Explore the Archive
Search Rave Archive UK, the Mixcloud collection and YouTube from one place. Artist profiles, recordings, history, labels, venues, radio, promoters and future record-shop history all connect through the same search.
The Mixcloud Vault
The newest recordings and the playlists that make the Rave Archive UK collection worth getting lost in.
Latest uploads
The playlist vault
Past, present and next
The recordings, flyers, people and events of rave culture are preserved here. The next chapter will bring live listings into Events & Years, keeping current nights clearly separate from the historical archive.
Explore Events & Years →Enter the Collection
The recordings are the centre of the archive, but every set connects to people, artwork, places, radio, labels and the nights themselves.
The soundRecordings & SetsRave recordings, pirate radio, tape packs, studio mixes and event sets from across the collection.
Open the vault →
The visual recordFlyers & ArtworkThe paper trail of the scene.
Browse flyers →
The peopleDJs, MCs & ArtistsFollow the names through profiles and recordings.
Meet the artists →
The story around the soundRave HistoryVenues, record shops, labels, tape culture, promoters and the infrastructure that made the scene possible.
Enter history →
Across the airwavesPirate RadioThe stations that carried the music across the UK.
Tune in →
The nightsPromoters & EventsFollow the organisations and parties behind the recordings.
Explore events →From the Archive
A few doors into the collection. Search results connect recordings back to the events, people and history surrounding them.
Event archiveDreamscapeFlyers, history and hundreds of surviving recordings from one of rave’s defining names.
Follow Dreamscape →Event archiveOne NationTrace the promoter through event records, flyers, artists and the surviving tape-pack archive.
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Radio archiveKool FM & Pirate RadioStations, broadcasts and recordings from the airwaves that helped jungle and rave travel.
Search radio history →Connected historyBeyond the Tape PackRecord labels, venues, shops, promoters and culture — the stories that turn audio into history.
Explore the history →