Energy Flash : a Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA ("ecstasy") and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s. England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late 1980s, and when ecstasy was added to the mix in British clubs, a new music subculture was born. A longtime writer on the music beat, Reynolds started watching--and partaking in--the rave scene early on, observing
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1 online resource (609 pages)
9781593764777, 1593764774
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Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Preface to the Updated Edition; INTRO; PROLOGUE: Everything Starts With an E: Ecstasy and Rave Music; ONE: A Tale of Three Cities: Detroit Techno, Chicago House and New York Garage; TWO: Living A Dream: Acid House and UK Rave, 1988-89; THREE: Twentyfour-Hour Party People: Madchester, Positivity and the Rave 'n' Roll Crossover; FOUR: 'Ardkore You Know the Score: The Second Wave of Rave, 1990-92; FIVE: Fight for the Right to Party: Spiral Tribe and the Crusty-Raver Movement; SIX: Feed Your Head: Intelligent Techno, Ambient and Trance. SEVEN: Slipping Into Darkness: the UK Rave Dream Turns to Nightmare, 1992-93EIGHT: The Future Sound of Detroit: Underground Resistance, +8, and Carl Craig; NINE: This Sound is for the Underground: Pirate Radio; TEN: Roots'n Future: Jungle Takes Over London; ELEVEN: Marching Into Madness: Gabba and Happy Hardcore; TWELVE: America the Rave: US Rave Culture,1990-97; THIRTEEN: Sounds of Paranoia: Trip Hop, Tricky and Pre-Millennium Tension; FOURTEEN: War in the Jungle: Intelligent Drum and Bass Versus Techstep; FIFTEEN: Digital Psychedelia: Sampling and the Soundscape. SIXTEEN: Fuck Dance, Let's Art: The Post-Rave Experimental FringeSEVENTEEN: In Our Angelhood: Rave Culture as Spiritual Revolution; EIGHTEEN: Outro: Nineties House, Speed Garage and Big Beat; NINETEEN: Trance Mission: The Late-Nineties Resurgence of Trance; TWENTY: Two Steps Beyond: UK Garage and 2step; TWENTY-ONE: In the Mix: DJ Culture and Remixology; TWENTY-TWO: Back to the Future: Retro-electro, Nu-wave and the Eighties Revival; TWENTY-THREE: Crisis and Consolidation: An Overview of Rave Culture's Second Decade; TWENTY-FOUR: Flashbacks: A Dialogue With the Author; Index