The 20-year anniversary of EDC this year got us feeling pretty nostalgic about how far dance music and our culture have come. To celebrate these sentimental, mushy, sappy vibes that came over us, we decided to raid our closets and our music collection, and we came out on the other side with a pretty epic cache of dance-music memorabilia. We call it a “rave time capsule.” What would you fill yours with? The following is a list of things we collected and buried (maybe) someplace in the desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

1. JNCO jeans

2. Mickey Mouse gloves

3. Clobber T-shirts

4. Freshjive T-shirts

5. Conart T-shirts

6. GAT T-shirts

7. Milkcrate T-shirts

8. Fuct T-shirts

9. Stussy T-shirts

10. JNCO T-shirts

11. Caffeine T-shirts

12. Drawls T-shirts

13. Plastikman T-shirts

14. 26 Red T-shirts

15. Freshjive hats & beanies

16. Wonderland event T-Shirt

17. Light-up shoes

18. Spirit hood

19. Kandi necklace, perlers and bracelets

20. BPM magazine

21. URB magazine

22. Mixer magazine

23. Mixer unofficial guide to WMC (2001)

24. XLR8R magazine

25. Industry Insider magazine

26. Mixmag magazine

27. Lotus magazine

28. DJ magazine

29. Swayzak “Himawari” mini magazine promo

30. Buzz nightclub zine

31. Digital camera full of old photos

32. Disco ball

33. Steel flight case

34. Nervous Records DJ bag

35. WMC 1999 promo record DJ bag

36. Technics 1200 turntable

37. Vestax 2 channel DJ mixer

38. AIAIAI headphones

39. Rabbit in the Moon 3D glasses

40. Rabbit in the Moon Decade CD/DVD album

41. 24-Hour Party People DVD

42. Visual Niches: Extraordinary Music Videos DVD

43. They Call It Acid DVD

44. Warp Vision the Videos 1989–2004 DVD

45. Intellect Techno House Progressive DVD

46. Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell DVD

47. Air Moon Safari album DVD box set

48. DJ Krush A History of DJ Krush box set

49. URB squirt gun

50. Happy Mondays “Pills ‘n Thrills and Bellyaches” pill promo

51. Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh

52. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton

53. Modulations: A History of Electronic Music Throbbing Words on Sound by Peter Shapiro

54. Modulations: Cinema for the Ear DVD (1998)

55. Factory Records: The Complete Graphic album by Matthew Robertson

56. Temporary Spaces by Martin Eberle

57. Clubspotting: A Journey Into Club Culture by Paolo Davoli & Gabriele Fantuzzi

58. 5×12 vinyl promo by Puma for WMC (2005)

59. 5×12 vinyl promo by Puma for WMC (2004)

60. Mr. Oizo “Flat Beat” vinyl

61. Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story vinyl

62. Put the Needle on the Record DVD (2006)

63. Kraftwerk Minimum – Maximum DVD

64. Together as One documentary on VHS (1999)

65. Moonshine Over America Documentary on VHS (2000)

66. Organic framed flier

67. Organic press pass (1996)

68. Cream NYE poster (1997)

69. Cream Amnesia Ibiza poster (1997)

70. Cream World Tour poster

71. Narnia fliers

72. Juju Beats flier (2000)

73. Audiotistic flier April 15 (2000)

74. Body & Soul flier April (1998)

75. Unlock the House flier

76. Magic Wednesdays flier (1996)

77. Atmosphere flier with A Guy Called Gerald (2000)

78. 808 State with Kool-Aid flier (1991)

