Doing liquid and kick stepping in the 90s. Man. Wearing jyncos jeans and adidas jacked with an upsidown backwards visor, and creating new moves with friends. Feeling the music and letting it control you in a fluid movement as you become one with the air around you. One smooth fluid transfer of energy. Kickstepping became what is now "shuffling". Liquid became "popping". It's a dead art. Like Latin. But still a style I catch myself doing in the kitchen or at a club when I'm hammered, it comes out. The 90s was pivotal for me. Keep this video up. It's a forgotten time that should be remembered.
the raver 2-step...enjoy the candy flip... vibes as pure as the rythm...I liked dancing away from my boyfriend...the days of legend parties..April Foolz Props Get Tranced BOO Brass Monkey....check out this app called SPLASH...I love it...gives me the chance to create some HOUSE/DB/CHILL....brings me back to the good ole days..
hahaha..me too! When I'm in the mood I watch this vid about once a year and the moves both continue to absorb my attention and remind me of my raving youth :)
Do you though? 3 years on, does it still hold captivation for you? Or anyone else, for that matter. Surely, there still exists a hint of passionate cyalume, somewhere.
What's funny is in 1998 when I had several pair of Levis Big Bangs (34" bottoms) I went to this small town on Vancouver Island and this older lady came up to me and said "OMG I used to wear elephant pants like that back in the 70's" LOL She said there were bell bottoms and Elephant Pants!. I still got a pair of the bigger ones with 36" bottoms.
Lol I had so many pairs of pants that I'd fucking KILL to have back! Breakdown, Jnco, 26 Red, Volcom, I had like 15 pairs 20 years ago and now I have one.
+Andrew Johnson I wish i could go back. Even with today's pills, the best ones of today still don't match the lovey dovey body orgasmic pills of those days. I hear here and there, that they are out there. But they are very hard to find. Goddamn it!!! lolololololol
I'm so glad I got to experience this era, and even took pics bc I knew it was a magical time. I would fall in love with guys like this every weekend. Not only is he an amazing dancer, but you can tell he is doing it not to show off
Agreed entirely ... I'm feeling that falling in love feeling just by looking at him. I dance liquid but not like that! I'm also finding you quite lovely yourself, Matty!
2023 update: I was around in the late 90s early 2000s And I still to this day NEVER seen any1 human being move like this Extremely admirable for future generations to learn from Thank you
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”- Bruce Lee Be like water my friend.
I remember doing this on the train in the morning when everyone else was going to work, I could always hear the music in my head hours after leaving the party hahahaha
i still come on here and watch this video probably once a month. Eric is beyond amazing with the way he moves. this was on the east coast where i became part of the scene in 96 and funny thing is there were dancers like this everywhere! I still go out to dance because I HAVE TO. it still lifts me up spiritually. but i don't see dancers quite this good anymore. TAKE ME BACK
+mujer nica No joke on there being ridiculous dancers at parties doing something mind blowing everywhere you turned...and the dance circles GAH!! I go out to dance and often get into covos about this with new school "ravers" I come across.
+Brittany Z. I know it!! I try really hard not to be the "old school party kid snob" so I stop myself. I've brought in a couple people into this new scene but thankfully I've kept them from the edm curse. they KNOW good dnb, good house and techno and now breaks. I've invited one girl that goes to festivals out to real house shows here in dallas. gotta convert them somehow if we're gonna keep this going.
Oh you're in Dallas?! I'm from Houston and went to many parties out there including the beginning of the end-Transit. That was such a sad Sunday when one of the most epic massives was on TV talking about how glowsticks were drug paraphernalia. It's definitely tough with newbs because there is so much bad(and boring)electronic music out there, especially dnb. Thankfully, there are oldschool peeps who are putting quality music out there and creating events that are intended to be a true bridge. Some of the festivals like LIB and Desert Hearts I've gone to are the closest that I've found energy wise the the parties from back in the day.
