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Kobby TV Commercial #2 (1997)

Director: Takeo Hatai

Animator: Hidekazu Ohara

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Euro Demo UK 57 / 2000

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hi!! Just wanted to drop in here and say I love ur stuff and how you keep the 90s rave alive, when did u first start raving? I wanna start but I’m not of age yet sadly lol. How do u find underground raves? I know it’s usually Through close friends but none of mine are into the rave scene.

again, love ur stuff!! :D

I started going to raves at 15 in the summer of 09' and my first rave had scott brown headlining in a warehouse downtown haha. I remember elysium played on the infoline promo. It's been 16 years now =) I think anyone of any age could go to a rave if they seek it out and want to!

there's a site in LA called 19hz that has moderately up-to-date rave info, but it's all-inclusive of every nightlife event and you have to kind of sift through the mid stuff to find the underground rave-raves, which makes it harder for law enforcement to discern what is and is't legal; but it's usually just following people posting the flyers around on instagram and irl flyers is how to find them. Parties in LA and as a result arizona, boston, and some other places have now had a huge influx of diecut flyers the past few years that very much scream "warehouse rave" when looking at them, but they are just distributed at parties really

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Toy Town December 16 2000

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Xque? merch from 1999

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Hi!! I was wondering if you have a list of 90s raver t shirt brands (including for women) I always see brand names for pants, and I would love to know what to look for online, thank you!

man I didn't see this in my inbox until now haha.

unfortunately there's not like, a master list of shirt brands really aside from those already connected to rave pants brands (jnco/kikwear kikgirl/gat/etc.) mostly because manufacturing shirts with prints is/was incredibly accessible (especially in the 90s) for just about ANYONE to do; so some of my favorite men's brands like clobber or freshjive that were heavily rave-influenced were simply screen printed in people's apartments in the early and mid 90s. They were either sold to shops on melrose in like 20-30pc amounts, or just out of backpacks at raves, but to my knowledge and from looking at catalogs, any of the stuff even like early anarchic adjustment were made in maybe 100-140pc amounts at MOST and just in sizes L and XL usually. 26red and some others got their start that way, caffeine was a record shop first before they ever made clothes, I have a handful of their tapes and records they used to put out.

Most of the early ravewear was just skate stuff that ravers /liked/ like hookups or split, the thing that made it "rave" was just ravers /wearing/ it, they weren't really "raver" brands. Today it's still kind of like that, I'll wear like a bugsex shirt or a 'mr clean' shirt or just local artists I like that have cartoony graphics; early happy99, souldog, I have a guess jeans shirt that has a synthesizer mockup on it, a modern phug shirt that had an acid print this one run, and other stuff, but none of those are "raver" brands per-se, you have to style them with other raverwear and accessories and such for them to be in "raver-style". The "rave"-ness is in the inherent diy perspective or clever re-appropriation towards rave (in the same vein as sample-culture in mid-90s rave music as well) and why it's so hard to truly sell "rave" to the masses even today hahaha.

in the late-90s you had stuff like newbreedgirl or random in-house hot topic brands making stuff more "rave"-oriented like the rainbowbrite shirts or the wonderland bootlegs, but ravers would also go for tinkerbell or ppg shirts sold in the same shop; it was kind of up to the shop to curate what vibe they wanted to sell. The only rave-specific brands I can think of (aside from ones attached to rave pants brands) were mostly just one-offs from record labels like the untranslatable, pureacid mixtapes, dr. freeclouds; printed flyer parties themselves like jujubeats and stuff; or random fuct, pimpgear, or thc one-offs that were usually just a play on drug culture and not so much rave. I have a thc shirt that has the nasa logo spelling "mdma" on a pill, but those were sold at skate shops or record stores.

the tldr is really that there aren't many "raver" brands and that if ravers wore them, it /was/ a "rave" brand in that haha. The few that did cater to ravers were either fully diy sold at parties themselves and/or record shops, but most "brands" were just one guy that made 2-3 designs at most for him and his friends hahaha. A lot of current clothing I see at underground raves in LA is the same or sold directly from vendors at little tables at some renegade under a bridge

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How do you get a whole salers license?? Did you get it just for Kandi?

you can apply with the CDTFA (in california), I was tired of getting turned away at places asking for it so I just kind of got one for a few years but barely ever used it lol. When I first got bins and bins of stuff in 2012 when I made this post, most places didn't really ask me for certification proof because I was like 17 hahaha. For smaller bulk stuff you can just kind of go around downtown still and most of the stalls haven't asked me for proof of one (I haven't renewed mine in like a year or so because I haven't needed it) I think at the time it was like 70$ filing fee but now it seems like it's free and they require some kind of mystery deposit.

