>>507323965I'm a bit biased due to the massive scene here, but dances and raves always segregated themselves.
Sensation's for normies.
Thunder Dome's for outcasts.
The two serve very roughly similar genres of music, at very different speeds and intensities.
At Sensation, normies wear white or black. At Thunder Dome, you wore Aussies and were probably shaven completely bald as a show of outcastness.
All the events brag about including everyone, that's just good business, but people made their own mind up and didn't go everywhere.
They went and still go where they feel right.
With the changes to the genres over the decades, I'm left out of the hardcore / gabber scene. Too many empty breakdowns into the same gritty basses. Needs more piano and filling.
But then you look at who goes to the parties. No more Aussie. No more bald, except for the old people. No more XTC, it's all stronger stuff now. And the music sucks.
>>507325146Not women.
Jews.
90s raves were small, then they got popular with the outcasts, and then they were commercialised.
Case in point, hardcore was great when it was a small genre with a few DJs, and then someone made happy hardcore which is radio friendly.
Then more people made happy hardcore as it started getting airtime.
Then the raves played happy hardcore more and more as there were more normies coming to the party.
There wasn't a day in 1996-2002 where normal mainstream radio wasn't playing happy hardcore at some point.
It became less about the fun, and more about the money. All about the money.
Setlists were the first to be sold out.