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Energy Flash: a Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture Free FREE ENERGY FLASH: A JOURNEY THROUGH RAVE MUSIC AND DANCE CULTURE PDF Simon Reynolds | 816 pages | 06 Jun 2013 | FABER & FABER | 9780571289134 | English | London, United Kingdom Simon Reynolds - Wikipedia 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 Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance CultureReynolds 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 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 Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture, through Ibiza, Madchester and the anarchic free-party scene, to the pirate-radio underworld of jungle and UK garage, and then onto s-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. Simon Reynolds. About the Author. Energy Flash | Faber & Faber Simon Reynolds. Paperback List Price: Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late s, 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 firsthand ecstasy's sense- heightening and serotonin-surging effects on the music and the scene. In telling the story, Reynolds goes way beyond straight music history, mixing social history, interviews with participants and scene-makers, and his Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture analysis of the sounds with the names of key places, tracks, groups, scenes, and artists. He delves deep into the panoply of rave-worthy drugs and proper rave attitude and etiquette, exposing a nuanced musical phenomenon. Read on, and learn why is nitrous oxide is called "hippy crack. Simon Reynolds is a consulting editor at Spin magazine. Buy at Local Store Enter your zip code below to purchase from an indie close to you. Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture | Simon Reynolds born 19 June is an English music journalist and author who began his professional career on the staff of Melody Maker in the mids, and has since gone on to freelance and publish a number of full-length books on music and popular culture, ranging from historical tomes on rave musicglam rockand the post-punk era to critical works such as Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Reynolds was born in London in [2] and grew up in Berkhamsted. InReynolds joined the staff of Melody Makerwhere his writing was marked by enthusiasm for a wave of neo-psychedelic rock and hip hop artists that emerged in the mids including A. During this period, Reynolds and his Melody Maker colleagues set themselves in opposition to what they characterized as the conservative humanism of the era's indie rocksouland pop musicas well as the unadventurous style and approach of most music criticism. InReynolds left the staff of Melody Maker although he would continue to contribute to the magazine until and became a freelance writer, splitting his time between London and New York. In the early s, he became involved in rave culture and the electronic dance music scene, particularly that of the UK, and became a writer on the development of what he would later conceptualise as the " hardcore continuum" along with its surrounding culture such as pirate radio. During this time, he also theorized the concept of " post-rock ", using the term first in a Melody Maker feature about Insides and then in a more developed form in a May thinkpiece for The Wire and in a review of Bark Psychosis ' album Hexpublished in the March issue of Mojo magazine. In Reynolds became a senior editor at Spin magazine in the US. Inhe returned to freelance work. Ina second expanded update of Energy Flash was published, with new material on the rise of dubstep to worldwide popularity and the EDM or Electronic Dance Music explosion in America. Inan updated edition of Energy Flash was published, with new chapters on the decade of dance music following the appearance of the first edition. InReynolds published Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Pasta critical investigation into what he perceives as the current situation of chronic retrogression in pop music, with a focus on the effects of the internet and digital culture on music consumption and musical creativity. In addition to writing books, Reynolds has continued freelancing for magazines, giving lectures, writing liner notes, and appearing in music documentaries. He also operates a blogBlissblog along with various satellite blogs such as the book-focused outlets Energy FlashRetromania and Shock and Aweand the drivel blog Hardly Baked. Reynolds also maintains an archive for his writing, the blog ReynoldsRetro. He Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture in Los Angeles. Reynolds' writing has blended cultural criticism with music journalism. Sincewhen The Wire renamed its year-end poll from Records of the Year to Releases of Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture Year, Reynolds has cast several votes for songs rather than album- length releases. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from Simon Reynolds' Faves and Unfaves. Simon Reynolds. London: Faber and Faber. Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock. Serpent's Tail. Retrieved 8 July Shock and Awe by Simon Reynolds. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 22 October Life and Times of S. The Wire. Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture Retrieved 4 December Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. 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