Energy Flash
by Simon Reynolds · first published 1998
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If you like this style of writing and topic, you should enjoy Energy Flash by Simon Reynolds
on “Dropping Acid” ↗Simon Reynolds's book Energy Flash is a pretty good read on the history of early techno / rave culture up to about the 90s (if I remember corectly, it's been awhile). A lot of history regarding Detroit techno and the roots of the genre.…
on “History of Techno” ↗…1990. T99's Anaesthesia was probably the entry point for Belgian Hardcore into the UK when it charted in the middle of 1991. Q.E.D. It's hard to inspire a scene when you come after it chronologically. Energy Flash by Simon Reynolds is worth a read as cited; that Wiki entry has a serious whiff of Ishkur's Guide to it in comparison. I mean you can basically attribute the Belgian Techno scene to the American Joey…
on “Florian Schneider Collection: Instruments and equipment up for auction” ↗…littered with omissions and errors. It shouldn’t be taken seriously. But that wiki does not "whiff of Ishkur's Guide", you just don't like that it agrees with my position, so you're throwing shade on it. 'Energy Flash' is ok, but is still an incomplete view. I don't need to refer to any guide or book anyway, mostly because I was there, and experienced the scene myself, first hand. > Belgian Techno scene to the American…
on “Florian Schneider Collection: Instruments and equipment up for auction” ↗