CRAZE: Step Inside Sydney's Early Raves, Doofs & Festivals

Craze is a journey into sound, a book which along the way will bring to you a new colour; new dimension; a new understanding of the cultural, technological, and chemical strands that led to the Electronic Music Revolution.

Take a trip down rave memory lane into Sydney’s early warehouse scene and explore the forging of a global cultural phenomenon. Re-live the Second Summer of Love from the unique Australian perspective of its farthest flung outpost.

Written by record store owner, psyche grad, underground DJ, and community organiser Stephan Győry, Craze is not just a memoir of the Second Summer of Love or history of electronic dance music.

Drawing on lived experience, psychology, anthropology, drug culture, music history, and spiritual inquiry, Craze also traces a thirty-year attempt to reverse-engineer modern dulthood from first principles. Along the way, it moves through raves, relationships, religion, altered states, breakdowns, breakthroughs, and the slow reconstruction of meaning. Think Human Traffic meets High Fidelity.

Part cultural history, part psychological autopsy, part personal reckoning, Craze gives language to experiences many people have lived through privately. But ultimately, with countless stories, memories and inside info from the punters, DJs and promoters who were there, Craze will take you back to a dusty ‘90s warehouse where it’s 3am eternal…