American Reacts to... The Melbourne Shuffle

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[@xqlusive]

Shuffling and the Melbourne Shuffle was huge part of the Australian Hard Dance Culture in the Early to Mid 2000's. This style of shuffling originated from Melbourne Australia which later grew popularity in Europe and Asia.

[@valentijnrozeveld3773]

people in the Netherlands always frowned upon these shuffle dances, we already had our own dances to the music that originated over here. (Hardcore, Hardstyle and Hardbass)

[@twah72]

Mid to late 90’s the melb shuffle was going wrong in the rave scene at least

[@everx7]

@@valentijnrozeveld3773 probly but the shuffle is much cooler

[@valentijnrozeveld3773]

@@everx7 bru nah

[@tomweuts]

belgium netherlands and so were doing this and variant on it mid 90's never the less there were more hakkers then came skiing then jump after that the melbourne shuffle was back

[@top40researcher31]

The dance is called the Melbourne shuffle, or shuffle dance, that originated in Australia in the 1980s. With energetic steps, it is becoming a new form of "square dance" occupying China's urban spaces from parks to plazas and a popular pound-losing exercise for many elderly and middle-age Chinese.

[@jonnyg.5778]

Are you sure It was originated in Aus? It's look like a kind of copy from the early hardcore dance from Europe, mostly Netherlands and Germany. I might be wrong tho

[@top40researcher31]

@@jonnyg.5778 yes I'm very sure

[@xymonau2468]

@@jonnyg.5778 Definitely did.

[@valentijnrozeveld3773]

@@jonnyg.5778 the music originated from the Lowlands region but the dance was from Australia, it never caught on over here though.

[@khs17]

My hometown Melbourne ❤❤❤

[@keeahhuntington]

As a man of that era that raved I was always jealous of the ppl that could shuffle. I had my own dance moves which sufficed but yea. Crazy shufflers seemed so cool .

[@HJZ75driver]

👌The man can pronounce Melbourne properly

[@jessriseley1532]

It was huge in every night club of OZ! every body Melbourne shuffled

[@AGRSSV1]

My dude rocking the PHD hoodie ❤

[@jessestone554]

If you didn’t have a PHD hoodie….

[@Gaaraofthefunk95]

This compilation got most of my generation in Melbourne get into the dance in 2007. It has a plaque dedicated to it in ACMI for it's feats in the early days of KZbin. I never anticipated to become friends with most people involved with the scene / videos back then. Best thing that ever came into my life. It's taken me across the ocean on more than one occasion. Long live the Melbourne Shuffle

[@djiknowitall40]

this was at the height of melbournes "gangland era'... where idiots were popping pills and scoring kills for thrills...

[@Matt09pearce]

Im getting flashbacks 😂 we really liked Melbourne bounce/hardstyle and trance on the Isle of Man. Tbf its still really popular 😅

[@swingsloth]

I always preferred the Cliffy Young shuffle.

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

Lmao

[@RandyMarsh8]

We party so hard in Melbourne biggest mdma users in the world in aus. From Tekno mulisha warehouse raves or under the Westgate raves before they were infested by people mugging others. Melbourne’s clubs go off every weekend all over the cbd some crazy places like cloud9 and hidden forest, mostly playing minimal and Melbourne bounce was a big thing before it became cringed; the famous revolver ofc. Ended up only enjoyin the psytrance bush doofs and festivals like rainbow serpent and esoteric; always great vibes and more psychedelics than Just straight cookers This is all pre covid mind you I’m not sure what it’s like these days I don’t think the festivals are on

[@andrewhall9175]

Never knew this was called the Melbourne Shuffle, but certainly saw this being done at some of the raves I went to. I was going to them ‘93-‘03ish…please don’t ask me to nominate the year I first saw the dance…memories are clouded for some reason😇

[@donallmccrudden4812]

Cloudy you say:) yokes❤🐇🎱

[@FoxSullivan]

Those damn tick tacks

[@FlipzPlayz]

@@FoxSullivan white doves and mitzys get ya skitzy

[@MutenRoscher]

man hardstyle from this timeperiod was just something else. SO amazing

[@stonedcold5172]

Wow what a flashback cheers for that 🍻

[@Captain_Terp]

I worked in the EDM scene doing production for a lot of the large parties in Melbourne from 96 to 2000 and can assure you this is the Melbourne shuffle. If I danced anywhere else people could tell I was from Melbourne. It’s what ended up becoming known as just “shuffling” eventually thanks to caine-toads like LMFAO

[@Stimpythe_wise]

haha love the doof doof, times haven't changed much!

