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Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture Paperback - 1999 - 1st Edition

by Simon Reynolds

Reynolds offers a guided tour of rave culture and techno music in this first critical history of the genre--and the drug culture that accompanies it. 40-page discography. of illustrations.


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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.

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To promote Kraftwerk's 1991 remixed "greatest hits" compilation The Mix, the group's American label, Elektra, came up with an amusing ad: a simulation of the famous one-and-only photo of blues pioneer Robert Johnson, but with his suit filled by a robot's body.

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  • Title Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
  • Author Simon Reynolds
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date 1999-07-16
  • ISBN 9780415923736 / 0415923735
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 5.96 x 1 in (23.32 x 15.14 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
  • Library of Congress subjects Rave culture, Techno music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99022695
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.64

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 08/06/1999, Page 57
  • Ingram Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 71

About the author

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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