Registered: Apr 2002
Location: lost and wandering looking for directions.
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Try "Energy Flash" (or "Generation Ecstasy" in the US) by Simon Reynolds. Predominantly a history of the explosion of rave culture in the UK, but it contains a lot about the American origins too. It was published in 1998 and contains a lot of insight that has since been forgotten or suffered from Stalinist revisionism at the hands of the dance music tastemakers.
Also "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" by Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster is an obvious one, an extensive introduction to the origins of DJ culture with loads of great interviews and stories. Chapters on Northern soul, dub, disco, Detroit techno and acid house.
i found your amazon review of the first one. so now you're recommending a book that you gave 3 stars out of 5?
both look nice actually, i'll probably get them
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Oct-29-2010 11:52
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
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Originally posted by noikeee
i found your amazon review of the first one. so now you're recommending a book that you gave 3 stars out of 5?
both look nice actually, i'll probably get them
I don't tend to like any non-fiction reading too much, because the writer can make an incorrect point on Page 2 and run for hundreds of pages on it without anyone getting the chance to interject.
The book is still good, it hadn't already been mentioned in this thread and it has a huge amount of interesting reading that you won't find in a lot of others. It's not perfect, but few of the books recommended here are.
