the year rave broke America / the year New Pop conquered the U.S.A

At Resident Advisor, an extract from the new section added to Energy Flash: a visit to an EDM massive, differences between now and the Nineties, the rise of digital maximalism.

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At CBS.news, David Chiu's thirty-years-on piece on New Pop / July 1983 as peak of the Second British Invasion features quotes from me alongside Messrs Fry, Bailey, Taylor, et al, plus Ms Nina Blackwood. Check for a classic homophobic response in the comments. Heteronativist bigotry rages still!

Check out the new issue of Sight & Sound  for my Spring Breakers cover essay, in which Skrillex, Britney, and Gucci Mane rub shoulders with Bakhtin, Marcuse, and Raoul Vaneigem. 

EDM in the USA  --   Guardian piece by me on rave's better-late-than-never conquest of America, covering Electric Daisy Carnival, the irresistible rise of brostep, rocktronica god Skrillex etc