Exploring Ukraine's Underground Rave Revolution
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- The 2014 revolution brought Kiev nightlife to a complete standstill. As protests turned into riots, and government security forces opened fire on protestors, the country fell into crisis. But out of the ashes of revolution has risen a new generation. Slava Lepsheev, who’d lost his job because of the financial crisis triggered by the war, had had enough, and started Cxema, a raw, hard and hypnotic techno rave that he took to whatever semi-legal venue he could set a soundsystem up in. So together with Slava, and the city’s brightest young lights, we followed young Kiev as they prepared for a night at Cxema, from building the venue to watching the sunrise break.
Director Tom Ivin
Producer Kate Villevoye
Local Fixer Lyuba Knorozok, Dmitry Kolchinsky
Director of Photography Jack Reynolds
Sound Denys Ryskal, Andrii Vaskovski, Viktor Savin
Lighting Stanislav Bezpechnyi
Production Assistant Andrii Bezliudnyi
Editor Paul Frankl, Rebecca Gin
Colourist Oisín O’Driscoll at The Mill
Sound Mix Guy Chase
Narrator Leala-Rain Shonaiya
Script Clive Martin, Matthew Whitehouse
Translations Yelena Kensborn
Music
Voin Uruwu feat. Valta - Hunters and Gatherers
Voin Uruwu - Forest Theme
Stanislav Tolkachev - Sometimes Everything Is Wrong
Lollibou - Crimson Tune
Wulffius - In the Pines’ Crowns (Wicked Bass Records 2016)
Stanislav Tolkachev - Right Angle
Voin Oruwu - A-mplification
Archive courtesy of
Vice News, Slava Lepsheev, Unkle Dee, Aleksey Olin
Global Executive Producer Ravi Amaratunga
Supervising Producer Eloise King
Production Manager Lauran Clark
Production Assistant Lily Rose Thomas
Assistant Producer Stephen Isaac-Wilson
Post Production Coordinator Regina Lemaire-Costa
Commercial Creative Director Bunny Kinney
Talent Producer Declan Higgins
Head of Production Bree Horn
Head of Post Production Daniel Elias
Post Production Administrator Laura Davidson
Special Thanks
Slava Lepsheev, Dima Kovalyov, iZone, Anastasiia Fedorova
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A documentary about underground rave without actually letting us hear the underground rave. good job.
mustis M best comment mate duley noted that also pissed me off and I'd imagine any other raver watching
You can always google the basic shit like music you moron
@@truestep2008 czcams.com/video/mQsymeOwrEg/video.html
@@truestep2008 czcams.com/video/eaGrOenagmY/video.html
@@c4rgocult yes please
I just love how everything is filmed and edited . I feel like you can transmit the vibe of the places I honestly feel like I'm living that moment. It's just great!
i lika people. all so different.. and like frome futuristic movies
true, i-D somehow took the VICE-style documentary to the next level.
Also this korean stuff with this tattoo girl is great.
Ikr it's awesome I loved Grace, she is very interesting and was a great presenter.
Honestly made me feel like i was watching Skins UK again
+Olivia Searcy omg yesss
Disclaimer: I'm a 19-year-old lower middle class Ukrainian from Kyiv (where it all happens); some of my friends rave, I don't.
Even though I liked the video (script, camera work, lighting - outstanding), I certainly feel like it's heavily over-victimizing our rave culture. I don't blame i-D for this, I can see how they are constantly looking for powerful and touching stories. It seems to me i-D were looking for this kind of story here and people whom they interviewed gave them what they wanted. The truth is, despite the fact Ukrainian revolution did make a huge impact on our society, it wasn't nearly as devastating as you might guess from the video. It wasn't war-like devastating, you see. It was a huge mess, some people lost their jobs, but it wasn't devastating.
When the thing went off, I was your regular upper-working lower-middle class of age 15. 1 couldn't lose my job, simply because I couldn't have one. I also, thankfully, didn't lose any of my siblings. That said, I've been living in suburbs all my life and most of my close friends are coming from the working class, so I'm fairly sure I don't live in a bubble. I don't want to say it, but CXEMA is too much of a joke these days. It's expensive and most people go there for drugs, not music. I'm not a raver myself, but most of my raving friends don't take it seriously anymore. Think of hip underage amphetamine-driven girls in fancy clothes and you'll get the feel.
