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""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."" -Michaelangelo Matos (author of The Underground is Massive) ""From Rotterdam gabber to Scottish 'tartan techno', from the industrial strength beats of Brooklyn to the hedonistic mayhem of UK hardcore, 'Dance or Die' explores some of the lesser-documented areas of rave culture with enthusiasm and journalistic vigour, affording them the historical significance they deserve."" -Matthew Collin (author of Dream Machines, Rave On and Altered State)

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Holly Dicker is a club culture journalist, independent radio broadcaster and author of Dance or Die: A History of Hardcore, the first critical and expansive study of hardcore as a music, subculture and way of life. Holly has bylines in The Wire, The Guardian, Mixmag, Electronic Beats, DJ Mag and Resident Advisor, where she was a former staff writer. She has written long form pieces on historic techno and rave institutions such as Tresor and Thunderdome and is an authority on Dutch gabber subculture as curator of the multimedia exhibition A Brief History of Gabber for Google Arts & Culture.

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