Original Raver: For many years I've been in the electronic music scene in PR and my main interest is to promote, report and comment on the latest electronic music events involving/ electronic music/raves/clubbing, ect. in the island.
In the early nineties, rave culture exploded with the availability of cheap computers and sampling technology, causing a punk-style do-it-yourself revolution. The resulting upsurge of independent labels and home studio-based artists spawned a legion of subgenres: house, techno, electro, hardcore, trance, jungle, dubstep, ambient, gabba, big beat, and many more. Today, DJs and producers such as Deadmau5, Daft Punk, Prodigy, Rusko and The Chemical Brothers have huge followings, while mainstream artists like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Bjork have turned to rave's offspring for artistic rejuvenation.
The story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. The first critical history of techno music--a traces rave's origins in De
