs and ageing 80s pop stars drinking champagne in Ibiza. Acid house and rave was about the UK illegal warehouse parties and the massive legal tent and warehouse raves of 90 / 91. Mobile phone messages for illegal raves in 89 / 90!? OK Boy George if you say so, maps from record shop fax machines, regular meet up points and paper flyers is what I remember. It slowly went downhill after about 93 IMO. Commercialised and turned into the festival scene. Glad I was there from 89. Even the soundtrack is off IMO, Moby? Where’s Mr Monday, LFO, Orbital, Dont Go, Dominator, Radio Babylon? Acid house and especially rave was working class sweaty, dirty and fucking hardcore! Ibiza!? Who the fuck could afford to go to Ibiza when they were partying hard every weekend in the UK?
Why the hell they had Boy George host this is beyond me. It's not like he was a central figure on the scene when we were all out at the clubs back then. We never saw him.
AAHQ he dj'd at a lot of clubs. I remember him at Back to Basics in Leeds.
He was quite a big name in the early 90s, arrogant w⚓ though!!!
He was a central character within clubland and was present at Shoom, the Trip and Spectrum etc and from Ibiza from 89. Although I'm not sure if he would have been buzzing around the home counties with a flyer in his mit, looking for a strobe light and a field in the early days.
Boy George was at all the early warehouse parties from 1988 onwards. I know because i shared water with him many times...
What is the first tune I remember listening to that from Prestwick Airport
i wasn't a part of this, but my mum was... albeit she was breaking the law by about four years. but she tells me some of the best stuff and shows me the best mixes. i've even got a picture of her dancing with a dummy in her mouth, cus apparently that was a thing. fucking awesome. but it couldn't be like that anymore. people aren't there for the music, they're there to get absolutely paralectic on drugs. and i mean, any fucking drug. take it from a current 20yr old, it's disturbing as hell. if it was the 90s, hell yeah i'd drop an e. would i drop one now? not a chance. i drink shots so that nobody has a chance to spike my drink. it's not a good place anymore.
also the music is fucking shit so there's that.
and now we see people being divided and a lot of racism coming out i wish we had the 90s back
@Archie Leech truth masked by glaring fiction
What bs!!!! ACID HOUSE STARTED IN CHICAGO thanks to DJ Pierre and Spanky. This video totally tried to whitewash this genre's musical history
WAX TRAX!!!
This video talks about how it happened in BRITAIN. If you want to tell the Chicago story(and how it never went anywhere in comparison) go make a documentary about it
Acid House music started in Chicago not Rave Culture ;)
Same as the 60’s the social engineers at work,
Nothing is bottom up,
Yea I noticed it's a 30 year cycle astrologically...❤
I remember they actually made E's with a Leah Betts print on them, i dunno if that was just wrong or as a sign of remembrance
What pissed me off about the press coverage of Leah Betts death was the fact that it wasn't ecstasy that killed her, it was drinking too much water, a condition called dilutional hyponatremia. The S*n just printed their usual shite about it, then all the middle Englanders went mental. She died on my 18th birthday.
So she would have stayed alive had she just drunk less water, absolutely nothing to do with the MDMA mmm k
Mobile phone recorded messages?! I don't think so... recorded messages from phone boxes maybe
Yeah funny that.. We had hand printed hand drawn flyers from free festivals such as village idiots.. Green man.. Twisted tree.. Rutland free. Etc etc. Which had a phone no on.. We used to drive into the countryside, look for other traveller or raver types to follow.. Or drive until we saw high into the air the distinctive tell tale glow from the lasers and more times than not the police with great big spotlamps from looked like football stadiums all parked nearby outside of the woods or fields.
Can anyone PLEASE tell me the name of the tune at 7.30??
Hi 😀 the track is called spiritual high by moodswing featuring chrissie hynde 😀👍
I was interviewed for this one...
Thank you for your service Mr Anthony... The events you organised were epic... love you mate ;)
@@TeamAcid88 Thanks for showing up ;)
“...give me a tennah fah sumfin...” love the accent!
We forever are fkn Ravers !! i_o..
I miss the old Fkn DJs, as well, spinning vin....
❤ insisted that love, you coildn be urself and everyone has noncontional love and enpathy..I met the best koolest people in my life.....best music ever...
I love this ty for the work on this..
"It brought out a generation much better than the lot who came out of the 80's" what does this ignorant git mean?
Does he not realize the 1980's electro, hip hop, funk, industrial, new wave, goth and gay scene paved the way for hip house, acid house, prog house and techno etc?
Then many people from those scenes still in their 20's also became ravers along with those in their late teens etc.
Yep he's an arrogant and ignorant twat. None of this would have happened if not for the generation before it, repeat ad infinitum. To claim your own generation changed the world alone, whatever your age, is nonsense. That all did, and they all depended on the generations before them to get to that point. Claiming anything else is just showing your ignorance.
Too right!! And we stayed legal - unlike thiese ecstasy addicted crack-a-jacks.
