Hard Bass 2011 - The Live Registration

This comprehensive documentary chronicles the underground rave culture in Southern California, one of its first American strongholds. With roots in a tribal past, this movement attempts to format the future of a truly global community by combining elements of electronic/percussive music, the psychedelic imagination, and mass dancing. F...

Runtime

56m

Cast

Jason Bentley, Carl Cox, Jonathon Moore

This French-produced 1996 documentary is an hour-long piece covering the history of techno music from Detroit to Berlin Sheffield.

Runtime

1h 2m

Cast

Aphex Twin, Juan Atkins, Mike Banks

The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 - the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the n...

Runtime

1h 45m

Cast

Spiral Tribe, DiY, circus warp

"At the beginning of the 19th century there is no Chicago. There was a fort that was set on fire by Indians shortly thereafter. Later, the turbulent expansion of a settlement began, which became a center for the immigrant workforce, traditional industry, slaughterhouses, and, in 1941, armaments for war. The Windy City on Lake Michigan ...

Runtime

24m

A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Hannes Stöhr

Cast

Paul Kalkbrenner, Rita Lengyel, Corinna Harfouch