Rave 92
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| Compilation album by various artists | ||||
| Released | 16 November 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1990–92 | |||
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| Length | 79:46 | |||
| Label | Cookie Jar Records | |||
| Compiler | Mark Arthurworrey | |||
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Rave 92 is a DJ mixed compilation album compiled by Mark Arthurworrey and released on Cookie Jar Records, containing popular rave singles that had become popular in the United Kingdom in 1992. The compilation, the fifth and final rave compilation compiled by Arthurworrey and released on the label, aims to collect some of the year's biggest rave hits, although, as has been pointed out, Rave 92 also intends to "bridge across the gap between chart rave and the more obscure hardcore tracks." Released in November 1992, Rave 92 was well-received and a commercial success, reaching number 3 on the UK Compilation Chart. Several latter-day electronic producers, including Phaeleh, have cited hearing Rave 92 for the first time as the point they became interested in electronic music.
By late 1992, just as raves in the United Kingdom were becoming increasingly notorious, numerous rave music singles had seen crossover success, transcending from their underground rave status into becoming chart hits. Free parties had also gained ground in 1992. Many of rave's most successful singles were in the breakbeat hardcore genre, a genre that combines breakbeats, four-on-the-floor rhythms, a fast tempo alongside other features such as piano and "hoover" sounds. As the sound gained popularity commercially, numerous compilation albums were released to document the scene's most commercially successful records, including Telstar's Rave Alert (1992) and Virgin Records' The Ultimate Rave (1992) and The Mega Rave (1993).Rave 92 was issued by Polygram's subsidiser label Cookie Jar Records Ltd. in attempt to document, as the title proclaims, the most "massive rave hits of the year."
Rave 92 was compiled by Mark Arthurworrey, who had worked throughout the 1980s and 1990s as a writer, remixer and compilation compiler. He had compiled rave compilations before for other independent labels, including Smash Hits Rave! (Dover Records, 1990) and Just Seventeen Get Kicking (Dover Records/Chrysalis, 1990). His first rave compilation for Cookie Jar Records was Hardcore Uproar, released in 1991 in association Dino Entertainment. In 1991−92, Arthurworrey compiled a series of rave compilations for Cookie Jar Records, including Steamin! Hardcore 92 (1991),Technostate (1992),The Rave Gener8tor (1992), and The Rave Gener8tor II (1992).Rave 92 was intended to "round up" the year for this series of compilations, although Arthurworrey would continue to compile dance compilations for the label until the release of Ragga Groove in 1994.
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