That reminds me of this 
(not from a film, of course)
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This is the one from La Haine as mentioned earlier in the thread. I like it.
From the Irish absurdist comedy series Father Ted. The DJ (The Spinmaster) is a Catholic priest.
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Just watched this last night. Decent party scene.
A clip with a surprising choice of music from an early '80s episode of the long-running BBC children’s show Grange Hill (which, incidentally, is where I got the name Rodney Bennett from.)
If the “play from” point isn’t working, scroll to around 18.28
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The one where Inspector Morse went to a rave… someone’s edited it down from the broadcast but Danny Boyle directed the original in 1992!
“It’s like some sort of an orgy… a Bacchanalian orgy!”
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Amazing. And Glenroy was dropping some reggae bombs in another episode too.
Yes. Sir Lord Glenroy’s sound system. Although most of that episode is in the corridors outside the room where he’s playing, so you mainly hear muffled bass thump.
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I think this video isn’t a bad evocation of an underground dance party in mid-70s NYC (from the HBO series Vinyl). Unlike most other club scenes in films, i think this scene works because it deliberately avoids a naturalistic approach by means of the mismatch between the tempo of the music and the slow-mo movement of the dancers. The slow build of the track itself neatly matches the scene and helps suggest the mood of the party (Wild Safari was a big NY party track bitd, of course).
iirc, the background to this scene is that the white guy (A&R for a NY-based record company in about 1976) has recognized the potential of a track on an otherwise forgettable album, and has gone behind the back of his record company to get it pressed up on a 12". A Latino workmate is taking him to an underground party to get it played by the DJ. I like the ‘lightbulb’ moment at the end of the scene.
Then kicked off for Pogo’s Balearic set
Couldn’t find an isolated clip but, i love the jazz funk party vibe of this in Young Soul Rebels Young Soul Rebels Film Profile, ft Isaac Julien and Valentine Nonyela 1991 - YouTube
The actual rave scenes in Beats captured the mood well. Certainly made up for what was a so-so film.
A lot of mid 70s disco scenes in Looking for Mr Goodbar but so very white and bougie.
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Just takes one to party, apparently.
Here’s Robocop arresting Laura Palmer’s dad in Starck nightclub. It’s a bit cheese, but I don’t think the soundtrack and the actors are a million miles off what it might have been like taking ecstacy in 80s Dallas:
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Robocop tune
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Always liked this mashup.
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Sadly, it’s only on for a few minutes but when Paul visits The Loft in the excellent and unrated The Deuce.
No clips but some reading here: Punk, Disco, Porn—The Deuce ’77—Part 2 Matthew Tchepikova-Treon / University of Minnesota, Twin Cities – Flow
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Amy Jenkins, who later wrote This Life, was the rave consultant on this scene!
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