Energy Flash

Twenty-five years since acid house and Ecstasy revolutionized pop culture. Simon Reynolds's landmark rave history Energy Flash has been expanded and updated to cover twenty- first-century developments like dubstep and EDMs recent takeover of America.

Author of the acclaimed postpunk history Rip It Up and Start Again. Reynolds became a rave convert in the early nineties. He experienced first-hand the scenes drug-fuelled rollercoaster of euphoria and darkness. He danced at Castlemorton. the illegal 1992 mega-rave that sent spasms of anxiety through the Establishment and resulted in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill. Mixing personal reminiscence with interviews and ultra-vivid description of the undergrounds ever-changing sounds as they mutated under the influence of MDMA and other drugs, Energy Flash is the definitive chronicle of electronic dance culture.