I guess I'm sort of young (23). I smoked a lot of pot in high school,
despite being allergic and vomiting a lot (peer pressure... damn). I
listened to electronic music (mostly random singles from Tower...
Messiah, L.A. Style... that kind of stuff) and hip-hop, then cheesy
industrial (the more mainstream stuff: KMFDM, Front 242, Sister Machine
Gun, etc.), then heard Orbital's Brown Album, was blown away.
I got into "raves" in '95 or so, entirely for the music at the time, but
then got into the drugs as part of the scene, did a whole lot of acid (a
few times a week) and e for 6 months or so, had a bad trip and quit all
the drugs because it wasn't fun anymore.
I continued going to raves sober tapering off until '99 or so. I still go
out to smaller parties occasionally, but always sober. The type of music
I like to dance to has changed a lot (read: I've gotten a lot pickier), so
it's pretty much all Detroit and techno now, and there isn't a lot of that
here (Portland, OR). Consequently I don't go out to dance much anymore.
Now it's pretty much mostly IDM and "underground" hip-hop for me. I still
miss the rave scene, sort of. Even sober, going out and dancing for
four-six hours was a great release, but it doesn't feel the same anymore.
Oh well. Life goes on.
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