Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now,
in "Energy Flash," 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.
England, 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.
Read on, and learn why is nitrous oxide is called "hippy crack."
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