Talking about techno-related books... just begun reading Laurent Garnier's
Electrochoc, very promising ! I don't know if it has already been translated
from French though... but even if you don't read French, you can at least find
his excellent playlists here : http://www.pedrobroadcast.com/
Coming back to this late.
But basically I agree with the below statement it clarifies what I was
trying to say earlier. The book was well written and informative. I
found out a lot about ecstacy that I didn't know and a lot about how
some sub-genres got started. I just couldn't stomach his ideas
THE BOOK STILL SUCKS!
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From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: (313) Book: Generation Ecstasy : Into the World of Techno
and Rave Culture
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thanks for contributing.
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, FC2 Richards wrote:
THE BOOK STILL SUCKS!
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Everyone's music collection is based around 'phases'. Reynolds just
does
an excellent job capturing his phases in print. Don't diss because he
went
through some phases that you didn't.
I don't have anything against phasing of techno. I'll just diss then
cause I think it's a wack book. It's
all fair points matt.
i guess i'd rather read about crazed culture with music as a
secondary.
hence my love for lester bangs, hunter thompson, ect
i think writing about music requires a presentation within another context
(be it biographical, anidotal, whatever...)
for me- an actual
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(that's what music
journo's do, i admit, and it's usually more out of their desire
to
generate more ink than a true proper look at something for what
it is)
just killed his earnestness and
THIS BOOK SUCKS, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY.
There is no music content in this book, I can't believe that I read it all.
It is mostly about drugs and parties. I felt I wasted my time reading it,
and my money even though mine was borrowed from a friend. Time IS money
baby.
I guess if you want to
I read it and didn't like it either.
It was entertaining at times, but too biased to be a book about
electroinic music in GENERAL. It was like reading a thesis paper where
the writer is trying to prove that electronic music is linked to raves
which in turn are linked to drugs and therefore it
At 16:55 5-12-2003, you wrote:
I read it and didn't like it either.
Ah... thank you all for the comments about that book.
I'll just leave it in the bookstore then.
R.
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Sorry for all the grammatical errors. I was hastengly trying to type all
of that before I left for a meeting. :) But I think you got my point.
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From: Redmond, Ja'Maul
- He kept making a point of saying that EDM music and drugs
- GO together
- and any attempt to separate the two is not successful. i.e. concept
- albums have no place in edm ,,,tracks are being better than songs???
- There's way too many reference to Ecstacy as been GOOD for EDM and
- even a
Isn't this the same book that at the end Simon Reynolds claims that Big
Beat is going to be the lifesaver of dance music?
MEK
robin
I gotta disagree with all the hatin' goin on about this book.
To immediately address Mr. Knight's concerns, I blieve the book was first
published around 97-98, which is when big beat was a new and exciting
sound. And judging from where electronic music went after big beat in
terms of mass appeal,
To immediately address Mr. Knight's concerns, I blieve the book was first
published around 97-98, which is when big beat was a new and exciting
sound. And judging from where electronic music went after big beat in
terms of mass appeal, seems as though Mr. Reynolds wasn;t that far off.
Oh, I completely agree that Reynolds had an agenda. And like I said, I
basically disagreed with every conclusion he came to.
BUT...while his thesis may have been severly flawed, the research that he
presents (ie- the history of ecstacy culture) is still compelling and well
written. This is all
Don't diss because he went through some phases that you didn't.
I'm not dissing him because we didn't go through the same phase (or get
stuck in the same one)
I actually had a flirtation with Big Beat but came to my senses when I
realized that there were records with real soul and not some
Yussel said essentially the same things I wanted to say, but I wanted
to respond to a couple of points:
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:02:45PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I'd like to know how many people who went to all the
Chemical Bros. and Fatboy Slim shows back in the heyday of
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