![]() ![]() The DJs are usually bigger names than those who cobble the music together in the studio. As is the case with hip-hop, most of the music is created with synthesizers and samplers, manipulated by DJs spinning old-fashioned vinyi. To those reared on rock and roll and traditional pop music, electronic music can seem odd. Roughly speaking, it descends from underground dance styles invented in Chicago, Detroit and New York in the late ‘70s, after disco died. ![]() Today’s electronic music-itself splintered into a menagerie of subgenres-is just another child of the vast pop music diaspora of the 20th century. Often, raves are portrayed as mystery-shrouded pleasure palaces, filled with the drug-addled devotees of a strange, non-rock kind of music. Still, more than a decade after the term was coined to describe the huge clandestine events that ushered electronic dance music to the forefront of British youth culture, the name has stuck. Generally, they prefer to call gatherings focused on the music “parties,” suitably vague nomenclature for a phenomenon that encompasses shows at houses, nightclubs and warehouses. You’ll only occasionally hear the word rave pop out of the mouths of serious electronic music fans. “Portland doesn’t seem to have a particular Ecstasy problem except when the rave situation erupts down there,” says Thomas O’Brien, a DEA spokesman in Seattle. In January of 2001, we seized about 5,000.”Īll this attention is sure to have repercussions for electronic music fans in Portland. “In years past, we seized a handful of Ecstasy pills, and I mean a literal handful. ![]() James Ferraris, head of the Portland Police Bureau’s drug and vice division. In less than nine hours, Flaherty will be dead, and Portland’s fast-growing electronic music scene will have a new problem on its hands. Somewhere in the throng, a 19-year-old woman named Melissa Flaherty and two friends have just taken Ecstasy, the euphoria-inducing stimulant universally associated with the electronic dance scene. Right now, however, Pooh and Tigger seem more excited about crushing delighted girls into their fuzzy chests with huge bearhugs. One of the most famous DJs in the world will soon take over the turntables that drive an arsenal of speakers. The industrial space quakes to the pound of electronic dance music. Milne’s storybook characters bounce around amid a thousand-plus crowd. Two young men dressed in fuzzy likenesses of A.A. In a warehouse at the corner of Southeast Water and Main, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger are having the time of their lives. See the editor’s note at the conclusion of this story for more.įriday night, March 2. While this story contains speculation about the role of MDMA, or Ecstasy, in the death of Melissa Flaherty, later reporting by the same writer concluded that Flaherty was sold a similar, more potent drug. This story first appeared in the March 14, 2001, edition of WW. ![]()
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