Energy flash
Subtitle: a journey through rave music and dance culture
By: Simon Reynolds
Edition: [Updated ed.].
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781593764074
Subjects: Techno music; History and criticism; Electronic dance music; Rave culture
Other titles: Generation ecstasy : into the world of techno and rave culture.
Description: Describes the house music and drug use that created the rave culture of the 1990s, chronicling the musical and social history of the time through interviews with musicians, scene-makers, and participants.
Notes: Previous ed. published as: Generation ecstasy : into the world of techno and rave culture. Boston : Little, Brown, c1998.

Includes index.

"A Generation ecstasy extended remix for the twenty-first century"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Everything starts with an E : ecstasy and rave music; title: A tale of three cities : Detroit techno, Chicago house and New York garage; title: Living a dream : acid house and UK rave, 1988-1989; title: Twenty-four hour party people : Manchester, positivity and the rave 'n' roll crossover; title: 'Ardkore, you know the score : the second wave of rave, 1990-92; title: Fight for your right to party : Spiral Tribe and the crusty-raver movement; title: Feed your head : intelligent techno, ambient and trance; title: Slipping into darkness : the UK rave dream turns to nightmare, 1992-93; title: The future sound of Detroit : Underground Resistance, +8, and Carl Craig; title: This sound is for the underground : pirate radio; title: Roots 'n future : jungle takes over London; title: Marching into madness : gabba and happy hardcore; title: America the rave : US rave culture, 1990-1997; title: Sounds of paranoia : trip hop, tricky and pre-millennium tension; title: War in the jungle : intelligent drum and bass versus techstep; title: Digital psychedelia : sampling and the soundscape; title: Fuck dance, let's art : the post-rave experimental fringe; title: In our angelhood : rave culture as spiritual revolution; title: Outro : nineties house, speed garage and big beat; title: Trance mission : the late-nineties resurgence of trance; title: Two steps beyond : UK garage and 2step; title: In the mix : DJ culture and remixology; title: Back to the future : retro-electo, nu-wave and the eighties revival; title: Crisis and consolidation : an overview of rave culture's second decade; title: Flashbacks : a dialogue with the author.