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In the 1990s, an incredible revolution swept across dance floors worldwide. It was an underground revolution called the rave scene, where thousands of electronic music fans gathered at secret events across the country, and partied well into the morning to the most cutting edge beats on the planet. Many had their lives changed in often positive and profound ways, thanks in no small part to the rave scene's warm and embracing nature. It was a social movement unlike any other, the most significant since the rise of hip-hop.

THE RAVER STORIES PROJECT is the book that reveals the rave scene as it really was and is, compiled and edited by one of the ultimate rave insiders--longtime dance music photojournalist Michael Tullberg. In late 2016, Tullberg put out a Call For Story Submissions to the global electronic music community, asking for their most memorable, exciting and even transformative experiences in the rave scene...the ones that meant the most to them. The response he got was nothing less than phenomenal.

Tullberg received stories from around the world, ranging in time from the original UK rave explosion in the late 1980s until the present day. The scope of the stories is impressively wide, including warehouse parties, desert raves, mansion parties, underground clubs, and enormous festivals. Tales came in about the over-the-top lunacy of Electric Daisy Carnival, the elite VIP room at London's Ministry Of Sound, and the desert wastes of Burning Man.

The personal accounts of the raver authors are eye-opening, such as the stories from survivors of emotional and physical abuse who found solace in the healing arms of the rave scene. One account is from a Chicano DJ/producer who credits the rave scene from saving him from the clutches of gang life. Another tells about when a desert party gets blasted by a midnight sandstorm. Throughout the pieces, these street-level scribes produce memorable observations that put to rest the notion that raves are simply havens for drug use, such as: