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14 - Artist Perspective Australian EDM in the 1990s – Finding the Magic between the Art and Commerce of the Dance Floor

from Part III - Diversities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
Paul (Mac) McDermott
Edited by
Amanda Harris  and
Clint Bracknell
Amanda Harris
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Clint Bracknell
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
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Summary

This chapter briefly surveys the Australian Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scene throughout the 1990s. It examines the impact of financial investments from major labels and how this provided a fertile ground for specialist EDM labels to create scenes that connected back to the techno, rave, and club communities. Brief histories of Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, and Adelaide are provided, noting their different characteristics and prominent players in the field. Links between the post-punk electronic music scene and how they impacted the first wave of EDM creatives are also discussed. As one-half of Sydney techno band Itch-E & Scratch-E, the author (aka Paul Mac) provides a personal, practice-based, lived history of the period.

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Australian dance musicAustralian music industryEDM1990shistorytechno artistsundergroundcommercial
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The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia , pp. 219 - 232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Fleckney, P., Techno Shuffle: Rave Culture & the Melbourne Underground (Melbourne: Melbourne Press, 2018).Google Scholar
Race, K., ‘The Death of the Dance Party’ in Butler, M. (ed.), Electronica, Dance and Club Music (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016).Google Scholar
Remmer, D., BNE: The Definitive Archive, Brisbane Independent Electronic Music Production, 1979–2014 (Fairfield Gardens: Transmission Communications, 2014).Google Scholar

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