Crossfade : A Big Chill Anthology

by LAWRENCE PETE (ED)

• ISBN13: 9781852428754
• ISBN10: 1852428759
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-15
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

In its impressive ten-year history, The Big Chill multimedia festival and club has put on over a hundred events based around music, art, performance, comedy and spoken word. It has spanned the world, from Siberia to Australia, Norway to Egypt, England to Brazil, capturing the minds, hearts and souls of a new, open-minded era. Now, on its tenth anniversary, The Big Chill is bringing you its debut anthology of music related essays.Following the success of Matthew Collin's Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House, which has sold over 50,000 copies since its first publication, Crossfade chronicles from a fan's point of view the recent developments in electronic and ambient music and outstanding success of groups like Zero 7, Lemon Jelly, Royksopp, Bent and Talvin Singh.

Table of Contents

introduction: words in motion	1	(6)
Pete Lawrence and Vicki Howard
bleep: a journey from classical to electronic music	7	(20)
Susanna Glaser
stripped pine and swedish furniture: a defence of chill-out	27	(24)
Ally Fogg
folk: the tide flows in, the tide flows out	51	(24)
Pete Lawrence
nostalgia for an acid state of mind	75	(18)
Tony Marcus
talking all that jazz	93	(26)
Mixmaster Morris
house music: the hacienda must be built	119	(22)
Hillegonda C. Rietveld
eclectic electric - 1979-1983 - a post-punk posting	141	(18)
Alan James
the eighties: or 'my life in england (part one)'	159	(20)
Stuart Borthwick
juju, jit, punk and politics	179	(18)
Guy Morley
reggae: sweet memory sounds	197	(18)
DJ Derek
biographies	215