This is a site for a lot of things..

The site mission statement is found on this page

http://www.partyvibe.com/

Its what musicians do.

They start off underground then they move mainstream. I know everyone says they won’t but when theres a big fat check in front of your face then sometimes you think differently.

Prodigy may be mainstream but think what they have done for the rave scene. They have sold out on the back of the scene, that is true. This has meant that a lot of young people who listen to the prodigy get their first taste of the “underground dance culture” which may then lead to them moving onto listening to more underground music or getting involved in partying.

A lot of my friends have done just that….they listened to the prodigy as teenagers and now produce electronic music and have just invested in sound equiptment.

You have to look at the bigger picture. This site is not just about free parties themselves but the culture behind them. To keep the party scene alive we need new blood and mainstream acts like the prodigy are a good initial point of contact.

Maybe its time for me to leave the site. My outlook is totaly diffrent I’m about free music for free people.

Its no wonder the paryty scene in the UK is in the state its in then is it.

Seeing as I was on the scene when you was 6 I can remember what it used to be like :groucho:

im sure ya can but dun get ya bk out about it mate ther b no need, ya can hav digs at the prod all ya like if itl make u feel beter about how things hav changed on the party scene

raaa o yer shit i forgot they had single handedly ruined the free party vibe, bitter ravers like u obviously hav nufin to do wit thatraaa :love: u seem pretty hard line anti prod jus cz they made a few bux outa thier tallent

I wouldn’t even call a link to a video of a concert that happened a few years ago much of an advert or “promoting” a band (that most ravers know about anyway), its just sharing a bit of info which people are welcome to look at or not.. if anything its blagging the copyright from the prodigy or whoever made the film!

same like the bits of documentaries or the politics stuff on here (which TBH I haven’t watched a lot of) or even the comedy clips…

Incidentally other than the “rave is dead” article that Prodigy did for mixmag in 1992 I’ve not found any real evidence of them criticising the free party scene as a whole (despite searching all the places I could think of) and would be very interested to see a source for this.

I’m very surprised though its not been discussed before either on here or one of the other discussion networks associated with partyvibe….

This site was also around back in the mid 90s – the crew here was one of the first to realise the power of the net to get party people together.

The 90s rave scene was always a mixture of urban clubbers and traveller types anyway and TBH everyone tried to make a bit of cash out of it at one time or another, either by selling tunes, promoting events or selling drugs (or a combination of all of these).

Some succeeded, some failed, some got fucked over, and a curious alliance of the free market and the nanny/surveillance state took a lot of the power back from the people whilst we were all getting high and thinking we got away with it.

Thats unfortunately the way life is and always will be unless people don’t divide themselves into opposing groups and let themselves be conquered

BTW there were and to an extent still are plenty of decent outdoor and indoor parties in this country – they peaked in 2003/4 and there has been a bigger backlash and clampdown but even today there are still reasonable events happening.

o right your culture, n heres silly little me thinkin its our culture. u dont sound much like a free party spirit, its a collective vibe dontcha kno:love:

Its my culture its your culture whatever.