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South West of England Club Promotion/Dj Collective CULTURAL VIBES came into being on Saturday 3rd October 1992 at the Quay Club in Plymouth Devon. Back then most of the S-West was Hardcore raving mad, with the speed of the music increasing in BPM almost by the week. The emerging Rave scene had found a true spiritual home down in the S-West of England and Plymouth seemed to "have it" particularly well with 2 huge world-class venues, The Academy & The Warehouse. However by mid 1992 the hay days of earlier Rave Promoters like Extreme, Wasp Factory & Alpha had been replaced by a much harder, faster and darker sound as S-West crews like Essence and later Revelation took the emerging Jungle/Hardcore sound to the masses with huge success. During the spring & summer of 92 Nottingham's renegade Free Party Collective DiY had made a big impression on local boy Dave Green. The full DiY crew played at a string of events in and around Exeter and Bath that summer culminating in the free party scenes finest hour, Castlemorton. The music the DiY DJ's played was still underground & trippy, but was slower, groovier and much more House Music orientated. Very similar to a born again moment Dave Green realised this was the future for him, and set about trying to get involved. After first dabbling in designing & producing Rave clothing he took the very first money from the clothing venture and headed off to the big Universe Rave on September 11th 1992. There the DiY team had their own separate tent for 12 hours and that night a very nervous & wasted Dave Green asked his favourite DJ, Simon DK if DiY would come to Plymouth and play for him. The answer was in the affirmative and 4 weeks later Cultural Vibes was born.