Hi mate theres still a few old gits out there avin it myself included .I do love a bit of Old Skool . N you do still hear some of the old tunes
played when youre out n about.

Its a myth the early 90s were loads better. The first 10 or so times anyone does MDMA it seems amazing, then the brain adjusts as a survival mechanism as this excess of happiness isn’t actually healthy as it makes someone ignore danger. Provided the stuff they do is MDMA this remains the same for someone whether its in 1991 or 2011. And there was as many snide pills in the early 90s (some containing dangerous things) as today.

As oldskool says himself, the comedowns were worse. I remember my friends at the time getting quite psychotic after repeated use of MDMA, about 30% of them either got sectioned or banged up for dealing/theft to fund usage patterns as the stuff was quite expensive.

Many ended up getting snappy and even violent on people dear to them like parents, partners etc, which was what really led to the feds clamping down, particularly in middle class suburban areas. Nowadays there is much more useful drug advice and people recognise the mood swings and deal with them better.

the “friendliness” was quite false as well and only lasted for as long as folk were high. I know a fair few older hippies who did fairs/festivals long before raves started and many still do and they have unanimously mentioned this from the 1990s.

if society seemed a bit more friendly and open 20 years ago that was also for compex geopolitical and economic reasons, we weren’t competing as much with each other for jobs/women etc, even dole was much easier to blag and so things like immigration were overlooked back then. Not as much to do really with the dance music scene, although wider society does influence it.