The essential account of rave culture today
Matthew Collin is the author of Altered State, the definitive story of acid house and rave culture in Britain. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, Al Jazeera and Agence France-Presse, and as editor for i-D magazine, the Time Out website, the Big Issue and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. He has also written for many newspapers and magazines, including the Wire, Guardian, Observer, Mixmag and Mojo.
Part history lesson, part vibrant dance-floor travelogue, Collin's
smart geographical survey shows how club culture mutates and
adapts, its meaning changing between Detroit, Durban and the
conspicuously consuming Dubai ... Between those repetitive beats,
there's still a world of possibility.
*Sunday Times*
Ten x-rays of dance culture in ten global hotspots that lovingly
trace the history of each locale's sound through its DJs, promoters
and proponents ... Both scholarly and intimate ... Collin's quest
is never short of illuminating ... fascinating
*Observer*
Praise for Altered State:
'At last somebody has written the real history of the last ten
years, and written it with such wit, verve, empathy and profound
intelligence. I can't recommend this marvellous piece of work
enough.
*Irvine Welsh*
Altered State remains the definitive story of the last decade's
love affair with MDMA and mucking about in fields just off the
M25
*Q*
The first book to forensically document the acid house explosion
... written with the authority of the first-hander
*Mixmag*
Altered State is not just timely; it was crying out to be
written
*Independent*
Matthew Collin has a reporter's eye, a critic's erudition and a
fan's passion
*Dorian Lynskey, author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute*
A timely deconstruction of the interests and influences shaping
international dance music - but with all the fun left in ... both
an intoxicating field trip and a well-argued word to the wise on
(not) selling out.
*Monocle*
Rave On describes in fascinating detail how electronic music scenes
bubble up in places that are in the depths of poverty, despair or
unrest. The Detroit and Berlin chapters are particularly
powerful... Collin's descriptions of Berlin's superclub Berghain
today are particularly wonderful
*New Statesman*
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