Records - 1988



Donations:

If you would like to make a donation, please click on the link below:


 

 

 

borosix.co.uk → Rave History → 1988 → Page 06

 

 

 

September 18th - National: Balearic Beats - The Album - Vol. 1

The Balearic isles and it's beats are brought to the mainstream attention when the "Balearic Beats" album is released on the London record's subsidiary, FFRR.

 

With artwork been supplied by Spectrum's in-house artist Dave Little, and the compilation of the album by "ibiza four" members Paul Oakenfold and Trevor Fung and Pete Tong, Balearic Beats was seen as an out-of-date snapshot of the current scene but it served it's intended purpose for those who liked to reminise about the sunshine island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

October

October 1st - London: Apocalypse Now

With guests waiting patiently at the second "Apocalypse Now" party near Staples Corner in north-west London, organiser Roger Goodman seeks the blessing of the national media by inviting a group of news reporters from ITN to film his party for prosperity.

 

During the night Roger had also arranged for his fellow organisers, DJ's and other leading figures within the party scene to be interviewed to explain the pay party ethos from their perspective. However, Roger's plans are quickly quashed in favor of headline-grabbing shock footage of "spaced out kids" and drug dealing in full view of the cameras.

 

Seeing the future conflict between the authorities and the acid house movement, Danny Rampling pulled out of DJ'ing at the party once he heard that ITN cameras where going to be present.

 

 

 

 

October 1st - London: RIP

The euphoric highs and the alleged "illegal drinking" at Clink Street, south-east London are put into a real time perspective. The meteoric rise of Paul Stone and Lu Vukovic's RIP screeches to a halt with one of their club nights been raided by the local Metropolitan Police.

 

 

 

October 8th - London: Sunrise

Straight to the point and barely a week after the bad publicity surrounding the staples corner incident, organisers Tony Colston-Hayter and Dave Roberts join forces to create "Sunrise".

 

In typical acid house fashion, there was a baptism of fire is store waiting for the new partnership as they attempted to hold their first party in a derelict warehouse at Empire Way in Wembley, Middlesex.

 

Experienced from a few parties just months before, the local boys in blue were not in the mood for acid house. Sunrise's first party was halted by the Metropolitan Police and Colston-Hayter loses seven thousand pounds in the process.

 

 

 

October 12th - National: The Sun

As the corporate cash driven bandwagon begins to take apace, the general public is finally introduced to acid house's "Smiley Culture". Seeking an opportunity, thousands of smiley t-shirts and themed merchandise are mass produced as acid house becomes trendy and goes overground.

 

Just months after giving Heaven nightclub the verdict of their damming investigation, "The Sun" initially tries to profit from the phenomenon with "Bizarre's" bizarre £5.50 version of the smiley t-shirt. But within the space of three days, top executives at the paper had backed out and changed tactics - they cancelled the order at the suppliers and quickly abandoned their t-shirt offer altogether.

 

With joe public's and politicians opinions swaying by the minute against the acid house movement and their focus switching to condemnation, the t-shirt designers are left puzzled by the sun's quick thinking.

 

 

 

 
Prev | Back | Next