Never lived in Melbourne but learned the Melb shuffle 10yrs ago through youtube and been rocking it ever since in Sydney. Always repping the Melbourne shuffle.
Wow! Thanks! Great show! Reminded me how lucky l was to be in Melbourne in the 90s! Parties at the docks, shed14, hardware , every picture tells a story , Mt disappointment bushdoofs in November, bass station ,hard candy, bubble, Brunswick st fest., great memories ! Special time! Thanks for the memories!
Almost 50 now. 1st time I saw a real shuffler was in hk in early 99. Was like wtf I need to learn this. Left Melbourne early 2000 and been practising ever since. Now Get a few tins in me and start rockin. I fukn love this shit
Im 55 now and didnt knew theres a docu about the style ive learned to share my energy and feelings while raving my shoes into the dancefloor . Thx for this valuable piece of culture video!❤
Kryal Kastle might have been my last Melbourne party. Got in with friends who were filming the dancing for the organizers with huge portable lights and camera. Picked this dance up during my year there, but have rarely had an opportunity to bust out this move in San Francisco over the past fifteen years. I'll keep going out, hoping for the right beat and some space. Wish I could've returned to Melbourne!
Wish I had some dirty K and some mad MD and that I could park my car 1-2 floors above the club I was rocking at and across the road from the recovery, with pass outs, a mix and the trusty springer in tow...there really wasn’t a set of circumstances we weren’t prepared for.... except cold, boring, abject, normalcy. There’s no vax for that.
I was born and live in Melbourne, going to raves in the early 90s I remember seeing these young skinny boys and girls wearing Johnson&Johnson baby powder Tshirts and thinking whats this about? Then I saw them dance. I never could do it but am proud that this dance was created in my home town.
My dad was always really proud that he was part of the crowd that the Melbourne shuffle came out of, passed away before he could teach me so I’m forced to learn from RUclips
Oh yeah! I remember trippin on acid down stairs at Inflation in the late 80's and experimenting with different dance moves. Some of the best memories! It felt like I was hovering over the floor!
I used to love downstairs at Inflation, especially on a Thursday night. I think I started going either late 89 or early 90. No wonder I am half deaf today 😆
This is such a beautiful doco! Well done! I will never forget back in the ealry 90s when I was touring with a techno band & the way ALL the Melbourne kids danced with their talcum powder & huge pants, it just blew us away! It felt as if everyone else had been doing it all wrong, but these kids got it! KUDOS, MELBOURNE RAVERS!
Lol this is memories..just remember that time good old days shuffle dance. But now am fat 35 years lol..nowdays since 2008 i saw kid running shuffle like Usain Bolt and battle..what battle? We shuffle to express ourself on dance floor..not just a dance but its an art.Stay on one place while dancing, create your nice arm movement, free you mind and dance..life is your own.
@@elth5944 Same as me man! Once this documentary came out, and Hard Kandy had their big dance battle competition thing it all started to turn into people thinking they were better than each other. People stopped complimenting others on their dancing and shit. That's when i lost interest.
37, still hit up the odd event. Very sad to say not many rockers (shufflers) coming up the ranks. Rofl the battles.... Like we are in the bronks settling disputes instead of shooting each other.. Its fuckin Melbourne. Biggest dispute is if its a palma or palmy and no one at these events were eating anything..... Cough
Red fu took something wholesome that was completly unique to the rave scene and turned it into a lollie dance...... it sucked ( went to my 1st dance party in 94) Appreciate the apology bro lol
@@waluwali_official being born in melbourne, and being in this dvd back then, at the time it come out (LMFAO) it really pissed *most* of us off hahaha we were kids though. no one does it quite like melbourne does though :D
I'm a Melbourne shuffler from way back. It wasn't until I went to raves/ clubbing in England and in Europe in the early 2000s that I heard it called that. Was just how we danced. Cool to see it documented and credited here. Great doco. Shuffle on!!!
Me too, started in 1990, Pure was the best, in my group of friends we called it "stomping" and ourselves "stompers" (not "ravers"). As far as I knew that was the common terminology for the scene. When I first heard the term 'Melbourne shuffle' it was at least mid to late 90s, and I thought it probably came about because from initially being an almost continual stomping motion in the late 80s/early 90s, the dance had been simplified to mostly shuffling, since proper stomping to 140+bpm trance/hard trance isn't something anyone can do all night.
@@matthewgrove-jones3001I knew what you're saying, but no, if that was enough, then the dance style wouldn't have changed the way it did. Stomping was WAY more dynamic than shuffling. No matter how much energy you have, your lung capacity and circulation capacity is limited. But even more critical is the question...are you having fun? Being very cardio fit around that time of my life, in 93/94 I happened to do a little stomping at a jungle night, and a different techno night, with bpms around 140. And while I could keep up for a short time (say a minute of full blown dancing)...it just wasn't fun. At that speed and up, there isn't enough time from beat to beat to be creative or expressive - but those are the things which made dancing in the early days so much fun for me. So I was disappointed but not surprised to see dancers in the hard trance rooms at big events doing a very limited, reduced version of what we did in 89-92. And I'm not knocking shufflers from Melbourne's hard dance scene...I'm just pointing out that when the bpms go from 125 to 140+, the dance has to change. It's the same as basslines - a prog house track at 126 or 127 can have a really unique, interesting bassline, because there's time for each note to play out. A trance track at 145 will have the opposite - just a few short notes in a short loop, because there's no time for anything else...
I'm from Sydney. We used to go clubbing in Melbourne a few times a year. My best friend and I did notice the way people danced in Melbourne. It was always mesmerising to watch. We nicknamed it tippy toe dancing.
