There's a book, I think I might have mentioned it a long time ago, called What Kind of House Party is This? Berkshire, England: Mind In You Publishing, from 1995.
published by a British fellow named Jonathan Fleming who had little knowledge of electronic dance music in the states, but an interest nonetheless. and he travelled to chicago and detroit and new york doing interviews with a huge variety of house/techno/garage musicians including all the usual pioneering suspects. the interviews are very candid and unusual, and include a number of what I think would be considered shocking (to 313 and others) statements. I'm a bit suspicious of the factuality of it, being that its self-published and I've never heard anything else about the author, but it seems for the most part pretty legitimate. I have no idea unfortunately of how to get a hold of it other than borrowing. It's not a great narrative of techno's history, but it's some good and definitely unique insight. ben On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Kim B wrote: > Thanks for pointing out some books to read on the evolution of Techno. I > found that one of the most amazingly written books on electronic music from > the "beginning" is: > > Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture; by Simon > Reynolds. > > The opening chapter which he refers to as the beginning is about the > "Detroit Three: Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins and Derrick May" I found his > writing style to be quite entertaining. He charts the timelines of Techno, > House, Garage, Trance, Jungle, Gabber...etc. from North America to Europe. > There are a lot of quotes from electronic music "pioneers" which he uses > liberally throught his work. > He covers not only partying, but radio stations, pressing, labels as well as > style (like the mode of dress, and paraphenlia...) > A great read IMHO. > > cheers > K. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > ====data general=========== ==www.umich.edu/~btausig=== [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
