80's, aim, black, blackjack, booze, bracelets, caffeine, candy, cartoons, cats, cds, chilling, clubbing, clubs, comics, computers, cuddling, cute things, dance, dancing, day dreaming, debating, djs, dogs, donnie darko, dragons, dreaming, drinking, dvds, eating people, electro, electronic music, food, free shit, friends, games, geek, girls, guys, history, hot topic, hugging, hugs, ice cream, internet, ireland, kandy kids, karaoke, kisses, kissing, kitties, kitty cats, love, mario, money, movies, mr.t, music, nintendo, p.l.u.r, parties, peace, pikachu, pink hair, pokemon, pretending to be black!, promoting, ps2, ravers, raves that don't suck, raving, reading, respect, romance, rpgs, safety pins, seattle, shiny disco balls, sleep, smiles, snuggling, sunsets, talking, tea, unity, video games, wearing sunglasses at night, webbwerx, wiggaz yo, zelda, ?, stainless, goodbeat, frequency 8, mad cow ...
Our emotional state of choice is Ecstasy.
Our nourishment of choice is Love.
Our addiction of choice is technology.
Our religion of choice is music.
Our currency of choice is knowledge.
Our politics of choice is none.
You may hate us.
You may dismiss us.
You may misunderstand us.
We can only hope you do not care to judge us, because we would never judge you.
We are not criminals.
We are not disillusioned.
We are not drug addicts.
We are not naive children.
We are one massive, global, tribal village that transcends man-made law, physical geography, and time itself.
We are The Massive. One Massive.
From far away, the thunderous, muffled, echoing beat was comparable to a mother's heart soothing a child in her womb of concrete, steel, and electrical wiring.
We were drawn back into this womb, and there, in the heat, dampness, and darkness of it, we came to accept that we are all the same.
We came to accept that we are all equal.
Not only to the darkness, and to ourselves, but to the very music slamming into us and passing
We are all equal - and somewhere around 35Hz we could feel the hand of God at our backs, pushing us forward, pushing us to push ourselves to strengthen our minds, our bodies, and our spirits. Pushing us to turn to the person beside us to join hands and uplift them by sharing the uncontrollable joy we felt from creating this magical bubble that can, for one evening, protect us from the horrors, atrocities, and pollution of the outside world.
It is in that very instant, with these very realizations that each of was truly born.
We continue to pack our bodies into clubs, or warehouses, or buildings you've abandoned and left for naught, and we bring life to them for one night.
Strong, throbbing, vibrant life in it's purest, most intense, most hedonistic form. In these makeshift spaces, we seek to shed ourselves of the burden of uncertainty for a future you have been unable to stabilize and secure for us.
We seek to relinquish our inhibitions, and free ourselves from the shackles and restraints you've put on us for your own peace of mind.
We seek to re-write the programming that you have tried to indoctrinate us with since the moment we were born.
Programming that tells us to hate, that tells us to judge, that tells us to stuff ourselves into the nearest and most convenient pigeon hole possible.
Programming that even tells us to climb ladders for you, jump through hoops, and run through mazes and on hamster wheels.
Programming that tells us to eat from the shiny silver spoon you are trying to feed us with, instead of nourish ourselves with our own capable hands.
Programming that tells us to close our minds, instead of open them.
Until the sun rises to burn our eyes by revealing the distopian reality of the world you've created for us, we dance fiercely with our brothers and sisters in celebration of our life, of our culture, and of the values we believe in:
Peace, Love, Unity, Respect, Responsibility, Freedom, Tolerance, Harmony and Expression.
Our enemy of choice is ignorance.
Our weapon of choice is information.
Our crime of choice is breaking and challenging whatever laws you feel you need to put in place to stop us from celebrating our existence.
But know that while you may shut down any given party, on any given night, in any given city, in any given country or continent on this beautiful planet, you can never shut down the entire party. You don't have access to that switch, no matter what you may think.
The music will never stop.
The heartbeat will never fade.
I am a RAVER, and this is my manifesto.
Music:
80's music, acid house, breakbeats, breaks, drum and bass, ebm, electro, electronic music, eurobeat, gabber, goa, gothic, hardcore, house, indie, j-rock, jungle, psychobilly, psytrance, punk, punk rock, ragga jungle, rock, rockabilly, techno, trance, ska, surf rock, trancestep, futurepop, darkwave, popabilly, jpop, classic rock, neurofunk, electrostep, new romantic, new wave, sound collage, psychedelic rock, hard house, disco house, disco, funky breaks, booty house, dirty south rap, hip hop, ghettotech, rap, gangsta rap, swing, blues, digital hardcore, noize, breakcore, musique concrete, sound collage, ambient, ethereal, illbient, acid jazz, trip hop, electropop, dub, new wave, hip house, italo disco, disco house, acid house, garage, speed garage, hard acid techno, gloomcore, jtech, 8-bit, futurepop, buttrock goa, death trance, psytekk, gangsta rap, g-funk, big beat, ghettotech, ragga jungle, neurofunk, electrostep, darkcore, drill n bass, glitch, belgian new beat, terrorcore, speed bass, etc.