This documentary has help me realize that my insecurities when dancing are irrelevant. When there is a lot of people watching I get so anxious but I have to let go and just have fun.. To destroy my ego transition into a state of trance and let go
Been going to parties since early 2000s and early 2000s scene was so good. Yes sure everyone was on pills but everyone was just happy, smiling and welcoming vibes. Good times.
This so awesome to stumble across. It's 2019, but I'm back in my dancing days of the late 90's, BC Canada. I'm actually fully stunned by this, because way across the world a handful of very high energy kids from various different dance style backgrounds came together and out of it a blend was formed very similar to the Melbourne Shuffle: Liquid Movement + Uprocking from Breakdance + Skip/Kicking in Place + Glide Stepping Like MJ or Usher. Throw in a phaaatty bassline at a high tempo, and this is what the dance floors looked like. When we first got into people would just stand and stare in disbelief "How do you do that skip/kick" was a common question. Wasn't long before most kids were bouncing around the dance floor lol. Thank you for this, i'm sitting here with goosebumps lol
I don't ever comment on RUclips but I felt the need to contribute to this video. It was the Asians who took the technicalities of this dance style to the rave scene. The foundation and the basis for the moves you see on the dance floor. This came out of the Warehouse nightclub from 1995 when we practised until our feet bled and skin was falling off our feet just to develop the style you see today. Melbourne may have developed the rave culture but it was the Asian student community whom created the dance moves. I bear witness to this from the very beginning and I contributed to it. You'll be surprised where the feet movements originated from. Too bad I was never interviewed about this for the documentary, I would have provided the grassroots of where it came from and I would be happy to disclose this unique history. I can even provided the names of the original groups who brought it to the Melbourne rave scene. Indonesian students to the Malaysians to the Singaporeans then onto the rest of the Melbourne rave scenes. From there, the rest of the world.
Hope when looking back, you go right back to were the inspiration of the dance came back from. What I see here is Running Man, Northern Soul, Shuffle, Body Popping to name a few.
I remember this clearly. I saw the Asians at a rave at the docks in 1996 and was blown away by their moves. Then you’d see them dancing in the arcades of Bourke St on a Sat night. They took the Melb shuffle to a technical new level 100%
I feel like its similar to the Melbourne Muzz which is more prominent these days at Trance music festivals and similar sub-genres. The roots come from Tecktonik movements, and then later popularised by Zyzz, which while he blew up with fame - the asians from Melbourne started jumping on board and made the Muzz dance much more in-depth and developed more style to it. The Gabba / Hakk is another type of dance that is widely popular and commonly seen within Hardstyle type music events, more prominent in Sydney within Australia - which also has its roots from overseas, but has seen specific movements and variations that are more unique to Australia's Gabba. We did also see the Juicy Wiggle dance become trendy within the Melbourne bounce era from around 2013 for a short-while. Funny enough, the artist LMFAO ended up making a song about it. It's definitely interesting to see how these dance styles comes and go, or even stays. Would love to see what other unique dance styles other countries have in their underground scenes that are not widely known unless you specifically search for it, and / or know the name of it.
All the best parties- and the early Melbourne shuffle steps. Started before my time, but absolutely danced in this space through the 90's. Next level footsteps ❤🎶
I was a clubber back in the UK in late 80s and hit the rave scene from London to Glasgow. I first seen house music Shuffling in Leeds & Halifax only a few people could do it. Melbourne Shuffle and the amount of people shuffling is on a different level to anything I have ever seen. Undoubtedly the Shuffle capital City of the world 🫶
wesley sharpe haha elevation Thursday night, bass station and then tuned Friday night, PhD Saturday morning, bubble Saturday night. If forced ended up at revs Sunday...
There is no specific shuffle but some look better than others while doing it. I know I was just a casual shuffler but had mates pulling aerial 720s right beside me and just absorbing their energy without stifling it. Man those were some good days. Frantic crew unite!
How did we go from THIS to Cutting Shapes ?!?!?! I really miss the oldschool Shuffle :/ The beautiful way of moving upper body, the way people playing with their hats, so much fun and enjoyment of just watching them having fun. I can't believe this style is never coming back anymore :(
Cutting shapes grew out of Chicago’s house scene in the 80’s completely separate from shuffling. They resurfaced again, but the public mixed it up with shuffling. There are still some shufflers who dance like this or can dance like this. You just gotta find them
37:15 me and my buddies used to love going to "Pure". Back of the Palace, St Kilda. 1991. Used to love watching Will-e-Tell. Melbourne's first rockstar DJ.
Leroy from the prodigy was the pioneer Melbourne refined and molded it into what it was . now its been commercialized and brought into the main stream . if only those mums cheering on the kids really new what we were about and the life style we lived im sure they would disprove of the kids doing it . and that fucking shit song the Americans produced about it totally commercialized it . no longer the close underground sub culture it used to be .
