What We Started

Being an 80s club kid I never really got into rave or edm. My club days were quite selective by then. It was really interesting to see how it rose up but I’m sad that they neglected how other scenes outside of disco, like new wave, new romantics, ska, Manchester, britpop etc all contributed as well. U2s career didn’t start at zoo tv certainly and there was much of what surrounded them that kept the dance club scene alive after disco through the rock era so that when the rave scene hit in the 90s there was an appetite for it. The documentary ignores it by jumping from disco to rave almost stating that nothing happened in dance clubs between 1979 and 1989. This is definitely not true. I agree also that not talking about the underground scene, with bands like prodigy, kraftwerk, Chemical Brothers etc is a disservice to the scene as well. And beyond not mentioning how EBM the harder cousin is working to further bring harder edge rock / metal together with electronic.