Generation Ecstasy is the story of rave culture and techno music. Challenging traditional ideas about music and spawning a global network of underground scenes based on the frenzied euphoria of the all-night dance party, rave is the most innovative, influential, and controversial pop phenomenon since punk rock. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat and the ultimate rush, Generation Ecstasy is the definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.
Introduction; 1: A Tale of Three Cities Chicago House, and New York
Garage, 1980-90; 2: Digital Psychedelia Sampling and the Soundscape; 3:
Living a Dream Acid House and Uk Rave, 1987-89; 4: Everything Starts with an
e Ecstasy and Rave Music; 5: Twenty-Four-Hour Party People Madchester,
Positivity, and the Rave 'n' Roll Crossover, 1988-91; 6: 'Ardkore, you know
the Score the Second Wave of Rave, 1990-92; 7: America the Rave us Rave
Culture, 1990-92; 8: Fight for your Right to Party Spiral Tribe and the
Crusty-Raver Movement, 1991-97; 9: Feed your Head Intelligent Techno,
Ambient, and Trance, 1990-94; 10: Slipping into Darkness the UK Rave Dream
Turns to Nightmare, 1992-93; 11: The Future Sound of Detroit Underground
Resistance, + 8, and Carl Craig, 1990-96; 12: In our Angelhood Rave as
Counterculture and Spiritual Revolution; 13: Roots 'n' Future Jungle Takes
over London, 1993-94; 14: In the Mix DJ Culture and Remixology, 1993-97; 15:
Marching into Madness Gabba and Happy Hardcore, 1992-97; 16: Crashing the
Party American Rave's Descent into the Darkside, 1993-97; 17: Sounds of
Paranoia Trip-Hop, Tricky, and Pre-Millennium Tension, 1990-97; 18: War in
the Jungle Intelligent Drum and Bass Versus Techstep, 1994-97; 19: Fuck
Dance, Let's Art the Post-Rave Experimental Fringe, 1994-97
Simon Reynolds is a Consulting Editor at Spin magazine. He is the author of Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock (1990) and, with Joy Press, of The Sex Revolts: Gender,Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll (1995).
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