[@PepsiColaCrystal]

This video is part of my life and many ppl. Lifes when internet was still new and everything balance. Good time

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

I remember that sort of performance. Buskers often used to do acts like that. Sometimes you still see them around town. Thank you for the video!

[@glennllewellyn7369]

We Aussies did this in ‘85 onwards. Learn your stuff bro. We rocked!

[@Scottcollins1983]

It’s my home city and I lived through the underground rave scene for a solid few years. PHD hoodies, Fat pants and glow in the dark plastic bracelets (etc) clad fellow ravers all completely munted and doing the melb shuffle, well, except for me. Still to this day I CANNOT do the damn dance. I just don’t understand how to make my lower half move like they do

[@hoptoit5910]

Oh geez I’d forgotten all about the shuffle lol. I think it was maybe 2006, 2007 or so these videos were all over KZbin. It was a thing before KZbin started though 😂. Never heard of it being called the ‘Melbourne’ shuffle though. I don’t live in in Melb.

[@asmodeus1791]

How could you not add in the Melbourne shuffling in heels?

[@TheBloggme]

It was huge in high schools around 2007 i was only 13 and everyone shuffled, by time i got to clubbing years it died out but me and the bois i shuffled with since HS still rocked it haha.

[@dangermouse3619]

I could outperform them back 20 yrs ago. My swag on the dancefloor took some beating 😜

[@PeterDavey]

Yep... I use to go to rave parties around this time.... lol. A big tradition in Australia is the "Bush Doof" - Earthcore 2016. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5LJZaafbJaXmKM

[@dazmiller88]

I was at a rave in Brisbane on Saturday night and there are still some amazing shufflers even outside of Melbourne to this day

[@kay5667]

My son and his mates used to shuffle all the time, we live in Brisbane, and I absolutely loved watching them.

[@sym6oI]

1:30 in and im already loving the video ahahah, this is great.

[@1adelaideshuffler]

As a long time shuffler this makes me laugh so much I use to watch people shuffle for hours an now I'm better then most all

[@IJubane]

If you like this kind of music, maybe a reaction to a defqon 1 festival endshow (maybe sunday 2022 or saturday but saturday is pretty long) would be nice. I've been watching your content for a while now, and defqon 1 is my favorite festival, i try to go every year, went the full weekend this year for the second time, so i would defintily like that!

[@davidkertai7430]

i grew up im melbourne in this time and it was a natural phenomena when i was clubbing and just went with it at the time, was so good to see our local girls and guys get in to in to it at the time. i danced hard and partied hard yee yee

[@Teagirl009]

Forget the Melbourne shuffle, I wanna see the Iwrocker shuffle?🕺 Is there any footage/pics of your EDM lovin days? 🤪

[@IWrocker]

Haha oh jeez 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I should see if I have funny pics from back then. What a time … can’t believe 2007 was 15 years ago 😮

[@Teagirl009]

@@IWrocker 😂Oh I hope you have some!🙏. Yeah it's crazy how fast time seems to goes now. 😩

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

Hadn't seen that before. Very interesting. Certainly, some talent there.

[@motardktm640]

Music was banging!

[@popcornshiner3937]

God damn man I am showing my age lol, I am from Melbourne and have never seen this style of dancing ever. really cool. lol

[@aaadj2744]

Even the music are kickass. Good old hardstyle electro music

[@brycebenn4301]

Ohh shit some hardstyles rip Ryan bigs (delete) remember this going around highschool when I was in year 7

[@brycebenn4301]

I still listen to hardstyles but it has evolved alot mainly listen to raw and hardcore sub-branches of Hardstyle very different from back then

[@slayerchief84]

the next step would be industrial dance

[@hollysano03]

Wow takes me back

[@FionaEm]

Aww, you poor old man, Ian 😛 Wait till you're in your 50s 😅

[@midnightkitchen8379]

😂😅😅😅😅lmao

[@sunisbest1234]

Or 60's. ( I think I might have tried the shuffle down some stairs few months ago 🤣. Just back on my feet after busted ankle and op.)

[@yesterdayschunda1760]

All viral trends start in Australia. Even the word "Selfie" is Australian and started in Australia when myspace became popular.

