Hardcore Rave Archives

Bizzy B remembers the nights that built the underground. Before TikTok DJs and USB sticks, there was a van — half-broken, loaded with gear — crawling down Lea Bridge Road toward a warehouse called Dungeons. Behind the wheel? A mate with no licence, maybe half-cut, but fuelled by pure rave intent. That’s how Bizzy B and crew kept London’s illegal heartbeat alive in the early ’90s. No safety nets, no sponsors, just sound. “You just did what you had to do,” he grins. “Didn’t think about the consequences — we just wanted to make it happen.” Dungeons wasn’t legal —...