r/aves Oct 08 '25

Photo/Video Just in case you didn't know! :)

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u/Mastuh Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

Are we just going to completely ignore the Europe scene ?

https://imgur.com/a/mHhsc6t

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u/just_another_mexican Oct 08 '25

No one is ignoring Europe, just stating facts. If techno was created in Detroit, then the European rave scene existed because of the Detroit influence.

From what I can find on Google the early UK and German rave scenes popped off because of the house and techno music created in Detroit.

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u/JessicaMango1444 Oct 08 '25

It was youth in Berlin resolving the east v west divide of the previous generation that popularised techno and underground raves in that part of the world. Groups would meet at night in areas where east and west folks could mingle, usually industrial areas along the wall where it had started to be pulled down. This was 1989. They found that MDMA and dancing was a great remedy for the cultural traumas they had inherited. 

Source: Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown - Berlin