Category: Rave
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Enjoy Your Life – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Following her debut solo single, “Lifetime,” Romy returns with another uplifting dance-pop track, “Enjoy Your Life.” The song was inspired by and samples “La Vita” by singer-songwriter Beverly Glenn-Copeland, who Romy went to see live with fellow musician Robyn. The lyric “My mother says to me, ‘Enjoy your life’” stuck with the artist, a […]
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Romy + Fred again..: Strong – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Brimming with ’90s house influences, the pulsating new track “Strong” by Romy (musician, vocalist and frontwoman of The xx) and producer Fred again.. (aka Fred John Philip Gibson) possesses that familiar and beloved feeling of dance floor deliverance. The cathartic, crying-at-the-club banger is accompanied by a Vic Lentaigne-directed music video, in which Romy and […]
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Happy Ending – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Produced by LSDXOXO with additional production by Bambii, “Happy Ending” is Kelela’s newest release and it celebrates Black rave culture. Unlike the ambient-leaning tack “Washed Away“—which came out last month; her first new music since 2017—”Happy Ending” is a club-ready banger, yet it still incorporates the Washington, DC-born artist’s sublime silkiness. Post navigation Post […]
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Acid House As It Happened – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] When London’s rave scene began in the late ’80s, it ignited a culture around uninhibited style, the Roland TB-303 synthesizer and blissful hedonism. More than wild revelry, the scene—dubbed acid house—became a meeting place for people across genders, sexualities, class and race. That unity is revealed in former The Times editor and photographer Dave […]
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Stonehenge to Jungle – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Artist, collector and founder of counter culture book fair Cultural Traffic, Toby Mott is better known as a punk expert than a rave historian, but for New Age: Stonehenge to Jungle, he traces UK rave, jungle, sound system and warehouse parties through flyers. With 575 flyers and other ephemera, as well as interviews and […]