+Brittany Z. oh wow I was at Transit. That party was CRAZY. I'd heard it made the news. Sad days after everything started cracking down and eventually there were no more parties like that. However the scene is thriving again in Dallas. Not at big edm festivals but it's gone back underground for some parties. a couple of crews here have started throwing parties and undisclosed warehouses and going old school with the map points. I love it! Lots of good music coming through here. You should come up some time!
Nostalgic. Dark warehouses in seedy parts of the city hauling milk crates of vinyl, spontaneous cross country road trips just to see the sun set over the ocean, apartment after parties wrapped in a down comforter with a girl in the bath tub, and on and on and on and on... Now it's bikinis and fuzzy boots, monster outdoor festivals that last all week, some strange new dance called "shuffling..." Man, I feel out of place.
I'm old. i get that now. This was a groovealicious trance 90's style. I aspired to it then, and I'm still diggin it now. Good rythm, just like PLUR, never truly dies, it simply changes form.
In full alignment with the tune, the moment, source/God, manifesting the frequencies of the music in physical form through his body expressing his VIBRATION, THATS THE SPIRIT 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I remember this type of scenes back in the late 90's. Underground rooms, or empty hospital buildings, abandoned warehouses in the middle of nowhere, or raves in the middle of the dessert @ night with DJ's, dance crews, lots of alcohol and specially no drama just everyone having a good a time. Miss those days.
Soooo much nostalgia! I've been watching this video periodically for years, it just has all the right elements colliding to knock me right back to the 90's... Man, I miss those pants
The circles back in the 90s were amazing. I've probably danced with this dude on more than one occasion. The tristate area was thick with people who loved getting down, it was pure awesome. 99 was past my time of massive rave events, the scene got silly after 96 after that it was all downhill. In ways it was a good thing. It gave the real underground another chance.
I started learning liquid dance in 2023 (and gloving shortly thereafter) because of this video, and have become obsessed with it since then. I practice daily and am striving to revive the style on the dancefloor in NYC every weekend.
He was 22 yrs old this was Philly. Just learned how to rave at the clubs, even went by DJ AA (like the battery) 23 yrs later to the exact date 3-13-21 he went to heaven, only 45 yrs old. Lots of people got hooked, or died from addiction from those 1st raves, still do! YOU CAN DO ANYTHING SOBER , NOT WORTH IT 😢
This video (esp. starting at the 52 second mark) always makes me wanna shoot through the roof with nostalgia, joy, and gratitude to have witnessed and been a part of a unique movement that at the time was still "underground" and untouched by the mainstream. When learning of movement happened organically through connection to the music and the inner being's physical manifestation of vibration. No UA-cam, instructional DVDs, or easily accessible workshops to prep. Just the willingness to hand over your ticket and walk through a doorway to an experience that would create an opening of the mind, stretch the boundaries of perception, and create a new platform for creative expression.
Damn, look at that musicality. Don't matter what kinda dance it is; when there is musicality, games over. I remember watching this tons before I got into breakdancing over 20 years ago.
You can dress up how you like but dance like this! Another level. Could watch this all day! I love to dance but i enjoy watching a good dancer much more.
Super smooth in his hands n his transition from his arms to his legs n how it moves to the beat is some of the best I seen.. Im In NOLA. an at the height of the rave scene in 96 to 00 I seen n learned alot about dance.. this guy is very talented.. hope he still lets loose every once n awhile.. thanks for sharing
Liquid rave is a technique that has to be learned extremely intensively. Total body control. Perfect moves. Perfect timing. Perfect ear for music. And of course a perfect outfit. I don't know how people like Eric did it. Especially so extremely early in the techno scene. These people are real pioneers. The movements, the timing. I assume a lot of mirror work. However. The results are breathtaking...and all I can say is...WTF!? By the way... im turnig 50 in 2025... 😀 Techno 4 ever of course, what do you think?
I’ve probably watched this 20 times. What a magical time 99-2001 was. That dude’s pants, full zip track jacket, and pulled down cap .... add in the arcade game and graffiti behind him .... hard not to smile. Wish there were more vids in here of this style.
