I'm pleased to announce that a new 2013 edition of Energy Flash, expanded and updated, is being published by Faber & Faber in June of this year.
Look out for news of E-Flash related events in the U.K. for late June. In the meantime, as a taster for the book, I'll be appearing at the Faber Social on April 2 in London, participating in a night of conversation and entertainment themed around Vinyl. I'll read from the new section I wrote for the Faber edition, which covers the significant developments that happened in the five years since the last edition came out, but with special focus on dubstep and the rise of EDM.
LONDON / ENERGY FLASH 2013
Tuesday April 2nd, 7 pm: Faber Social and Rough Trade Shops Present Vinyl
The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London W1
Tickets £6 in advance / £8 on the door
Tuesday April 2nd, 7 pm: Faber Social and Rough Trade Shops Present Vinyl
The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London W1
Tickets £6 in advance / £8 on the door
"Pete Paphides (BBC 6 Music's Vinyl Revival) will spin
some records and host some chat; Travis Elborough will take us on a trip
through 60 years of recording history reading from his book The
Long-Player Goodbye; a panel of industry experts including Jude Rogers
and Spencer Hickman will wax lyrical about the life and love of vinyl; Simon
Reynolds will be zipping in from LA to read from his new update of Energy Flash:
A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture; The Pogues founding member
and accordion player James Fearnley will read from his story of the band’s
life Here
Comes Everybody and Workin'
Man Noise Unit will play a live set of tinnitus-inducing tantum rock. More information
Hi Simon, has this got new material that the 2008 version didn't have?
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Josh
Hi Simon, has this got new material that the 2008 version didn't have?
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Josh
yes i wrote a new chapter about 18 thousand words on development since 2007 - a surprisingly large number of them, all covered, but the focus in on dubstep / brostep /postdubstep and EDM's takeover of America.
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And what about 'Trap' Siomon? There will be no chapter about it?
ReplyDeleteA guy from Brazil ;-)
And what about 'Trap' Simon? There will be no chapter about it?
ReplyDeleteA guy from Brazil ;-)
And what about 'Trap' Simon? There will be no chapter about it?
ReplyDeleteA guy from Brazil ;-)
Will there be anything on bassline/funky? :D
ReplyDeleteThe word trap is in it, as part of a larger argument re feeding off ghetto energy, but the phenom had really blown up when it wrote the update .. To the point where there's two traps, the real thing and then this parallel thing that's like a pretty entertaining travesty of it
ReplyDeleteYeah there is a section on bass line and one on funky , guess which I'm more enthused about....
ReplyDeleteAnd jackin gets a mention albeit brief
Trap HAD NOT blown up is what I meant to write, when i was doing the update .. Problem with books is time lag of publishing production process, so there's always some new developments in the interval
ReplyDeletehi simmon, you know if this book will be edited in spanish? Thank you.
ReplyDeletehi simmon, you know if this book will be edited in spanish? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHi Simon, is there an updated online discography for the new edition?
ReplyDeleteHi Simon, is there an updated online discography for the new edition?
ReplyDeleteNo. Way too daunting a task!
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