The craziest thing happened this NYE. I live in the country, more or less Bay Area, at the end of a long (2-3mi) dead end road. My neighbor's house is empty and posted for sale. Someone broke in and threw a rave there. The party was advertised online and they were selling tickets:

https://monosnap.com/direct/YxtOr5VARRXTAIr2Ej9ae5KCjAjRfn

The owners (who live across the street) confronted them immediately. Bouncers dressed in "security" shirts forced them away. It took 1.5 hours for the sheriffs to show up.

The whole neighborhood is traumatized.

Sounds like a house party. Though I guess it could be a rave as well, just a small one. Better than squatters I guess.

Exactly. All the places I went to 30 years ago for a rave are now nice areas.

Someone would call the cops for the amount of noise now before the party even started.

Then factor in fentanyl.

Maybe most of all though, in the mid 90s electronic music was a new thing in the US.

The first rave I went to , I really didn't even know what I was going to. The reason I stopped going was the novelty had completely worn off. Amazing times but the falloff was rather steep.

I remember when techno was the sound of the future. Now it sounds like something from the age of industrialization.