Download or read book Altered State written by Matthew Collin and published by Serpents Tail. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I can't recommend this marvellous piece of work enough.” —Irvine Welsh Altered State—now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, and the Balearic paradise of Ibiza. It examines the ideologies and myths, documenting the criminal underside to the blissed-out image, and shedding light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the twentieth century. Matthew Collin is the author of Guerrilla Radio and The Time of the Rebels. He now reports for Al Jazeera from Tbilisi in Georgia.