"the endless pump"

 

descriptions of drugging 'n' dancing from Geoff Dyer's wonderful novel Paris Trance 

(not actually a novel about trance music I hasten to add)

(although Geoff did pen this nice short Guardian piece on psy trance's visual aesthetics) 

interview with Bert Random, author of rave novel Spannered, by Carl Neville over at the Nineties-Noughties blog up close and personal

interview is great, book sounds great


(Incidentally, I always thought it was indicative, in a sad sort of way, that up close and personal was originally and for a long time a Nineties blog, sitting alongside the Seventies and Eighties blogs....   and then they decided to tack the Noughties on, shunt them into the Nineties blog ....  as if, the Noughties: the decade that doesn't warrant a blog of its own.)