Anyone from the UK into clubbing/raving?

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Anyone here who loves dancing in clubs or raves etc.?

I know it's very unsapie, but I love it.

I'm not in the UK but I really started listening to techno (well, at least the entry points of it) in 1996 or so and one of my buddies by my senior year of highschool (early 1998) had me starting to check some pretty good parties out. From then until around 2001 I was going pretty religiously. I was also at a point where I listened to dark jungle, hip-hop jungle, Metalheadz type stuff, and all that almost at the exclusion of anything else save the good dark-edged progressive trance and hard/minimal acid techno. I live in Cleveland but me and my friends would drive all the way to Canada 1999-2001 for the World Electronic Music Festival that Destiny Productions (OS/2 and another guy, some of my dj friends got to know em pretty well and were passing out flyers in Cleveland for em and at the local record shop - Grand Poobas, hard not to be jealous when half my friends knew half the big-wiggs in the promotion scene all over the northeast US and Canada). What was disgusting about the WEMF parties is you almost always had Commander Tom, Jon the Dentist, and at least a handful of other huge trance headliners (John '00' Fleming will always be my favorite in that genre), Commander Tom was a regular, Mark EG would show up on the line-up, great acid techno from guys like Chris Liberator and Dave the Drummer who were also yearly regulars, etc. Trance that good was such a rarity anymore that I didn't even care that TONS of other top-flight junglists were on in the d&b tent (well, I won't lie - the whole Toronto contingent spun the kinda boring overplayed d&b like dj Hype and Zinc True Playaz stuff). Another thing that I've never seen at a non-WEMF party was a good psytrance tent, without that contact I would never have heard of Hux Flux, Lori the HiFi Princess, etc.

I think it was 2001 or so that jungle really started taking a nose-dive along with a lot of other things and in general the parties just went to s---. The one thing I at least had the privilege of doing back in late 2000 was doing a live PA (ie. live performance) at a rave that one of my buddies through - back then I was producing kind of a mix of trance and acid-techno, kinda between Mark EG and old Chris Liberator style. A friend of a friend stopped over at a house party I had a couple weekends ago and dropped some really disgusting minimal acid techno, just like with jungle it seems like 2005 and 2006 have brought those genres back to being almost as good as they were back in 1998 and 99 which makes me very happy.

As for the dancing, loved it and I learned to do liquid REALLY well (for everyone who's gonna think I'm talking drugs no - I mean liquid hands/fingers, that whole bit). Very fun scene, I think though when I went to Detroit Electronic Music Festival 2006 after a long hiatus I realized that while I still love the music, still loved seeing guys like Adam Beyer, Plastikman, Adam X, and all that live, actually going to the events anymore just isn't my thing. My biggest regret to this day - I saw Red Commie Bastard spin at a party on Valentine's Day 1999 (Vinyl Frontier) and he was the s--- hands down, never had a chance to get one of his mixtapes or see him live again.

On a side note I'll probably be producing and making jungle for many years to come though if I've learned anything in recent years I think I get my best creative kicks anymore off of listening to good music from other genres, having the emotion build up off of that, and re-articulate that energy my way (heh, sorry to go off on this so hard but as you can guess I could talk about the rave scene, the music, and all that in depth for HOURS).

One thing that I think is majorly different from the US and UK though, I don't think at least early on that our rave scene was stuck up. Being its a much bigger thing in the UK I can understand how it gets to be that cool or trendy and you get pretty much a load of d--ks showing up there and killing everyone's good time. The coolest thing about the scene though was if you wanted to sit there and talk to a world-famous headliner dj after their set it wasn't that hard. My friends actually had pictures with Roni Size, chatted with Bad Boy Bill and Paul Oakenfold regularly, smoked with Soulslinger and Phantom 45, partied with TC Izlam - still a very street-cultured scene but whether it was aspie-friendly or not or is now I think depends more on what kind of aspie you are and what kinds of NTs you have a knack for getting along with.

I used to be in uni. I loved it too. Its great when everyone gets up and just zones out on the dance floor. Its crappy when people are sitting on the side chatting, cos i didnt do chatting.

I'd like it if I had people to go with that were into that sort of music. I like most music that makes you want to get up and dance especially hard house/hard trance/trancecore & most fast stuff.

That's once I've not heard of before - trancecore.

I like a variety of styles - anything apart from most grime, and stupidly fast gabba techno.

Have been getting into breaks recently.

Also a new form of drum n bass called electrostep - cross of electro/trance and dnb.