WTF! WOW! Seeing my mate Itchy on this vid brings almost tears to my eyes. We started going to raves 91-92 maybe even earlier, who knows!?(brain damage alert Lol!!) My first rave was AMAZING SPACE, then started going to Sector3, Pure and all those iconic nights that ill never forget. We were part of the so called FAMILY a bunch of hipnos (techno head hippies). The Melbourne shuffle was formed very early in the 90s from various really good innovative dancers (all different in styles) that basically influenced the rest of the rave scene and slowly but surely became what it is today, I was there and proud of it! The kids of today don't have a clue, and it's probably best that way! No disrespect, just saying they'll end up with more brain cells lol!😳😃
Born in Melbourne went to countless parties,raves during the rave era start of 90’s to 2004 nothing bet in my opinion global village in footscray till it ended. What’s called Melbourne shuffle we would just call a stomp had way more diversity back then though these new dancers are cool 😎 Go rock🤟😎🤟
Yes!!! Someone else who remembers stomping!! That's what our crew called it in the beginning! Pure, back of the Palace, just magic! And 1000% agree about the moves - as Terry Ho says in this doco, the bpms used to be around 125 so you could be really creative and diverse but still in time with the beat. That was the best...making new things up on the spot...
Melbourne an bred, here.. .. while this snippet was great for my own personal nostalgia in so many ways, this clip is a bunch of bollocks...i found the party scene in melbourne, NYE 97 im pretty sure... carl cox headlining, dj hmc on the bill... at the time i was deep in the new grunge scene.. mates jammin, trying to be the next nirvana or pearl jam... a friend of mine in melbourne from one of those local grunge band, had a sis in adelaide who was coming to melbourne for new years, and needed to get rid of a few tickets cos some people backed out,,,,i think i paid something like $40 for that ticket, with a free E pass... i never looked back. this "doco" talks about a lot of stuff, alot revolving around "rich e rich", he was prolific in those days..but o lord... to melburn ravers... rich e rich on the bill was an emphatic "fuck that!!! " unless he was on dawn patrol, by which time youd seen the greats and already bounced to whatever recovery party suited the vibe...seeing sleiker, slack, mad rod& rudeboy. was a weekly... wet mucic, with simon digby and will e telll was a peak for me..and for those in my age bracket, let me just say the red room in northcote, anarki saki this clip doesnt mention those secret raves in the docks, or under the westgate, where it was word of mouth only... and thats probably a good thing...hardware couldnt leech everything
1990s Melbourne underground dance scene. Razor, Baseline, Fantasia, Temple, Tasty, Dome, Savage, Lick, and the Dock parties New year's Eve, Red Raw, Winter Daze and Run thanks to Brendan Cooney so much hedonistic times so privileged to be part of it.
Any for those who wanted to keep dancing… PHD when it lived at the Sin Bin downstairs in a little back ally, I remember it opened at 7am and went through to like 4-5pm most Saturday & Sundays… good times!
I remember rockin pretty hard at Turnmills in London around '97.....there were some nasty folks running that club back then....I was high so ignored the dark frequencies...until a woman walked past me at the top of the dancefloor and told me someone was going to stab me....I made it out pretty quickly after that.... Coming from a Melbourne scene I couldn't understand how someone would wanna fuck you up and getting loose?....my eyes were opened.... ps They really were amazing times back then..... pps Cheers Sleiker & Co.for some great gigs and sets I still listen to to this day...
I learned the shuffle from my older bro who was in the late 90's rave scene in melb (bubble, hard kandy, etc), got his pair of phat pants too, also learned from this doco (melbourne shuffler) dvd which i paid $40 back in 2006 or 7, and a bit from youtube like bigmillan, but mostly from people on the dance-floor. my dance floor was brissy tho so it was highly adapted and there was a lot of 'brisbane stomp' and a lot more 'happy hardcore' music which was a lot faster and crazy than what you hear in this doco so shuffling wasn't an option most of the time unless you went to a club to hear some eurotrance or maybe prog or hard trance, or god forbid mainstream house that you'd shuffle to anyway if you'd had a few drinks but normally you'd turn your nose up at not being underground enough, and there we where in bris, a dime in a dozen but had a blast anyway. The scene became more for the kids once lmfao did it and there we'd see kids having shuffle offs on the streets in the middle of the day dressed like they're in the middle of winter in melb in the middle of the night with long phat pants and hk hoodies etc. I miss the rave candy most of all, but as for the dance.. whilst i do enjoy busting it out every now and then, it just looks inorganic to me most of the time now... like the whole scene, everyone adapting this one base style of movement kinda like everyone agreeing on wearing a uniform to a night out centralized around the theme of 'letting go' and freedom and peace which is obviously pretty ironic. I've seen people do much better with self expression since leaving the scene and to date I mostly just see people who try to look good for the camera or use amphetamines and various pharma drugs looking all tweekishly insectlike as they perform the style like a pigeon on heat like its the only thing they've accomplished for me to hold the same level of respect for it that I used to. It was great fun while it lasted, and whilst there where people didn't look like scabbed up vampires or like babies doing it. so ultimately it's a very artificially fuelled and artificially themed dance style which is bad for the knees, but which was good while it was new and for declining time period after and thats it. its dead now, its in the hands of instazombies and literal zombies. RIP melbourne shuffle
Great documentary and I enjoyed watching it. Really enjoyed the comments from Mark One from 1:05:58, he made a lot of sense and I enjoyed what he had to say and thought he made a great contribution to the documentary. There was also some fantastic dancers on the documentary and the best dancers I ever saw were from Melbourne; they are very talented in the rave scene over there. Thanks again for producing the Melbourne Shuffle documentary; the story needed to be told. That was our life back then....
I loved this documentary, it touches on such a deep and complex, iconic yet illusive and contradictory culture, it's hard to do this right without being superficial. The tracklist is DOPE. I always wondered why rave music was so hard to find though.. many of these tracks are absolutely nowhere I can find online. CD?
It's all on RUclips bro! Keep digging and you'll pretty much find all of it. Or at least the most iconic tracks anyways. I usually start the search with 90's rave music. Good luck!
