http://www.plug-connection.com/

2. «Everything starts with an email posted on the net
between Ravers and ends, well, continues with a Dj
performing live and sited down, after his movie
premiere and in front of thousands,
just by using a controller and a laptop».

3. “Over the past decades, the expansion of new media resources has led
to a hybrid media ecology within, amateurs, artists, activists and
other players, interact with each other in even more complex ways.
Each of these groups has the power to produce and distribute
content and each of these groups is being transformed by their new
power and responsibilities in this emerging media ecology”.
This interactive process of the individual’s construction of
identity through and with the use of the ICT seems to be a case on
the Rave Subculture – Club Culture.
A Culture highly related with the ICT in terms of advance, progress
and transformation in a constant process of “mediamorphosis”.

4. 1. Members of a group with common ways of
expression and communication, common interests,
common identities and after all a common goal:
2. The participation on an event where
they can come together, communicate
and dance to the music they love.
3. Rave, Techno, House

5. “Ravers are countercultural techno pagans
because of their participation in the sub
cultural ritual of free - form dancing to
synthesizer-produced, heavy beated music that
is arranged
by DJ Techno-Shamans”

6. The Ravers who became
Clubbers…
1. Highly related to the the ICT.
2. Always in Interest of the “Techno
Shamans” (scene leaders).
Still…
3. Highly dependent of the “Techno
Shamans” and their ways of promoting
the- and acting in the scene.

7. The Techno Shamans…
1. The scene Leaders
2. Highly related to the the ICT.
3. Themselves and the Role models they
represent always in maximum Interest
of the “Ravers - Clubers”.

8. Subcultrure to Culture…
1. The scene and its members “Grew
Up”
2. Icts Impact on its members
3. Massive promotion and participation
in any way
4. Commercial - Sophisticated

9. From the Raves to the Clubs and
beyond…
1. IRC Chat to facebook
2. Vinyl to Digital Downloading
3. Analog synths and Turntables to VSTs
and Sample Packs
4. the Dj as a Medium to the Dj as a creator

10. What does it take to be a
succesfull “Shaman “? …
1….