The Secret DJ returns with the follow-up to their acclaimed debut book.
Less a sequel and more a panoramic wide-angle painting of the biggest
youth movement in human history, The Secret DJ: Book Two charts the rise
of dance music over the last 30 years and its connection to western
capitalism and culture.
While never claiming to be instrumental, The Secret DJ was around for
every stage of the journey and is a continually wry observer of this
unstoppable growth. The Secret DJ's signature humour and wit are
ever-present in this ascent, charting personal ups and downs as well as
the buying and selling of the acid house revolution.
Covering topics as wide as drugs, music production, anthropology, the
gentrification of the scene, technology, travel, fame, devaluation,
inflation, relationships, technique, festivals, rejection, social media,
situationism and hypernormalisation; almost no aspect of the last four
decades go unmentioned in terms of what we know today as Electronic
Dance Music.