What happened in Ukraine is tragic and I know there's lots of pitiful stories associated with it, but it has little to do with rich spoiled brats you'll find behind the doors of CXEMA.
Thanks for putting this video in context. Good luck bruh.
Your English is flawless.
Thanks for clarifying.
Where would you go for the real stuff? When I was in Kyiv I went to CLOSER and Green Theater for someones birthday rave thing.
but i liked the music tho
They represent about 0.10% of Ukrainian youth. A lot of things they say are very subjective.
Like every subculture duh...
that percentage also deserves to tell heir story.
Like the people who eat their cheerios soft.
I’m wary of the Graphenburg family when it comes to raves or (g)rafen. They are trying to take over the ‘sponge spot’ or howeven outres dit. The man just didn’t discover the spot: I’m siding avec a natural name over a family name.
Nice statistic, where you get that from? Bet, it's from your head, not farther.
This was really well done, seriously. Fucking loved it. Really educational as well. Those shots from 7.22 are fucking unreal. It made me wanna be there in that atmosphere.
I wish I could re-create something like this.
same
Yes! Everything I have seen on this channel so far is really awesome on so many levels!
Я как раз на этом кадре)это действительно круто!!!)
свидомизм украинский и культура рейва ничего общего не имеет
me to men, i really think them this is so awesome
Whoever filmed, edited and produced this video: you're amazing, i love it.
i feel so sad for the ppl of Ukraine,,,,i hope divine intervention takes place,and these souls can be free once again....love to Ukraine from Scotland
so many university art students
never thought about this side of the ukraine, since all im ever seeing in the media is war, its great too see them so happy about life
средства массовой информации попросту промывают вам мозг,много чего пишется в мире,на самом деле может и не происходить.
You won't really find truly happy people at raves. Hence the drugs and going to parties to forget
you're right, they're trying to forget something most people isn't even aware of. their life and its reality, their surrounding and its mentality. happy is a difficult thing to be
Most of them are stupid bastards whose parents have planty of money. Yes we have a real war in Ukraine, but they are just dancing and say "i do not care". They are stupid adult chidren.
A lot of people and youngsters in particular in Ukraine are oblivious about war. Why, it is their peers who are being wounded and dying right now in the east defending the country. These are just immature little jerks who didn't pass the test of adulthood.
Respect and support for you guys! Noone knows what you're going through and what techno means in this hour more than Georgians.
Tbilisi stands for you!
We dance together!
We fight together!
💪💫💓
it'S all about how you look, what you wear, and MDMA... great job guys... you're saving the world. cheers
Jeezus Christ, they lost their jobs, the country is war torn, they feel they have nothing to live for, let them have their raves.
I loved it, it's so nice to see young people living the way they want, happy, having fun, fighting the memories of the tragedy with music.
jimin
sorry loll people always point its stuff out, but i couldn't resist this time xx
This was such a cool episode! I really love these mini documentaries- they're so interesting as the topics are so different. Please make more like this!!
you re beautiful
lowe being moist
I agree
so Trueeeee!
mhmm they're too good
i love how they ignore the fact that most these kids are on drugs
They are Just rich Kids that have nothing to do with the situation in Ukraine , for me as Ukrainian they really don't know what they're talking about .
@@whyarurannin4918 Rich, ahhshsahahhahh wtf ?
@@bagdunn1184 Nothing funny here , do you know that Prague Is cheaper then Kyiv? It's impossible to live like that in Kyiv whithout working...
@@whyarurannin4918 О чём ты? Чуваки последние деньги всегда спускали на тусовку, а некоторые и не тратились вообще, пытаясь пролезть внутрь. Не вижу абсолютно никакой логики в словах человека, точно так же говорящего о том, с чем не знаком. Юмор в том, что ты упрекаешь ребят за то, что они занимаются тем же, по твоим словам.
