Frankie Bones Touches Down at Rise Tonight, 4.16.10

This guy is a legend, plain and simple…this is the first time he has played in Boston (or any of New England for that matter) for many years. He has over THIRTY years of experience behind a set of Technics 1200s, and as someone who occasionally lurks the forums on discogs.com and reads his routine contributions on there, can vouch for his depth of knowledge of all things electronic music. Official write-up below:

Frankie Bones - Interdance - 1991 by djmixes

Frankie Bones wrote the book, plain and simple. Think back, way back… pre-internet… pre-mp3… pre-commercial… pre-genrification… back before there was even a way to describe loosing your shit to electronic music, Frankie was orchestrating this experience. 

Frankie Bones was inspired to bring rave culture to the United States after playing at a hangar party in the UK during 1989. Bones, the first American DJ to play these raves, is considered to be ‘The Godfather of American Rave Culture’.

He got his first inspiration from his father’s vast record collection after his father was murdered. Later on, after he had begun producing records, he was offered a gig to play for 5,000 people in England called “Energy” on the strength of his compositions. As the event started on August 26, 1989, the projected attendance had gone through the roof and Frankie played to 25,000 people while the sun came up. At this event, a fight broke out and Frankie got on a speaker, screaming at the fighters, “If you don’t start showing some peace, love, and unity, I’ll break your fucking faces”. With the subsequent discussion of this event on the Usenet newsgroup alt.rave, Respect was added to the three virtues Frankie was speaking of, creating the hippie-esque raver credo of PLUR: Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect.

Being profoundly moved by the experience, he brought it back to Brooklyn in the form of his series of Storm Raves. The Storm Raves events began with only a few hundred people in attendance growing to over 5,000 where the likes of Josh Wink, Doc Martin, Sven Vath, DJ Keoki and Richie Hawtin were able to launch their performances into international careers. The Berlin Love Parade, which is generally considered to be the largest rave in the world, named its 1991 and 1992 Parades after well-known compositions by Frankie Bones.

It is the distinct honor of RISE and Casual Encounters to bring Frankie Bones acbk to Boston for a once-in-a-lifetime re-emmersion. Strip off your biases, step out of your silos, and come dance as one.