Energy Flash A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

Twenty-five years since electronic dance music and ecstasy revolutionized pop culture, Simon Reynolds' landmark history of rave is available for the first time in America in uncut form. A longtime writer about rock and rap, Reynolds started watching-and partaking in-the rave movement in 1991, experiencing firsthand ecstasy's sense-heightening and adrenalin-surging effects on the music and the scene. Reynolds goes way beyond straight music history, mixing interviews with participants, DJs, and producers with ultra-vivid descriptions of the ever-changing sounds of the dance underground, social analysis, theory-fueled speculation, and personal reminiscence.

Simon Reynolds is a consulting editor at Spin magazine. He is also the author of Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll, Totally Wired, and Bring the Noise.