@@mykhailorashchepkin7546 Чесно кажучи прочитав десять раз і не зрозумів що саме тобі не сподобалось в моєму коменті .
what a legend with the iowa engineering shirt. 8:38
these videos have such bare aesthetic
what
I Agree, Lmao V Gee is everywhere xD
well one would be when one sees things that look like emulations lol
shut up.
My god, you sound like some loser hipster staring at abstract art.
its like they are trapped in time
Why would they be? Techno culture is reviving, along with underground vaporwave fashion. Same thing is apparent in Berlin, London, Budapest, etc :)
stfu nothing reviving we never went away and stop renaming our shit
Maximithus vaporwave fashion? Do you mean normcore?
they're cool bruh
Oh boy it gets serious real quick here 0.0
not a single mention of drugs. this is more an action movie than a proper documentary.
2:53
I am from Ukraine who lives in the West, drugs are horrible quality there
8:44 it's all you need to see
@@semilanceatta4422 lmaooo
Ok the documentary itself doesn't speak about drugs, but the girl with the shaved head in the beginning stated that there were more drugs coming in after the crisis. Soooo it's not like they cut it out or something but it isn't the focus of this docu, it's about them organizing and building parties from the ground up. The passion behind creating an atmosphere and a party is so much more worth than the drugs that people use at such events, it's just an extra but not even close the most important part which is atmosphere and the underground music played at these raves.
Stay Strong Ukraine ! 🇺🇦 4/3/2022
Ukraine is living modern culture.
Sure lol.
***** dear leader shut up
То чувство, когда узнаешь о культуре соседней страны от американцев.
I am from Russia, and I learn bunch of new stuff about our neighbors today. Thanks, i-D!
+1
действительно
То чувство, когда знаешь многих из видео лично.
They are British.
ashramshef Ok.
Peace for Ukraine 🇺🇦 from México 🇲🇽
Victory for Ukraine, love from Moscow.
you all did so an amazing work, i can feel the vibes and energies coming from this video deep deep inside me. just awesome.
A bunch of lost and confused souls, but I'm happy they have each other.
I noticed sadness in their faces but i can be wrong
+Blackthoven Productions you guessed it right. There is a genuine sadness in them but it's covered with the company of their friends and their electronic night parties. It is just an escape but not the solution.
:(
I think only escape can bring a solution. Whatever is to come is on its way.
+Nayla Kidd that does not make sense lol
Great job i-D! Continue with all these cool documentaries. Trust me, there's a big amount of people that's interested in knowing more about different cultures. More that what you would expect.
back to 1998-2002. Wake up Neo.
lol that´s more noob territory
eLephaNt1k damn right spot on!
eLephaNt1k damn right spot on!
Amazing video and amazing story! Thank you, I really enjoyed it.
Как интересно связали революцию и молодых людей, которые про*бывают время
Ааааа... все рашкованы пишут одно и тоже. Такое палево, иваны :)
I love that trashy 90's style so much. Its like a new punk.
how is it new when it´s 90´s and our cultural heritage´s styles
cyberpunкіберпанк
LOOKS LIKE AN AWESOME SCENE! gotta check it out if I ever visit
for some reason, this gives me quite a Skins vibe
what the fuck are you on
V Gee
more like what are _you_ on?
I agree
V Gee
Skins is a show but if ya ever watch it watch the UK version not the shitty US one
just because something has pingers in it doesn't make it like skins
looks like a typical friday here in Germany.
Isnt this a typical night in berlin? like ALL the days
Safe man wie jede große deutsche stadt am wochenende. Laufen die gleichen Gesichter rum
This channel is great! It's like VICE but actually good :)
much much better than Vice!
this, vice, broadly, motherboard and a lot of other channels are actually all connected VICE channels with different interests ^_^ im a little obsessed haha
It's like vice few years ago
It's been owned by Vice since 2012.
8:44 yes mdma combined with morning sun is indeed beautiful :D
this video is amazing, cinematography and editing is f*ing great. ic got to say this again, cinematography is stunning!!! thanks
Great mini-doc. Though I have to say I kind of miss a presenter who is actually present, not just a disembodied voice. Like the one about Korea's beauty industry.
But definitely cool and informative.
