Editing Rave (section)

===Growth (1990s–present)===
[[File:MTAC Prime Rave dance.ogv|thumb|Dancing at a rave in 2007]]
{{See also|List of electronic dance music festivals|Doof}}
By the 1990s, genres such as [[Acid house|acid]], [[breakbeat hardcore]], [[hardcore (electronic dance music)|hardcore]], [[happy hardcore]], [[gabber]], [[drum and bass]], [[post-industrial music|post-industrial]] and [[electronica]] were all being featured at raves, both large and small. There were mainstream events which attracted thousands of people (up to 25,000<ref>{{Cite web |title=Are.na |url=https://www.are.na/block/6087030 |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=are.na |date=5 February 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> instead of the 4,000 that came to earlier warehouse parties). Acid house music parties were first re-branded "rave parties" in the media, during the summer of 1989 by [[Genesis P-Orridge]] during a television interview; however, the ambience of the rave was not fully formed until the early 1990s. In 1990, raves were held "underground" in several cities, such as [[Berlin]], Milan and [[Patras]], in basements, warehouses and forests.<ref name="Generation Ecstasy">Timeline and numbers {{cite book
| last = Reynolds | first = Simon | year = 1998
| title = Generation Ecstasy: into the world of Techno and Rave culture
| publisher=Picador | isbn = 978-0-330-35056-3 }}</ref>

British politicians responded with hostility to the emerging rave party trend. Politicians spoke out against raves and began to [[fine (penalty)|fine]] promoters who held unauthorised parties. Police crackdowns on these often unauthorised parties drove the rave scene into the countryside. The word "rave" somehow caught on in the UK to describe common semi-spontaneous weekend parties occurring at various locations linked by the brand new [[M25 motorway|M25 London orbital]] motorway that ringed London and the [[Home Counties]]; it was this that gave the band [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]] their name. These ranged from former warehouses and industrial sites in London, to fields and country clubs in the countryside.