Zagreb Rave Flyers: 1993.

This has been a pioneering age, so the flyers themselves have some of that flavour. Sadly, I have used many of them for entering the parties they advertised, so only few survived. Some of them have badly handled the time, so the scans might not look perfect. Sorry.

Somewhere during 1993, we've lost KSET, but a new player appeared on the scene: Aquarius. Club began as a simple wooden building on the coast of Jarun lake, but managed to establish its reputation as well as to gradually expand to one of the best club spaces in the city. Gjuro still existed, but Aquarius managed to attract more audience by playing techno more attractive to wider crowds. While Gjuro played slow and more 'intelligent' music, mainly due to DJ ED's 'artistic' taste, Kiki and Frajman in Aquarius played hardcore which was almost mainstream tewchno music at that time, but did switch to trance by the end of the year.

Gjuro 2, 03.02.1993.

The oldest flyer I have. Since I have it, I wasn't that day in Gjuro anyway:) Note the day written in red at the bottom of the flyer, a usual practice at that time. Of course, copies were made using the standard xerox-machines; real printing was way too expensive.

Aquarius, 18.11.1993.

The oldest Aquarius flyer I have. Official name of the evening was Sabotage, a name borrowed from a series of german parties. Design was also by Bitart, the same guys which made later Gjuro2 flyers, but they did learn the job in the meantime.

Gjuro 2, 21.03.1993.

Pathetic design is what distinguishes this G2 flyer from its predecessors. Well, at that time evil Cuki started to handle the marketing and bombastic commercials appeared for the first time.

Aquarius, 30.12.1993.

This was a very busy season for the Sabotage-Bitart cooperation, since practically for every thursday, a new flyer was released. They were used as invitations, so you would always carefully watch for people spreading them. As you might have guessed, I wasn't in Aquarius that thursday :)

Gjuro 2, 28.04.1993.

This was one of the first live acts by Ivo Topolovcan aka Corthex Thrill. Again, bombastic titles clearly show Cuki's hands.

Aquarius, autumn 1993.

This was a generic flyer design which was used to enter any thursday.

This flyer was contributed by my friend raven (raven at marvin.cc.fer.hr).

Gjuro 2, 03.03.1993.

More or less standard flyer design for that period. Even though it's xeroxed, it looks very good. The slogan 'Ecstasy: New drug for the new rave generation' did not cause a scandal - presence of ecstasy was minimal in early '93, and it started being a problem only by the year's end. Basically, MDMA was not treated as a 'real' drug by the scene.

This flyer was contributed by my friend nara (nara at marvin.cc.fer.hr).

Gjuro 2, Pepsi DJ Mag evening

Somewhere in mid june, Pepsi DJ Mag TV show organized a special techno evening with performances and stuff. On entrance, they distributed those calendars, which are interesting since they carry half of the PLUR on them, along with music and dance.

Gjuro 2, 24.03.1993.

Standard design, again with a slogan which would today appear as a complete dejavu. Then, however... Vow...

This flyer was contributed by my friend nara (nara at marvin.cc.fer.hr).

Kulusic, 1993.

Kulusic started organizing techno evenings, somewhere before the summer 1993. I have been there only twice, and I remember very little on them. I remember however very hard and 'metal-on-metal' music, excellent crowd and DJ Mary dancing on the floor in short latex leggins:)

This flyer was contributed by my friend nara (nara at marvin.cc.fer.hr).

Under City Rave, 30.10.1993.

The best techno party in Zagreb City. Period. None later managed to reproduce the atmosphere, music, crowds. Party was organized in a system of tunnels under the old part of the city (hence the name), which is usually used as air-raid shelter (again:). Organizer expected no more than 1000 people, but on the day of the event 3000 of them tried to enter. Many tickets were counterfieted, many people didn't manage to enter. Still, once inside, you were in heaven. More precisely, hell. Oxygen was that scarce in some areas that cigarettes were unable to burn and lighter was useless. And, yes, one of the best flyer designs...

This flyer was contributed by my friend nara (nara at marvin.cc.fer.hr).