We won. We drove it underground and the violence and problems went way up. Yeah buddy you won. Makes perfect sense to me.
Great upload.
Would like to get a track list they playing on this video. If u know any of them share pls:) thank u very very much , I’ll rave on my own :D
Someone's done it on here - sorry somehow copy and paste it.
not a single mention about the music, might as well be called drugs documentary...
I think the music is mentioned.
Damani Delano Kelly see 36:46 lol
The music is a RIP off of the House music culture of the Black youth of Chicago which started in 1985.
Not true, Acid House was mentioned throughout. Obviously you didn't watch it all.
@@sneakerzoutkastz8596 no....u very very wrong.. Acid house is a very British thing.. U can argue this but one thing u can't argue is that rave a few short years later was most definately a British thing... We are the original hardcore raver. We were the love generation of the 90s..no one else gets that tag. It belongs to ravers only. U may have rave now but it is nothing... Nothing like then. What is great is that tracks from back then are still being sampled in new dance/rave tracks.. I don't miss those times but I certainly remember them with huge fondness.
Should just be titled The Chemical Generation as there is very little mention of any music, or how Acid House music evolved. The comment below is correct, more of a drug documentary, and a disappointing one at that, there is so much more that could have been covered here.
Tania Pisa why not? There's so much more about the music out there so it's nice to have a gritty focus on the E...to me anyway since it is a big part of my past
E is a lot better than cocaine in my opinion.
Slave to the Rave,
Rave to the grave!!!
@Stephen Lindsay 😆
One foot in the rave👍
Woman talking about "people preferring to go to Ministry of Sound instead of raves"...Err, don't think so!! Ravers were in it for something completely different. Clubs and "Celeb DJ's" talking shite were definitely not what it was about. This is better: ruclips.net/video/Thr8PUAQuag/видео.html
discoverydavid
We hit the countryside in 90-92 for our raves with the new age travellers, punks and hells angel types.. Lol. No entry fee there and real acid and e.. Until the government fuxked that up for us to.
Ministry of Sound are parasites.... they leech off every single scene... and did feck all! Shove your commercial shite
"Get a phone call for 50 quid", I got a call the other day "Come and help me with these E-scooters for 20 quid!", lol!
Is that code ? Haha. 🤣💨
Those kids handing out flyers now own their own clubs... Oh come on.
I’ve long thought MARRS was the game changer in the UK. It sounded like a blueprint for acid house.
Well Mars literally does all the freaky experiments 😮...Hmm😂❤
Depressing when the Tappenden police guy acknowledges with some degree of schadenfreude, that his drugs teams only pushed things underground and increased the violence partygoers had to put up with.
You've gotta love the guy with the crutches safest place was the car park to bounce,yas 21:02
I wish I was there! ❤❤❤
At 3:50. Anyone know the name of that song?
My mum bought me a acid house smiley face t shirt...
240p???? Come on guys, you can do better than that... It's a pity for such interesting documentary
A like Acid House, Hip House!!👏👏
Why did K. Tappenden decide he had a problem because the Motorways were being used OFF PEAK?
How is that a problem>? Get your priorities togethr laddy
😂exactly wtf..they make NO sense
Blimey i remember watching this on TV. I started going to raves in 89, we lived in quite a rural-ish area, but it was because of the raves going on around us in the fields we caught onto it 😁. Those early years were great, it did get quite crunchy though as the criminal element cottoned onto it - but the early to mid 90s clubs were licensed all night and decent so it went into the clubs. I was living in London in the early to mid 90s, i had stopped taking E but was still going out alot and at the time it was everywhere, everyone was taking pills more so than in the acid house years. When Leah Betts sadly died it had no impact at all,it really didn’t, in fact if anything it seemed to get even more popular. I hadn’t been clubbing for about a year, i went to club UK with friends and was like, woah this is a-lot of people who are all at it! But yeah - its something you grow out of to be honest but it certainly changed us. We didn’t just get married and stay at home - we went travelling, started our own businesses, went into jobs that seemed exclusive to the upper middle classes only 10 years before - like the media and creative industries, I think it opened our eyes to what being alive could be.
People wouldn't be nice to each other while they were on drugs unless underneath all the bullshit they really wanted to. A great time. Many happy memories.
Best drugs of any youth movement. Good times, changes for the better for sure.More Gay rights and less racism. Football Hooligans getting on together. MDMA has to be made safe and legal.
P.S. I dont take any recreational drugs. A long time ago I took Ecstacy.
True what u say tho.. The youth now are ingesting real mdma in vast quantities but don't have the same together mentality. That unity aspect seems lacking.. The yout now seem more aggressive and despondent.
@@solcutta3661 My understanding is what they're calling "E" in modern times is different and not like the "E" of this time period covered in the documentary. I'm trying to find out if anyone from Gen x has experience in the rave days E vs modern "E".
I hear Detroit Techno in the soundtrack of this documentary
Detroit Techno is exactly what? Nothing else than a Chicago/Acid House rip-off.