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While typical warehouse raves of the anthem-party scale are few and far between around here, and usually far out (think: must have car), Boston has a secret: Beantown is home to one of the best drum ’n’ bass scenes in America. Great, you say—what the hell does that mean? Here’s how to be rolling downtown like a pro junglist soldier in no time...
...Drum ’n’ Bass: Not Your Parents’ Rave
...That was so much fun!” said Sarah R. Lehrer-Graiwer ’05 of Los Angeles, after her first night out at the weekly drum ’n’ bass rave The Rinse at Club Venu. The Rinse is arguably the best event, in terms of regular international star power, in any musical genre in Boston. (Note for clarification purposes down the road: A weekly event, staged by a production company, is often a separate entity from the club itself—the producers of the rave rent out the club one night every...
...Drum ’n’ bass, a rapidly expanding musical genre, along with its close associate, “jungle,” is a form of aggressive electronic music, grouped with trance and house (think: Lansdowne) but with closer ties to hip-hop both culturally and compositionally. Drum ’n’ bass raves are populated by hooded figures in comfortable thug-wear and sneakers, sporting “don’t fuck with me” attitudes and the tribal tattoos and piercings to hammer them home. They often break it down with...
...composed stiletto and cigar crowd of Pravda 116 or the cheesy eurotrash crowd of Roxy, both of which are around the corner. While those house and trance clubs are about dressing to impress (and, one must admit, even ravers have their claim to fashion-consciousness), the ideal drum ’n’ bass weekly is all about keeping it real and relaxed. Unpretentious except in regards to their unpretentiousness, drum ’n’ bass raves have also been noted as the gathering place of the scum of the techno world...