Which Era of Dance Music Are You? · Result

UK Acid House and Rave, 1988 to 1992

The best nights are the ones nobody manages to control.

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You believe a night is something that happens to a group of people rather than something one person delivers, and you are genuinely good at surrendering to a room. In 1987 a handful of London DJs came back from Ibiza having heard a room that mixed everything, and within two years the parties had outgrown every building they were in. You carry that same openness: you go where the night goes, and you bring people with you.

You tend to say yes first and work out the details later, which makes you the friend who turns a quiet evening into a story. You like big rooms where you can lose your friends and find them again, outdoor parties and anything with a crowd that did not come for one act. People like you are usually still on the floor when the sun comes up, grinning at strangers who now feel like old friends.

Your strength

You can walk into anything and let it take the night anywhere.

Your blind spot

Openness can become indiscriminate, and loving everything can look like loving nothing at five in the morning.

Key takeaways

  • You let a night happen, and rooms are better for it.
  • Openness is a gift. Add a little judgement and it becomes taste.
  • Name a record now and then. The feeling was carried by something.

Rooms to try in Seoul

  • World DJ Festival, Outdoor, Seoul and Gyeonggi: Korea's longest running outdoor dance festival, the nearest thing here to a field of people who did not come for one act.
  • Faust, Itaewon: Big enough to lose your friends in and loud enough not to mind, which is the rave contract in a building.

Rooms to try around the world

  • fabric, London: The building that turned the warehouse spirit into a lasting institution, with the bodysonic floor to prove it.
  • Toronto, a warehouse party, Toronto: The city has run these since the early 1990s, and the address still travels by message on the night.
  • Sub Club, Glasgow: Opened in 1987, caught the whole wave, and has always kept the room about the floor rather than the DJ.

Your nearest types

Chicago House, 1984 to 1987Simple machines, no permission, records out in two weeks.UK Garage and 2 Step, 1996 to 2001Dressed properly, out early, home late, no apologies.

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