Unfortunately in Melbourne phat pants and quality individual shufflers are rare. Some try to learn but the just pick up some basic steps very few get out there and explore the baselines like we use to.
@@bkleaderfull You're welcome! Here it was never really a thing; a few years back there was a little community, but sadly it dissapeared. But it would be nice to see it back!
In LA we had our own thing come out around 1998-99 called the Nordic Trak which has since been morphed and called CandyWalking. A strictly undergound movement that still lives on, for kids into shuffling in dance circles, its the one main competitor to the melbourne shuffle. I Appreciate the melbourne shuffle when performed correctly, but since the LMFAO Everyday im shufflin' made it sooo mainstream youve got a million half assed non coordinated goofs all over the dance floor lookin at their feet knockin everyones drinks out theior hands
This isn't the Melbourne dance style I experienced from '95 to '00, unfortunately it seems to have become more like the 'running man' which Melbourne can't claim as you can see it in early Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer videos.
Yes, yes we did!!! I only heard it called "shuffling" once trance had become dominant and the bpms were up to 140+. Also didn't hear the word 'rave' applied to our scene til much later. Granted I was a bit shy didn't talk to a lot of folks, but we called it "stomping" and called ourselves "stompers" 😄 IIRC there was actually an occasional goth style event on in Melb called "Rave" around the same time 🤣
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Never lived in Melbourne but learned the Melb shuffle 10yrs ago through youtube and been rocking it ever since in Sydney. Always repping the Melbourne shuffle.
Thanks for posting! This film made me fall in love with the human race again. Wonderful, happy kids dancing to brilliant music - Fabulous.
Wow! Thanks! Great show! Reminded me how lucky l was to be in Melbourne in the 90s! Parties at the docks, shed14, hardware , every picture tells a story , Mt disappointment bushdoofs in November, bass station ,hard candy, bubble, Brunswick st fest., great memories ! Special time! Thanks for the memories!
Almost 50 now. 1st time I saw a real shuffler was in hk in early 99. Was like wtf I need to learn this. Left Melbourne early 2000 and been practising ever since. Now Get a few tins in me and start rockin. I fukn love this shit
A city as cool as Melbourne needs its own dance. Bravo
Im 55 now and didnt knew theres a docu about the style ive learned to share my energy and feelings while raving my shoes into the dancefloor . Thx for this valuable piece of culture video!❤
I was there for all of this Hard Kandy, Bubble, Bass, all the raves, Kryal was epic. Wish i had a time machine!
Kryal Kastle might have been my last Melbourne party. Got in with friends who were filming the dancing for the organizers with huge portable lights and camera. Picked this dance up during my year there, but have rarely had an opportunity to bust out this move in San Francisco over the past fifteen years. I'll keep going out, hoping for the right beat and some space. Wish I could've returned to Melbourne!
Mate, it was the best. My usual haunt was filter on Wednesday nights. Rudeboy and hot rod ftw
Maaaaaate, those were better days
Wish I had some dirty K and some mad
MD and that I could park my car 1-2
floors above the club I was rocking at and across the road from the recovery, with pass outs, a mix and the trusty springer in tow...there really wasn’t a set of circumstances we weren’t prepared for.... except cold, boring, abject, normalcy. There’s no vax for that.
I was there as a bouncer at bubble back in the day. Will never forget it
I was born and live in Melbourne, going to raves in the early 90s I remember seeing these young skinny boys and girls wearing Johnson&Johnson baby powder Tshirts and thinking whats this about? Then I saw them dance. I never could do it but am proud that this dance was created in my home town.
I think I'm one of them although not in a J&J tshirt... Lol.
I was most certainly one of those skinny kids lol!!
@@nuniyabizness2772 same
My dad was always really proud that he was part of the crowd that the Melbourne shuffle came out of, passed away before he could teach me so I’m forced to learn from RUclips
Simeon o I could dance but I couldn’t shuffle. Not like these legends.
From OldSchool Melbourne Shuffle Dance Vietnam With Loveee 🙏❤️❤️❤️
Danced like this til the lights of the club would turn on. Wow the late 90s of melbourne
57:43 That is me!!
Matt Dietrich those hat moves 🔥
Sick flow
Thanks bro!
Shredding it up mate! love the energy
Star struck!
This deserves more views.
best doco ever.. gave me chills. big up for Melbourne in the late 90's 2k's
Oh yeah! I remember trippin on acid down stairs at Inflation in the late 80's and experimenting with different dance moves. Some of the best memories! It felt like I was hovering over the floor!
I used to love downstairs at Inflation, especially on a Thursday night. I think I started going either late 89 or early 90. No wonder I am half deaf today 😆
This dance is similar to the running man dance from 1987, but good to see it reborn
This is such a beautiful doco! Well done! I will never forget back in the ealry 90s when I was touring with a techno band & the way ALL the Melbourne kids danced with their talcum powder & huge pants, it just blew us away! It felt as if everyone else had been doing it all wrong, but these kids got it! KUDOS, MELBOURNE RAVERS!
Lol this is memories..just remember that time good old days shuffle dance. But now am fat 35 years lol..nowdays since 2008 i saw kid running shuffle like Usain Bolt and battle..what battle? We shuffle to express ourself on dance floor..not just a dance but its an art.Stay on one place while dancing, create your nice arm movement, free you mind and dance..life is your own.
Nas Anas I know the feeling. I'm 36, I gave it up when people started cocking on and making it a competition. I miss the old days.
@@elth5944 Same as me man! Once this documentary came out, and Hard Kandy had their big dance battle competition thing it all started to turn into people thinking they were better than each other. People stopped complimenting others on their dancing and shit. That's when i lost interest.
