Quote Originally Posted by Jay Pace View Post
Like I said, its legacy has mainly been the laws and powers that were drawn up specifically to combat the terror of "music partly or wholly characterised by repetitive beats". Those laws continue to be used today, to subjugate otherwise lawful assemblies of people whose only crime is to be playing music.

Article technorich posted is great. This:

It hasn't been a particular positive legacy, but its been an important one - raves redefined the relationship between the police and the public.
Fair enough, but I still don't see how this makes raves a social revolution, which I think many people at the time genuinely thought it was. My original point was that it didn't deliver on its promise of entirely new social relations, a new politics and so on. Probably the promise itself was delusional, for those who bought into it. Well-intentioned, but naive...

That said, great music and parties.