NEW BOOK FROM PHOTOGRAPHER WERNER AMANN CAPTURES THE "GOLDEN ERA" OF RAVE

 Kein Morgen contains over 15,000 pictures from Berlin, Frankfurt, Dortmund, New York, Paris, Riccione and Zurich

Laurence Grigorov is director at a leading residential property development company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company specialises in high-end luxury residential developments.

As an avid electronic music fan, Laurence Grigorov listens to music regularly especially during exercise.

A new photobook has been published, which captures the energy and culture of raving in the early ‘90s through a series of portraits.

Taken at hundreds of club nights, raves and afterparties from Berlin, Frankfurt, Dortmund, New York, Paris, Riccione and Zurich – Kein Morgan documents the people of the parties through over 15,000 “close up and emotional” portraits, according to the book’s description.

The photographs were shot by Werner Amann with accompanying words written by Leif Randt, and the book is published by Spector Books.

Shots from legendary clubs and events feature, including Berlin’s Tresor, Love Parade, Mayday in Dortmund, Frankfurt’s Omen (founded by Sven Väth), E-Work, Limelight, Tunnel and Sound Factory.

Last year, to celebrate its 30th birthday Tresor released a photobook Tresor: True Stories. It featured photographs from throughout the history of the club alongside compiling stories from party-goers.

The book also tells the story of the club being discovered by Dimitri Hegemann, Achim Kohlberger and Johnnie Stieler, after coming across the abandoned vaults that now made up the club’s original space. After opening in 1991, the club operated there until 2005, when it was forced to close down but reopened in 2007 at its present location on Köpernicker Strasse.

The club’s record label arm also announced a reissue series to go alongside the celebrations, including reissuing much of electro legends Drexciya’s back catalogue. Last month (January 2023), it repressed a classic 2002 solo album from former member James Stinson, ‘The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope’, made under his Shifted Phases alias.

Text & images courtesy of www.mixmag.net

Electronic Dance Music - An Expanding Genre Worldwide

Laurence Grigorov guides Laurence Martin Developments in Johannesburg, South Africa, as executive director, overseeing the creation of luxury apartment complexes that incorporate leading edge design principles. Outside of work, Laurence Grigorov has a strong interest in electronic dance music (EDM) and was an amateur DJ when he was younger.

The most rapidly expanding genre of music over the past decade, EDM now encompasses a music industry valued at $7.1 billion, with Calvin Harris the top worldwide earner at $66 million. The music revenue is spurred not simply by albums, as with traditional performers, but by massive festivals and concerts that bring together tens of thousands of music lovers for multi-day experiences. For example, New Jersey’s 2015 Electric Daisy Carnival enjoyed a gross of $11.2 million on the strength of more than 90,000 fans in attendance. 

Although growth in EDM has slowed over the past year, it is still experiencing substantial expansion, with particular growth in markets in Asia. The Philippines and Vietnam recently launched new festivals, as did Panama and Cuba in the Western Hemisphere.