Rave Culture and Religion

Reynolds asserts that ‘dancehall reggae fans originally lured into jungle by its ragga samples back in 1994’ moved towards the d ...

way that many UK garage MCs raise similar issues in their lyrical dialogues. Furthermore, UK garage MCs have incorporated call-r ...

on the UK garage circuit, whose performances are conducted with exceptional professionalism. Many have diverse repertoires of rh ...

have given crucial exposure to new forms of music. Between 1964 and 1968, pirates began broadcasting from offshore ships located ...

initiated via personal connections. Nevertheless, despite numerous complications, individuals involved with pirate radio broadca ...

Garratt, S. (1998) Adventures in Wonderland: A Decade of Club Culture, London: Headline. Gibbons, F. (2003) ‘Minister labelled r ...

A selection of key records played during the development of the UK garage scene SOUNDS OF THE LONDON UNDERGROUND 195 ...

10 Gamelan, techno-primitivism, and the San Francisco rave scene 1 Gina Andrea Fatone In August of 1997, at a rave in the foothi ...

personal feeling...I really think they’re tapping into something really deep in the psyche. (personal interview, 21 May 1998) As ...

moment that I’m alive. I’ve been painted by the brush of raving with a palette of vibes, people, love, music, unity, movement, p ...

over bamboo resonators. Other instruments of the gamelan angklung include a horizontally mounted row of knobbed gongs, two drums ...

And this is from a DJ to the sfraves list: I hope to be joining the Gamelan Anak Swarasanti in the ambient area for a special ma ...

I STRONGLY recommend that you listen to some gamelan.... The slower pieces tend to sound like trance, the faster stuff is like j ...

the forces of good and evil). A larger five-tone orchestra (gamelan pelegongan) accompanies these dramas involving trance. The r ...

Towards the ‘electronic re-tribalization of society’ I have suggested one possibility for the appropriation of Balinese gamelan ...

to communicate the most...deeply resonating primal understandings. It’s the re-discovered language of transcendence.... Here is ...

Contrary to the intentions of alternative cultural events, in the very act of interacting with surfaces of entities in this way, ...

2 An Indonesian orchestral ensemble comprised primarily of bronze-keyed metallophones, gongs, and gong-chime instruments. The pr ...

described by Graham St John, the aural space of ConFest is decidedly contested. Here, techno-trance enthusiasts find themselves ...

Rouget, Gilbert (1985) Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession, Chicago:University of Chicago P ...