Collection: Sam Shrug - The Rave Continuum Collection

Sam Shrug - The Rave Continuum Collection

‘The Rave Continuum’, is a conversation shouted on the dancefloor, a warm embrace of strangers, a blinding by the lights. Pulling logos, artwork and label stamps off obscure and iconic rave and jungle records, hand-cut stencils overlap and merge to make multi-layer collages of hazy paintwork.

The Hardcore Continuum, a term originally coined by iconic dance music journalist Simon Reynolds, is a river of rave that has flowed through the underground since house music hit the UK shores. As music evolves in waves, all tributaries return to the source.

These artworks pay homage to the labels, lasers and music that has kept people dancing for decades.

"I wanted to recreate with paint those smoke-filled Lazerdromes of jungle breaks, 808s and air horns with on a material that feels authentic to the DIY culture of these late 80s/early 90s movements”.

“Adverts produced on brightly coloured Correx board at drab printing firms are hoisted up at traffic lights like flags on a pirate ship. Pirate radio beams out the details through radio waves that permeate the city, while the vinyl that fill the DJ's record boxes are hand-stamped deep in a suburban kitchen somewhere. The same suburban areas with warehouses that on weekend nights were filled with rigs, punters and pills."

-Sam Shrug

The Rave Continuum collection features 4 original large-scale pieces and 4 fine art prints, alongside postcard packs and stickers.