37, still hit up the odd event. Very sad to say not many rockers (shufflers) coming up the ranks.
Rofl the battles.... Like we are in the bronks settling disputes instead of shooting each other.. Its fuckin Melbourne. Biggest dispute is if its a palma or palmy and no one at these events were eating anything..... Cough
On the behalf of the USA
I apologize to Melbourne for LMFAO
SHADOWSTRYKER lmfao its ridiculois , ITS THE SHAME 🤮
Red fu took something wholesome that was completly unique to the rave scene and turned it into a lollie dance...... it sucked
( went to my 1st dance party in 94)
Appreciate the apology bro lol
about time someone did. lol
Word being from the USA I was also upset at what they did with it
And people really sat there a thought that was the birth of shuffle...gtfoh
@@waluwali_official being born in melbourne, and being in this dvd back then, at the time it come out (LMFAO) it really pissed *most* of us off hahaha we were kids though. no one does it quite like melbourne does though :D
I'm a Melbourne shuffler from way back. It wasn't until I went to raves/ clubbing in England and in Europe in the early 2000s that I heard it called that. Was just how we danced. Cool to see it documented and credited here. Great doco. Shuffle on!!!
Same, here when I went to London. It was just how I danced...
Me too, started in 1990, Pure was the best, in my group of friends we called it "stomping" and ourselves "stompers" (not "ravers"). As far as I knew that was the common terminology for the scene.
When I first heard the term 'Melbourne shuffle' it was at least mid to late 90s, and I thought it probably came about because from initially being an almost continual stomping motion in the late 80s/early 90s, the dance had been simplified to mostly shuffling, since proper stomping to 140+bpm trance/hard trance isn't something anyone can do all night.
@@dewulfe9913little Annie amphetamine
@@matthewgrove-jones3001I knew what you're saying, but no, if that was enough, then the dance style wouldn't have changed the way it did. Stomping was WAY more dynamic than shuffling. No matter how much energy you have, your lung capacity and circulation capacity is limited.
But even more critical is the question...are you having fun? Being very cardio fit around that time of my life, in 93/94 I happened to do a little stomping at a jungle night, and a different techno night, with bpms around 140. And while I could keep up for a short time (say a minute of full blown dancing)...it just wasn't fun. At that speed and up, there isn't enough time from beat to beat to be creative or expressive - but those are the things which made dancing in the early days so much fun for me.
So I was disappointed but not surprised to see dancers in the hard trance rooms at big events doing a very limited, reduced version of what we did in 89-92. And I'm not knocking shufflers from Melbourne's hard dance scene...I'm just pointing out that when the bpms go from 125 to 140+, the dance has to change.
It's the same as basslines - a prog house track at 126 or 127 can have a really unique, interesting bassline, because there's time for each note to play out. A trance track at 145 will have the opposite - just a few short notes in a short loop, because there's no time for anything else...
@@dewulfe9913 160 bpm , hardcore... It was probably the something something but yeah, kept going strong till they kicked us out at 6 am.
I'm from Sydney. We used to go clubbing in Melbourne a few times a year. My best friend and I did notice the way people danced in Melbourne. It was always mesmerising to watch. We nicknamed it tippy toe dancing.
This documentary has help me realize that my insecurities when dancing are irrelevant. When there is a lot of people watching I get so anxious but I have to let go and just have fun.. To destroy my ego transition into a state of trance and let go
It's not a dance competition it's about release and enjoying yourself.
I'm 44 now... watching this video reminds me of the good old days of me & friends Melbourne Shuffling every chance we got 😅
Melbourne Shuffle 4eVa
Its like you guys are walking on air.. Your so talented like Eeeed up Angels that are spreading the gospel of shuffle... Amen
Been going to parties since early 2000s and early 2000s scene was so good. Yes sure everyone was on pills but everyone was just happy, smiling and welcoming vibes.
Good times.
This so awesome to stumble across. It's 2019, but I'm back in my dancing days of the late 90's, BC Canada. I'm actually fully stunned by this, because way across the world a handful of very high energy kids from various different dance style backgrounds came together and out of it a blend was formed very similar to the Melbourne Shuffle: Liquid Movement + Uprocking from Breakdance + Skip/Kicking in Place + Glide Stepping Like MJ or Usher. Throw in a phaaatty bassline at a high tempo, and this is what the dance floors looked like. When we first got into people would just stand and stare in disbelief "How do you do that skip/kick" was a common question. Wasn't long before most kids were bouncing around the dance floor lol. Thank you for this, i'm sitting here with goosebumps lol
Adelaide stomp!
this is the real melb shuffle! big up the brunswick massive
I don't ever comment on RUclips but I felt the need to contribute to this video. It was the Asians who took the technicalities of this dance style to the rave scene. The foundation and the basis for the moves you see on the dance floor. This came out of the Warehouse nightclub from 1995 when we practised until our feet bled and skin was falling off our feet just to develop the style you see today. Melbourne may have developed the rave culture but it was the Asian student community whom created the dance moves. I bear witness to this from the very beginning and I contributed to it. You'll be surprised where the feet movements originated from. Too bad I was never interviewed about this for the documentary, I would have provided the grassroots of where it came from and I would be happy to disclose this unique history. I can even provided the names of the original groups who brought it to the Melbourne rave scene. Indonesian students to the Malaysians to the Singaporeans then onto the rest of the Melbourne rave scenes. From there, the rest of the world.
Hope when looking back, you go right back to were the inspiration of the dance came back from. What I see here is Running Man, Northern Soul, Shuffle, Body Popping to name a few.
