Rave-related stuff on the Net Last Modified 11/01/98

Rave-related stuff on the Net


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All links checked and working - 25/03/97

Note: This info is biased towards UK readers but much of it will be of interest to all. If you've arrived here from other links you may wish to look at the uk.music.rave newsgroup's FAQ - the true "home" of this information.



ESSENTIAL WEB PAGES

The ultimate Rave page! If the answer isn't here the question must be wrong! http://hyperreal.com/
The Home Page for Nicholas Saunders' excellent book "E for Ecstasy" and lots of other E. related information and research data. http://www.obsolete.com/ecstasy/
UK-Dance (the mailing list) home page http://www.tqmcomms.co.uk/uk-dance/
G.R.I.D. - The Global Rave Information Database http://www.hyperreal.com/raves/grid/new/
UK Entry point for IUMA - the Internet Underground Music Archive - find out about your favourite band here. http://www.southern.net/
The Ultimate Band List - similar to above. http://american.recordings.com/wwwofmusic/ubl/ubl.shtml
UK Clubs - Listing of UK (& Eire) club nights and reviews http://www.x-network.demon.co.uk/uk-clubs/clubmap.htm

U.M.R USERS' HOME PAGES

    (Rave-related ones only)
The uk.music.rave FAQ http://umr.cjb.home
Simon Patten's 'Bristol Ravers Directory' http://www.bristol-rave.org
Felix's excellent site http://www.head-space.com
Mike Slocombe's legendary 'Urban75' pages http://www.head-space.com/Urban75/index.html
Tristan's UK non-commercial techno pages http://www.undergroundlondon.com
Elliot Herman's home page - lots of interesting articles and links. http://personal.quipu.com/elliot
John "Techno Grandad" Graham's Home Page http://www.gold.net/users/ge75
Jumpin' Joe Retro's 'Happycore Central' http://happycore.ml.org
Matt Winch's Gabba site http://gabba.home.ml.org
Dale Walker's 'London Techno Page' http://www.sorted.org/london
Nick "Beardo" Frewin's pages with "Decompression" info http://www.beardo.demon.co.uk/

MUSIC SPECIALITY PAGES

Good list of Happy Hardcore labels/discographies http://www.foxfiber.com/~cyre/discographies/
Circuit 8 - experimental Hardcore Techno web site www.accessus.net/~stevvi
Thigpen's Techno Music page http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/thigpen/html/music/
S-Scape's (happy hardcore) web site http://domestic1.sjc.ox.ac.uk/~sscape
American Happy Hardcore / Drum & Bass page http://web.mit.edu/jcarow/www/breaks.html
DJ Adami's Gabba / Happy Hardcore site http://www.planet.fi/~olkko/gabbajan.html
'Happy Hardcore Hideout' http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/7016
A Gabba site in Japan!!! http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~qataoka/
"The Temple Of Goa Trance" http://www.algonet.se/~arfc/goa.html
The Breaks Page - Jungle, Hardcore, Breakbeat http://www.breaks.com/
"Techno World" http://www.techno-world.com
A Rave/Techno/Hardcore site in Holland http://www.bigbro.nl/bigbro
A Detroit Techno web site http://www.demon.co.uk/Tangent/
HHS Records (Dutch) House site http://www.xs4all.nl/~hhs
Jungle Nut Productions' web site http://www.inch.com/~junglnut
Matthew Brown's Jungle site http://www.tcp.co.uk/~mattb/steppin.html
The Gabba mailing list web page http://www.tchort.com/gabber
The Children of Kaos Dance / Rave site http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mark_Ridley
'Whizzbomb's Domain' - music, events, drugs, DJs, etc. http://www.wizard.net/~raver
'The Essential Dance Links Page' http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/5058/dance.html
The Dance Music Resource - includes wicked links page! http://www.ndirect.co.uk/dance/music.htm
Links to all sorts of dance music pages http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~u5rjw/dance.html
'The House Connction' - A Dutch House music site http://www.worldaccess.nl/~jadeah
'Techno at the Mining Company' http://ravehousetech.miningco.com
'Backspin' - The unofficial Technics Turntable pages http://leden.tref.nl/rjbroer

BANDS' & DJs' WEB PAGES

808 State's Home Page http://www.feedback.com/808/
A Banco De Gaia Home page http://www.obsolete.com/banco/
DJ Brisk's Home page http://www.k-trax.demon.co.uk/brisk1.html
The Official C.J. Bolland Homepage http://www.dma.be/p/amphion/cj/index.html
DJ Clarkee / Area51 Recordings official page http://www.area51recordings.co.uk
Cosmosis and Laughing Buddha web pages http://www.innerverse.com/cosmosis
"Cheeky" - DJ Jimma's web pages http://www.red.net/homepages/jimma/CHEEKY/
A KLF web page http://www.student.brad.ac.uk/~alradtke/kf01.html
Massive Attack - Rolling Daydreams http://www.vmg.co.uk/massive/
Official Orbital web page http://www.rise.co.uk/orbital/
'Stopped Clock' (Unofficial Orbital webspace) http://www.york.ac.uk/~wjb101/orbital.htm
SunScreem - unofficial home page http://www.sonnet.co.uk/screeming
Steve Hillage's System 7 Home Page http://www.easynet.co.uk/pages/system7/sys7.htm
Underworld home page http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~tremblay/uw.html