I literally invented this dance back in 92 at a dance night called NASA IN NYC. It amazes me to have seen how far it went. We never called it Liquid Dancing ... We termed it TRANCING .....and the story behind it is no less than Magical
People called it liquid because it looks fluid, obviously. Let me guess, inventing it involved taking a lot of acid or candyflipping. I first started seeing people doing this in Los Angeles in '96.
I definitely understand like when you're moseyin' around the dancefloor and find an amazing dancer and you stop and watch a lil...but, imo the best parties that I've been to, you appreciate other dancers while you are ALSO dancing...I remember several attempts trying to get strangers off the floor to come join in the fun...but, I also understand that sometimes the, stuff, hits you so hard you have to go sit down against the wall lol...
I remember this video making the rounds online long before the days of youtubes.. I'd study Eric's moves and try to duplicate.. lol hours of practice in front of a mirror and I didn't even come close. ! A legend for sure!
I often fantasize that my dancing was captured on some video and people in my current life would find and see it! They would never believe it was me the way I seem these days ;) raved '95-'00... reminisce about it now and again...
Reminds me of the Pittsburgh parties of the 90s, had some real doozies but all seems like a really good dream that never actually happened cause from the 40+ parties I went to, I cannot remember even 5 thing's total 😂
Me too! First experience was Music is the Key and saw Noel Sanger and Nicole Henry. My life changed that night. The ugly caterpillar turned into a butterfly. Miss those times so much
@@ChristopherEricChester It’s a pleasure!! I’m sure you get this quite a bit but, your moves are SICK, bro! Especially in this particular clip. Much thanks for dropping by😌
I have been coming back to this video ever since it came out. I never found out who this was but he is still the smoothest. In a world full of shufflers be the arcade liquid guy
This style of dance came from this style of music. You don't find this anywhere anymore aside from discrete underground scenes (yes, they still make you pay a homeless guy to get dirs), even then, it's not a given that it'll be this. Shit, even back then, this was never a given. But you go with it, you make the most of it, and if you're any sort of committed soul, you engage, immerse, and share that with others. Be the nucleus that becomes that outer valence. And subsequently, our community develops. And PLUR carries on....
I’m reading so many comments from people who say they come back and watch this all the time. I don’t blame them one bit. At least for me, when I see someone with moves like this, my mind is instantly made up to do the same. Or at least try :-) Total inspiration, something we all can use. And it’s all amazing, but that transition part at 00:53 is really what gets me. Going from being the fluid plastic man, to jumping up and almost morphing into a shuffle, but he’s just keeping time to the extra heavy beats dropping, and the way it looks like he is almost doing a running man as if he is running in same space while lifting his arms not quite over his head conveys energy to me. A true giddyup moment :-)
I remember seeing this video in like 2000 because thats when I started breakdancing and I was looking all kinds of dance videos on Kazaa. The keywords I used to search for were like 'popping', 'waving', 'liquid dance', 'boogaloo' and I remember being mesmerized by this video. This needs to be archived and locked away safely in a vault.
I gotta be honest. for so many of us chicks there was nothing sexier than seeing a guy dance like this. then if you got in there yourself and could dance/battle him...it was a huge turn on!!! sigh...good times lol!!!
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Is this the boom in nashua nh?
I do to the guy in the video
Me too, haha
Yo.man
Msg me.
This is the Eric on this video
This was filmed in Atlanta
The best time of my life… now a middle aged women lol. Glad I experienced the rave culture at its best.
Same girl, same😅
Same !!!
Kind of crazy this video is now 23 years old and I still think this form of dancing is the coolest shit ever.
Thank you 🙏
Yes. Im 49 now. Eric is undefeated. Liquid is the coolest shit ever...
And i was on Raves 1995+
Doing liquid and kick stepping in the 90s. Man. Wearing jyncos jeans and adidas jacked with an upsidown backwards visor, and creating new moves with friends. Feeling the music and letting it control you in a fluid movement as you become one with the air around you. One smooth fluid transfer of energy. Kickstepping became what is now "shuffling". Liquid became "popping". It's a dead art. Like Latin. But still a style I catch myself doing in the kitchen or at a club when I'm hammered, it comes out. The 90s was pivotal for me. Keep this video up. It's a forgotten time that should be remembered.
