For a short while within the mid-2000s, the dream of the underground rave materialized in distinctive DIY trend: bloghouse. Lina Abascal’s new e-book presents readers a glimpse into the chaotic, vastly undocumented period that many nonetheless cherish to this present day.
By no means Be Alone Once more: How Bloghouse United the Web and the Dancefloor is a cultural deep-dive into the bloghouse zeitgeist of the mid-2000s. Bloghouse wasn’t merely the occasions that happened, however how they got here to be via the facility of the web and human curiosity. Music was the centerpiece and catalyst, fueling a curiosity to study extra about obscure electro and punk via blogs, ultimately resulting in occasions that may solely be described as of the “you needed to be there” selection.
Abascal’s e-book additionally explores the early rise of contemporary EDM previous to the company music competition frenzy we’re accustomed to at the moment. She has fleshed it out via a sequence of pictures, canonical studies, and interviews with varied artists who influenced the bloghouse phenomenon, resembling A-Trak, Steve Aoki, Flosstradamus, and The Bloody Beetroots.
“For a short interval within the mid-2000s, a community of unbiased music bloggers merged the digital and bodily worlds in a never-before-seen means,” reads a blurb printed on the again of the e-book. “Their punk-inspired ethos elevated DJs, musicians, and events to a stage of worldwide success. This motion laid the groundwork for corporatized EDM and the music competition growth that may shortly exchange it, however earlier than that, for a second, there was bloghouse.”
You possibly can seize a replica of Abascal’s e-book here.