- 480 pages
- English
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About this book
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- introduction
- 1 a tale of three cities detroit techno, chicago house, and new york garage, 1980-90
- 2 digital psychedelia sampling and the soundscape
- 3 living a dream acid house and uk rave, 1987-89
- 4 everything starts with an e ecstasy and rave music
- 5 twenty-four-hour party people "madchester," positivity, and the rave 'n' roll crossover, 1988-91
- 6 'ardkore, you know the score the second wave of rave, 1990-92
- 7 america the rave us rave culture, 1990-92
- 8 fight for your right to party spiral tribe and the crusty-raver movement, 1991-97
- 9 feed your head intelligent techno, ambient, and trance, 1990-94
- 10 slipping into darkness the uk rave dream turns to nightmare, 1992-93
- 11 the future sound of detroit underground resistance, +8, and carl craig, 1990-96
- 12 in our angelhood rave as counterculture and spiritual revolution
- 13 roots 'n' future jungle takes over london, 1993-94
- 14 in the mix dj culture and remixology, 1993-97
- 15 marching into madness gabba and happy hardcore, 1992-97
- 16 crashing the party american rave's descent into the darkside, 1993-97
- 17 sounds of paranoia trip-hop, tricky, and pre-millennium tension, 1990-97
- 18 war in the jungle intelligent drum and bass versus techstep, 1994-97
- 19 fuck dance, let's art the post-rave experimental fringe, 1994-97
- outro: nineties house, speed garage, and big beat
- bibliography
- discography
- acknowledgments
- index