More of Grace please
it‘s like 1989 where germany reunited and they started raves at the berlin underground. techno is the music for revolutions!!!
"It's important that they feel free when they go to CXEMA." - I wish I had a place in my hometown where I could feel free like this
I've never heard about "схема", although I live in Kiev. Not every young people in Ukraine looks like them. I'm 20 and I've never try drugs. But, yeah, we go shopping to the secondhands.
I hope to see more videos about Ukraine ;)
you don't find the underground, it finds you.
These are like modern hipsters living in the 90's
you just described whole eastern european modern culture
gawd
i live in Belarus and hipster culture is quite alike here
it´s quite alike everywhere
+enco m sounds nice
This was so dope! Feeling the style and music scene here
That scene looks awesome and the music sounds great. They look silly acting hard, you don't have to be a bad ass to have fun.. Music is the real drug at the end of the day.
Ukrainians are beautiful
They have massive noses
this is a bad facial features?
thank youu;)
true!
caesar05 I'm slavic(Russia) boy and to hear this about Russian guys is very insulting!! I'm Russian, and people often say that I'm beautiful.
You are mongrels...
sick style they got there
yeah old right
ayy lmao Esa foto de perfil es de bejo?
si jaja
BEJOOOOOO
From one fellow *raver* to another, I LOVE YOU GUYS! Hope to meet you all someday
2nd this. Love you guys PLUR from Florida
navarachi095 oh man plur is still a thing?! 😂 taking me back 10 years
I hope we can dance and fight through the music together guys soon!!! ❤❤❤
YES! This is like back in the fuckin' dizzay with warehouses and crumbling decay and illegal "we don't play nice with cops" attitude! FUCK YES!! And they play MY kind of rave music: Four on the Floor TECHNO with the particular flavour I most enjoy: HARD, DEEP and DARK AS FUCK! HI Can I hang with you guiz!?!?!?
back in the dizzay wasn´t hipster as fuck
*shrugs* As someone in their 40's with a face still full of steel, huge lobes, tongue split, covered in ink and a tendency to wear all black, I could care less what other people are wearing or not wearing. What I care about is VIBE, general attitude, the way people treat each other. What I care about is sick tunes. And in general, freedom, especially at events like this.
Anything that can capture the spirit or essence of what I remember fondly as the wave of rave immediately following the warehouse Detroit scene that I got to personally experience makes me happy. But then, I have simple tastes, and am in general one of those easy to please, easy to gt along with types.
nice one, man.
gawd that avatar so many throwbacks weird ha ha
yeas m8 true words spoken
Very impressed with this documentary. Everything from the video editing to the choice of music has left me speechless. I originally come from Oryol, Russia, however chose to leave the country due to its lack of opportunities in terms of creative arts and education. In comparison to Russia, London has taught me about the rave culture/fashion much earlier. The main thing I've learned about being in the UK - is that it allows you to be who the fuck you want to be (and still be respected by others). These young individuals are truly managing to break the boundaries in a country which still has to do a lot of catching up. Best of luck to all of you out there in Ukraine. Be free and do what you love the most - create!!!
Pavel Stupin tell me how you just moved out of russia single handedly..
Stay strong Ukrainians brothers/sisters ⛓🖤
Every crisis is followed by a music revolution.
The end of the URSS and the Berlin Techno
The Vietnan War and the hippie rock
The racism on USA and the chicago house and rap and los angeles hip hop.
The technological explosion due to the cold war, and the synth music
techno comes from detroit
Is that why Russian music is good in trance/techno?
@@ntl9974 German too
The underground will never die!!!!!!
I already miss grace ...
me too y.y
same 😩😩
What happened to Grace?
grace is a g
She went back to her job as a tattoo artist
wow this made me very happy..I do admire how they found the escape, turning into something much more, building a new culture while surviving in harsh enviroments...bless those kids, keep on, good luck! ^_^
Wow, fashionistas capitalising on the depressed wages of Ukrainian factory workers...what a fascinating cultural development
feels 90s to me
It's rave, of course it feels old. You air maxes or air jordans or air forces or adidas superstars, whatever you're wearing, they're all from 90s too.. or even older.
my nineties were a lot of fun ! ;))
axel rose in one way it is America and Europe are very very further, plus people in USSR didn't have 90's you couldn't even wear jeans back then, so yeah it is 90's of the future
exatly, in france we live's that's ins 90'... 30 years old!! thanks russia? ps: am french! and i looove rave party!