Kick stepping All the way! Shuffling is for the Birds..;)
the raver 2-step...enjoy the candy flip... vibes as pure as the rythm...I liked dancing away from my boyfriend...the days of legend parties..April Foolz Props Get Tranced BOO Brass Monkey....check out this app called SPLASH...I love it...gives me the chance to create some HOUSE/DB/CHILL....brings me back to the good ole days..
I would love to learn how to liquid like this if someone was out there teqching it. The music from the 90s is soo much better compared to now
I would kill to have my hands on more vhs/vids from early parties
I'll bring it back ♥️💯♥️💯 this feeling will not die
I watch this video a few times a year. Every time I am captivated by it.
I thought I was the only one!
Steve Velazquez
Nope ;)
Shit... This is the first thing that truly drew me to dancing... This and that raver kid, that dances in his yard, shuffles...
hahaha..me too! When I'm in the mood I watch this vid about once a year and the moves both continue to absorb my attention and remind me of my raving youth :)
Do you though? 3 years on, does it still hold captivation for you? Or anyone else, for that matter. Surely, there still exists a hint of passionate cyalume, somewhere.
almost 10 years later and this guy still gives me goosebumps.
i think we found his other vid ua-cam.com/video/UIxy7Xa5uEY/v-deo.html
Oh man, big, baggy pants and an Adidas jacket. Takes me back. Kids today have no idea how comfortable those pants were.
What's funny is in 1998 when I had several pair of Levis Big Bangs (34" bottoms) I went to this small town on Vancouver Island and this older lady came up to me and said "OMG I used to wear elephant pants like that back in the 70's" LOL She said there were bell bottoms and Elephant Pants!. I still got a pair of the bigger ones with 36" bottoms.
I started raving in 2009 and I've been wearing phat pants to all the hardstyle and psytrance events dude they're hella comfortable to wear 🙌🏽👽
kids these days have no idea what they missed. it's so square now with the underground EDM gone in north america.
JNCO qAmbient Verso Piss Poor to name a few:-)
Lol I had so many pairs of pants that I'd fucking KILL to have back! Breakdown, Jnco, 26 Red, Volcom, I had like 15 pairs 20 years ago and now I have one.
Late 90s-early 2000s the glory days of the rave scene (in my humble opinion). This dude was def "feeling" it!! I totally miss those days too!
+Jesse Rothbeind im right with u there... i miss those days too... I still fEel it here and there.. lol
+Michael Vargas Mccarrol Goddammit, those were the days!!! Peace, love, unity, and respect!!! hahaha
+Andrew Johnson I wish i could go back. Even with today's pills, the best ones of today still don't match the lovey dovey body orgasmic pills of those days. I hear here and there, that they are out there. But they are very hard to find. Goddamn it!!! lolololololol
Nah you missed the best by that stage, still good but past the best. Early 90s was the best, 90-93
I agree, it kinda went to shit after that. hard to get that old school hippy feeling at party's these days/. WTF ever happen to PLUR lmfao
I'm so glad I got to experience this era, and even took pics bc I knew it was a magical time. I would fall in love with guys like this every weekend. Not only is he an amazing dancer, but you can tell he is doing it not to show off
You need to feel it before you can do it. It's how it's done
Agreed entirely ... I'm feeling that falling in love feeling just by looking at him. I dance liquid but not like that! I'm also finding you quite lovely yourself, Matty!
2023 update:
I was around in the late 90s early 2000s
And I still to this day
NEVER seen any1 human being move like this
Extremely admirable for future generations to learn from
Thank you
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”- Bruce Lee
Be like water my friend.
Go to an older crowd and you’ll see this.
