FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dancefloor

FreeNRG is a collection of frontline communiques on technotribes, contemporary musical practices and events transpiring on the fringes of Australian dance culture throughout the nineties. The anthology's 13 essays are written by specialists and affiliates of a spectrum of youth phenomena found at the edge of the dance floor.

Edited by the radical anthropologist Graham St John, FreeNRG describes a series of Australian subcultures who subscribe to an economy of mutual-aid and co-operation, are committed to the non-commodification of art and embrace freedoms of experience and expression. Artists and activists, their cultural output is a product of novel mixtures of pleasure and politics. technicians and esotericists, they pirate technologies in the pursuit of re-enchantment and liberated space.

:::Contents :::

INTRODUCTION: TECHNO INFERNO

PART ONE: POST RAVE AUSTRALIA
Chapter One/ Doof! Australian Post-Rave Culture
Chapter Two/ Propagating Abominable Knowledge: Zines on the Tekno Fringe

PART TWO : SOUND SYSTEMS AND SYSTEMS SOUND

Chapter Three / Sound Systems and Australian DiY Culture: Folk Music for the Dot Com Generation
Chapter Four / Doofstory: Sydney Park to the Desert
Chapter Five / Tuning Technology to Ecology: Labrats Sola Powered Sound System
Chapter Six / Techno Terra-ism: Feral Systems and Sound Futures

PART THREE : TECHNO-ASCENSION

Chapter Seven / Mutoid Waste Recycledelia and Earthdream
Chapter Eight / Psychic Sonics: Tribadelic Dance Trance-formation
Chapter Nine / Chaos Engines: Doofs, Psychedelics and Religious Experience
Chapter Ten / Directions to the Game: Barrellful of Monkeys

PART FOUR : RECLAIMING SPACE
Chapter Eleven / Practice Random Acts: Reclaiming The Streets of Australia
Chapter Twelve / Carnival at Crown Casino: S11 as Party and Protest
Chapter 13 / Appropriating the Means of Production: Dance Music Industries and Contested Digital Space

:::Contributing Writers :::
Ray Castle, Robin Cooke, DJ Krusty, Chris Gibson, Kurt Iveson, Labrats, Susan Luckman, Enda Murray, Rak Razam, Sean Scalmer, Graham St John, Pete Strong, Des Tramacchi, Kathleen Williamson.

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