«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».

“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”.

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

“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”

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.

The Techno Shamans…

1. The scene Leaders2. Highly related to the the ICT. 3. Themselves and the Role models

they represent always in maximum Interest of the “Ravers - Clubers”.

Subcultrure to Culture…

1. The scene and its members “Grew Up”

2. Icts Impact on its members3. Massive promotion and participation

in any way4. Commercial - Sophisticated

From the Raves to the Clubs and beyond…

1. IRC Chat to facebook2. Vinyl to Digital Downloading3. Analog synths and Turntables to VSTs

and Sample Packs 4. the Dj as a Medium to the Dj as a creator

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

1….