Liquid Eric. Watched this video hundreds of times over the last 15 years
Thanks for the support
I remember doing this on the train in the morning when everyone else was going to work, I could always hear the music in my head hours after leaving the party hahahaha
i still come on here and watch this video probably once a month. Eric is beyond amazing with the way he moves. this was on the east coast where i became part of the scene in 96 and funny thing is there were dancers like this everywhere! I still go out to dance because I HAVE TO. it still lifts me up spiritually. but i don't see dancers quite this good anymore. TAKE ME BACK
+mujer nica No joke on there being ridiculous dancers at parties doing something mind blowing everywhere you turned...and the dance circles GAH!! I go out to dance and often get into covos about this with new school "ravers" I come across.
+Brittany Z. I know it!! I try really hard not to be the "old school party kid snob" so I stop myself. I've brought in a couple people into this new scene but thankfully I've kept them from the edm curse. they KNOW good dnb, good house and techno and now breaks. I've invited one girl that goes to festivals out to real house shows here in dallas. gotta convert them somehow if we're gonna keep this going.
Oh you're in Dallas?! I'm from Houston and went to many parties out there including the beginning of the end-Transit. That was such a sad Sunday when one of the most epic massives was on TV talking about how glowsticks were drug paraphernalia. It's definitely tough with newbs because there is so much bad(and boring)electronic music out there, especially dnb. Thankfully, there are oldschool peeps who are putting quality music out there and creating events that are intended to be a true bridge. Some of the festivals like LIB and Desert Hearts I've gone to are the closest that I've found energy wise the the parties from back in the day.
+Brittany Z. oh wow I was at Transit. That party was CRAZY. I'd heard it made the news. Sad days after everything started cracking down and eventually there were no more parties like that. However the scene is thriving again in Dallas. Not at big edm festivals but it's gone back underground for some parties. a couple of crews here have started throwing parties and undisclosed warehouses and going old school with the map points. I love it! Lots of good music coming through here. You should come up some time!
I most definitely would!
OMG this was how I danced back in the day * tear * ugh I miss it so much...
Nostalgic. Dark warehouses in seedy parts of the city hauling milk crates of vinyl, spontaneous cross country road trips just to see the sun set over the ocean, apartment after parties wrapped in a down comforter with a girl in the bath tub, and on and on and on and on... Now it's bikinis and fuzzy boots, monster outdoor festivals that last all week, some strange new dance called "shuffling..." Man, I feel out of place.
Fuck yes. You get it.
neochetina nailed it!!
You are spot on. The corporate, festival rave culture of today is a shadow of the awesomeness of the old days.
Nice, sounds like a poem or lyrics from Mike Skinner, The Streets!!!!
You just described my life from 99-2003
I'm old. i get that now. This was a groovealicious trance 90's style. I aspired to it then, and I'm still diggin it now. Good rythm, just like PLUR, never truly dies, it simply changes form.
However, sadly, it is on life support.
Omg the little "praying hands" thing, i love this video.
"bodhisattva"
Holy fuck this video was made 21 YEARS ago! Fuck, I miss the 90s!
Whenever I smell a clove cigarette, it takes me back to these days!! I miss them so f’ing much!!! PLUR
PLUR❤🎉❤😊
i could watch this man all night coz hes just like me find a spot and dance to how the music makes u feel the best male dancer ive ever seen xx
Bring it back to like it 1999
This is one of the videos I watched in college and learned how to dance from.
I am watching this soo many years. Thank You!
this was 99!!! top tier ... top shelf video.. so hard to find some of these gems these days.. gotta dig!
He has a amazing good vibe❤
This is what I used to think I looked like raving back in the day.
First track Direct Motion by Total Eclipse
What is the name of the second track??? Thanks for the first track also!!!
Vincent Vega, second track is Visiting Venus, by Electric Universe.
BROOOOOO!!! thanks you!!! I love such deep progressive tracks!! :)
THANK YOU!
Thank you!
I first watched this video (the first clip) when I downloaded it using Limewire or Kazaa, before UA-cam existed. Those were the good times!!
This video only been up for 11 years but I feel like I’ve been watching this one since senior year high school, 2002
In full alignment with the tune, the moment, source/God, manifesting the frequencies of the music in physical form through his body expressing his VIBRATION, THATS THE SPIRIT 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I remember this type of scenes back in the late 90's. Underground rooms, or empty hospital buildings, abandoned warehouses in the middle of nowhere, or raves in the middle of the dessert @ night with DJ's, dance crews, lots of alcohol and specially no drama just everyone having a good a time. Miss those days.
