Melbourne Raves

26/10/2024

We salute Ollie Olsen, the Godfather of Australian Electronic Music - Psy-Harmonics

Post-Punk visionary, member of Melbourne’s “Little Bands’ scene & godfather of Australian Electronic Music — Ollie Olsen, has died aged 66

06/09/2020

Originally penned in July, but just as relevant today. Love you Melbourne. We will dance again.

2020 might be keeping us apart, but only for now.

17/11/2018

afternoon - pre-election political lols...

17/11/2018

If you missed out on tickets to Melbourne Music Weeks': In Conversation with Jeff Mills and would like to attend, pm us and we might be able to help you out. Event is booked out. You must be able to attend today 3pm at NGV.

16/11/2018

Ode to Friday nights at Deep Eleven. Happy Birthday Campbell Halliday xx

13/11/2018

We've just added Earthcore Mix Series Volume 1 mix by Scott Alien to our soundcloud - hard as nails to get you through.

Artist rights reserved copyright Earthcore

06/11/2018

new playlist added to our soundcloud, get on it! https://soundcloud.com/melbourneraves/sets/every-picture-tells-a-story Featuring Melbourne wonders: Simon Slieker Son of Zev Zen Paradox, Voiteck Electruck Lumukanda, Dan Woodman, David Kilroy
Little Nobody, Honeysmack and so many more.

Every Picture Tells A Story playlist

04/11/2018

We all love a TED talk as a Monday mid morning distraction to get in the swing of things. Here's Mark Ronson's TED talk on how sampler's changed the world especially for those who don't have a pre public holiday day off and have to hit the coal face today.

Sampling isn't about "hijacking nostalgia wholesale," says Mark Ronson. It's about inserting yourself into the narrative of a song while also pushing that st...

02/11/2018

The End of an online era...
After switching off their infamous forums quite some time ago, Junkee Media announced today the end of/rebranding of inthemix henceforth known as Music Junkee.
Older than our firstborn, inthemix came along at a time when the only Oz based electronic music specific sites - SPRACI and raves.com.au , were simplistic unmoderated forums and event listings. At a time when they were still having to teach advertisers how to use the internet, inthemix provided comprehensive event info, moderated forums as well as noteworthy electronic music journalism ensuring we here in Australia were up to speed with the latest and spurring on our evolving industry nationwide.
The infamous forums were often the catalyst for public debate on local news and in the pre-facebook era, were the online 'news feed' of that era. Sadly the forums were killed off sometime ago, and today's announcement finds the trove of articles documenting our local electronic music history deleted from the archives.
https://junkee.com/longform/inthemix-oral-history?fbclid=IwAR19aeJKhN1NWYAkS2Bivg-YdWXUmkQOysgkJ_ROt-aejRJoXb39kQv2LVk

For two decades, inthemix was the voice of Australian dance music. This is its story.