Ambient Raves?

[BigMoaner]

Such thing as ambient raves? quite like the idea. Would prob need lots and lots of seating areas. people just sitting and moving around to the sound.

Sometimes ambient feels so gorgous and moving that it would be nice to be in a shared space listenign wtih others. the venue and set up woudl be key. i'm thinking lots of small rooms, sofas. people sitting on the floor, or even lying down.

do you can get ambient djs, raves?

 

[magneze]

2nd room could be Gabba?

 

[magneze]

Tai Chi dancing?

 

[ska invita]

Tai Chi dancing?

thats a thing in China in particular

Ambient raves would be a bit shit though as people would end up talking

Interesting is how the chill out room doesnt seem to exist anymore

 

[BigMoaner]

actually i think this is the worst idea i have had in seven years, come to think of it.

 

[BigMoaner]

"thinking it through" has entered the chat.

 

[BigMoaner]

thats a thing in China in particular

Ambient raves would be a bit shit though as people would end up talking

Interesting is how the chill out room doesnt seem to exist anymore

going to the trance all day thin at fabric sat which i am strangely looking forward to. do like fabric, many great memories.

 

[nogojones]

thats a thing in China in particular

Ambient raves would be a bit shit though as people would end up talking

Interesting is how the chill out room doesnt seem to exist anymore

You just go outside for a fag now

 

[Orang Utan]

Friends of mine put them on. Have only been to one, but it was ace.

 

[ska invita]

Friends of mine put them on. Have only been to one, but it was ace.

did the music have drums?

 

[magneze]

Is "The Big Chill" still a thing?

 

[ska invita]

Is "The Big Chill" still a thing?

no....looked it up last one was 2011...that dream is over

 

[Orang Utan]

did the music have drums?

No, it was a horizonal affair with rugs n shit

 

[lazythursday]

There's a regular 'ambient bowling' event not far from me where there are ambient DJs at a bowling green on a weekend afternoon. It's very popular, lots of people I know rave about it. I absolutely cannot stand it.

 

[BristolEcho]

There are plenty of ambient type nights in Bristol. Especially at the more dark/noise end. Usually they run like gigs though.

When Freqs of Nature was running in Germany they had a stage for ambient/experimental music and lots of my favourite techno DJ's also did Ambient sets at the festival which was great. Fell asleep there a few times.

 

[ska invita]

Fell asleep there a few times.

 

[BigMoaner]

complete opposite of this.

love this. The second drop esp.

 

[Elpenor]

actually i think this is the worst idea i have had in seven years, come to think of it.

What was the idea seven years ago?

 

[BigMoaner]

What was the idea seven years ago?

installing a "composter in my garden". #rats #pestcontrol

 

[Elpenor]

installing a "composter in my garden". #rats #pestcontrol

Wonder if rats would like ambient raves

 

[CNT36]

Wonder if rats would like ambient raves

If only we knew someone prone to bad ideas who had both rats and an interest in ambient raves we might find out.

 

[ska invita]

 

[BigMoaner]

If only we knew someone prone to bad ideas who had both rats and an interest in ambient raves we might find out.

I just don’t think the council will allow it mate.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I just don’t think the council will allow it mate.

When the Enforcement Nazi comes a-knockin', just look like you don't stand under what he is saying

 

[Spandex]

There’s a problem with the question: is it a rave if the music isn't "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats"? Is it ambient if it is?

Ambient rooms used to be a big thing at trancey raves in the 90s. I once lost most of a night sat on a cushion tripping and smoking spliffs to a Global Communications ambient set while all the mayhem happened in the other two rooms.

Two big things killed off ambient chill out rooms - the Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Act 1997, which clamped down on drug use in venues, meaning you often had to look out for security while skinning up, totally harshing the vibe; and the 2007 smoking ban, which meant all the chilling out happened outside in the smoking area, which usually had strict sound limits on music to not disturb the neighbours.

Gimme a time machine, I wanna go back to 1993.

 

[BigMoaner]

There’s a problem with the question: is it a rave if the music isn't "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats"? Is it ambient if it is?

Ambient rooms used to be a big thing at trancey raves in the 90s. I once lost most of a night sat on a cushion tripping and smoking spliffs to a Global Communications ambient set while all the mayhem happened in the other two rooms.

Two big things killed off ambient chill out rooms - the Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Act 1997, which clamped down on drug use in venues, meaning you often had to look out for security while skinning up, totally harshing the vibe; and the 2007 smoking ban, which meant all the chilling out happened outside in the smoking area, which usually had strict sound limits on music to not disturb the neighbours.

Gimme a time machine, I wanna go back to 1993.

that's interesting tbh.

on my rare forars back to raves, they DO seem a lot cleaner, orderly than the lates 90s early 00s when i was in my prime. thought it was just that folk had changed but those laws seems influential no doubt.

 

[BigMoaner]

probably just going to the wrong raves tho

 

[Spandex]

that's interesting tbh.

on my rare forars back to raves, they DO seem a lot cleaner, orderly than the lates 90s early 00s when i was in my prime. thought it was just that folk had changed but those laws seems influential no doubt.

It's easy to think that changes to the rave scene are all down to the latest trends, and there is that to it, but there's all kinds of external factors that have an impact from the doings of the Russian Mafia (availability and quality of drugs, which in turn affects what music people want to listen to) to licencing regulations (what clubs are like, when they're open) to planning rules (industrial units used for durty squat raves being converted into flats) to changes in technology (affecting how music is made and sounds).

Who knows, maybe one day the drugs, music technology, available venues and latest trends will align to make ambient raves the Next Big Thing?

 

[Fez909]

In Leeds there's a night called Club Cosmos, which is close to what you're describing. Psychedelic music, with a 'dancefloor' full of bean bags, in an old mill. Here's their blurb:

Exploring psychedelic chill out & beyond. Music covered on the night will be Acid, Ambient, Ambient Techno. Cosmic, Experimental, Downtempo, Krautrock, Proto Goa, Psychedelic Dub and Space Rock

The next one is on Sunday

 

[blossie33]

I know a couple of people who do this...

Ecstatic Dance London - Music Movement Community

London's original Ecstatic Dance events since 2009! Explore the exhilarating feeling of moving your body freely through ecstatic dance practice.

ecstaticdancelondon.com

Never tried it myself so I'm not sure what it's like