[@CataclysmAU]

The city of Brisbane actually had it's own style of rave dance as well, known as the Brisbane Stomp. Definitely not as floaty and fancy as the Melbourne Shuffle but I loved the high energy of it 👌 Was also much more beginner friendly for uncoordinated people like myself 😅

[@T1NKS19]

Geeeeeze this is a flash black and a half

[@IWrocker]

For real 😮

[@bigoz1977]

If the music wasn’t there it’s still cool to see. Sadly that kind of music, opera and what passes for RnB these day just isn’t my thang. Each to their own though 👍🏻

[@politicallyincorrectpanda]

Back when everyone had the puma kicks… and the shuffle always looked better under a strobey!!

[@andrewmclaren4253]

Oh its my fav. Used to be one of them and still loving it. Btw we are still doing this in Australia and even the rest of the world. I met many Americans in Netherlands and Germany who also does melb shuffles..

[@vaerenbergh]

Original was jumpstyle from the netherlands and Belgium

[@anthonypirera7598]

I'm from Melbourne and never seen that kind of dancing before in Melbourne

[@B20teg]

Hell yea Melbourne shuffle!!!! Good old days

[@patrickwatkins7572]

never too big in perth, few peeps smash it

[@BvS.404]

You should see a video on dutch festivals 😋 and the hard dance scene

[@shanevonharten3100]

Some serious drugs down there

[@everx7]

calling hardstyle edm, but ok i guess its kinda dance music too :) Ian, search hardstyle from 2006-7 and up, until like 2010, the best ones (probly u wont, but if u was a bit into edm, or still are, go for it, especially some festivals like defqon and the like

[@lordcankercanison6499]

Same as most things, whats old is new or whats new is old😁

[@benson554]

Waistland firebird has a video of himself doing this on his KZbin channel.

[@IWrocker]

What!?? Haha oh I’m gonna check that out 😂

[@sunisbest1234]

Our house was busy with youngest and friends shuffling back then. Once it became popular o.s, seemed to die in popularity in Melbourne.

[@sirwallaby]

Oh wow you took me back to the Mid 90's at a very young age sneaking to Melbourne rave parties at various warehouses, Doing the melbourne shuffle was a passage to adulthood. When i went to Europe in early 2000's you could tell who is from Oz when the burst out and do the Melbourne Shuffle. Julian Assange was there during the first generation ( late 80's to early 90's ) when it all started i think there is a video somewhere doing a shuffle at a party in a Scandinavian country.

[@xymonau2468]

Yes. Well. The city that spawned sharpies has not surprised me. It's true that all shuffling dances originated from the Melbourne shuffle in the 1980s, so another Australian first. It was a bit more out there in the early days, but it is far more refined these days. Still looked a bit gorfy if you ask me. Talented, but gorfy.

[@6226superhurricane]

now watch eagle rock by daddy cool

[@blairchristie910]

Heel n toe polka slide lol

[@IWrocker]

👏🤣🤣🤣

[@glenc8680]

Melbourne, represent! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Watch ‘Moonboy’, he is an Asian kid, who has the most amazing skills!

[@ecco2366]

You should watch "how to dance at a rave party" 😃 with Leroy and Joachim

[@roguebeans143]

this is the O.G shit right here. phats+ suspenders+ whichever hoody you could get, PHD, Basshunterz, Hard Kandy or whatever.

[@NarcoPt74]

Mikki is a Fckng Legend !!!

[@aussiebornandbred]

Looks like its double speed lol

[@DJChappie001]

lol, do Belgian Jumpstyle next.

[@farminginaustralia628]

You quoted the area in miles for Australia and the USA in km, in km the are nearly the same

[@davidcruse6589]

It's easy very good drugs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🇦🇺👍

[@silverstitch28]

This is not the original, there's a few variances to it.

[@alextohigh2542]

The only shuffle video you need to watch is moon boy

[@Jaibee27]

LOL... Now react to Zyzz brah! He was from Sydney and although he died years ago people still worship him as a god with a cult following and there are still fresh memes being created for him. He had the power to make woman moist all over the world. He was known for his shuffle dance at edm festivals and for aesthetic bodybuilding to hardstyle music.

[@IWrocker]

I used to watch music compilations that had Zyzz clips back in like 2010, I was Gym-obsessed at the time and was a fan of Zyzz. You mirin? 😎👍🎉

[@ExtremeTeddy]

Rarely seen now adays. At least here in europe. People either continued hakken or do some kick rolls and on the regular mainstream EDM festivlals it is more of a fashion show than any dance at all =/ Next month Thunderdome edition will be great 🥰

[@robstevens2113]

Melbourne Raver 2001 - 2005

[@user-nw8xq3jm1d]

its magic

[@Alberthoward3right9up]

I'd say it's the meth Ian 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

[@LEF3133]

How are they doing that? .....................pingers

[@djvillan]

Yeah, I was dj'ing at raves in the 90's and the shuffle was the most annoying part of the scene in Oz.

