Thus, the electronic, rave and club dances refer to the street dance styles that evolved alongside electronic music culture. Wood had taken ecstasy and died in hospital a few days later, leading to extensive media exposure on the correlation of drug culture and its links to the rave scene in Australia. Many of the rave fashion trends have appeared internationally, but there were also individual developments from region to region and from scene to scene. While the genre is not usually considered rave music in itself, it is often fused with rave music genres.

Since the mid-1990s, raves had tens of thousands of attendees, youth magazines featured styling tips, and television networks launched music magazines on house and techno music. Nevertheless both Welsh and Hurley are passionate electronic music fans steeped in the legends, fables and values of the rave era and are examples of how the spirit of rave lives on and remains relevant today. The term rave first came into use in late 50s Britain as a name for the wild bohemian parties of the time. In the early 1990s the first commercial rave fashion trends developed from this, which were quickly taken up by the fashion industry and marketed under the term clubwear. The drug became popular in the US first on the disco/club scene of the 1970s and then at dance and rave venues in the 1980s and 1990s.Pop musicians such as Steve Marriott of Small Faces and Keith Moon of The Who were self-described "ravers". It was the second serious crash near the airport in the space of just 10 hours after the A38 was closed on Friday afternoon just north of the main entrance. The mid-late 1990s saw a slight decline in rave attendance, attributed to the death of Anna Wood at a licensed inner-city Sydney venue, which was hosting a rave party known as "Apache". The "rave" genre would develop into oldschool hardcore, which lead onto newer forms of rave music such as drum and bass, 2-step and happy hardcore as well as other hardcore techno genres, such as gabber and hardstyle.

Parallel to the rave scene growth, was an increase in anti drug policies, which were directly aimed and indirectly influenced rave organizational management and event. It was later part of the title of an electronic music performance event held on 28 January 1967 at London's Roundhouse titled the "Million Volt Light and Sound Rave". This is due to the association of rave culture with illegal drugs such as MDMA [3] [4] (often referred to as a " club drug" or "party drug" along with MDA [5]), amphetamine, LSD, [3] [4] GHB, [3] [4] ketamine, [3] [4] [6] methamphetamine, [3] [4] cocaine, [4] and cannabis. In arguably the Cincinnati Bengals' (4-3) toughest test of the season against the San Francisco 49ers (5-3) on Sunday, Joe Burrow was the biggest star on the field as he carved up one of the NFL's elite defenses in a 31-17 win.Dozens of other annual technoparades took place in Germany and Central Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s, the largest ones being Union Move, Generation Move, Reincarnation and Vision Parade as well as Street Parade and Lake Parade in Switzerland. Candy Raver style, friendship and culture became popular in the West Coast rave scene, both in Seattle and San Francisco. In the late 1990s, the venues Tresor and E-Werk (1993–1997) in Berlin, Omen (1988–1998) and Dorian Gray (1978–2000) in Frankfurt, Ultraschall (1994–2003), KW – Das Heizkraftwerk (1996–2003) and Natraj Temple (1996–2008) in Munich, as well as Stammheim (1994–2002) in Kassel, had established themselves as the most renowned techno clubs in Germany. Clothing with slogans such as " Peace, Love, Unity" and smiley-face T-shirts first appeared with the acid house movement of the 1980s. Since house was originally club music, there are many forms of it, some more appropriate to be played at raves than others.