Rave Culture
Damon Sharpe’s “Naughty Girl” Music Video Is a Celebration of Shuffling and Rave Culture
Just last month, Damon Sharpe released his tech house cover of Beyoncé’s 2004 hit, “Naughty Girl.” The track is wildly infectious with its pumping bassline, quirky synths and sultry vocals from Tima Dee. Now, Sharpe has dropped the official “Naughty Girl” music video, a celebration of shuffling. Featuring popular dancers and shape-cutters CiCi, Janeeva Pettway and Adrian Campos, among others, the video is a vibrant ode to rave fashion and culture. Directed by Éli Sokhn, the video takes place in a math classroom with Sharpe as the teacher. Bored by his math lessons, the students turn off the lights and transform the room into a club, erupting into a dancing frenzy as the chalkboard changes from “MATH101” to “PARTY101.” Swapping sc...
Wiwek Returns With Tribal House Banger “Periphery”: Listen
After a brief hiatus on the new music front, Wiwek has returned with a tribal house banger called “Periphery.” “Periphery” arrives by way of W&W’s Rave Culture banner and combines thumping, industrial kick drums with a rumbling bassline for a surefire festival track. Aside from its massive drops, the song moonlights as a masterclass in melody creation with its spellbinding verses, which are highlighted by trance-inspired leads and spacey synths . Wiwek steps into a time machine for the second drop, where tribal drums take center stage as he dials back to 2014, when his patented “jungle terror” genre dominated the festival circuit. Credited as the pioneer of the genre, the renowned Dutch producer hasn’t lost his to...
W&W Remix One of the World’s First Memes, “Dragostea Din Tei”—AKA the “Numa Numa Song”
The year is 2004. All of our phones flipped, none of them connected to the Internet, and the term “social media” meant nothing to us. Rather than spending hours in bed scrolling through memes with our thumbs, we sat down at our computers and played flash games through an ultra-fast dial-up or hi-tech DSL connection. If any of this sounds familiar to you, then you must be familiar with one of the world’s oldest memes, the Numa Numa Dance. Viewed close to a billion times, for those unfamiliar, the meme was nothing more than a grainy webcam video of a man lip-syncing and dancing to the 2003 single “Dragostea Din Tei” by the Moldovan Eurodance trio, O-Zone. To the younger readers: Yes, this is seriously what the internet was like in the early 2000s. Be grateful fo...
W&W’s Rave Culture Music Festival Planned for December in Thailand
This past June, ALDA hosted one of the few successful COVID-safe physical electronic shows with the debut of Rave Culture at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. They plan to ride that success into their next event, which will take place at the beautiful Nong Nooch Gardens in Pattaya, Thailand on December 12th, 2020. This will be the first festival in the region since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rave Culture’s Thailand edition comes in partnership with Bangkok’s 808 Festival and the Amsterdam-based 20 Agency. Slated on the lineup is an impressive mix of electronic music artists, including Andrew Rayel, Sub Zero Project, Vini Vici, MORTEN, and Rave Culture founders W&W. The latter was instrumental in bringing the Cologne event to life, and they were also featured in AL...
