Once imagined as an instance of what the anarchist writer Hakim Bey called a ‘temporary autonomous zone’, the rave has now become a tightly regulated space, with many clubs policed by body scanners and sniffer dogs. The excesses of dance music have been brought under the control of Britain’s ‘property-based monoculture’, Gillett writes, resulting in a bland style mockingly known as ‘business techno’. (via Chal Ravens · Too Big to Shut Down: Rave On | London Review of Books)