REGIONAL WEB PAGES

Info on clubs and events in Birmingham / W. Midlands http://birmingham.gov.uk/html/whats_on/dance/intro.html
"Birmingham's most complete club guide" I'm told! http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~npa/
The Brighton Nightlife web page http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/ssuf7/clubs
The 'Bristol Ravers Directory' http://www.bristol-rave.org
What's happening in Cambridge? Find out here http://www-jcr.dow.cam.ac.uk/~jrb1004/music/cam_gigs.html
Info on Edinburgh Club nights, flyers, etc. http://www.electricfrog.co.uk
A search engine for German dance music sites http://www.wild-site.de/search
The Glasgow pub and club guide http://www.strath.ac.uk/~aeu95249/index.htm
A huge list of Italian clubs http://www.odyssee.net/~preti/discotec/clublist.html
Leeds club web pages http://www.vaguel.demon.co.uk
The London Club Guide http://www.0171.com/site4djs/
The London Techno Page http://www.sorted.org/london
FLAVA - Information service for clubbing in London http://cyberiaeal9.cyberiacafe.net/FLAVA/index.htm
The Night Life of Manchester http://www.u-net.com/manchester/clubs/
A World clubs listing! http://www.odyssee.net/~preti/discotec/world.htm

U.K. CLUBS / PROMOTERS WEB PAGES

The official Adrenalin home page http://www.clubbed.co.uk/adrenalin/index.htm
Big Love's official web pages http://www.biglove.co.uk
Bristol Exposure's official home page http://www.bristol-rave.org/bris-exp
The official 'Checkpoint Charlie' Home page http://www.orangehand.com/checkpoint/
Clubbed - A new site for global dance music and clubbing http://www.clubbed.co.uk
Another Clubbed - a site with news and information for clubbers, promoters and DJ's http://www.clubbed.com
Clublife UK - nightclub publicity web pages http://www.clublife.co.uk
Clublife - nightclub home pages (different from above) http://www.clublife.net
Club 414 (London) official web pages http://www.head-space.com/Club414
The official Cream homepage http://www.cream.co.uk/
'The Crunch' club web page http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esm/crunch/
Erm, another 'Crunch' web page! http://www.hyper.co.uk/crunch
Dreamscape's Official Web Page (Offline) http://www.techno.org/dreamscape
The Fridge (Brixton) Page http://www.fridge.co.uk/index.htm
The Official Fusion web pages http://www.clubbed.co.uk/fusion/index.htm
The Official Hippo Club (Cardiff) web site http://www.hippoclub.freeserve.co.uk
The Official Helter Skelter web pages http://www.helter-skelter.co.uk
'House of God' - Midlands happenings http://sun1.bham.ac.uk/taylomsj/hog
Club Kinetic home page (Now closed?) http://www.brodie.demon.co.uk
Lakota (Bristol) - official web pages (closed) http://www.lakota.co.uk
Life@Bowlers WWW page http://www.talk-101.com/topaz/life/
London's 'Ministry Of Sound' and all it stands for! http://www.ministryofsound.com
'On A Mission' (Promoters/lighting/environments/etc.) http://mission.netgates.co.uk/default.htm
The Orbit's web site http://www.sensei.co.uk/orbit/
'Out Of Hand' - flyer distribution http://www.outofhand.demon.co.uk
Pawlett Manor (Bridgewater) flyers http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/nemesis/flyer.html
The official Perfecto web site (Offline?) http://www.eastwest.co.uk/perfecto/soon.html
The Que Club WWW page http://sun1.bham.ac.uk/s.m.williams.bcm/que/que_club.html
Official Reality (at Time & Space, N-U-L) page http://www.brodie.demon.co.uk/reality
Return To The Source's official web site http://www.rtts.com
The official Ruffneck Ting pages http://www.bristol-rave.org/ledge/ruffneck.htm
'Sankeys Soap' Home Page (new URL) http://www.soap.u-net.com
The official 'Shimmy' home page http://www.shimmy.demon.co.uk
Trade's Home Page http://www.dircon.co.uk/trade/
Trancentral's web page http://www.overscan.demon.co.uk/restless.html
Turnmills online http://www.turnmills.co.uk/turnmills/index.html
The official 'Universe' web site http://www.universe.co.uk/
The Voodoo (Liverpool) home page http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/digital-d/voodoo.html
The 'Whirl-y-Gig' official home page http://www.whirl-y-gig.org.uk/