Specificallly :
1000 Mona Lisas, AFI, Alkaline Trio, Angelic Upstarts, Ape Hangers, Atom and His Package, At The Drive In, Bad Religion, Blink 182 (only their most recent album), the Buzzcocks, Circle Jerks, CIV, the Clash, the Clints, Common Rider, Coyote Shivers, the Damned, Dead Kennedies, Dead Milkmen, Death on Wednesday, Acceptance, Descendents, Devo, the Dingees, D.O.A., Dropkick Murphys, Duraluxe, Dynamite Boy, Face to Face, the Fallouts, Finch, Flogging Molly, Frenzal Rhomb, Fugazi, Further Seems Forever, Generation X, Green Day, Handsome Devil, Hi Standard, Hog, the Huntingtons, Husker Du, I Against I, Iggy Pop, the Stooges, Jack Brewer Band, Jimmy Eat World, Joykiller, the Lemons, Lit, Mars Volta, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, the Meices, Minor Threat, the Misfits, Motorhead, the Murder City Devils, the Murder City Wrecks, MXPX, 88 Fingers Louie, the New York Dolls, Ninety Pound Wuss, No Fun At All, No Motiv, Operation Ivy, Pollen, Public Image Limited, the Queers, the Ramainz, the Ramones, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Marky Ramone and the Speed Kings, Rancid, the Riverdales, Rocketboy, Rocket From the Crypt, Samiam, Screeching Weasel, the Sex Pistols, Sicko, the Smiley Kids, Social Distortion, the Spacemaids, Sparta, the Stranglemartins, the Subhumans, the Suicide Machines, the Swingin' Utters, Switchfoot, the Talking Heads, Television, Thursday, the Transplants, the Vandals, X, Yellowcard, ACDC, An Emotional Fish, Audioslave, the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Blondie, the Bludgers, Bon Jovi, Boston, Cage, Cake, the Cars, Charley, Cheap Trick, Chevelle, Coal Chamber, Alice Cooper, Elvis Costello, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cracker, Cradle of Filth, the Cure, the Darkness, Death Cab For Cutie, Dick Dale, Disturbed, the Doors, Drowning Pool, Duran Duran, Franz Ferdinand, Fuel, Gaye Bykers on Acid, Godsmack, Grandaddy, Guns N Roses, Billy Haley and the Comets, Hed (pe), Jimi Hendrix, Hot Hot Heat, Billy Idol, Incubus, INXS, Michael Jackson, The Jesus Lizard, Jet, Juliana Theory, the Killers, Kiss, Korn, Lifehouse, Linkin Park, Little Richard, Meese, Melting Pot, Ministry, Modest Mouse, the Muse, the Music, Nirvana, Nothingface, Pantera, the Pink Spiders, Megadeath, Corrosion of Conformity, Phantom Planet, the Posies, Elvis Presley, Prince, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lou Reed, REM, the Rentals, the Rolling Stones, Rollins Band, Shriekback, Skinny Puppy, Snapcase, Socialburn, Spacehog, Aaron Sprinkle, Powerman 5000, Metallica, Quiet Riot, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Staind, the Strokes, Sublime, Sweetwater, System Of A Down, Tears For Fears, George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers, Toto, Trapt, Velvet Revolver, Velvet Underground, the Vines, Violent Femmes, Von Vondies, Weezer, White Stripes, the Who, the Wipeouters, 808 State, Alice Deejay, DJ steele, Chicks On Speed, etc, Jimni Cricket, the Sneaker Pimps etc, Aqua, ATB, Bobby Ritalin, Basement Jaxx, Hixxey, Sharkey, Chemical Brothers, Stacey Q, Daft Punk, BP, Effcee, DJ Sammy, DJ Skribble, DJ Starr, Doughboy, Paul Oakenfold, Fatboy Slim, Felix da Housecat, Ferry Corsten, Freshcutz, Gorillaz, Graz, Omar Santana, Keoki, Richard "Humpty" Vission, Bad Boy Bill, the Hunt, DJ Hyperfunk, Insert DJ, Kraftwerk, Mayhem, Duke Mushroom, Mellowtron, Mr. Neveux, Haddaway, Ladytron, Miss Kitten and the Hacker, Pop Tarts, Waldorf, Tomcraft, Vialic, Scissors Sisters, the Prodigy, Propellerheads, QFX, Todd Rundgrenn, Samurai, Scooter, Scott Brown, Sheep On Drugs, Sneaker Pimps, Tangerine Dream, Chris Sheppard, Harajuku, Apotheosis, Rotterdam Termination Source, Thievery Corporation, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dub Pistols, Underworld, Michael Anthony, Bali, Sage, Empress, Danny the Wildchild, Phantom 