Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

A lot of critics of the book complain about Reynolds' Andres Osinski A lot of critics of the book complain about Reynolds' highly opinionated views on the developments of electronic dance music. This is a mistake; a wholly academic research and categorization with no regards to the vivid, honest opinions of the people who were there is of no use when much of the magic is about what it represented, where the parties happened, who were its consumers and creators, and so on.Reynolds describes the ambiances, locations, producers, labels, and theory behind the music, pa. Could Not Put It Down Pvt Sure, Mr Reynolds has a fondness for hardcore rave, but we were all sucked into electronic music by one genre or another. One has to start somewhere. He has done a fantastic job cobbling together all the disperate elements that make up the rave culture and explaining them to those of us that were there (and have difficulty remembering) and those who wern't.I found the extra chapters from the American eddition a most-worthy addition as these touched on some of my favourite developments like trance . "Good read. I bought this to relive something I" according to triphase. Good read. I bought this to relive something I experienced myself (90's & early 2000s underground rave movement) through someone else's perspective to see someone else's experiences and compare them to what I remember. Now keep in mind I experienced this movement in NYC, and really nowhere else. This book (and its author) clearly has a perspective from the UK. But it was entertaining to read, and I learned a lot of things I never knew about the movement that the author was aware of that were happe

In telling the story, Reynolds goes way beyond straight music history, mixing social history, interviews with participants and scene-makers, and his own analysis of the sounds with the names of key places, tracks, groups, scenes, and artists. Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s.England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late 1980s, 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 watchingand partaking inthe rave scene early on, observing firsthand ecstasy’s sense-heightening and serotonin-surging effects on the music and the scene. 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.”

He also happens to be a terrific writer Authoritative.” Booklist. Praise for Energy FlashReynolds provides an expanded and updated version of his now-classic Generation EctasyReynolds approaches his subject as both fan and critic, finding the perfect balance between autobiography and eyewitness