New book Dance Or Die tells the story of 30-plus years of hardcore

A new book titled Dance or Die: A History of Hardcore is coming out via Velocity Press on June 6.

Written by Holly Dicker, who has covered the hardcore scene for Mixmag, it features interviews with artists and hardcore fanatics to explore more than three decades of the musical and cultural movement.

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Spanning scenes such as Rotterdam gabber to Scottish ‘‘tartan techno’, it chronicles the music’s enduring popularity and ties to protest, described by the publisher as “the first critical and expansive study of hardcore”.

Michaelangelo Matos, author of The Underground is Massive, says: “Holly Dicker‘s definitive chronicle charts the amazing, ridiculous rise of the most outrageous club music in history with a journalist’s eye and a raver’s mania.”

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Holly Dicker also produced the Rotterdam Rave Culture documentary which first screened earlier this year.

Pre-order Dance or Die here.