Energy Flash
eBook - ePub

Energy Flash

A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

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eBook - ePub

Energy Flash

A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

About this book

Twenty-five years since acid house and Ecstasy revolutionized pop culture, Simon Reynolds's landmark rave history Energy Flash has been expanded and updated to cover twenty-first-century developments like dubstep and EDM's recent takeover of America.

Author of the acclaimed postpunk history Rip It Up and Start Again, Reynolds became a rave convert in the early nineties. He experienced first-hand the scene's drug-fuelled rollercoaster of euphoria and darkness. He danced at Castlemorton, the illegal 1992 mega-rave that sent spasms of anxiety through the Establishment and resulted in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill. Mixing personal reminiscence with interviews and ultra-vivid description of the underground's ever-changing sounds as they mutated under the influence of MDMA and other drugs, Energy Flash is the definitive chronicle of electronic dance culture.

From rave's origins in Chicago house and Detroit techno, through Ibiza, Madchester and the anarchic free-party scene, to the pirate-radio underworld of jungle and UK garage, and then onto 2000s-shaping genres such as grime and electro, Reynolds documents with authority, insight and infectious enthusiasm the tracks, DJs, producers and promoters that soundtracked a generation. A substantial final section, added for this new Faber edition, brings the book right up to date, covering dubstep's explosive rise to mass popularity and America's recent but ardent embrace of rave. Packed with interviews with participants and charismatic innovators like Derrick May, Goldie and Aphex Twin, Energy Flash is an infinitely entertaining and essential history of dance music.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780571289141
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Preface to the Updated Ed
  8. Intro
  9. Prologue: Everything Starts with an E
  10. 1: A Tale of Three Cities
  11. 2: Living a Dream
  12. 3: Twenty-Four-Hour Party People
  13. 4: ’Ardkore, You Know the Score
  14. 5: Fight for Your Right to Party
  15. 6: Feed Your Head
  16. 7: Slipping into Darkness
  17. 8: The Future Sound of Detroit
  18. 9: This Sound Is for the Underground
  19. 10: Roots ’n Future
  20. 11: Marching into Madness
  21. 12: America the Rave
  22. 13: Sounds of Paranoia
  23. 14: War in the Jungle
  24. 15: Digital Psychedelia
  25. 16: Fuck Dance, Let’s Art
  26. 17: In Our Angelhood
  27. 18: Outro
  28. 19: Trance Mission
  29. 20: Two Steps Beyond
  30. 21: In the Mix
  31. 22: Back to the Future
  32. 23: Crisis and Consolidation
  33. 24: Flashbacks
  34. Update Chapter for the 2013 Edition
  35. 25: The Future Is Now
  36. Index
  37. About the Author
  38. By the Same Author
  39. Copyright

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