"Sbrang Gabba Gang: Gabber Reconstruction of the Universe" by Riccardo Balli

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Language: Italian

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Gabber is a frantic attempt to accelerate beyond acceleration, to go beyond the speed of the data flow of the present. Music of sensory deprivation, supersonic and subhuman sound appreciated by the masses of suburban youth, schizophrenic dances interspersed with the spastic move of the hakken, songs for suburban hooligans looking for fights, dozens and dozens of clubs closed down by the police as a preventative measure, lumpenproletarians dressed in the most expensive brands around, stadium terrace hooligans shaved like skinheads, considered Nazis, racists and chauvinists... And yet in Holland, where the first scene was born, the term gabber means comrade. There are monographs on the more obscure musical genres, from extreme metal to industrial, but in-depth books on the culture associated with hardcore/gabber techno are rare. But this movement, born in the early nineties, has spread throughout the world and has imposed ways of dressing, social behaviors and lifestyles. In a game of mirrors with an irreverent spirit, the visionary writer Riccardo Balli reconstructs the history of gabber, mixing the present with the past through the magnifying glass of the historical avant-garde of futurism. A multifaceted volume that screams and focuses, in a hybrid between fiction and non-fiction, on components such as the love of speed, generational conflict, the cult of war and experimental communication. But are we talking about gabber or futurism? The answer can be found in the hardcore tracks blasted out at full volume on the pages of Sbrang Gabba Gang!