"Lot's of alcohol" lmao
U mean when tickets were 5$ and a canned food donation not $300. :-)
Well, I wouldn't go as far as to say NO drama, but everything else made up for it!
I remember watching this video in college when you had to download files to watch. This guy is one of the best I have ever seen.
Soooo much nostalgia! I've been watching this video periodically for years, it just has all the right elements colliding to knock me right back to the 90's... Man, I miss those pants
The circles back in the 90s were amazing. I've probably danced with this dude on more than one occasion. The tristate area was thick with people who loved getting down, it was pure awesome. 99 was past my time of massive rave events, the scene got silly after 96 after that it was all downhill. In ways it was a good thing. It gave the real underground another chance.
Still one of my favorite dancers.
So much better than the “shuffle” so called ravers do now... this was our style back in the day
Agreed! Shuffle is basic asf
Don't worry y'all candy walking and liquid are coming back for how they defiled the Melbourne shuffle 😭😭
Fuck yeah man!
When you ran into a full out Liquid crew with cone lights and glow sticks..legendary times
A UA-cam CLASSIC! - Search for it every few years just to see it again hehehe - So good
Watched this video SO many times back in the day
and never come back
Man the baggy pants and 90s underground raves brings back memories 😭
I started learning liquid dance in 2023 (and gloving shortly thereafter) because of this video, and have become obsessed with it since then. I practice daily and am striving to revive the style on the dancefloor in NYC every weekend.
JNCOs, ADIDAS, and liquid 💗. God, I miss those days
This is what attracted me to he underground culture in the late 90s early 2000. It has never been the same .
You can only understand this if you experienced it way back in those days.... glad I did it and still this day look at this and like Fuking wow !!!
Often imitated, never duplicated. The God. The 🐐 . LPE is Liquid Dancing.
This dance holds such a special place in my heart! Pretty sure I downloaded it off Napster so long ago. :)
this dude is literally my inspiration to liquid dance in 2021. I started learning 3 weeks ago and I will become this good
where are your resources on learning to dance like this? :)
@Jake Wildman ok i dont believe you :)
@@mouse059 sorry for the late reply. Look into the lpc conference in 2010, hglitch and any other tutorials.
@The One Wildman prove it :)
@@keoni4824 hey thanks a lot!!
This legit could be me 20 years ago. Same style, dance and clothes. Only thing is I never was at a rave held at a bowling alley.
Love that this guy is in every rave compilation video from before youtube to 2008
I was I had know then!!
This is me in this video.
Others too credit for it
This guy was a legend amongst my friends growing up and yet we have never met. Glad I found this again
He was 22 yrs old this was Philly. Just learned how to rave at the clubs, even went by DJ AA (like the battery) 23 yrs later to the exact date 3-13-21 he went to heaven, only 45 yrs old. Lots of people got hooked, or died from addiction from those 1st raves, still do! YOU CAN DO ANYTHING SOBER , NOT WORTH IT 😢
Man I miss the 90s and rave spots that wouldn’t even open their doors till 2am
This video (esp. starting at the 52 second mark) always makes me wanna shoot through the roof with nostalgia, joy, and gratitude to have witnessed and been a part of a unique movement that at the time was still "underground" and untouched by the mainstream. When learning of movement happened organically through connection to the music and the inner being's physical manifestation of vibration. No UA-cam, instructional DVDs, or easily accessible workshops to prep. Just the willingness to hand over your ticket and walk through a doorway to an experience that would create an opening of the mind, stretch the boundaries of perception, and create a new platform for creative expression.
Reminds me of the late 90s Chicago parties where many people would be doing this in thier own corners. Great times I miss them.
Amen to that! Felt the same way when I watched the video.. Miss those days soo much!
