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Simon C.W. Reynolds
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BIOGRAPHY

Freelance writer. Author of Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock; Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture and Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, among others.

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The Prodigy.
Techno, electronic dance music that began in the United States in the 1980s and became globally popular in the 1990s. With its glacial synthesizer melodies and brisk machine rhythms, techno was a product of the fascination of middle-class African-American youths in Detroit, Michigan, for European…
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