state of London underground

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Felt to comment even tho i don't play the london acid sound, but have been involved with the parties for a looong time.... I totally agree with whoever said that the music sometimes can be so monotonous and it was allowed cos everyone is too ****ed to realise... the london squat party these days can be a dismal place, with dark corners, robberies and a lot of people who are there not for the music or even the party, infact really not sure why they're there.. to get rowdy and simpley cos they've nothing better to do.. Not saying there aren't still people who do care.. just not nearly as many as before.. before it was everyone's party, now the responsibility generally falls soley on the soundsystem for everything...I think its like this because people stopped caring, stopped putting effort in, stopped getting the buildings the week before and stopped spending all week decorating it. the people who did care about putting good parties on in the 90's got pissed off with all the politics and stopped coming out, leaving it to people who lets say had other priorities, to drive the thing into the ground.
Now there are lots of really positive crews who are doing parties, and every few parties it will go OFF.. in a good way.. when everybody comes out, there's a good building... not a massive open warehouse with 30 people shivvering round a stack in the far corner and most importantly, a great atmosphere. In my opinion the crews who put on regular techno squat parties these days are all really sound and have the best attitudes, its just that there are now so many negative 'components' that have been ignored for so long that they're now almost part of it and not enough people are 'on it' enough to stand up to it and say NO (and i mean crew AND ravers).
As far as i'm concerned, ketamine played a massive part in dulling things, it definately took the importance out of the music and took the awareness away leaving parties a free for all for thieves and general dark behaviour... But agreed.. the days of 1000 happy smiling people, from all walks of life having it as one are truely over.. Although, the best parties now seem to be the semi private, smaller squat parties/semi-legal parties where you can quite easily have 100 smiling people in a room together :)
Please forgive the rant...

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