I WATCH IT OVER N OVER ESPECIALLY WHEN I MISS HIM .. I WOULD LOVE TO BR ABLE TO DO THAT, NOT A GOOD DANCER BUT A RAVER? 🛸🎧
Damn, look at that musicality. Don't matter what kinda dance it is; when there is musicality, games over. I remember watching this tons before I got into breakdancing over 20 years ago.
First dancer is a beast. Glad this was taped !
They are all the same dancer. Eric Liquid Rave from Liquid Pop Collective.
You can dress up how you like but dance like this! Another level. Could watch this all day!
I love to dance but i enjoy watching a good dancer much more.
I remember just getting stuck in a trance when I would dance I miss it sometimes.
Super smooth in his hands n his transition from his arms to his legs n how it moves to the beat is some of the best I seen.. Im In NOLA. an at the height of the rave scene in 96 to 00 I seen n learned alot about dance.. this guy is very talented.. hope he still lets loose every once n awhile.. thanks for sharing
miltonm337 FB Society. Nothing like it. Palace. Canal and Rampart. Memories.
Thanks man!!
I do, but at 45 I really have to feel it to use it like that
This is me In The video
Liquid rave is a technique that has to be learned extremely intensively.
Total body control. Perfect moves. Perfect timing. Perfect ear for music. And of course a perfect outfit.
I don't know how people like Eric did it. Especially so extremely early in the techno scene. These people are real pioneers. The movements, the timing. I assume a lot of mirror work.
However. The results are breathtaking...and all I can say is...WTF!?
By the way... im turnig 50 in 2025... 😀
Techno 4 ever of course, what do you think?
I remember watching this when UA-cam started back in San Bruno🎩🤘
Ah yes, the OG. His 2nd sequence in this video is legendary!
How come this video has so few watches? I feel like it is an Internet treasure. Such awesome energy!
50 yrs old. Watching everyday
I’ve probably watched this 20 times. What a magical time 99-2001 was. That dude’s pants, full zip track jacket, and pulled down cap .... add in the arcade game and graffiti behind him .... hard not to smile. Wish there were more vids in here of this style.
Those isolations! Smiling because he's soooo good and because those big pants we wore made the movements even more fluid.
Breh that’s my dad Michael Lynch I remember him first showing me this video and my uncle was recording him😭
Are you stating this video is not authentic? That it isn't "LP eric"?
If so, when and where did this occur?
Your dad's a liar.😒🤣
I literally invented this dance back in 92 at a dance night called NASA IN NYC. It amazes me to have seen how far it went.
We never called it Liquid Dancing ...
We termed it TRANCING .....and the story behind it is no less than Magical
People called it liquid because it looks fluid, obviously. Let me guess, inventing it involved taking a lot of acid or candyflipping. I first started seeing people doing this in Los Angeles in '96.
@@spacecase8888 oh yeah lots of acid. I really should upload video of the 1st time it was done. I still have it on a super 8 vhs tape
@@KortovElphame please upload it!!
Ahhhh, the good old days 👌
this takes me back to chicago underground late 90s! Off the hook, yo!
The year I graduated. The good old days.
Yep decades later you are still incredible bro.
Thanks!
I definitely understand like when you're moseyin' around the dancefloor and find an amazing dancer and you stop and watch a lil...but, imo the best parties that I've been to, you appreciate other dancers while you are ALSO dancing...I remember several attempts trying to get strangers off the floor to come join in the fun...but, I also understand that sometimes the, stuff, hits you so hard you have to go sit down against the wall lol...
miss those days too. And everyone just cared about everyone else.
I keep forgetting I can pop. Appreciate the reminder. I had y’all’s VHS 😂
it never gets old, what an awesome display of skills
best regards from mexico
I remember this video making the rounds online long before the days of youtubes.. I'd study Eric's moves and try to duplicate.. lol hours of practice in front of a mirror and I didn't even come close. ! A legend for sure!
It's a feeling in my heart I move to. You can't copy the move without feeling it
I often fantasize that my dancing was captured on some video and people in my current life would find and see it! They would never believe it was me the way I seem these days ;) raved '95-'00... reminisce about it now and again...
