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Started by vayshti · 9 Jun 2005 · 16 posts survive (14 recovered from printable/lo-fi copies) · Wayback

vayshti9 Jun 2005, 5:27pm

Hi all - there's a thread on movies, a thread on TV -and, unless I've missed one that already exists, now one fer related books!

(If I have, Mr Mod, please combine this with de udders)

For your reading pleasure (?)

FreeNRG ebook download (free).
http://www.undergrowth.org/freeNRG.php

FreeNRG: Notes from the Edge of the Dance Floor. edited (2001 Common Ground Press), now available as freely a downloadable ebook (PDF - only 3.7 megs). Includes 80 colour images.

Download available thanks to Rak Razam and Undergrowth (and Creative Commons)!

FreeNRG Contents

Foreword by Ken Gelder

Part I Post Rave Australia
Doof! Australian Post Rave Culture, Graham St John.
Propagating Abominable Knowledge: Tekno Zine Culture, Kathleen Williamson.

Part II Sound Systems and Systems Sound
Sound Systems and Australian DiY Culture: Folk Music for the Dot Com Generation, Enda Murray. Doofstory: Sydney Park to the Desert, Peter Strong
Tuning Technology to Ecology: Labrats Sola Powered Sound System, Monkey Marc and Izzy Brown.
Techno Terra-ism: Feral Systems and Sound Futures, Graham St John.

Part III Techno-Ascension
Mutoid Waste Recycledelia and Earthdream, Robin Cooke.
Psychic Sonics: Tribadelic Dance Trance-formation, Eugene ENRG (DJ Krusty) interviews Ray Castle.
Chaos Engines: Doofs, Psychedelics and Religious Experience, Des Tramacchi.
Directions to the Game: Barrelfull of Monkeys, Rak Razam.

Part IV Reclaiming Space
Practice Random Acts: Reclaiming the Streets of Australia, Susan Luckman.
Carnival at Crown Casino: S11as Party and Protest, Kurt Iveson and Sean Scalmer.
Appropriating the Means of Production: Dance Music Industries and Contested Digital Space, Chris Gibson.

Are you old school? Like, do you like want to buy the print book? Go here
http://grahamstjohn.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.61/prod.2

See you all Sunday,

Vayshti

PaulHamonr9 Jun 2005, 9:07pm

great idea

will download and have a read....

jase31r9 Jun 2005, 9:12pm

I quite liked davinci code

vayshtir10 Jun 2005, 7:40pm

QUOTE(PaulHamon @ Jun 9 2005, 09:07 PM)

great idea

will download and have a read....

It's pretty east coast centric, but actually one of the authors lives here in Adelaide now - Dr Luckman - still working on research in dance cultures of all persuasions.

kandiir19 Jun 2005, 1:24pm

Hey guys, just on the book thing....

It is the perfect weather for curling up in bed with a good book.

My only problem is, I do have trouble finding boks that I think I would enjoy. Does anyone have any recommendations??

Also, if we have a few readers out there, perhaps we could create a "anthems libraby/book swap" so we can all share our books around?

What does everyone think??

Davinr19 Jun 2005, 4:16pm

Vix is reading my copy at the moment, but the Celestine Prophecy is a great one for those who have any questions about the meaning of life hehe. I know a few ppl on here are already reading it

kandiir19 Jun 2005, 7:47pm

I've heard this is a good book to read...

anyone have a spare copy?? If not, Dav can I borrow yours when Vix is finished with it?? Pretty please?

tangent23r19 Jun 2005, 8:59pm

what sort of books do you like?

a series i reckon most clubbers/ravers would like is vurt by jeff noon, pretty out there scifi but with a future dance culture edge.. warning is very wierd..

kandiir19 Jun 2005, 11:08pm

its been that long since i've read a book, I really don't know what I'd like!

A few friends have mention the author Ben Elton... has anyone read anything of his??

I used to read a lot of Stephen King as a teenager, but don't know if that sort of stuff would still interest me these days!

Argh... yeah I really need help on this guys!!

Davinr20 Jun 2005, 12:40pm

QUOTE(kandii @ Jun 19 2005, 07:47 PM)

I've heard this is a good book to read...

anyone have a spare copy?? If not, Dav can I borrow yours when Vix is finished with it?? Pretty please?

Yeah, no probs. I'll ask if she's finished with it. It's the kind of book that you go back and read again a year or so later, and that is where everyone is at now...a quick revisit

Harleyr20 Jun 2005, 1:18pm

Last lot of books i read where the Chopper Reid books. Not bad at all and if your a ultra slow reader like myself thay aint to thick hahahahahaha

Harley

kandiir20 Jun 2005, 5:50pm

QUOTE(Harley @ Jun 20 2005, 01:18 PM)

Last lot of books i read where the Chopper Reid books. Not bad at all and if your a ultra slow reader like myself thay aint to thick hahahahahaha

Harley

I actually reckon I may like them. I liked the movie... is that anything to go on??

How many books are there?

Harley21 Jun 2005, 8:08am

I think there are 6 or 7 by memory. The 1st 3 or 4 is what he had done in his life and the last few are fiction books. Thay are pretty good. If you read them you get a different perspective of the movie. If you wana borrow them i will lend them to you if you want. Its just my mate lost i think number 2 or 3 so you will have to buy it or borrow it some where else. Thay are only about $15. I dont have a few of the last ones cause the made up ones didnt really intrest me. If you want to borrow em just let me no

Harley

kandiir27 Jun 2005, 12:17pm

Cheers Harley, I reckon I may take you up on that!

My bf and I went to a Book warehouse on the weekend, and I picked up "Mao's Lat Dancer" by Li Cunxin. I'm only about 50pgs into it, but so far it is very interesting. Its a story of Li Cunxin's life, so far it has gone into detail about his parents arranged wedding, and then onto his childhood in a peasant village.

It really makes you thank the world we live in today, we really have it pretty good here in australia!

I will give you all a proper report on the book when I finish it.

jase31r27 Jun 2005, 1:32pm

celestine prophecy is a must read for everyone I rekon

at least once in your life

vixr27 Jun 2005, 3:40pm

I have finished the celestine prophecy it is so good the tenth insight is another great one its the sequal to the prophecy and another great book is the extacy club i read that in england. full raver book