[@mbo191]

Looks a little bit "harder" than other Shuffles I have seen, a bit more towards Jumpstyle. Speaking of which, perhaps you would like to have a look at this, it's from a Jumpstyle meeting in Lille, France in 2020. So yes, there is still people doing it. Cheers / B. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6a9aoSgpM2KgaM

[@intcheese]

The smell of talcum/baby powder always reminds me of those days.

[@aaronf1078]

Damn I remember seeing this vid when I was about 8 nostalgia😂 shuffling is no longer in fashion and hasn’t been for years hakken/gabber is the preferred dance at raves nowadays, check out a Aussie hakken video

[@RandyMarsh8]

Always found that hakken stuff a bit weird tbh

[@aaronf1078]

@@RandyMarsh8 it sure does look funny like a chicken on crack or something lol theres an art to it though very difficult to get it down to the point that it doesn’t look hilarious

[@foetsie85]

you want to see a big big festival in the netherlands?

[@billdaniel8310]

Michael Jackson started it all with his moonwalk.

[@Lupi33z]

Melbournians so desperate to be recognised for something other than The Australian Open 😆

[@carlgabel79]

What's your actual issue with Melbourne? Seem to be doing a bit of sh*t talking. I'd be interested to know why...

[@Lupi33z]

@@carlgabel79 I doubt it.

[@carlgabel79]

Well I was, but I don't feel like dragging it out of you.

[@Gino_567]

i mean where do you think the shuffling craze originated from? we made it popular and then the US took it and made a worse version of it. Now every chick with tiktok and insta is doing it at festivals and it always looks pretty ... off

[@ecco2366]

Did you watch techno viking ?

[@brycebenn4301]

Should have a look at zyzz

[@01DOGG01]

Why TF would you want to see him watch a zyzz video? "Man stares at muscular dude for 5 minutes" yeah, real interesting!

[@brycebenn4301]

@@01DOGG01 righto champ

[@fugawiaus]

Today these kids are married with kids listening to good old classic rock in the car. Haha

[@mikemath9508]

i'm in my 30's and refuse to call it "EDM" it's techno

[@The_Stoic_PhilosopherAU]

I dont know what it is either

[@scarlettardis2018]

Fuckin good on ya for showing the Melbourne shuffle!

[@kirk5152]

Hey Iwrocker, in the video about Darwin, it was mentioned how close we are to Bali, I have a suggestion for a reaction video, however its not your usual happy sort of video. (Im sure any Aussies reading this, already knows exactly where I'm going with it) It's about one of the darkest days in Australian and Indonesian history. About A year after 9/11, two suicide bombers from a group linked to Al Qaeda detonated 2 bombs, one at a Bar and one at a Nightclub in Bali, killing a total of 88 Australians, the biggest loss of Australian life in a terrorist attack. We've just passed the 20 year anniversary last month so there is a lot of recent, reflective news reports on KZbin, this is just small 5 min one kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3iUmYNmebSDhrM I know It's a tough subject tackle, but you being someone that we know very much adores Australia, it might be worth having have a look into it, even just in your spare time if it's not a topic you want to make a video about.✌️

[@Lupi33z]

->MI6 to get Australia into Iraq war should be avoided on this channel IMO

[@kirk5152]

@@Lupi33z Thanks for your input 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@felixdekatt3650]

another reason not to use drugs boys and girls

[@glenysjacobs2565]

Meth.....

[@boonnathan9827]

Melbourne is over rated. Sth Oz all the way 🇦🇺🤙

[@ackack2560]

Just because bad boy bubby was filmed there doesn’t mean you’re better bodies in a barrel bloke.

[@boonnathan9827]

@@ackack2560 Yeah MALCOM was a good representation of the average Victorian IQ. We’ve got trams too but way too smart to require a hook turn !

[@ackack2560]

@@boonnathan9827 who’s Malcom ? Well luckily Melbourne is the only part of Victoria with trams.

[@RickyisSwan]

It must be upsetting for a South Oz to hear that Melbourne was voted by a worldwide group as the most livable city in the world six years in a row.

[@boonnathan9827]

@@ackack2560 Malcolm is an 80’s classic Aussie film , obviously set in Melbourne and obviously about trams. Worth a watch