Rave Facts for Kids

A rave party in Vienna in 2005.

A rave is a large party or festival with disc jockeys playing electronic music. Music played at raves include house, trance, techno, drum and bass, dubstep and other forms of electronic dance music (EDM). There is a lot of dancing. Raves also have laser light shows, projected images and other visual effects used to create a fantasy-like scene. Raves mostly developed from acid house music parties in the mid-to-late 1980s in England and Ibiza. From there, it quickly spread to mainland Europe and the United States.

Raves are usually organised and promoted by event companies. Some of the early companies promoting raves in England during the 1990s were Fantazia and Helter Skelter. Another was ESP Promotions, which held a series of raves named Dreamscape. In London, there were a few large clubs that held raves on a regular basis.

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A huge bank of speakers and subwoofers from a rave sound reinforcement system
Rave – Juiz de Fora – MG, featuring bright psychedelic theming common at many raves
The Roland TB-303 is a synthesizer featured in acid house music.
The TR-909 is a drum machine used in techno, house and many other genres.
Rave music is usually presented in a DJ set, using a mixer and turntables or CDJs.
Rave in Hungary in 2010, showing the fantastical thematic elements at such events
T-step of the Melbourne Shuffle
Raver with feather boa in Germany (1998)
Fairy fashion rave wear (2013)
Glowsticking in the United States (2008)
A collection of handmade bracelets known as "Kandi"
Laser lighting show at a trance festival.
The light show for the electronic musician Aphex Twin in 2011.
Ravers in a German techno club (KW in Munich) in the 1990s
Love Parade 1995 in Berlin
Frankie Knuckles (right) “Godfather of House Music”
A Rave in Seoul, South Korea in 2001
Audio technicians set up massive speaker enclosures for a Jamaican sound system party.

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