[O.T] I’ll just leave this here…
Just a little Tiesto/the industry hate to start my afternoon right.
plur and glowsticks were a good time and about as “real rave” as it gets.
Haha. Have to admit, though… I have a soft spot for the Tiesto mix of Silence.
i almost tl:dr’ed that. very interesting and funny.
i was 3/4 way done, but i didnt know it. i thought ‘hmm, how much more of this IS there?’ look at the bar on the right and shit pants
+1
in the words of Goldmember…Dutch hater!!! lol
Love this shit, lengthy I agree but well worth it. My mate loves Tiesto, its taken me a long time to undo the brain washing, Creamfields 03 had a lot to answer for!! He’s on a solid diet of Sasha, John, Hernan, and a little Sander on the weekends…its working well. If he sticks with it for another year I might let him remove the glowstick from his ass!! Its been surgically inserted for about 8 years now. hahaha
I have nothing against glowsticks. Had a great time with them when nu-rave was big in summer 07.
Tiesto though, meh.
Don’t get me wrong, I had a good time with them back in 93, back then they got smashed open and the contents smeared all over your face half way through the night…mmmm it burned!!! and you looked like a knob 
Since then, not so much with the sticks.
Sadly in '93 I was a little on the young side to be hitting the rave scene 
lol
Loved playing the real life version of this.
Aw, you young guys. Things I miss from the rave scene:
-Smart Drinks
-Parties with basically no lights
-The feeling of knowing the whole thing could get shut down by the cops at any second, and nobody would get their money back.
Never was much for the glow sticks or pacifiers.
hehe. candy ravers.
Very cool. I didn’t know what the TAZ was, so I ended up reading it just now. And I have to say that it should to be a handbook for every party-goer. I’ve thought about some of these ideas before in a half-baked way but Mr. Bey puts them in to concrete concepts, and reading them is like a welcome confirmation.
Some of the concepts that resonate strongly with me, should also pertain to you djtt folks as well; Hakim talks about the death of God which opened forth a post ideological worldview that allowed us to adopt philosophies as easily as changin careers…but we tend to stick with commodity fetishisms which creates “a tyrannical false unity” (aka Tiesto is a god in every country and wearing branded items is cool). This paradox creates gypsies or “psychic nomads”, people who are disgruntled with the world and driven by desire or curiosity. diversity and adventure…Most of these people travel via the internet and find islands of TAZ. which… i feel this place is. Islands in the Net!
Some cool quotes to make you want to read TAZ (since im not doing a good job of summarizing it)
“We do not live in CyberSpace; to dream that we do is to fall into CyberGnosis, the false transcendence of the body”
“We must know in what ways we are genuinely oppressed, and also in what ways we are self- repressed or ensnared in a fantasy in which ideas oppress us. WORK, for example, is a far more actual source of misery for most of us than legislative politics. Mental addiction to “ideals”–which in fact turn out to be mere projections of our resentment and sensations of victimization–will never further our project. The TAZ is not a harbinger of some pie-in-the-sky Social Utopia to which we must sacrifice our lives that our children’s children may breathe a bit of free air. The TAZ must be the scene of our present autonomy, but it can only exist on the condition that we already know ourselves as free beings.”
Full text here: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism - Hakim Bey - Hermetic Library