Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction and Historiography of Music in Australia
- Part I Continuities
- Part II Encounters
- Part III Diversities
- 11 Exclusion and Inclusion in Australian Metal
- 12 New Directions in Australian Art Music: The Curatorial, Creative and Conceptual
- 13 Artists’ Perspectives Experimental and Electronic Music in Australia
- 14 ArtistPerspective Australian EDM in the 1990s – Finding the Magic between the Art and Commerce of the Dance Floor
- 15 Artists’ PerspectivesJazz in Australia – The State of Play
- 16 Diverse Musics: Shaping Music through Cultural Difference
- 17 Chinese Music Performance in Australia
- 18 African Musics in Australia
- 19 Artists’ Perspectives Ngarra-burria Indigenous Composers and Their Interventions in Art Music Practice
- Part IV Institutions
- Index
- References
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
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction and Historiography of Music in Australia
- Part I Continuities
- Part II Encounters
- Part III Diversities
- 11 Exclusion and Inclusion in Australian Metal
- 12 New Directions in Australian Art Music: The Curatorial, Creative and Conceptual
- 13 Artists’ Perspectives Experimental and Electronic Music in Australia
- 14 ArtistPerspective Australian EDM in the 1990s – Finding the Magic between the Art and Commerce of the Dance Floor
- 15 Artists’ PerspectivesJazz in Australia – The State of Play
- 16 Diverse Musics: Shaping Music through Cultural Difference
- 17 Chinese Music Performance in Australia
- 18 African Musics in Australia
- 19 Artists’ Perspectives Ngarra-burria Indigenous Composers and Their Interventions in Art Music Practice
- Part IV Institutions
- Index
- References
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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- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia , pp. 219 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024