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"Tatanka? Tannino? But those aren't raves, they're crap." But when has a rave ever been good? You've never been to one, come on, don't play the fake reformed party animal.

DiCaprio at the beginning of the movie, if I recall correctly, was passing through Goa, and from there he went to the famous The Beach. I remember a scene with a party, I believe. // I feel sorry for Tannino, I didn’t know he had died, let alone in that way. And then they say that drugs kill.

The rave is typically that English one from the late '80s to early '90s, driven by Techno, accompanying the nights of poor children of poor workers. Goa comes from what was played on the island of Goa (DiCaprio, "The Beach"), and it goes woooha woooah plin plin plin boooom boom, and accompanied the holidays of the rich kids of wealthy industrialists or of the poor freaks living there. The early dawns (of Techno Rave) had a much lighter sound but still with a high BPM count; later, the BPM remained the same, and the only life goal of those playing that stuff was to have the kick with an increasingly grosser sound. The real Raves died in '94 after a mega disaster in the Altamont style, in a place called Castelwhatever in the UK, making it illegal in England to gather to listen to music in public spaces if you exceed ten people (and then they say that in Italy we are strict). After '94, many creators of the movement moved to Rome, creating the whole social scene of the Palladium and the Forte Prenestino, from which DJs Marco Vortex and company, Mauro Tannino (from sunset to sunrise), Tatanka (watch out Caramba), and others I can't remember right now are still around. In Italy, by the late '90s, the term "techno-roma" was even used (sale sale sale, roma capitaaaaaaleeee). For tips on Goa, ask G; I remember he reviewed one of those horrible compilations like "best of goa 2005" or something similar years ago. Anyway, always and forever, beware of anything that was born in a nightclub after the '70s with the various IIII FEEEEELLL LOOOOOOOVEEEEE (speaking of Moroder) and similar stuff. The real disco is dead, darn it.

For me, the word RAVE is used inappropriately. I’m a true raver from the old school, someone who listens to and can name the Orbital. I've never seen them in my life, nor do I know anyone who has. You know a bunch, as always, but it’s clear you’ve never been to a rave, and now you’ll never go because you’re in the early stages of old age. A rave with the Orbital is a rave for little girls, way too light-weight, damn, there are tracks with congas. Let’s be clear though, not making rave music is a merit, not a flaw, since rave music isn’t music. The crap that was considered rave was made by the Teckno Bross, the H-Bomb, the New Age, and idiots of that sort; Orbital made music. A raver doesn’t dance.

It lasted a week; it was obvious that you would find some groups you didn't like. They played Radio Moscow, Obiat, White Hills, and The Heads at the same festival, along with all the best Italian non-metal bands. It's you who demands too much wanting them all on the one day you go. The mood on Saturday was metal because of those two bands that, understandably, you didn't like. Apparently, however, nobody liked them; everyone speaks poorly of those two just as much as they praise the ass of that girl from SC. I don’t know either of them.

Oh my gosh, Simone has really gotten worse, I saw the photos of the others (the first ones I've seen without millions of colors around) and he looks 72 years old. Does he have the same effect in person or is it even worse?

Come on, heavy metal carousel, really no, they go to great lengths to make it clear that they don't play heavy metal but only doom and heavy psychedelia, and then you throw them back in such little noble lands, and what's more, you're infamous for mentioning only the name of the venue and not the festival :-) PS: Apparently on Sunday they even had an unplanned concert, Rome-New York connection booming with Doom Raiser & White Hills. In the end, it’s the best Italian festival, totally unrivaled.

Ah, in the end you say that they are tennis players. Never seen in my life.

I only read the first lines, but I swear I didn't understand what sport it is about.

Damn Muffinman, you're really diabolical.