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Portrait of Franck Armando, aka FKY, a musician at the forefront of the French free party scene from 1993-. Does anyone know of good writing, fiction or nonfiction, that has anything to do with the free party scene? Adjacent writing I've enjoyed is the free-flowing "Rave" by Rainald Goetz, as well as the musical palette of Simon Reynolds' "Energy Flash". The closer to the "free party" culture the better - I'm interested in the cultural diaspora of the Castlemorton festivals shut down by the UK government - but "inaccurate" recs are still very welcome.
"If the law hadn't stepped in, firstly in the uk, rave culture would have almost certainly lead to a revolution and the authorities were absolutely taking it very seriously. Raves were getting bigger and bigger , like hundreds of thousands and some people were just traveling around going from rave to rave, loads of diff types were in there, people making money out of it etc of course but essentially it was groups of people partying,being together from all different backgrounds[what the authorities definitely didn't want] and having a good time, not hurting anyone. ok thats oversimplified but it was all in there, in the music.... (...) thats all long gone now,rave culture, its just another horrible business now (...) well one day it will happen again hopefully, when we (...) have a real awakening.Then we can properly update the anarchy rave sound!" -Richard D. James
There's a section dealing with it in Rushkoff's Cyberia that I enjoyed.
Looks great, thanks. :)