This is just awesome. Man so many cool rave memories from 90s/00s
Good times
Im sure this was in DC. The memories of the dance battles and Caffeine branded pants will never leave my mind!
I come back to this video every so often. Still so damn cool. Wish I could move like that!
Reminds me of the Pittsburgh parties of the 90s, had some real doozies but all seems like a really good dream that never actually happened cause from the 40+ parties I went to, I cannot remember even 5 thing's total 😂
99 was the best year of my life...
+steve marshall mine was 97 and 98, 99, 2000 and from 2001-2003! beautiful times! The E and the meth were so high quality it was just pure bliss!
Me too! First experience was Music is the Key and saw Noel Sanger and Nicole Henry. My life changed that night. The ugly caterpillar turned into a butterfly. Miss those times so much
I second this.
The fucking feels.
Man this takes me back to high school
He would be the friggen coolest, to this day, if only for the pants! The most heart breaking fashion choice of the Era
Awesome! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Been loving this clip for ages!!! Wish I knew who this dude was…
liquid eric. part of LPC
@@smithtyler4557 Ty!
@@smithtyler4557 wrong
@@roxfox99 this was me in Atlanta
Names Eric, I do liquid.
It's not liquid "pop" Eric.
@@ChristopherEricChester It’s a pleasure!! I’m sure you get this quite a bit but, your moves are SICK, bro! Especially in this particular clip. Much thanks for dropping by😌
I have been coming back to this video ever since it came out. I never found out who this was but he is still the smoothest. In a world full of shufflers be the arcade liquid guy
Miss the good old days of raving in the 90s!!!
This guys name is LP Eric. Pretty much the cream of the crop of liquid back in the day in the states.
I remember watching this trying to learn to replicate the moves, 23 years later, still cannot replicate the moves lol
I never see anybody that moves like this anywhere....like wtf is the shuffle???!?!?!?!?!
totally agree. searching youtube from time to time and no results. only shuffle.....
This style of dance came from this style of music. You don't find this anywhere anymore aside from discrete underground scenes (yes, they still make you pay a homeless guy to get dirs), even then, it's not a given that it'll be this. Shit, even back then, this was never a given. But you go with it, you make the most of it, and if you're any sort of committed soul, you engage, immerse, and share that with others. Be the nucleus that becomes that outer valence. And subsequently, our community develops. And PLUR carries on....
Subatomic Nucleotide Well said, sir. How I long for just one more good party...
Shuffle was originally made only for hardstyle. The recent trend ruined it.
Its called liquid popping. I think
This video is legendary. Saw it one other time...about 18 years ago. (not on UA-cam...obviously)
I’m reading so many comments from people who say they come back and watch this all the time. I don’t blame them one bit. At least for me, when I see someone with moves like this, my mind is instantly made up to do the same. Or at least try :-)
Total inspiration, something we all can use.
And it’s all amazing, but that transition part at 00:53 is really what gets me. Going from being the fluid plastic man, to jumping up and almost morphing into a shuffle, but he’s just keeping time to the extra heavy beats dropping, and the way it looks like he is almost doing a running man as if he is running in same space while lifting his arms not quite over his head conveys energy to me. A true giddyup moment :-)
I remember seeing this video in like 2000 because thats when I started breakdancing and I was looking all kinds of dance videos on Kazaa. The keywords I used to search for were like 'popping', 'waving', 'liquid dance', 'boogaloo' and I remember being mesmerized by this video. This needs to be archived and locked away safely in a vault.
Just another day at work blowin minds!
really good god i miss 8090s
I wish there were still good places like this to dance in Colorado Springs.
I gotta be honest. for so many of us chicks there was nothing sexier than seeing a guy dance like this. then if you got in there yourself and could dance/battle him...it was a huge turn on!!! sigh...good times lol!!!
+mujer nica omg i had always thought of that, that way. It was the E that also enhanced that. Indeed it was very sexy thing to watch.
The Dancer (from the 90s) still lives, but in the streets of Ibiza Town...
A fellow nica, ey?
mujer nica we dancing dudes were totally aware of this :)
Dude, battling liquid chicks was like some bizarre raver mating dance.