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Rave Books - Must reads

If you wish to read more about the rave scene and the Fantazia website was not sufficient for you then we recommend some of the following books:

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All Crews: Journey's Through Jungle / Drum and Bass Culture
by Brian Belle Fortune
An in-depth history of Jungle/Drum & Bass.  All Crews is a journey through this music and features interviews with the scene's top artists.
However, it also delves deeper and looks at the pirate radio stations, labels, crews, promoters and ravers that form the backbone of this truly original culture.
Coming Soon
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
by Matthew Collin & John Godfrey
When Ecstasy was first mixed with house music sometime during the 1980s, the reaction triggered a diverse youth movement.

It affected music, fashion, the law, government policy and other areas of public and private life. This work trails the drug from California, through New York and onwards in the history of Ecstasy and the culture and politics that surround it
Coming Soon
Class of 88
by Wayne Anthony
PDF Book about the Genesis illegal rave Parties.  If you would like to read a copy of this great insiders look at the highs and lows of running the early rave parties do click the picture to the left.Coming Soon
DJ Dance & Rave Culture Coming Soon
Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
by
Simon Reynolds
'An exceptional book. Reynolds has tracked the unfolding sounds and rituals of ''the (al)chemical generation'' so comprehensively that he virtually obviates the need for any further literature on the period'Coming Soon
Fight Flight or Chill
By Brian Wilson
"Wilson uses the rave scene to demonstrate the complexity of contemporary youth in contrast to the somewhat one-dimensional portraits of 'troubled' and 'troubling' youth painted by the mass media and many academics. Wilson's analysis is simply the most comprehensive and theoretically interesting academic work on rave culture." John Shepherd, Carleton UniversityComing Soon
Generation Ecstasy
by Simon Reynolds
"Worthy. As a straightforward timeline account of rave culture-the DJs, the drugs, the choons, the clubs, the clobber-"Generation Ecstasy succeeds. Tracing the music. Reynolds shows that he certainly knows his stuff.."
-"Now, Toronto
Coming Soon
How to DJ Properly
by Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster
This book both forms the perfect introduction for the novice. Written in an opinionated and entertaining no-bullshit style, with a healthy dose of realism, it shatters some illusions about the dance industry and offers in return some powerfully inspiring visions as it explains the true rewards of the DJ's craft. Coming Soon
King of Clubs
by Terry Turbo
From humble beginnings flyering on the London rave scene, he built up the country's biggest dance empire, starting and running One Nation, Rave Nation and Garage Nation - for a decade, he played host to more than 25,000 clubbers every week, all over the UK and Europe. "King of Clubs...Sex, Drugs and Thugs" is Terry's no-holds barred tale of the sex, drugs and violence that became part of his life. Coming Soon
Last Night a DJ Saved my Life
by Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster
The self-styled "definitive" history of the humble art of spinning plates of vinyl, Last Night A DJ Saved My Life steps up to the turntables with worthy pretensions.  While Last Night A DJ . . . is an impressively knowledgeable compilation of information, they never quite decide whether this is an intellectual resource, a complete history, or if they're playing these records just for kicks.Coming Soon
Prodigy
by
Martin James
Drawing on exclusive interviews with the band and their colleagues it recounts the band's birth in Essex, brings back to life their earliest gigs, the initial media disinterest and their first disastrous US tour. It frankly covers their explosion on the international live circuit, their release of the fastest selling album of all time, Fat Of The Land and the production of their  fourth album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned.Coming Soon
Rave Culture
an insiders overview
by Jimi Fritz

"A great book about the global rave phenomenon and the true rave experience. Comprehensive, detailed, informative and extremely well investigated. A superb job."
Gilbert Meyer-Gauen, DJ Magazine.
Coming Soon
Rave Culture
By Tammy Anderson
"Anderson clearly has a passion for the subject matter and a keen focus on the 'decline' of rave culture which is to be commended.  The thoroughness of Anderson's empirical work, and her engagement with the data is useful and gives voice to young (and not so young!) people and culture." --Karenza Moore, Lancaster UniversityComing Soon
Raving Lunacy
by Dave Courtney
Dave Courtney, whose autobiography, Stop the Ride, I Want to Get Off, was a huge bestseller, reveals all from another hidden aspect of London's underworld. Notorious in London's criminal underworld, Dave is also a big name in the club and dance scene. Raving Lunacy is the story of this double life, and how one world spilled over into the other. From parties in prisons, sewers, railway arches and aircraft hangers, to legitimacy  Coming Soon
Super Star DJs Here we go.  The Rise and Fall
by Dom Phillips
A superb account of the rise of the 90s superclubs and the DJs who invented the idea of largin' it
--Observer Music Monthly
Coming Soon
The Incredible Strange History of Ecstacy
by Tim Pilcher
"Tim Pilcher is clearly a Generation Ecstasy insider. Yet somehow his treatment of the subject stays balanced and nuanced. He avoids getting druggie or scene-y, and he also avoids the strange, academic stiffness that mars other recent work on youth culture and raves."Coming Soon
This is Not A Rave in the Shadow of a subculture
by Tara McCall
Tara McCall traces the history, drugs, fashion, hypnotic music, and most importantly, the hedonistic dance of this fascinating subculture. It is the dance - the actual art of the rave - that is most often overlooked. From dance halls, to disco, to raving, why is dance so often seen as deviant and subversive? Coming Soon
Underground Rave Dance
by Michael Sunstar
This is a interesting and informed look at dance music culture and the rave scene.
A good read that will not let you put it down untill you are finnished.
Coming Soon
Up All Night
A closer look at club drugs and rave culture
 Coming Soon

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