Rave emerged from the smiley-faced, Ibiza-inspired acid-house scene of the late-1980s, and saw young people – in their hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands – gathering for free in outdoor spaces, like fields, woodland and beaches, dancing the night away to electronic music – Chicago house, Detroit techno, breakbeat rave – built for dancefloors. Pop musicians such as Steve Marriott of Small Faces and Keith Moon of The Who were self-described "ravers". Such dances are street dances since they evolved alongside the underground rave and club movements, without the intervention of dance studios.

He would mix a range of disco classics, indie-label soul tunes, European synth-disco that is now considered to be " House Music".For EDC in particular, while free on bail, Pasquale Rotella moved 2011's EDC from Los Angeles to Las Vegas from then on as well as increased the EDC scheduled locations.

Although Beats captures the thrills and spills of rave-hunting, it isn’t so much a film about rave as a big-hearted coming-of-age movie focusing on teenage pals: timid and awkward Johnno (Cristian Ortega) and bolshy tearaway, Spanner (Lorn Macdonald), in central Scotland in 1994 as the sun set on the rave era.As long as new scenes are happening, and they absolutely are happening today, the music and the ethos of the time seems to seep into people’s lives in times anew,” says Hurley. Multiple production companies would quickly follow suit, and the rave scene would soon explode into a massive scene, with 23 Hop as the initial launching pad, until its closure in 1995. The perception of the word "rave" changed again in the late 1980s when the term was revived and adopted by a new youth culture, possibly inspired by the use of the term in Jamaica. Welsh mentions 24 Hour Party People and Quadrophenia as informing Beats, but found inspiration in coming-of-age films such as Dazed and Confused, buddy movies including Superbad and Thelma and Louise, and films in which electrifying music scenes and subcultures are the backdrop, such as La Haine and Do The Right Thing. Many argue that Northern soul was instrumental in creating a network of clubs, DJs, record collectors and dealers in the UK, and was the first music scene to provide the British charts with records that sold entirely on the strength of club play.