Who cares who invented it or brought it here or "developed it."
Dance is dance. Just enjoy it.
I remember this clearly. I saw the Asians at a rave at the docks in 1996 and was blown away by their moves. Then you’d see them dancing in the arcades of Bourke St on a Sat night. They took the Melb shuffle to a technical new level 100%
I feel like its similar to the Melbourne Muzz which is more prominent these days at Trance music festivals and similar sub-genres. The roots come from Tecktonik movements, and then later popularised by Zyzz, which while he blew up with fame - the asians from Melbourne started jumping on board and made the Muzz dance much more in-depth and developed more style to it.
The Gabba / Hakk is another type of dance that is widely popular and commonly seen within Hardstyle type music events, more prominent in Sydney within Australia - which also has its roots from overseas, but has seen specific movements and variations that are more unique to Australia's Gabba.
We did also see the Juicy Wiggle dance become trendy within the Melbourne bounce era from around 2013 for a short-while. Funny enough, the artist LMFAO ended up making a song about it.
It's definitely interesting to see how these dance styles comes and go, or even stays. Would love to see what other unique dance styles other countries have in their underground scenes that are not widely known unless you specifically search for it, and / or know the name of it.
No it wasn't Asians, they were definitely part of the community but not the creators of shuffling
It's roots come from Irish step dance
All the best parties- and the early Melbourne shuffle steps. Started before my time, but absolutely danced in this space through the 90's. Next level footsteps ❤🎶
I was a clubber back in the UK in late 80s and hit the rave scene from London to Glasgow. I first seen house music Shuffling in Leeds & Halifax only a few people could do it. Melbourne Shuffle and the amount of people shuffling is on a different level to anything I have ever seen. Undoubtedly the Shuffle capital City of the world 🫶
Ahh Teriyaki Thursday night, Base Station Friday night, who knows Saturday night but somehow end up at Virus by Sunday.. Crazy crazy times..
wesley sharpe haha elevation Thursday night, bass station and then tuned Friday night, PhD Saturday morning, bubble Saturday night. If forced ended up at revs Sunday...
Teriyaki Thursday, Hard Kandy Friday and Bubble Saturday Sunday was recovery day lmao
I remember that guy (49:30), he cleared the dance floor every time I saw him, that's real 90s hard trance, would've loved to see more of him.
use to destroy everyone off the dance floor in overseas clubs ..they're like wtf is this crazy shit
still doing the same there >.>
Never heard of Melbourne but been rocking like this since '94...its the music..its just makes you do that shit😂
Rave is energy and freedom 😎
There is no specific shuffle but some look better than others while doing it. I know I was just a casual shuffler but had mates pulling aerial 720s right beside me and just absorbing their energy without stifling it.
Man those were some good days.
Frantic crew unite!
How did we go from THIS to Cutting Shapes ?!?!?!
I really miss the oldschool Shuffle :/ The beautiful way of moving upper body, the way people playing with their hats, so much fun and enjoyment of just watching them having fun.
I can't believe this style is never coming back anymore :(
to remain conservative is always a trait, however we can't contain the developments, and should'nt, unless its truly a harm :)
there still some people doin this oldschool. :) include me. :D
Cutting shapes grew out of Chicago’s house scene in the 80’s completely separate from shuffling. They resurfaced again, but the public mixed it up with shuffling. There are still some shufflers who dance like this or can dance like this. You just gotta find them
Never saw the shuffle on the Goldie, never knew it existed until recently, we in Qld missed out, awesome to watch.
Fuck watching dis really makes me wish I was around for places like bubble and old PHD
Start in the corner, where no one can see you.. get comfortable then tear up the floor! The footwork's kinda hard, it's all about having fun!!!
Fuck the urge to wanna party and fuck it all hits me hard sometimes lol
hah! utube algs deliver a gem . nice one , "kickin' it old school"
R.I.P. Brodie 😢💚💜
I'm so lucky to be part of this happy days
Wish they hired dancers like this as night roadworks traffic controllers 🚧
Remember the roots Northern Soul, keep the faith!
37:15 me and my buddies used to love going to "Pure". Back of the Palace, St Kilda. 1991. Used to love watching Will-e-Tell. Melbourne's first rockstar DJ.
Pure was the best! I just missed Maze @ Commerce Club, but then we got Pure 🤩
PHD was a shithole. Pure hard dance.
It's in Sunbury now.
Junkies a plenty still.
Leroy from the prodigy was the pioneer Melbourne refined and molded it into what it was . now its been commercialized and brought into the main stream . if only those mums cheering on the kids really new what we were about and the life style we lived im sure they would disprove of the kids doing it . and that fucking shit song the Americans produced about it totally commercialized it . no longer the close underground sub culture it used to be .
Bless, he was my inspiration ages ago, when i had no clue of what melbourne shuffle was.
WTF! WOW! Seeing my mate Itchy on this vid brings almost tears to my eyes. We started going to raves 91-92 maybe even earlier, who knows!?(brain damage alert Lol!!) My first rave was AMAZING SPACE, then started going to Sector3, Pure and all those iconic nights that ill never forget. We were part of the so called FAMILY a bunch of hipnos (techno head hippies). The Melbourne shuffle was formed very early in the 90s from various really good innovative dancers (all different in styles) that basically influenced the rest of the rave scene and slowly but surely became what it is today, I was there and proud of it! The kids of today don't have a clue, and it's probably best that way! No disrespect, just saying they'll end up with more brain cells lol!😳😃
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Loved this! Thank you.
