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A wknd of raving in art, starting w/ 808 State/Deep Heat on TOTP89 yest; now watching Mia Hansen-Love’s film Eden - a love letter to 90s/00s French clubbing. Screamed at scene where DJ flicked thru vinyl stack inc: Ciccone, Espiritu and Ultra Nate! Finishing Goetz’ Rave later. 
When first started writing short stories around 90-94, they were all set around nightlife/raves/fashion/drag eco systems - all the places I was going to and being influenced by etc, but every mag/publisher I approached couldn’t understand why I was doing it.
I eventually distilled the spirit of those stories/creative energy into We Are The New Romantics, but have mega lols now at the (mostly white) industry of rave nostalgia. Make it intersectional, bitch. V much enjoying this film and novel, tho.
Life mood. From Rainald Goetz’ epic novel Rave, originally published in 98, and wonderfully translated in 2020 by Adrian Nathan West for Fitzcarraldo. Get on it.
Also, if you’re after more recent-ish work from that era, Oliver Degorce’s Plastic Dreams, covering a decade of French rave/club scenes and players is great. Published in France by Headbangers. 
Back to Rave. No shade, but despite my enjoyment what it brought back strongly was the yt male exp of club culture, which I found incred frustrating at the time. The great club scenes were intersectional - DJs, producers, promoters, clubbers, and these dudes never reflected that.
Rave was published a year after I had my first short story published in Pulp Faction’s Allnighter anthology (ledge line-up!). I was writing from same spaces, but with a different point of view - then developed further w/ We Are The New Romantics: queer, intersectional nightlife.
... and then, I guess, evolving into something deeper for This Brutal House. It’s no accident that my work is essentially bookended by nightlife novels. (If what you want to see already exists in Art, you wouldn’t have to do it.)
I suppose that’s my only criticism of Eden: the house scene in Paris and elsewhere was super-mixed, but aside from cameos from superstar producers/artists - Arnold Jarvis, Tony Humphries, La India - PoC didn’t have a voice or presence. Anyway, it’s still lush and worth seeing.
