Melbourne Raves

new playlist added to our soundcloud, get on it! https://soundcloud.com/melbourneraves/sets/every-picture-tells-a-story Featuring Melbourne wonders: Simon Slieker Son of Zev Zen Paradox, Voiteck Electruck Lumukanda, Dan Woodman, David Kilroy
Little Nobody, Honeysmack and so many more.

Every Picture Tells A Story Playlist Every Picture Tells A Story playlist

We all love a TED talk as a Monday mid morning distraction to get in the swing of things. Here's Mark Ronson's TED talk on how sampler's changed the world especially for those who don't have a pre public holiday day off and have to hit the coal face today.

How sampling transformed music | Mark Ronson Sampling isn't about "hijacking nostalgia wholesale," says Mark Ronson. It's about inserting yourself into the narrative of a song while also pushing that st...

The End of an online era...
After switching off their infamous forums quite some time ago, Junkee Media announced today the end of/rebranding of inthemix henceforth known as Music Junkee.
Older than our firstborn, inthemix came along at a time when the only Oz based electronic music specific sites - SPRACI and raves.com.au , were simplistic unmoderated forums and event listings. At a time when they were still having to teach advertisers how to use the internet, inthemix provided comprehensive event info, moderated forums as well as noteworthy electronic music journalism ensuring we here in Australia were up to speed with the latest and spurring on our evolving industry nationwide.
The infamous forums were often the catalyst for public debate on local news and in the pre-facebook era, were the online 'news feed' of that era. Sadly the forums were killed off sometime ago, and today's announcement finds the trove of articles documenting our local electronic music history deleted from the archives.
https://junkee.com/longform/inthemix-oral-history?fbclid=IwAR19aeJKhN1NWYAkS2Bivg-YdWXUmkQOysgkJ_ROt-aejRJoXb39kQv2LVk

18 Years Of inthemix: The Oral History Of The Greatest Dance Music Website Ever For two decades, inthemix was the voice of Australian dance music. This is its story.