CRAZE: Rave Signals

Stephan Gyory
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Musified chapters from CRAZE: An Insider Account of Sydney's Early Raves, Doofs & Festivals. To buy the Paperback, E-Book or Audiobook, head to www.crazethebook.com.

Episodes

  1. Chaptercast 16 – A (not so) Brief (very rough) History of Electronic Dance Music

    10/07/2025

    Chaptercast 16 – A (not so) Brief (very rough) History of Electronic Dance Music

    This is a musified version of Chapter 16 of Craze: An Insider Account of Sydney's Early Raves, Doofs & Festivals. Join the mailing list to help choose which part of the book gets the next 'chaptercast' treatment. _______ From sweaty warehouse beginnings to festival main stages, this episode strolls (and occasionally stomps) from late '80s House & Techno, through the Balaeric wave and deep into the raves which ultimately birthed the thousand-armed beast that is Electronic Dance Music.  Trace the original US DJ/dance-floor feedback loop and follow those repetative beats to the UK and EU where early '90s producers took the most dancefloor friendly elements and stitched them into whole new genres. Discover a few magic tracks from around 1990–1991 where you can hear the whole thing clicking into place. _________________ TRACKLIST Capella | Everybody (Hyponotic Cyber Mix) Beastie Boys | The New Style Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era | Far Out   Higher State Of Consciousness | Josh Wink St Germain | Pomnte Des Arts Neophyte  | Rotterdam Gabber Wildstylez | Falling To Forever  Rennie Pilgrim | A Place Called Acid Rhythm Section | Is This Real Tsunami One | Number 43 With Steamed Rice Please MYLO | Drop The Pressure Steve Aoki & Laidback Luke ft. Lil John | Turbulence Justice  | Newjack Tchaikosvky | Sugarplum Faeries Cosmic Baby | Cosmikk Trigger 4 Jean Micehelle Jarre | Oxygene 2 Mozart | Eine Kleine Nacht Musik Shpongle | My Head Feels Like a Frisbee Hallucinogen | LSD Neophyte  | Rotterdam Gabber Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force | Planet Rock Looney Tunes  | Another Place Another Time Acen | Close Your Eyes Lenny Dee | Forgotten Moments Roland TR-808 | Detuned Bass Drum Beaste Boys | Paul Revere ABBA | Lay All Your Love On Me Hithouse | Jack To The Sound Of The Underground The Mover | We Have Arrived  The Mover | Frontal Sickness  Joey Beltram | Energy Flash T99 | Anasthasia Front 242 | No Comment Lords Of Acid | I Sit On Acid Praga Khan | Injected With A Poison Modular Expansion  | Hip In The House Hi Tek 3 | Spin That Wheel Modular Expansion Unit 1 | Tension Dream Modular Expansion Unit 1 | Cubes Digital Excitation | Pure Pleasure (OG Mix & Rave Mix) Digital Excitation | Lifetime Warranty  Dance 2 Trance | We Came In Peace (1990 & 1991) Black Box  | Ride On Time Anticappella  | 2√231  Capella | Everybody (Techno House Mix) Sugarhill Gang | Rapper's Delight Neneh Cherry | Buffalo Stance  Nightmares on Wax  | Aftermath The Pharcyde  | Passin' Me By Nightmares on Wax  | Nights Interlude Nightmares on Wax  | Les Nuits Daft Punk | Assault Laurent Garnier | The Man With The Red Face Tiësto & Sneaky Sound System  | I Will Be Here Skrillex | Cinema  Urban Shakedown ft Micky Finn | Some Justice Cleptomaniacs | All I Do  Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo  | Wonderful Days Miles Davis  | So What  Metalheads  | Metalheads T Power v MK Ultra | Mutant Jazz Roni Size, Reprazent | Brown Paper Bag Emalkay  | Mecha Will Saul | Pause Goldie  | Inner City Life New Atlantic | I Know  Pęku | Shoot Me  TLC | Waterfalls  Bass Modulators  | Down The Rabbit Hole  Robin Thicke | Blurred Lines  Sheb Wooley | Wilhelm Scream  Prophetia | Rave Is Your Party Head to crazethebook.com to get the paperback, e-book or audiobook. Sign up to the mailing list to help decide which part of the book gets the 'chaptercast' treatment next. APRA LIC OL-2801

    40 min
  2. Chaptercast 1 – Sydney, Australia, 1989. Dance Party Capital of the World

    10/07/2025

    Chaptercast 1 – Sydney, Australia, 1989. Dance Party Capital of the World

    This is a musified version of Chapter 1 of Craze: An Insider Account of Sydney's Early Raves, Doofs & Festivals. Join the mailing list at crazethebook.com to help choose which part of the book gets the next 'chaptercast' treatment.  _________ By the birth of Sydney's warehouse raves in 1991, there’d been an all-night dance party scene in Sydney for decades, with a few dedicated, promotional teams, and DJs blazing the way with the “biggest dance parties in the world” by 1989.  This episode dives into Sydney’s early rave culture and how it connected with the wider global movement. From the wild, art-soaked RAT parties at the Hordern Pavilion (where Grace Jones once stormed the stage after a cash dispute and a stolen jacket) to the DIY warehouse gatherings you had to chase down on a 0055 number, the scene was already buzzing by the late ’80s. We’ll touch on the queer and creative energy that fueled the city’s biggest dance crews, the tape-edit pioneers who brought First Wave House and Techno to local ears. It’s also about the cultural backdrop — the way ecstasy changed the dance floor, how “repetitive beats” freaked out governments from Sydney to the UK, and why rave felt like the great democratisation of dance music. No velvet ropes, no exclusivity: if you were there, you were part of it. Think of it as a crash course in how Sydney plugged into the global rave network — loud, messy, and impossible to ignore. _______________________ TRACKLIST 1 | Men Without Hats | The Safety Dance 2 | Queen | Who Wants to Live Forever 3 | NJOI | Malfunction 4 | Prodigy | Jericho 5 | BBC Radiophonic Workshop | Tardis Landing Sound 6 | Frankie Knuckles | Your Love 7 | JS BACH | Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 8 | LATIN RASCALS | KISS FM MEGAMIX 9 | Humate | 3.1 (Mijk van Dijk Mix) 10 | Underworld | Underneath the Radar 11 | Prodigy | Your Love 12 | Rage Against the Machine | Killing in the Name Of 13 | Enigma | Sadness Part 1 14 | Kicks Like a Mule | The Bouncer 15 | NWA | She Swallowed It Head to crazethebook.com to get the paperback, e-book or audiobook. Sign up to the mailing list to help decide which part of the book gets the 'chaptercast' treatment next. APRA LIC OL-2801

    19 min
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Musified chapters from CRAZE: An Insider Account of Sydney's Early Raves, Doofs & Festivals. To buy the Paperback, E-Book or Audiobook, head to www.crazethebook.com.

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  • Creator
    Stephan Gyory
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Explicit
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