45, Kyngnova, S.M.L., the Warriors, Alien Sex Fiend, Nekromantix, the Meteors, Demented Are Go, Phantom Rockers, the Dreamside, Ego Likeness, Paul van Dyke, Carfax Abbey, ThouShaltNot, Barrington Levy, Beenieman, Big Sandy and the Fly Rite Trio, Reverend Horton Heat, Three Bad Jacks, the Quakes, Os Catalepticos, Big Six, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Blues Brothers, the Blasters, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, the Vidalias, Redneck Greece Delux, Buju Banton, Cab Calloway, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Coolio, Bounty Killa, Elephant Man, Everton Blender, Felix and the Buzzcats, Kool Moe Dee, Lee Press On and the Nails, Louis Prima, Bob Marley, Rasputina, Jimmy Cliff, Royal Crown Revue, Squirrel Nut Zippers, the Temptations, Vanilla Ice, Yirim Seck, Cowpunch Artillery, Freestylers, Hyper On Experience, Grooverider, Baron, Nightwalker, Q Project, the Terrorist, Ice Minus, Abstract, Resonant Evil, Bad Company, DJ Hidden, Dieselboy, Dillinja and Lemon D, Dom and Roland, DJ Trace, Rawthang, Dryft, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Plone, Cex, Roni Size Reprazent, DJ Pulse, DJ Marky, MC Stamina, Morcheeba, LTJ Bukem, Mulder, Psion, Teebee, Black Sun Empire, Kraken, Wrisk, Synthetix, John B, Concord Dawn, Raiden, Plexus, Cydefx, Counterstrike, Hatiras, Negativland, Tape Beatles, Evolution Control Committee, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Plastikman, Higher Intelligence Agency, Orbital, Theorem, Throbbing Gristle, Amnesia, Confetti's, Front 242, Assemblage 23, Front Line Assembly, Bigod 20, Cyberaktik, Electric Hellfire Club, Nitzer Ebb, And One, Imminent Starvation, Venetian Snares, Doormouse, K J Sawka, Speedranch vs End, Atari Teenage Riot, Riot Squad, Delta 9, Alcore, Hell's Army, Gabba Front Berlin, Destroyer, Prometheus Burning, Bathyst, Phuture, Fast Eddie, Bam Bam, Bobby Konders, Spiral Tribe, Banditos, FKY, Punk Floyd, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, DJ Sy, Unknown, Smart E's, DJ Nosferatu, Rog Bee, DJ Mito, Emo DJ, Dougal & Gammer, Sharkey and Energy, Dave Davis, Kaos and Ethos, Dune, Dair and Devastate, Fade, Rotterdam Terror Corps, Angerfist, Bodylotion, Chaosphere vs. Evil Activities, High Voltage, Hi-Skool, Pavo and Zany, Mike Ink, Safety Scissors, Massive Attack, Bjork, Olive, Wagon Christ, Sixtoo, Quickster, Aaron Simpson, DJ Owns, Asterisk, Biscuit, BizQuik, Blaized, Brandon Plank, Burnt, Christopher Alexander, DJ dAb, DEACON, Drew Derivative, Element DCLXVI, Empath and Eric Paul, DJ Family, Freddy Funk, Gemini J, Godfather, Gonzales, Harlo, Grey Matter, How Hard, DJ Candy Kid, Impact, Influenza, JAK, Jakub, James Capricorn, Jaysun, Jimni Cricket, Kid Amiga, Kileak, M Lord, Mudslide, Pipedream, Coldcut, Rama, SMB, DJ Steele, Suppoz, Theeo, Tronic, Vize, Gunther, Tackhead, B! Machine, Alphaville, Scout, the Postal Service, Goldfrapp, New Order, Fischerspooner, Alice in Videoland, Joy Electric, Fad Gadget, A Flock of Seagulls, Human League, Ultravox, VNV Nation, Bio-Tek, Leather Strip, Boards of Canada, the Weathermen, A Split Second, Die Krupps, DAF, Cabaret Voltaire, Non, Merzbow, the United States of America, Forbidden Planet Soundtrack, Scanner, Afrika Bambaataa, Public Enemy, NWA, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Low Frequency Oscillations (LFO), Dr. Dre, Ultra Sonic, Adam Beyer, DJ Rush, Black Flag, the Insyderz, Five Iron Frenzy, O.C. Supertones, Slipknot, Kittie, Value Pack, the Ducky Boys, Suicidal Tendencies, Catch 22, Soundgarden, Holly Go, the Fever, the Feint, the Hives, NOFX, the Dead Boys, Tiger Army, the Gadjits, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, MC5, Uff-da, Applespeed, Gabriel, Dylan von Gobel, Pirate D, Robb Peppertree, Heavyweight, Monkey, Punyan, Bouncy, Chopstix, Groove Coverage, Atmosphere, John B, Ladytron, Venetian