79. The Orb flier

80. Dave Ralph Viper Room flier (2001)

81. Frequency flier

82. Family 3-Year Anniversary flier

83. Encore NYE flier (1997)

84. Louie Vega at Deep flier (2004)

85. Richie Hawtin, A Guy Called Gerald, Mark Grant, Wamdue Project flier (1999)

86. Cream flier

87. Citrusonic the Forbidden Fruit flier (1993)

88. Waterworld flier

89. Coachella ticket stub (2002)

90. Chemical Brothers flier

91. Louis XlV restaurant menu

92. Fantasize flier (1998)

93. Gathering of the Tribes flier (1997)

94. “Buddah Bar 4” 7-inch vinyl

95. M People “How Can I love You More” 7-inch vinyl

96. The Bucketheads “The Bomb” vinyl

97. Moontribe Sound Without Walls CD (Fragrant Records/City of Angels, 1999)

98. Armin van Buuren A State of Trance CD (2004)

99. Better Living Through Circuitry CD (Moonshine Music 2000)

100. Deep Dish Junk Science CD (1998)

101. Mark Farina United DJs of America Vol. 9 CD (1998)

102. Electric Skychurch Together (Moonshine 1996)

103. DJ Dan In Stereo CD (Kinetic Records)

104. DJ Doran Sense CD (Fragrant Records 1999)

105. BT _ESCM CD

106. Dave Ralph Naturalized CD (2001)

107. John Tejada Backstock CD (Palette Recordings 2002)

108. Armin van Buuren Universal Religion CD (2004)

109. Daft Punk Homework CD

110. Massive Attack Mezzanine CD

111. Massive Attack Blue Lines CD

112. Orbital Snivilisation CD

113. Photek Modus Operandi CD

114. KLF Chill Out CD

115. The Prodigy Music for a Jilted Generation CD

116. The Prodigy The Fat of the Land CD

117. Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children CD

118. Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85–92 CD

119. Primal Scream Screamadelica CD

120. Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman CD

121. Leftfield Leftism CD

122. Goldie Timeless CD

123. DJ Shadow Endtroducing..… CD

124. The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole CD

125. Fatboy Slim You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby CD

126. Paul Oakenfold Tranceport CD

127. Basement Jaxx Remedy CD

128. Moby Play CD

129. Trax Records: The 20th Anniversary Collection CD

130. Modeselektor Hello Mom! CD

131. Justice † CD

132. Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise CD

133. Skrillex Bangarang EP CD

134. Sasha & John Digweed Northern Exposure CD

135. Paul Oakenfold Tranceport CD

136. Burial Untrue CD

137. Roni Size/Reprazent New Forms CD

138. Disclosure Settle CD

139. The Avalanches Since I Left You vinyl

140. Daft Punk “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” vinyl

141. Avicii “Levels”

142. Zedd “Spectrum”

143. Daft Punk “Around the World” vinyl

144. Martin Garrix “Animals”

145. Skrillex “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” CD

146. Daft Punk “Da Funk” CD Single

147. Zedd “Clarity”

148. Daft Punk “One More Time”

149. Calvin Harris “Summer”

150. Faithless “Insomnia” vinyl

151. Stardust “Music Sounds Better With You” vinyl

152. Eric Prydz “Opus”

153. The Chemical Brothers “Block Rockin’ Beats” vinyl

154. Goldie “Timeless” vinyl

155. Azzido Da Bass “Dooms Night” (Timo Maas Remix)

156. Daft Punk “Get Lucky”

157. Phuture “Acid Tracks” vinyl

158. Plastikman “Spastik” vinyl

159. Marshall Jefferson “Move Your Body” vinyl

160. Second Phase “Mentasm” vinyl

161. The Chemical Brothers “Galvanize” vinyl

162. The Chemical Brothers Come With Us album vinyl

163. Zongaman “Bongo Song” vinyl

164. Underground Resistance “Elimination” vinyl

165. Bassment Jaxx Kish Kash album vinyl

166. Stardust “Music Sounds Better With You” vinyl

167. Inner City “Big Fun” vinyl

168. Rhythim Is Rhythim “Strings of Life” vinyl

169. Hardrive “Deep Inside” vinyl

170. Mr. Fingers “Can You Feel It” vinyl

171. Blue Six “Music and Wine” vinyl

172. Kaskade “Gonna Make It” vinyl

173. Kaskade It’s You, It’s Me album vinyl

174. Modselektor Hello Mom album vinyl

175. Uberzone Faith in the Future album vinyl

176. Mark Farina Mushroom Jazz 2 vinyl

177. Photek Solaris album vinyl

178. LCD Soundsystem vinyl

179. Sasha, John Digweed, Billy Nasy, Paul Daley “Renaissance by the Sea” cassette

180. Doc Martin Live at Unlock the House cassette

181. Doc Martin Flammable Liquid cassette

182. DJ Sasha Live on Radio 1 cassette (1994)

183. Jason Blakemore “Live at Aquarium” cassette (1997)

And here are some things we wish we had:

Totems

Glowsticks

Gasmask

Animal backpack

Furry overalls

Adidas shell toe sneakers with phat laces

Dr. Seuss top hat

LED gloves

Feather boas

Whistles

Vicks VapoRub

Pacifier

The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America by Michaelangelo Matos

Generation Ecstasy by Simon Reynolds

Party Monster

909

303

808

Body glitter

Our old flier collection—it was massive.

Special thanks to Mick Cole, Frank Foley, Michael Tullberg, Adam Levin, and Dave Ralph for letting us into their closets.

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