Contact the Archive
Found a tape, flyer, photograph, missing date or piece of history? Working on a film, article, exhibition or event? Rave Archive UK puts recordings, flyers and memories back with the people, places and nights they came from — and some of the best additions begin with somebody getting in touch.
Send a message
Use the form for archive contributions, corrections, research, press, collaborations, event work or DizzyUK bookings. A little context in the first message helps me point you in the right direction quickly.
Secure website enquiry • Destination: admin@rave-archive.comFour ways to help the archive grow
Everything comes through the same contact form. These routes simply show the kind of detail that makes an enquiry easier to act on.
Tapes, flyers, photos & memories
Tell me what you have, the approximate date or event, who appears on it and whether the material is already digitised.
Contribute material ↑Help improve the record
Wrong date, missing artist, unidentified venue or a detail that needs a better source? Corrections are welcome.
Send a correction ↑Research, film, heritage & press
For documentaries, articles, exhibitions, podcasts, research or cultural projects involving rave history and archive material.
Discuss a project ↑DizzyUK / Rave Archive appearances
For DJ, MC, hosting, archive talks or event collaboration. Include date, location, format and organiser details.
Booking enquiry ↑Behind the site, the archive comes first
A short introduction to the person maintaining the project — not another artist profile.
I built Rave Archive UK because too much of this culture was disappearing into lofts, old hard drives, forgotten websites and half-remembered stories. What began as collecting and sharing recordings became a much bigger job: identifying them and reconnecting the sound with the people, flyers, labels, venues and events around it.
My own route through rave began on the dancefloor in 1991, at Raindance and Labrynth in Dalston Lane. I started MCing in 1993. Although I learned to mix many years ago, DJing only became a bigger part of what I do in recent years as I stepped back from the mic a little. The archive is not meant to be about me. It exists for the DJs, MCs, promoters, artists, labels, radio stations and ravers whose history sits inside it.
If you can identify something, correct something, fill a gap or contribute material that deserves to survive, please send it over. Every useful detail helps the next person who comes looking.
Dizzy • Founder & curator, Rave Archive UKThree projects, one continuing thread
Kept deliberately brief. This is context for why the archive exists, not a separate biography.
DnB Street
An artist-agency and online drum & bass platform. Dizzy built and ran the website, forum and online content, helping artists and audiences connect through the early web.
Subliminal Muzik
An internet-radio venture run as a small business, with a bedroom studio, Prince’s Trust support, a business bank account and both subliminalmuzik.co.uk and subliminalmuzik.com operating side by side.
Rave Archive UK
The long-term project that brought those strands together: audio preservation, online publishing, scene history, flyers and artwork, and a searchable route back through UK rave culture.
The archive beyond its own website
A small selection only — enough to show where archive knowledge and material have been used without turning Contact into a CV.
Jungle Flyers
Dazed featured Dizzy and material from the Rave Archive flyer collection in its Jungle Fever coverage, alongside an exclusive mix.
Read feature →back2back: Up Ya Archives
Rave Archive UK took part in the Inclusive Histories discussion exploring jungle history, archiving and East London’s music networks.
View programme →Stevie Hyper D Legacy
Archive audio, historical material and long-running support around preserving and documenting the legacy of one of jungle’s defining MCs.
Something belongs in the archive?
Send it over. A cassette label, flyer scan, photograph, correction, memory or missing detail can be the piece that joins an entire story back together.
