Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture

by Simon Reynolds

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A brilliant UK-centric history of underground dance music. Really worth reading with YouTube open, because he drops lots of track names, which is great! His placement of music criticism within social history has come to be a particular popular style of Serious Music Writing, but you can tell he has a massive passion for not just the music in general but the tracks themselves. His inclusion of drugs into the analysis still seems novel and valuable.

Apr 14, 2018