The 20-year anniversary of EDC this year got us feeling pretty nostalgic about how far dance music and our culture have come. To celebrate these sentimental, mushy, sappy vibes that came over us, we decided to raid our closets and our music collection, and we came out on the other side with a pretty epic cache of dance-music memorabilia. We call it a “rave time capsule.” What would you fill yours with? The following is a list of things we collected and buried (maybe) someplace in the desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
1. JNCO jeans
2. Mickey Mouse gloves
3. Clobber T-shirts
4. Freshjive T-shirts
5. Conart T-shirts
6. GAT T-shirts
7. Milkcrate T-shirts
8. Fuct T-shirts
9. Stussy T-shirts
10. JNCO T-shirts
11. Caffeine T-shirts
12. Drawls T-shirts
13. Plastikman T-shirts
14. 26 Red T-shirts
15. Freshjive hats & beanies
16. Wonderland event T-Shirt
17. Light-up shoes
18. Spirit hood
19. Kandi necklace, perlers and bracelets
20. BPM magazine
21. URB magazine
22. Mixer magazine
23. Mixer unofficial guide to WMC (2001)
24. XLR8R magazine
25. Industry Insider magazine
26. Mixmag magazine
27. Lotus magazine
28. DJ magazine
29. Swayzak “Himawari” mini magazine promo
30. Buzz nightclub zine
31. Digital camera full of old photos
32. Disco ball
33. Steel flight case
34. Nervous Records DJ bag
35. WMC 1999 promo record DJ bag
36. Technics 1200 turntable
37. Vestax 2 channel DJ mixer
38. AIAIAI headphones
39. Rabbit in the Moon 3D glasses
40. Rabbit in the Moon Decade CD/DVD album
41. 24-Hour Party People DVD
42. Visual Niches: Extraordinary Music Videos DVD
43. They Call It Acid DVD
44. Warp Vision the Videos 1989–2004 DVD
45. Intellect Techno House Progressive DVD
46. Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell DVD
47. Air Moon Safari album DVD box set
48. DJ Krush A History of DJ Krush box set
49. URB squirt gun
50. Happy Mondays “Pills ‘n Thrills and Bellyaches” pill promo
51. Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh
52. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton
53. Modulations: A History of Electronic Music Throbbing Words on Sound by Peter Shapiro
54. Modulations: Cinema for the Ear DVD (1998)
55. Factory Records: The Complete Graphic album by Matthew Robertson
56. Temporary Spaces by Martin Eberle
57. Clubspotting: A Journey Into Club Culture by Paolo Davoli & Gabriele Fantuzzi
58. 5x12 vinyl promo by Puma for WMC (2005)
59. 5x12 vinyl promo by Puma for WMC (2004)
60. Mr. Oizo “Flat Beat” vinyl
61. Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story vinyl
62. Put the Needle on the Record DVD (2006)
63. Kraftwerk Minimum - Maximum DVD
64. Together as One documentary on VHS (1999)
65. Moonshine Over America Documentary on VHS (2000)
66. Organic framed flier
67. Organic press pass (1996)
68. Cream NYE poster (1997)
69. Cream Amnesia Ibiza poster (1997)
70. Cream World Tour poster
71. Narnia fliers
72. Juju Beats flier (2000)
73. Audiotistic flier April 15 (2000)
74. Body & Soul flier April (1998)
75. Unlock the House flier
76. Magic Wednesdays flier (1996)
77. Atmosphere flier with A Guy Called Gerald (2000)
78. 808 State with Kool-Aid flier (1991)
79. The Orb flier
80. Dave Ralph Viper Room flier (2001)
81. Frequency flier
82. Family 3-Year Anniversary flier
83. Encore NYE flier (1997)
84. Louie Vega at Deep flier (2004)
85. Richie Hawtin, A Guy Called Gerald, Mark Grant, Wamdue Project flier (1999)
86. Cream flier
87. Citrusonic the Forbidden Fruit flier (1993)
88. Waterworld flier
89. Coachella ticket stub (2002)
90. Chemical Brothers flier
91. Louis XlV restaurant menu
92. Fantasize flier (1998)
93. Gathering of the Tribes flier (1997)
94. “Buddah Bar 4” 7-inch vinyl
95. M People “How Can I love You More” 7-inch vinyl
96. The Bucketheads “The Bomb” vinyl
97. Moontribe Sound Without Walls CD (Fragrant Records/City of Angels, 1999)
98. Armin van Buuren A State of Trance CD (2004)
99. Better Living Through Circuitry CD (Moonshine Music 2000)