Born in Melbourne went to countless parties,raves during the rave era start of 90’s to 2004 nothing bet in my opinion global village in footscray till it ended.
What’s called Melbourne shuffle we would just call a stomp had way more diversity back then though these new dancers are cool 😎
Go rock🤟😎🤟
Yes!!! Someone else who remembers stomping!! That's what our crew called it in the beginning! Pure, back of the Palace, just magic!
And 1000% agree about the moves - as Terry Ho says in this doco, the bpms used to be around 125 so you could be really creative and diverse but still in time with the beat. That was the best...making new things up on the spot...
Este documental, podría ser la mejor huella de historia de shuffle que hay en RUclips, es la hostia ❤
Melbourne an bred, here.. .. while this snippet was great for my own personal nostalgia in so many ways, this clip is a bunch of bollocks...i found the party scene in melbourne, NYE 97 im pretty sure... carl cox headlining, dj hmc on the bill... at the time i was deep in the new grunge scene.. mates jammin, trying to be the next nirvana or pearl jam... a friend of mine in melbourne from one of those local grunge band, had a sis in adelaide who was coming to melbourne for new years, and needed to get rid of a few tickets cos some people backed out,,,,i think i paid something like $40 for that ticket, with a free E pass...
i never looked back.
this "doco" talks about a lot of stuff, alot revolving around "rich e rich", he was prolific in those days..but o lord... to melburn ravers... rich e rich on the bill was an emphatic "fuck that!!! " unless he was on dawn patrol, by which time youd seen the greats and already bounced to whatever recovery party suited the vibe...seeing sleiker, slack, mad rod& rudeboy. was a weekly... wet mucic, with simon digby and will e telll was a peak for me..and for those in my age bracket, let me just say the red room in northcote, anarki saki
this clip doesnt mention those secret raves in the docks, or under the westgate, where it was word of mouth only... and thats probably a good thing...hardware couldnt leech everything
Your writing structure is FUCKED.
Amazing documentary! What's the first song?
2018! YAAAY!
Still Watching 2020
#MelbourneShuffle
#Legends
again and again .. what a piece of art!
I Miss Doom, Salt, Hard Candy, inflation damn my childhood is over 😔
I miss Bubble !
I miss Teriyaki and Hard Candy
1990s Melbourne underground dance scene. Razor, Baseline, Fantasia, Temple, Tasty, Dome, Savage, Lick, and the Dock parties New year's Eve, Red Raw, Winter Daze and Run thanks to Brendan Cooney so much hedonistic times so privileged to be part of it.
Any for those who wanted to keep dancing… PHD when it lived at the Sin Bin downstairs in a little back ally, I remember it opened at 7am and went through to like 4-5pm most Saturday & Sundays… good times!
I remember rockin pretty hard at Turnmills in London around '97.....there were some nasty folks running that club back then....I was high so ignored the dark frequencies...until a woman walked past me at the top of the dancefloor and told me someone was going to stab me....I made it out pretty quickly after that....
Coming from a Melbourne scene I couldn't understand how someone would wanna fuck you up and getting loose?....my eyes were opened....
ps They really were amazing times back then.....
pps Cheers Sleiker & Co.for some great gigs and sets I still listen to to this day...
I am very partial to a Melbourne Shuffle :)
I've never heard of the Melbourne Shuffle and it was about my time too.
I learned the shuffle from my older bro who was in the late 90's rave scene in melb (bubble, hard kandy, etc), got his pair of phat pants too, also learned from this doco (melbourne shuffler) dvd which i paid $40 back in 2006 or 7, and a bit from youtube like bigmillan, but mostly from people on the dance-floor. my dance floor was brissy tho so it was highly adapted and there was a lot of 'brisbane stomp' and a lot more 'happy hardcore' music which was a lot faster and crazy than what you hear in this doco so shuffling wasn't an option most of the time unless you went to a club to hear some eurotrance or maybe prog or hard trance, or god forbid mainstream house that you'd shuffle to anyway if you'd had a few drinks but normally you'd turn your nose up at not being underground enough, and there we where in bris, a dime in a dozen but had a blast anyway. The scene became more for the kids once lmfao did it and there we'd see kids having shuffle offs on the streets in the middle of the day dressed like they're in the middle of winter in melb in the middle of the night with long phat pants and hk hoodies etc. I miss the rave candy most of all, but as for the dance.. whilst i do enjoy busting it out every now and then, it just looks inorganic to me most of the time now... like the whole scene, everyone adapting this one base style of movement kinda like everyone agreeing on wearing a uniform to a night out centralized around the theme of 'letting go' and freedom and peace which is obviously pretty ironic. I've seen people do much better with self expression since leaving the scene and to date I mostly just see people who try to look good for the camera or use amphetamines and various pharma drugs looking all tweekishly insectlike as they perform the style like a pigeon on heat like its the only thing they've accomplished for me to hold the same level of respect for it that I used to. It was great fun while it lasted, and whilst there where people didn't look like scabbed up vampires or like babies doing it. so ultimately it's a very artificially fuelled and artificially themed dance style which is bad for the knees, but which was good while it was new and for declining time period after and thats it. its dead now, its in the hands of instazombies and literal zombies. RIP melbourne shuffle
Great documentary and I enjoyed watching it. Really enjoyed the comments from Mark One from 1:05:58, he made a lot of sense and I enjoyed what he had to say and thought he made a great contribution to the documentary. There was also some fantastic dancers on the documentary and the best dancers I ever saw were from Melbourne; they are very talented in the rave scene over there. Thanks again for producing the Melbourne Shuffle documentary; the story needed to be told. That was our life back then....