U.K. MAGAZINE WEB PAGES

Club On (a listing magazine) web site http://www.clubnet.co.uk
Hardcore Underground online magazine http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tcraig/INDEX.HTM
Implant - a Bristol Underground techno mag., now online http://www.bristol-rave.org/implant
Knowledge - the Bristol Underground music magazine http://www.knowledgemag.co.uk
LiSTeN Up! Online music magazine http://www.interport.net/listenup
'Magic Feet' - a free Techno newspaper + web page http://www1.haywire.co.uk/haywire/
Mixmag/Update Magazine http://www.techno.de/mixmag/index.html
QX Magazine, includes a listing of gay clubs in London http://www.dircon.co.uk/qxmag/qxindex.html
Ruffcutz - Bristol-based free jungle magagine http://www.ruffcutz.demon.co.uk
Tunnel Magazine - based in Canada but may be of interest http://www.ucalgary.ca/~psmacmur/tunnel/2/

ONLINE RECORD SHOPS

Cductive - create your own custom CD compilation online! http://www.cductive.com
The Official Hectic Records site http://users.zetnet.co.uk/white/hectic
Catapult Records (Cardiff) http://www.catapult.co.uk
Dragonfly Records http://www.dragonflyrecords.co.uk/
Funkyworld Online Record shop http://www.funkyworld.co.uk/
The Outside Agency aka The Park http://www.soft.net.uk/thepark
The Octopuzzy Records Homepage http://www.worldonline.nl/~dagobert/index.html
PH1 Records / Brainfuel web pages http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~milfiend/home.html
Specialists in upfront Jungle, Drum & Bass, House, Techno, etc. http://www.menace.co.uk
Replay Records (Bristol & Bath) http://www.replay.co.uk
"Secret Tunes Club" http://193.123.77.10:80/NWAIAG/stc/
Slammin' Vinyl (Kingston) Web Site http://www.hbinternet.co.uk/sv/index.html
Complete listing of new UK dance releases (updated weekly), also includes some of the best links pages anywhere! http://www.juno.co.uk
Tinrib Recordings / Fish Club http://www.tinrib.dircon.co.uk
Tune Inn Records (Selby, N.Yorks) http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/tuneinn
(Leads to) Fubar Records Online http://www.clg.co.uk/default.htm



Other Rave-Related References, etc.

Rave/Dance magazines:

(james) (dv8) (eternity) (Magic_Feet) (mixmag) (edit) (splash.mag)

Newsgroups:

alt.rave uk.music.rave uk.music.breakbeat alt.music.dance alt.music.makers.dj alt.music.makers.electronic alt.music.techno rec.music.ambient rec.music.makers.synth alt.drugs A new prodigy newsgroup

Info:

FAQs: alt.drugs Archive alt.rave FAQ uk.music.rave FAQ Happy Hardcore FAQ CJA Info: http://personal.quipu.com/elliot/cja/

Mailing Lists:

UK Dance mailing list To join, send mail to , with the line 'subscribe uk-dance (your name)', using your real name, not your e-mail address. Happy Hardcore mailing list Mail to with a message saying "subscribe" Gabber mailing list Mail to with a message saying "subscribe" Breaks mailing list Mail to with "subscribe breaks" in the body of the message (without the quotes) IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) Detriot email list (Kenny Larkin, Morgan Geist and DJ-T1000 post to this regularly, to name but three) 'So-Deep' - House mailing list Dub mailing list (discuss King Tubby et al) New Moby mailing list Mail to saying "subscribe mobility-list". The Orb mailing list The Orbital mailing list The KLF mailing list Sunscreem mailing list Mail to with "Subscribe slist [your name]" in the body to subscribe, or "info commands" for help BPM list (for discussions about DJ'ing, mixing, music, etc.) Mail to with "subscribe bpm [your name]" in the body The 'Checkpoint Charlie' (A club in Reading) mailing list Vrave list To mail to the list, mail to: To mail to the list owner, mail to: To request add or drop, mail to:

TV Programmes:

MTV Thursday 5pm + Saturday 4pm - "MTV Dance" Friday, 11pm - "Party Zone"

Radio programmes:

Radio 1 Fridays, 7pm - "The Essential Selection" Fridays - 10pm till Midnight - "One in the Jungle" (permanently from 19/04) Saturdays, 7pm to 2am - Danny Rampling / Tim Westwood / Chris Goldfinger Saturdays, 2am The Essential Mix Kiss 102FM - Manchester - 24 hour dance music station Also try 'www.kiss100.co.uk' / 'www.kiss102.co.uk' / 'www.kiss105.co.uk' For Kiss FM London, Manchester & Yorkshire respectively Piccadilly Key 103FM - Manchester & surrounding areas only Sat nights, 12 to 2 - Stu Allen playing.

Teletext:

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