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Apocalypso Disco: La rave-o-luzione della post techno (Riccardo Balli)

2004; Griffith University; Volume: 6; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12801/1947-5403.2014.06.02.04

1947-5403

Andrea Mubi Brighenti,

Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition

An absolute insider of the international underground electronic music scene for 20 years or so, Riccardo Balli is the best conceivable Charon for those who weren't there and want to get at least a flavour of what it was-and still is-all about.But beware, Balli is neither a music critic nor a music historian.Rather, a DJ, label owner, composer, novelist, live performer and, above all, a relentless experimenter in every domain of cultural production, Balli has now released a book whose main aim is to resist historification-a process which, as anyone acquainted with the Situationists knows, is inherently akin to museification and death (or, worse, sell out).Apocalypso Disco mixes fiction, autobiographic memories, interviews, recipe books, alchemical hints, sci-fi scenes and philosophical-anthropological asides to cheer up the reader during an intense, disorderly yet coherent promenade to the netherworld of unconventional electronics.One additional clarification: the subtitle of Apocalypso Disco, which reads "The rave-o-lution of post-techno", is best understood as not implying that there is something inherently revolutionary about rave music.Far from that.Indeed, the whole of Balli's book can be read as a call to bring the revolution into conventional rave and hardcore dance music, which are but the mirror of the zombie culture in which we currently live. Reviews