From Chicago house to the UK rave explosion
UK rave culture did not arrive fully formed. It grew from late-disco dancefloors, Chicago house, Detroit techno, New York garage, Balearic club culture and a very British appetite for warehouses, fields, motorway service stations, pirate radio, photocopied flyers and word-of-mouth missions.
By 1987 and 1988, nights such as Shoom, Future, Spectrum, Trip and The Haçienda helped translate that sound into a UK youth movement. The Second Summer of Love pushed acid house out of specialist clubs and into warehouses, aircraft hangars, fields, leisure centres and huge regional gatherings. By the early 1990s, rave splintered into breakbeat hardcore, jungle, happy hardcore, garage, trance, techno and the old skool sounds people still travel for now.