100. Deep Dish Junk Science CD (1998)
101. Mark Farina United DJs of America Vol. 9 CD (1998)
102. Electric Skychurch Together (Moonshine 1996)
103. DJ Dan In Stereo CD (Kinetic Records)
104. DJ Doran Sense CD (Fragrant Records 1999)
105. BT _ESCM CD
106. Dave Ralph Naturalized CD (2001)
107. John Tejada Backstock CD (Palette Recordings 2002)
108. Armin van Buuren Universal Religion CD (2004)
109. Daft Punk Homework CD
110. Massive Attack Mezzanine CD
111. Massive Attack Blue Lines CD
112. Orbital Snivilisation CD
113. Photek Modus Operandi CD
114. KLF Chill Out CD
115. The Prodigy Music for a Jilted Generation CD
116. The Prodigy The Fat of the Land CD
117. Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children CD
118. Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85–92 CD
119. Primal Scream Screamadelica CD
120. Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman CD
121. Leftfield Leftism CD
122. Goldie Timeless CD
123. DJ Shadow Endtroducing..… CD
124. The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole CD
125. Fatboy Slim You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby CD
126. Paul Oakenfold Tranceport CD
127. Basement Jaxx Remedy CD
128. Moby Play CD
129. Trax Records: The 20th Anniversary Collection CD
130. Modeselektor Hello Mom! CD
131. Justice † CD
132. Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise CD
133. Skrillex Bangarang EP CD
134. Sasha & John Digweed Northern Exposure CD
135. Paul Oakenfold Tranceport CD
136. Burial Untrue CD
137. Roni Size/Reprazent New Forms CD
138. Disclosure Settle CD
139. The Avalanches Since I Left You vinyl
140. Daft Punk “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” vinyl
141. Avicii “Levels”
142. Zedd “Spectrum”
143. Daft Punk “Around the World” vinyl
144. Martin Garrix “Animals”
145. Skrillex “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” CD
146. Daft Punk “Da Funk” CD Single
147. Zedd “Clarity”
148. Daft Punk “One More Time”
149. Calvin Harris “Summer”
150. Faithless “Insomnia” vinyl
151. Stardust “Music Sounds Better With You” vinyl
152. Eric Prydz “Opus”
153. The Chemical Brothers “Block Rockin’ Beats” vinyl
154. Goldie “Timeless” vinyl
155. Azzido Da Bass “Dooms Night” (Timo Maas Remix)
156. Daft Punk “Get Lucky”
157. Phuture “Acid Tracks” vinyl
158. Plastikman “Spastik” vinyl
159. Marshall Jefferson “Move Your Body” vinyl
160. Second Phase “Mentasm” vinyl
161. The Chemical Brothers “Galvanize” vinyl
162. The Chemical Brothers Come With Us album vinyl
163. Zongaman “Bongo Song” vinyl
164. Underground Resistance “Elimination” vinyl
165. Bassment Jaxx Kish Kash album vinyl
166. Stardust “Music Sounds Better With You” vinyl
167. Inner City “Big Fun” vinyl
168. Rhythim Is Rhythim “Strings of Life” vinyl
169. Hardrive “Deep Inside” vinyl
170. Mr. Fingers “Can You Feel It” vinyl
171. Blue Six “Music and Wine” vinyl
172. Kaskade “Gonna Make It” vinyl
173. Kaskade It’s You, It’s Me album vinyl
174. Modselektor Hello Mom album vinyl
175. Uberzone Faith in the Future album vinyl
176. Mark Farina Mushroom Jazz 2 vinyl
177. Photek Solaris album vinyl
178. LCD Soundsystem vinyl
179. Sasha, John Digweed, Billy Nasy, Paul Daley “Renaissance by the Sea” cassette
180. Doc Martin Live at Unlock the House cassette
181. Doc Martin Flammable Liquid cassette
182. DJ Sasha Live on Radio 1 cassette (1994)
183. Jason Blakemore “Live at Aquarium” cassette (1997)
And here are some things we wish we had:
Totems
Glowsticks
Gasmask
Animal backpack
Furry overalls
Adidas shell toe sneakers with phat laces
Dr. Seuss top hat
LED gloves
Feather boas
Whistles
Vicks VapoRub
Pacifier
The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America by Michaelangelo Matos
Generation Ecstasy by Simon Reynolds
Party Monster
909
303
808
Body glitter
Our old flier collection—it was massive.
Special thanks to Mick Cole, Frank Foley, Michael Tullberg, Adam Levin, and Dave Ralph for letting us into their closets.
