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Ravers and Club Kids: A Look at the 1990s Underground

In the 1990s, dance music culture crystallized around the rave scene. What began as “undergrounds” in London quickly spread to Los Angeles and then New York. In SWITCHED ON Part 3, ee get word from Frankie Bones, Moby, and Gary “Destructo” Richards about the nascent years of rave and what came next.

Electronic music culture, once influenced by the of intermingling between club kids and ravers, found the two subcultures merging into one when law enforcement came down on both in NYC. As the rave scene moved into the clubs for the sake of survival, it changed both the music and the culture surrounding it.

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