Pre orders are now open for the ‘True Faith: 30 Years of Hardware Tales from the Dancefloor’ book – shipping early January 2023.
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True Faith:30 traces the history of rave folklore, following Melbourne–based electronic rave-turned-mega event promoter Richie McNeill and his Hardware institution on the incredible journey to a $90m sale, with plenty of emotional stories along the way. Dive into more than 400 pages of Australian rave history, flyers and photos in full colour (Published by Hardie Grant).
Notes!
- Books now shipping!
- Book is 440 pages and weight 2kg!
- Introduction by superstar DJ Carl Cox
- The personal, candid and professional story of a world-leading dance music brand and its owner and its journey from small 400+ raves to a $90m sale to US music giant SFX Entertainment, and its demise..
- Features rich Melbourne music culture 1989 – 2022 as a timeline of fashion, art and production as the pages turn, the technology and everything develops
- How Australia became an international player in electronic music
- Archival pre-digital photography from ‘back in the day’ plus the best of dance music’s contemporary image-makers
- Archival rave flyers and ephemera from legendary Australian leading graphic designers Murda (global legend, graffiti writer Jay Rankine), Nick Demkiw, FCD Design, Regression, Todd Proctor and more
- Feature essays on technology, urban politics and style
- First-person story-telling by Richie McNeill (DJ Richie Rich) Hardware CEO for 30 years
