Saturday night Bury Me In Brooklyn threw a party at 35 Beadel Street and they asked me to come out and shoot. My friends DKDS and Cobra Krames were spinning and I have always had a good time at the Bury Me In Brooklyn parties on Beadel St so I figured I would check it out. I didn’t know any of the other DJ’s but I was told that they were like candy raver DJ’s which was just slightly confusing to me because it is not 1998.

I grew up in DC during the 90’s when DC was pretty much the rave capital of the United States. I wasn’t into the dance music scene, but I did hang out with a lot of people who did a lot of drugs and parties were the place to get them. We would roll up on some club and try to buy drugs in line and then bounce before we even had to pay the cover. Then we would go back to someone’s house and listen to punk rock and do shit like E, Special K and “Crystal” which was what everyone called meth before those terrifying faces of meth ads. GHB was also pretty popular but you would take it yourself instead of rapping people with it. I was actually straightedge at the time but I hung out with a diverse bunch of fuck ups and I was always disturbed seeing my punk friends sucking on a pacifier because they were “rolling face.”

Anyway, the point of this rant is that seeing my nearly adult friends wearing Pokemon backpacks and wearing candy necklaces and sucking on pacifiers was awful 15 years ago and I thought it died out. Clearly it was just lurking about in Europe or something and when EDM came back, so did the grown ass people dressed like little kids. And yes, I know I went to EDC once and I wrote a whole article making fun of just their back packs but this was at a fucking  Brooklyn warehouse party. I didn’t even know how to deal with this so I just started talking to ravers about the 90s and how fucking old and grumpy I am and asking them about UFO pants.

Sorry for my old person rant about “these damn kids today”. You should just look at the pictures and either be psyched cause you are in them looking super fresh in your bedazzled rainbow gauntlets or because you want to laugh at said people. Either way this gallery is worth taking a look at.

Click here to see all the pictures from Build It By Dawn at 35 Beadel St.

 

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