Psychedelic Trance: Music Is My Drug

The Summer of Rave, 1989

2006

In the final days of the yuppie decade, the summer of ’89 saw a new type of youth rebellion rip through the cultural landscape, with thousands of young people dancing at illegal Acid House parties in fields and aircraft hangars around the M25. Set against the backdrop of ten years of Thatcherism, it was a benign form of revolution, dubbed the Second Summer of Love – all the ravers wanted was the freedom to party… The rave scene, along with the drug Ecstasy, broke down social barriers and even football hooligans were ‘loved up’, solving a problem the government had never managed to crack. But lurid tabloid headlines and cat-and-mouse games with the police eventually turned the dream sour, as the gangster element moved in at the end of the summer.

Jean-Michel Jarre - Paris, La Défense

1990

Paris La Defense - Une Ville En Concert was a concert held by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the district of La Défense in Paris on Bastille Day, July 14, 1990. About 2.5 million people standing in front of the pyramidical stage all the way down to the Arc de Triomphe witnessed this event, setting a new Guinness Book of Records entry for Jarre. The concert was funded by Mairie De Paris, Ministry of Culture and a small cluster of high-profile Parisian business concerns. Later, a concert video as well as a photobook of the event were released. The show featured new tracks from the Waiting for Cousteau album, and vast grotesque marionettes created by Trinidadian Peter Minshall.

Jean-Michel Jarre - Destination Docklands - The London Concert

1988

Destination Docklands was an event consisting of two concerts by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the Royal Victoria Docks, Docklands, London on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th October 1988, to coincide with the release of Jarre's new album Revolutions. The concerts were attended by 100,000 people on each night.

Jean-Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous Lyon

1986

October 5th, at 10.30 pm , after pope John-Paul II`s blessing of Lyon from the top of Fourvieres hill, Rendez-Vous Lyon got under way, a concert performed for more than 800,000 people on the banks of the river Saone. Fourvieres hill was ablaze for ninety minutes, fired on by cannons of light, fireworks and images synchronised to music being performed live on the central stage by Jean-Michel Jarre, 60 musicians and 120 choristers. A baroque feast, blending classical and avant-garde, workmanship and high-tech, past and future, Rendez-Vous Lyon will long be remembered as an exceptional event.

Notes on Breakcore

2006

What is Breakcore? Breakcore is the "bastard hate child" of jungle, happy hardcore, gabba, speedcore, drum 'n' bass, techno, IDM, acid, ragga, electro, dub, country, industrial, noise, grindcore, classical music, hardcore, metal and punk.

Jean-Michel Jarre - Aero, Tribute To The Wind

2002

Jean Michel Jarre held a concert at the Gammel Vrå Enge Windmill Park near the city of Aalborg in Denmark, on September 7, 2002, with 40,000 spectators (including 5,000 VIPs)

Welcome Home

2013

This documentary gives a voice to organizers, DJs and party guests. Through their memories and confessions as well as unpublished videos and photos 20 years of history come back to life.

Massive Attack: Moscow 2009

2009

Massive Attack perform in Moscow as part of their world tour supporting Heligoland.

Bristol Bass Oddity

2014

Documentary on Bristol's Dub music and culture

Universal Techno

1996

This French-produced 1996 documentary is an hour-long piece covering the history of techno music from Detroit to Berlin Sheffield.

Bajofondo Tango Club - Supervielle en el Solis

2007

Swedish House Mafia: Live at Ultra Music Festival, Miami

2013

Tracklist: 1. We Come We Rave We Love 2. Greyhound vs Raise Your Hands (Axwell Mashup) 3. Wakanda 4. ID 5. Calling vs I Found You (Axwell Bootleg) 6. Rasputin/Leave The World Behind (Acappella) 7. Resurrection Together (Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso Bootleg)/Here We Go 8. Antidote vs Zeus (Swedish House Mafia OLT Booltleg)/Swagnum P.I. 9. Go-Go Boots vs Calling vs Epic (Swedish House Mafia OLT Bootleg)/Kidsos 10. In My Mind (Axwell Remix) 11. In The Air (Axwell Remix)/Teenage Crime (Axwell & Henrik B Remode) 12. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Swedish House Mafia Remix) 13. Don't You Worry Child 14. Quasar/Spectrum (Say My Name) (Acappella)/Insomnia/Sweet Disposition (Axwell & Dirty South Remix)/Sweet Disposition (Acappella) 15. Miami 2 Ibiza/One (Your Name) Atom (Swedish House Mafia Bootleg) 16. Save The World (OLT Intro Edit)/Reload/Save The World (Acappella)/Heart Is King/Don't You Worry Child (Acappella) 17. Don't You Worry Child (Acoustic Guitar Version)

From Jack to Juke

2013

Currently all the rage with hipsters worldwide, Chicago Juke music has roots that run deep. The film chronicles the birth and evolution of a genre over 25 years. A fascinating watch!

Synergy: Visions of Vibe

1999

This comprehensive documentary chronicles the underground rave culture in Southern California, one of its first American strongholds. With roots in a tribal past, this movement attempts to format the future of a truly global community by combining elements of electronic/percussive music, the psychedelic imagination, and mass dancing. From warehouses to mountain retreats to the deserts of the Mojave, an unseen world comes into clear focus; with kinetic camera work and candid interviews, this slice of visual anthropology probes the underbelly of a worldwide subculture with the help of some of electronic music's most acclaimed DJs, a technomusicologist, and a county sheriff. Open your mind to this moving entertainment experience and intimate portrait of a modern counter-culture that follows its own electronically induced beat.

Magic Music from the Telharmonium

1998

It was 1906. "Get Music on Tap Like Gas or Water" promised the headlines, and soon the public was enchanted with inventor Thaddeus Cahill's (1867-1934) electrical music by wire. The Telharmonium was a 200-ton behemoth that created numerous musical timbres and could flood many rooms with sound. Beginning with the first instrument, constructed in the 1890's, and continuing with the installation of the second instrument at Telharmonic Hall in New York, the rise and fall of commercial service, the attempted comeback of the third Telharmonium, and ending with efforts to find a home for the only surviving instrument in 1951, this documentary provides a definitive account of the first comprehensive music synthesizer.