UFO Collective

Seminal South African Rave organization established in Cape Town in 1990 by Carl Mason and Jesse Stagg

Jesse Stagg

Jesse Stagg is a trafficker in pop culture with a background in advertising, design, guerilla marketing.Born in New York, educated in London and Cape Town, he was raised in a commune in England....

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Key members of the collective were UK artist Nik Jevons, Massimo Loi, Jerome Wagner, DJ Will Hutton (aka DJ Will Travel) and UK DJ Chris Powell.

UFO collective was responsible for staging the first African rave

Rave

Rave, rave dance, and rave party are parties that originated mostly from acid house parties, which featured fast-paced electronic music and light shows. At these parties people dance and socialize to dance music played by disc jockeys and occasionally live performers...

 the World Peace Party

World Peace Party

It is a widely held belief that the World Peace Party was the first warehouse Rave in Africa. The date was Friday, 13th of September, 1990.The event was produced in South Africa, by Cape Town based UFO productions. Founders Carl Mason and Jesse Stagg teamed up to start UFO...

 in 1991 and conceiving Africa's first dedicated House Music

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

 club Eden

Club Eden

Club Eden was the first electronic dance music club in Africa. Located at 54 Waterkant street in Cape Town, South Africa.Eden opened 1990 on Friday 29th of November and ran for only one successful season, introducing a new era in nightlife for South Africa...

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UFO Collective's offshoot design group was the Paint Possee. Specializing in a number of interior design projects, murals and other public arts projects, the Paint Possee had a vivid post-modern psychedelic

Psychedelic

The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...

 style based heavily on ancient Mayan

Maya civilization

The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...

artwork. The number of e's at the end of the word 'Posse' signed in a mural or artwork, indicated the amount of artists in this loose arts collective at any given time.