Mariam M, people in USSR didn't have 90-s because in 90-s there was no USSR. It collapsed in 1991 lol. In early 90's Russia or Ukraine you could buy heroin or a ten-year-old prostitute in the center of the city, crowds of children were sniffing glue on the streets and you think someone cared about jeans? Even in USSR in late 80-s you could wear whatever you want because of perestroika. Soviet music fest -
czcams.com/video/fSkVnuAwAH0/video.html
I wonder if Pasquale Rotella has seen this yet... So many PLUR vibes in this whole scene. Good to see that the raver vibe exists even in dark times.
we want grace neutral
Other countries when they hit a job crisis, they work harder, Ukraine just parties lol
Joseph Harding you haven't been in Spain I think...
Not everything in this video is true. Conscious people defend our eastern borders from the russian madness or rise damaged economy. Just a small group of rats permits themselves to dance in their holes during the war.
They are just smarter. They know that there's more serious people then them. So they making their time more fun, and work as well. They work. Im pretty sure they are working.
Dear Molly, i invite you to visit Ukraine to see that kid-thinking junkies (which probably you will even not find) and to compare them with people who "make their time more fun" in Donbass. They're not smarter, they're just shameless
Well, I would do prolly same thing that they are doing. Im more about the culture. And I hate countries. Nations. Large groups. I think that's the stupidest thing, that needs to exist. In some type of way, they keeping culture going. You can't live working. Look at us, Poles, we were living working after war. Now we don't have any culture, we just take everything from USA, and other countries. Our country is boring. Everything is black and white. Some of us migrate to other countries, just cuz of that. People need to have fun, without that, you will end like Poles. Boring, scared of every type of standing out (it's changing), focused on work, drinking a a lot (in not good type of way). They keeping people having fun, they are not boring. Let's pretend that's their work.
This is so beautifully shot
Techno interests me
techno is love
techno is life
gawd
unst unst unst
Techno IS love! Techno IS life!!! Four on the Floor FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AND EVER!!!!!!!
this was great. if it wasn't for all the intense homophobia in ukraine id totally love to live there
There is no racism in big cities, especially in Kiev . Just don't go to districts where you don't need to be and nothing bad will happen to you
+Lena Alekseienko did you mean homophobia? but thats very informative. Ukraine is a beautiful beautiful place. I might just pursue a nomadic life style so i can live in many places
+Namratha Sri sorry, I meant actually both. In Kiev we have gay clubs and bars, and people go there to dance and I never hear about fights there or any troubles, Ukrainian much more open minded than you think
+Lena Alekseienko oh wow! thats very cool. It's weird hearing about ohter countries and not experiencing them. because it's easy to judge countries from what you've wheras you've never had first hand experience. Thank you for reminding me that everything isn't as it seems
+Namratha Sri *from what you've heard
I bet they all listen to yung lean, and I fuck with that
check out his new album if you haven't yet, head2toe is insanely good
Baly sadboysss
SAD
$uicideboy$$ -- bones tho
lizzy p Gold drugs, gold lean even gold barsss.
кто заметил Славу и Яна, лайк)
it's amazing how fashion translates around the world...
It's great to see something positive from Ukraine. Those of you debating as to why most of them are speaking in Russian, why do you care? You're missing the point - these people just want to have a good time and they deserve it after what they have had to deal with. I definitely will be visiting Kiev again very soon after watching this! ;-)
Oh my god this Video was amaizing!!! ist was a great description oft the musical, ethnic and fashion Revolution in Ukraine great!
this was super rad to see. also shoutout to the dude wearing the Iowa Engineering tshirt at 8:40. my home state
When I listen to what they say about revolution it seems to me that they live in some kind of parallel reality. They really don't understand what happened and what is going on. All they know is their club, their style, skateboarding, music and drugs. I think it pointless to ask such people about processes in the country. They really don't care at all. Lost souls and lost minds.
