Electroshock. Complete Edition 1987-2013

The famous French DJ and musician Laurent Garnier, along with his co-author and journalist David Bren-Lambert, continues the journey through the boundless world of electronic music and club culture, emotionally documenting all the changes that have occurred in this music... and culture over the past 25 years. The madness of the first raves, the acid house revolution, Detroit, London, Berlin, and then the whole world. Techno rebels and house hedonists. Breaking boundaries and striving for new discoveries. Dubstep and commercial electronic music. The role and place of the DJ in modern realities, and electronic music as a source of endless experiments.

There are not many DJs in the world who are absolute authorities in the world of electronic club culture. Those whom others look up to and try to emulate. Frenchman Laurent Garnier is one of them. The entire history of modern electronic club culture unfolded before his eyes and often with his direct participation. He witnessed how the rave fever captured Manchester and specifically the Hacienda club, observed how all the youth of Britain went crazy for massive raves, how guitars, backcombing, and worn denim jackets with safety pins faded into the past. How electronic music experienced growing pains, how DJs and musicians sought new sources of inspiration. How the evolution of electronic music happened and continues to happen.
His autobiography "Electroshock," published in 2003, instantly became one of the most important books about electronic music, DJs, and club culture. "We did not expect the success of 'Electroshock,'" Garnier himself admits. "In fact, no one expected. Naturally, we hoped for a warm reception of the book, but not for such great success among the public in France, and not for it to be translated into nine languages, and certainly not for it to be made into a film."
Exactly ten years later, observing the ongoing rapid changes in the world of electronic music, Laurent Garnier and David Bren-Lambert decided to fill this gap and tell about everything that has happened with this music over the past decade.
"Electroshock. The Complete Version 1987 - 2013" has ultimately been enriched with 8 new chapters, in which the authors "wanted to provide as accurate a description as possible of the new directions, styles, places, and artists that are moving the electronic scene forward, whether it be the emergence and triumph of dubstep, the exemplary festivals TimeWarp and NuitsSonores, the madness of the Berghain club, and the creative innovations of Berlin over an entire century. As well as technological upheavals and the rise of social networks, the musical influence of figures like Pedro Winter or David Guetta, who became the main ideologue of EDM in the USA."
In the Russian edition, the original layout of the French edition is preserved, and the author recounts with the same enthusiasm and ardor about his creative life and about what has happened and is happening with electronic music over the past quarter-century, while also defining the vectors for the further development of both the role of the DJ and all electronic music.
 
Content:
Chapter 1 "I'll House You"
Chapter 2 "French Kiss"
Chapter 3 "Live the Dream"
Chapter 4 "Got the Bug"
Chapter 5 "Total Confusion"
Chapter 6 "Wake Up"
Chapter 7 "Final Frontier"
Chapter 8 "Vertigo"
Chapter 9 "Beyond the Dance"
Chapter 10 "Can You Feel It?"
Chapter 11 "Chaotic Harmony"
Chapter 12 "Cycle 30"
"The Warning"
Chapter 13 "Last Tribute to 20th Century"
Chapter 14 "Greed"
Chapter 15 "Cycles of Resistance"
Chapter 16 "It's Just Muzik"
Chapter 17 "Food for Thought"
Chapter 18 "Our Future"
Epilogue. "Dance to the Music"
Acknowledgments