{"product_id":"energy-flash-a-journey-through-rave-music-and-dance-culture-9781593764074","title":"Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture","description":"Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in \u003ci\u003eEnergy Flash\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngland, 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 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 own 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRead on, and learn why is nitrous oxide is called \"hippy crack.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soft Skull Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593764074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.05w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon Reynolds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661030584476,"sku":"9781593764074","price":18.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_59e390ca-56cd-45c3-b70a-0f6b9a35ac64.jpg?v=1603898240","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/energy-flash-a-journey-through-rave-music-and-dance-culture-9781593764074","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}