Snares, Doormouse, DJ Skud, Graz, Producer Snafu, Heavyweight, Megadeath, SLAB, Meat Beat Manifesto, Coldcut, NOT Aphrodite (lol, he sucks so much ass), the Beatles, Kriss Kross, The Vengaboys, 2Pac, 3 Doors Down, 10000 Maniacs, Aaron Simpson, AB Logic, Adam and the Ants, A-ha, Air, The All American Playboys, Dragstrip Riot, 1234, The Dirty Birds, Aphex Twin, The Art of Noise, B.P., Efcee, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Belladonnakillz, Ben Kweller, Billy Bragg & The Blokes, Billy Joel, The Black Keys, Black Uhuru, Bowery Electric, Cake, Coldcut, The Darkness, David Byrne, Dead Or Alive, Die Form, Dmitri From Paris, Dio, DJ Venom, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dynamite Hack, Error, The Jungle Brothers, Frank Zappa, Gary Jules, Gary Numan and Tubeway Army, Goldfinger, Goldfrapp, Jean-Michelle Jarre, Joy Electric, Judas Priest, Keith Richards and the X-pensive Winos, Kool Moe Dee, Kottonmouth Kings, Darby O'Gill, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Channel Surfer, Led Zeppelin, Lee Press-On and the Nails, Lil Troy, Living Colour, The Living End, Love and Rockets, Technohead, Meco, The Minutemen, New Order, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nick Lowe, Nikki Sudden, Nine Inch Nails, Omar Santana, Orbital, Orgy, Panic! At the Disco, Peter Parker, Pink Floyd, Plaid, Postal Service, Ray Charles, Reggie and the Full Effect, Relient K, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Roni Size, Satan's Pilgrims, Saves the Day, Scorpions, Scott Brown, Sebadoh, The Selector, The Shins, Shriekback, The Slits, Sneaker Pimps, Snow Patrol, Soundgarden, Squarepusher, Static X, Stereolab, Powerman 5000, Styx, Tangerine Dream, Tatu, Pere Ubu, Theory In Motion, Tom Verlaine, Toy Dolls, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tomita, Hot Butter, Silicon Teens, Taxi Girl, Telex, Pierre Henry, Negativland, Evolution Control Committee, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Orb, Arcana, UNKLE, Boards of Canada, Luke Vibert, Bjork, Massive Attack, Sphongle, King Tubby, Mad Professor, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Giorgio Moroder, Ultravox, Jungle Brothers, Stereo MCs, M/A/R/R/S, C&C Music Factory, Hit 'N' Hide, Gigi D'Agostino, Ayumi Hamasaki, Yukari Fresh, Ultra Nate, 2 Unlimited, Ian Pooley, Phuture, Fast Eddie, Crown Heights Affair, Double 99, 187 Lockdown, Buzzy Bus, Dave Aude, DJ Isaac, Akufen, 666, Cybotron, Model 500, Inner City, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance, Carl Craig, Acid Scout, Dave the Drummer, Chris Liberator, The Geezer, Solar Quest Rebel Yelle, Green Velvet, Frankie Bones, Rhythim is Rhythim, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nine Inch Nails, Assemblage 23, DAF, Suicide Commando, Velvet Acid Christ, VNV Nation, Infected Mushroom, Electric Skychurch, Hybrid, Afrika Bambaataa, Herbie Hancock, Qbert, Mix Master Mike, Del the Funky Homosapien, A Tribe Called Quest, Coldcut, LL Cool J, Biz Markie, Bel Biv Devoe, 2Pac, Ice Cube, Eazy E, Ice-T, Propellerheads, Uberzone, Wildchild, Sir Mix a Lot, DJ Assault, DJ Godfather, DJ Icey, Junkie XL, Tipper, Omni Trio, Photek, Grooverider, Concord Dawn, Goldie, Roni Size Reprazent, Hyper On Experience, Lamb, Morcheeba, The Terrorist, Dieselboy, Dom & Roland, Ed Rush, Optical, Dillinja & Lemon D, Kid 606, DJ Nosferatu, Rotterdam Terror Corps, Rob Gee, Prometheus Burning, Gabba Front Berlin, Suicide, Fad Gadget, The Normal, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Yello, Kruder & Dorfmeister, A Guy Called Gerald, Meat Beat Manifesto, Cut Chemist, A Certain Ratio, Orbital, John Cage, Pink Floyd, The Silver Apples, The United States Of America, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Electric Light Orchestra, etc. etc. etc. ....
Here are a few examples of my eclectic taste in music (If you want one, click here ) :
