- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail; New edition edition (2 July 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846687136
- ISBN-13: 978-1846687136
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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`Essential reading.' Rupert Howe, Q --Rupert Howe, Q
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From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as MDMA became a mass-market narcotic. Altered State is the best-selling book on Ecstasy culture, using a cast of memorable characters to track the origins of the scene and its drug through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos and the Balearic paradise of Ibiza, to the point where Tony Blair was using an Ecstasy anthem as an election campaign song. Altered State critically examines the ideologies and myths of the scene, documenting the criminal underside to the blissed-out image, shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the twentieth century.
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I got through most of this book when I was in Norwich going to a electronica event Spangled, sometimes I feel like it was going off on one, but great especially after my own experiences in a altered state, I go through most of it at Norwich bus station while listening to a chill out music on spotify and also on the trip ! back through London, I feel the experience of taking ectasy changes you forever good or bad and this is always with me !!!
I know about the Sanctuary in Milton Keynes went there once to a Slammin Vinyl events and find it hard to get over the mc's as doesn't always go with the music i.e. original track that you hear and like, I went to exodus in Luton for the millennium warehouse party and they made a impact for the people etc.
What really got me was when I lived up North with Northern Techno Alliance / Inner City Techno and Planet Zogg and going Sheff stock, but I do prefer when it has a pop feel to, as can sound repetitive !
I know about the Sanctuary in Milton Keynes went there once to a Slammin Vinyl events and find it hard to get over the mc's as doesn't always go with the music i.e. original track that you hear and like, I went to exodus in Luton for the millennium warehouse party and they made a impact for the people etc.
What really got me was when I lived up North with Northern Techno Alliance / Inner City Techno and Planet Zogg and going Sheff stock, but I do prefer when it has a pop feel to, as can sound repetitive !
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