Energy Flash A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

by Reynolds, Simon

• ISBN13: 9781593764074
• ISBN10: 1593764073
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-20
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

Twenty-five years since electronic dance music and ecstasy revolutionized pop culture, Simon Reynolds' landmark history of rave is available for the first time in America in uncut form. A longtime writer about rock and rap, Reynolds started watching-and partaking in-the rave movement in 1991, experiencing firsthand ecstasy's sense-heightening and adrenalin-surging effects on the music and the scene. Reynolds goes way beyond straight music history, mixing interviews with participants, DJs, and producers with ultra-vivid descriptions of the ever-changing sounds of the dance underground, social analysis, theory-fueled speculation, and personal reminiscence.

Author Biography

Simon Reynolds is a consulting editor at Spin magazine. He is also the author of Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll, Totally Wired, and Bring the Noise.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
AuthorÆs Note	p. xvi
Preface to the Updated Edition	p. xvii
Intro	p. xix
Prologue: Everything Starts with an E: Ecstasy and Rave Music	p. xxvii
A Tale of Three Cities: Detroit Techno, Chicago House and New York Garage	p. 1
Living a Dream: Acid House and UK Rave, 1988-89	p. 34
Twenty-Four-Hour Party People: Madchester, Positivity and the Rave 'N' Roll Crossover	p. 69
'Ardkore, You Know the Score: The Second Wave of Rave, 1990-92	p. 95
Fight for Your Right to Party: Spiral Tribe and the Crusty-Raver Movement	p. 134
Feed Your Head: Intelligent Techno, Ambient and Trance	p. 155
Slipping Into Darkness: The UK Rave Dream Turns to Nightmare, 1992-93	p. 187
The Future Sound of Detroit: Underground Resistance, +8, and Carl Craig	p. 203
This Sound is for the Underground: Pirate Radio	p. 224
Roots 'n Future: Jungle Takes Over London	p. 237
Marching into Madness: Gabba and Happy Hardcore 2.55
America the Rave: US Rave Culture, 1990-97	p. 274
Sounds of Paranoia: Trip Hop, Tricky and Pre-Millennium Tension	p. 313
War in The Jungle: Intelligent Drum and Bass Versus Techstep	p. 335
Digital Psychedelia: Sampling and the Soundscape	p. 363
Fuck Dance, Let's Art: The Post-Rave Experimental Fringe	p. 380
In Our Angelhood: Rave Culture as Spiritual Revolution	p. 401
Outro: Nineties House, Speed Garage and Big Beat	p. 415
Trance Mission: The Late-Nineties Resurgence of Trance	p. 433
Two Steps Beyond: UK Garage and 2Step	p. 446
In the Mix: DJ Culture and Remixology	p. 459
Back to the Future: Retro-Electo, Nu-Wave and the Eighties Revival	p. 476
Crisis and Consolidation: An Overview of Rave Culture's Second Decade	p. 488
Flashbacks: A Dialogue with the Author	p. 518
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