True, but their point of view is also a point of view (maybe this is unfortunate).
A good documentary never says what's good and what's not. It just shows things as they are. If ravers say nonsense things about consequences of the revolution - it is a fact that type of people tend to think so.
Why do you think authors praise those young people making them white and clear? They don't!
Russian-Ukraine conflict is very sad. I mean it is really sad. So many worthy people on both sides of the confilct are now separated by borders and propaganda without any real benefit. I hope it will end eventually and we will shake our hands in friendship both nations deserve.
Super Puper bro turn the television off
Super Puper what a shitty invasion, if they're "invading" you for three bloody years already..
+Super Puper you're a sheep bro
+Super Puper yeah, okay.. Keep watching CNN you brainwashed moron.
+Super Puper you're so clever using the same insults as me, just changing them a bit 😂👏
Very cool! That "A-mplification" track is awesome!!!!!
Just found this channel! It's sick, like a better Vice!
Oversimplified, overdramatized and slightly hipsterized piece. But not too bad.
7:48 *im in love*
the cinematography of this video is insane
Love it ❤️....loooooooove it ...
It doesnt matter how u look or how u act.. on a rave there is only one thing: the rave! Never stop it, goin harder, feel the people and the locations.
Im proud of Ukraine that there is a subculture like this! 🦑🔥
Greetings from Germany (sorry 4 bad englisch)
In Deutschland haben wir die exakt gleiche Subkultur, ein paar Freunde gehen regelmäßig zu raves, schmeissen Teile und kleiden sich ähnlich wie die im Video
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Support from the Dutch ❤️
Loved this docu 💜
Very serius staff!! Great job from Italy Hope thing Will be better
that guy at 0:36 was the best😂😂😂😂
"i was awake since saturday morning till sunday morning.. oh wait is monday" 😂
So cool!
this is phenomenal. truly righteous.
wow man reminds me of my country back in 2000 would love to go to Kiev to party one day
Oh( my interview did not get into the documentary( oh well) good one though
the creators of this channel are in the game!! I love the cinematography, the choice of content and i love how they explore it. keep doing what y'all are doing!
Greetings from Romania ,niceeezz parties you got there! Keep rave in!!!
Pray for Ukraine
They play really dope music, and slay in their clothes, but what they say is just shallow, careful information about the situation in Ukraine. It’s obvious they didn’t really care of what was and is happening in the country, they just wanted to seem alarmed for you guys, for the filming crew. They are the kind of people who run from the problems our country is facing to the world of showing off , dancing and , possibly, drugs. Thats a complete misrepresentation of Ukrainian youth.
Доречі, я з Украіни.
Problems are made by humans and the society we live in. Blow it all up and let people be free. But no people rather make war, wage slaves, consumption society, pollution, etc. It's all because of governments, money, greed and who get's which part of a country. All bullshit made up by mankind. We made life so much more difficult that it already was tbh. I'm not saying that what they are doing is good, they are consumption based too if you see how to all want new and trendy clothing etc. , and they should turn face to the problems instead of run away from them but even better would be that there wouldn't be any problems at all to begin with but of course politics and economy is always trouble.
That’s people in every country lol
Awesome!I really need to be taught how to party, guys! Meet there🐉❤
Keep going guys, don't let them stop you doing this kind of parties, thumbs up!
0:03 did anyone see this guy light his head on fire??
Haha good eye😉
There were people without heads
Literally
I live here
crazy
09:00 that tommy jacket tho.. would pay $300 for it eaaaasy
brand sheep
man , this jacket from second hand
yeap. all country wear second hand, and stone islands also can be found there
SepztarBeats dawg, ebay has some sick gems like this for like around $169
hype beast
I totally adore the video!! But guys, please know that life is much more than drugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE TO YOU ALL
Love these documentaries😍😘😘
8:39 guy in a Iowa Hawkeye shirt, he prolly went to school here. Pretty dope. I’ve seen Iowa shirts all over the world now.
Music is fuckin' unreal in this one.
Metro 2033 IRL!!
Nice one....thank you! :)
Aww that kitty was so cuuute