I loved this documentary, it touches on such a deep and complex, iconic yet illusive and contradictory culture, it's hard to do
this right without being superficial. The tracklist is
DOPE. I always wondered why rave music was so hard to find though..
many of these tracks are absolutely nowhere I can find online. CD?
Not sure if you ever found it, but here it is. www.discogs.com/Various-The-Melbourne-Shuffler-Documentary-Soundtrack/release/943804
It's all on RUclips bro! Keep digging and you'll pretty much find all of it. Or at least the most iconic tracks anyways. I usually start the search with 90's rave music. Good luck!
i uploaded a few and i will upload a few more, stay tuned!
not sure how i found this, sure glad i did though.
Bring back the full street rave on Brunswick street!!!!!!!
This doco captures the new school style, it went further back than this.
Unfortunately in Melbourne phat pants and quality individual shufflers are rare. Some try to learn but the just pick up some basic steps very few get out there and explore the baselines like we use to.
whats this legendary track name started @ 0.45?
Sorry but how can you talk about the Melbourne shuffle without mentioning Sarah and Pae??
GETTIN CHILLLLSSS best OST soundtrack music songs eveeerrrr in this vid i know they old but best know em since foeevvaa still rockinn 2 emm
And now it’s world wide .
You are welcome world!!
Todd Rundgren does something like the shuffle dance when he has time in his concert performances to dance..
*INTRO TRACK*: benny drohan - back to the program
You are welcome
Thank you
1993 was the year we learned that dance.
YEAHH MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
07:46 The legend king of shuffle Leeroy(The Prodigy)
Would love to know the tracklist of the video
What's the song between NFX- Your Power and Harvest Brothers - Conan? I've been looking for that song too long now???
i hope i’m not too late, but it’s called “Lemsta” by Mandy Sour
@@neuro-tek I'm looking for it right now as we speak
@@christophercoydonald it’s a rarity, i doubt it’s on digital :/
Where’s pea and Sarah ! There the best 👍😊✅🇦🇺❤️
First track???? Sounds mint
I found it a few years ago. I'm looking for it again. I'll comment here in case of success :)
not catching on shazam... have you founded yet?
@@bkleaderfull Benny Drohan - Back to the Program :)! ShuffleSpain channel has it!
@@alister_ thanks!!!! ... i feel like melbshuffle is coming back, doesnt it?
@@bkleaderfull You're welcome!
Here it was never really a thing; a few years back there was a little community, but sadly it dissapeared.
But it would be nice to see it back!
Regardless how the shuffle move changes, I'm still down with the OG Melbourne shuffle.
I cant tell if this is about the rave scene back then or just the dance itself.
Still a good watch
Souffley Man the dance in the rave scene back in the day. That's what I think.
Does anyone now the song what starts 05:31? I tried shazam. But no chance. I can't stop thinking about it 😭.
Please Luv's.... Help me 😭
From memory Xerergy - Rock On
Where was that first dancer filmed? Singapore? Hong Kong? Beijing?
It’s a real shame that shuffling originated from this, peaked at AUS hardstyle, and is at an all time low with these weird “TikTok Shuffles”.
Back when you could go out and not worry about being bashed or stabbed. Everyone was there for the same reason. To have a ripper of a night!
In LA we had our own thing come out around 1998-99 called the Nordic Trak which has since been morphed and called CandyWalking. A strictly undergound movement that still lives on, for kids into shuffling in dance circles, its the one main competitor to the melbourne shuffle. I Appreciate the melbourne shuffle when performed correctly, but since the LMFAO Everyday im shufflin' made it sooo mainstream youve got a million half assed non coordinated goofs all over the dance floor lookin at their feet knockin everyones drinks out theior hands
'evErYdAy i'M sHuFfLiN' is the worst!!! hahahahahahaha. It will never be mainstream, just "popular".
Anyone know the tracklist for this or can identify any of the tracks?
This comes from Melbourne? Says it all!
54:27 music pls? :D i found :D Benny Drohan - Pump Up the Vibe
This isn't the Melbourne dance style I experienced from '95 to '00, unfortunately it seems to have become more like the 'running man' which Melbourne can't claim as you can see it in early Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer videos.
SNIF SNIF SNIF SNIF SNIF SNIF SNIF SNIFFFF
i'm so sad this was lost
im 47 and i start to shuffle dance now screw what people say
I am 31 and still do the Melbourne shuffle like I'm still 19
Ow yeah! I use to them pants😅😅😅
One Enchanted Forest (Adelaide) I got my mate to make up giant blue fluffy overalls.
28:57 song please.
Shazam it mate, got no clue on tracklist. sry
Dj GoJi in case you are still looking for that song, it’s Conan from Harvest Brothers
I need those phat pants, now :c
$300-$400 back in the day!
Back in the day kiddies we called it Stomping
Yes, yes we did!!! I only heard it called "shuffling" once trance had become dominant and the bpms were up to 140+.
Also didn't hear the word 'rave' applied to our scene til much later. Granted I was a bit shy didn't talk to a lot of folks, but we called it "stomping" and called ourselves "stompers" 😄 IIRC there was actually an occasional goth style event on in Melb called "Rave" around the same time 🤣
Adelaide stomp, you bloody Pricktorian!
15:42 Brewster.B Ft. Parametrix - Black Panthers
what is the name of the intro track
benny drohan - back to the program
@@alister_ Thanks Bro !
Dude wtf No music Credits in a Melbourne shuffle documentary ? Thats why this dance even exist