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  • 14 - Artist Perspective Australian EDM in the 1990s – Finding the Magic between the Art and Commerce of the Dance Floor

  • from Part III - Diversities
  • Edited by Amanda Harris, University of Sydney, Clint Bracknell, University of Western Australia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
    Published online:
    14 November 2024
    Print publication:
    14 November 2024, pp 219-232

  • Summary

    This chapter briefly surveys the Australian Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scene throughout the 1990s. It examines the impact of financial investments from major labels and how this provided a fertile ground for specialist EDM labels to create scenes that connected back to the techno, rave, and club communities. Brief histories of Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, and Adelaide are provided, noting their different characteristics and prominent players in the field. Links between the post-punk electronic music scene and how they impacted the first wave of EDM creatives are also discussed. As one-half of Sydney techno band Itch-E & Scratch-E, the author (aka Paul Mac) provides a personal, practice-based, lived history of the period.