TIN is the big one for bulk imports, but you can still find places that don't really care hahaha, you just tell them to bill you a sales tax instead, and you have to order a LOT for it to be worthwhile. I have more beads and toys than I know what to do with though so I only really buy stuff when I visit other states and other import places that get different stuff than I can get at home. Detroit and the outskirts of toronto have insanely sick stuff, sometimes chicago as well, and the ohio ravers used to have insane stuff I would see from when they were having hhc raves during that period, but I've never been to ohio so I can't verify that currently

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omg can I know where you got the fry and block beads from this https://www.tumblr.com/flapjackthekandikid/29541971736/some-more-kandi-i-made-this-week-i-was-super post?? or just where you get your beads in general! sorry if you've gotten this question before!

the fry charm was a plastic hairtie I got in a big pack of them in the wholesale wig and salon supply district of dtla, and the cube beads I got in the craft district in a big sack of them and I just put dollarstore stickers on the sides and coated them with clear nail polish after haha.

most of my stuff either comes from dtla with a wholesale license or I now import a lot of stuff in bulk direct from suppliers in guangzhou with a TIN for various little toys and clothes/etc. imports haha. I have considered doing a little shop online though for weird beads I can only order in bulk weights at some point. The majority is just in-person finds though

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Auraze clothing catalog (2001)

Thanks to Skibkid for scanning & sharing this incredible rave fashion artifact!

The Auraze 2001 website intro is also a great Flash time capsule

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90s philippines rave scene (x)

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where: Homegrown when: 29 June 2013 who: Emily

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scrolling back to find some shit I posted in 2012 and stumbled upon this lmao. I'm now booked on night 1 and mainstage #2 at the next big basscon show at the NOS event center on december 8th for insomniac hahaha. I played the lil texas show right after him in january and they're giving me full creative freedom, they want me to play whatever hardcore I want, which is going to be a barrage of 96' era happy hardcore, gabber, makina, and some nightcore bangers on vinyl. They also booked my homies purityfilter and 99jakes as well as some other underground artists which is really sick and I'm incredibly hyped on it. I feel less hostile about insomniac than I did in 2013 and I'm way more focused on the actual change I can fight and work for vs. spending my time being mad at what someone else is doing haha. the passage of time like this is still insane to me

Do you ever attend Insomniac events? I think you should;; spread the plur and vibes!

I mean, I would spread the plur for 20 or 30 dollars; not whatever it is now *o* sometimes I am guestlisted by promoter friends =) but I don’t really travel far for insomniac parties =x the music doesn’t make me dance as much as the talent at some smaller parties :> <3

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clips of me playing the power source warehouse party this past july in LA. they throw raves like this once every 6-8 weeks locally and it's always insane. ravers came out from vegas, new mexico, denver, and arizona to experience this one and the flyers were scratcher tickets where you had to scratch off the lineup and infoline

right now is one of the most exciting times to be part of the underground happy hardcore and gabber movement in america, an insane amount of support and ravers flooding out of every corner of the continent to throw parties, build speakers, and make music. I just played hardcore at 31 parties in 5 months with no sign of the scene slowing down

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how many pieces of kandi do you think you have? (rough estimate)

it's impossible to count after 15yrs of raving. I have bags and bags of the stuff I don't wear as much up in my attic, but the stuff I wear frequently is still too much for me to wear all at once. It's definitely in the thousands by now though

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Raverday at Disneyland

Summer of 2013

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90s rave history exhibit at the houseissues museum in downtown Los Angeles 6/3/23

Here's the popup exhibit I built for a museum this weekend! it was attached to a huge 5-stage LA hardhouse reunion rave in dtla!!

the rig includes 9 pairs of rave pants, 24 classic screened shirts, 4 sets of party hats/goggles/period-accurate kandi on display busts, 30+ rave magazines, 20 techno/rave vhs docu-tapes with a 3x CRT tv viewing station, and a huge display case containing 356 mixtapes all from my archive

an additional 60+ classic era rave flyers were supplied by the collections of @kandizacc and @spacechannel-ghoulia

I built all the display tables and cases in the few days between my nashville and seattle gigs (except the folding tables ofc) and I broke so much glass in the process learning how to build a wetsaw in my driveway to cut it all. I built the base cases and supports and painted and transported all the other infrastructure myself. the exhibition hall let me secure 8x lagbolt hooks I installed via an eyelet drill I fashioned, and the plastic clothing displays I built and mounted below them. the pvc and plastic chain clothing installations were a space-guesstimated experiment roughly modeled after the clothing displays in 95'-96' era melrose rave and streetwear shops