GTA roleplayers built a secret Boiler Room rave beneath Los Santos, complete with DJs, club photographers, biker security, and a custom party drug

I've heard rumours. Whispers of an underground rave for the ages, deep within the bowels of one of GTA Online's myriad entertainment venues, away from the prying eyes of the LSPD. The question is: where?

As a child of the '90s, I was a touch too young for the techno scene that swept the UK in the early stretch of the same decade, where community-led DIY club nights saw revellers packed into hatchback cars like sardines, windows down and ears pricked, following the rhythmic beats of a bass drum reverberating from a random field somewhere off the M6.

I was around instead for the post-millennium dance music movement, frequenting the likes of The Arches and the Sub Club in Glasgow on a weekly basis during my formative years, and spending every summer in Ibiza. GTA 5's After Hours update of 2018, then, was literally music to my ears with the likes of the Blessed Madonna, Tale of Us and Solomun—all of who feature in-game—among my favourite real-world DJs.

Now 40 years old, I've since hung up my dancing shoes—but as a one-time old-school raver, I've longed for, but have invariably struggled to find, a Grand Theft Auto ...