1995
Taiwan’s First Free Outdoor Rave
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Source: Taiwan’s Sound Liberation Movement
From: 2011 Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion — Visitor’s Guide
Date: April 2011. Author: Lo Yueh-ch’üan
July 29, 1995 was a pivotal day in the history of Taiwan’s electronic dance music: DJ @llen and friends loaded sound equipment onto a truck and organised Taiwan’s first outdoor rave party at the Erh-chung Floodway. Over the following years, outdoor rave parties of all sizes invaded floodway embankments, mountain areas, and desolate sites around Taipei — from as few as a hundred to as many as several thousand people, growing in scale, with most events held without legal permits.
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External Links
- Revelation of the Electronic Generation: Taiwan’s Rave and Electronic Music Culture (Chang T’ieh-chih)
- Back to the Streets: A Spatial Observation on Rave Culture and Ecstasy Politics (Huang Sun-ch’üan)
- Rave New World (2001 Electronic Generation — Bible of Electronic Dance Music)
- Rave Nation (International Margins)