NEWS AND MATERIAL RELATED TO THE EXPANDED/UPDATED EDITION OF ENERGY FLASH: A JOURNEY THROUGH RAVE MUSIC AND DANCE CULTURE, DUE OUT EARLY 2008 IN SYNC WITH THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ACID HOUSE/10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOOK'S PUBLICATION. SERVING ALSO AS AN ARCHIVE OF DANCE WRITING BY SIMON REYNOLDS.
Knowledge interview from earlier in the year about the hardcore continuum with me plus Martin 'Blackdown' Clark, Gabriel 'Heatwave' Myddleton and MC Sway
RENEGADE ACADEMIA: THE Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
director's cut of unpublished feature for Lingua Franca, 1999; short remix appeared in Springerin, 2000
by Simon Reynolds
Smack in the middle of the United Kingdom, Leamington Spa is like a...
SADIE PLANT and "WRITING ON DRUGS"
Feed, 2000
by Simon Reynolds
Drug theorist Sadie Plant sucks on the long, bendy tubing of a hookah at Kush, a Moroccan-style bar in downtown Manhattan, and exhales a cloud of tobacco smoke. "This is the real thing,...
DFA and LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: label and band profile
Groove, 2005
by Simon Reynolds
For the last three years, DFA has been on a mission to make New York City live up to its own legend--"to be what it should be," as the label's co-founder James Murphy...
TRICKY's MAXINQUAYE in SPIN'S BEST ALBUMS OF THE NINETIES
Spin, 1999
by Simon Reynolds
TRICKY, Maxinquaye (Island, 1995)
Although all but one of its tracks were recorded in London, Maxinquaye has everything to do with Tricky's home town Bristol, the...