Surfing Netflix last night for something different and came across "What We Started", the story of the pioneers of Electronic Dance Music and how raves became the 100K+, 165K in Miami's Ultra, festivals around the world and follows the crazy career of Carl Cox and Space in Ibiza, voted the world's best nightclub so many times it's not a competition.
The shot of the Love Parade with 1.5M people is worth the hour watching it. I had to rewind on that and just take that in again, truly jaw dropping.
Doesn't matter whether you like EDM, I happen to really like it and I am an old rocker, it's the story of these guys that refused to give up on this dream and it's a great anthropologist's exploration of our communal and tribal roots and need to gather and it was surreal to see that many people gathered in one place, particularly at this time. It's like watching someone smoke cigarettes in old movies.
One of the more interesting parts is the reaction by the authorities because of the prevalence of drugs and this was the origination on Exstacy. Like drugs haven't been a part of all music since the 60's. But these raves were all ages shows so I get the elevated concern.
