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In the summer of 1987, four young DJs from London took a trip to the Mediterranean

island of Ibiza for a birthday celebration.

On their first night, they heard about a club called Amnesia and a new party drug called

Ecstasy. The guys decided to check it out, making their way to amnesia, which was a converted

farmhouse miles away from where they were staying. The club opened at 3 a.m. after the other clubs shut down, and the party usually lasted

until midday. It was surrounded by large whitewashed walls in an open-air dance floor with a

large mirrored pyramid in the middle. The guys tried ecstasy, then joined several thousand euphoric people who danced

in the warm Mediterranean air under the stars. By the time they returned home to London, the

experience had changed their lives. And the four DJs would go on to pioneer a massive

youth culture movement that spread from the UK through Europe and around

North America. I'm Kathy Kanzora, and this is History of the 90s, a podcast about a decade that

changed the world. On this episode, the rise and fall of 90s brave culture.

A few months after UK DJ Danny Rampling returned from that magical trip to Ibiza,

he hosted one of the first raves in London.

December 5, 1987, marked the beginning of something that became known as the acid house revolution.

Rampling, along with his friends Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, and Nikki Holloway were swept away by the ecstasy-fueled party at Amnesia,

and the music played by the club's legendary DJ, Alfredo. And now they were going to bring it to London.

Alfredo spun a mix of techno and house music, which was different from the hip-hop and rare

groove that dominated the London club scene at the time.

Rampling's first rave, which he called Schum, was held in the basement of a fitness center

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