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This video of an Adventjah rave in my home city of Brisbane, Australia, in 2001 popped up on a forum recently. Despite it being filmed by Australian cable television station Channel V, I had never known it existed until now. The AdventJah events, along with the System 6 monthly events, are commonly regarded as the tail end of the “Rave” scene in Brisbane, and indeed a similar situation across Australia. For those paying attention, there was a very noticeable shift in electronic dance music culture as the mainstream genres split further and marketing budgets were encouraging the inevitable rise of clubbing culture as a whole.

I was at this event, and I believe it was in the following year that I played my first AdventJah party, having joined a live act that wrote and played Breakbeat. This video does remind me, as someone into Breaks and some of the early Progressive House of the time, that I always found the main room Hard House pretty amusing. Here we are, some 8 or so years on, in the studio writing a 124bpm deep house track in collaboration with a DJ who used to play Hard House at these events. Music evolution is a beautiful thing, but so is fond reminiscing.