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DANCEFLOOR THUNDERSTORM

26 images Created 3 Feb 2018

The gallery contains material from my two books, "DANCEFLOOR THUNDERSTORM: Land Of The Free, Home Of The Rave", and "THE RAVER STORIES PROJECT". The first is a big coffee table photo book over 300 pages, and the second is a text-heavy, first-person account of some of the most amazing moments in the rave scene over two decades. Both books are available on Amazon.com.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0615980414
https://www.amazon.com/Raver-Stories-Project-Michael-Tullberg/dp/0997107014

More information can be found at www.dancefloorthunderstorm.com and at www.raverstoriesproject.com.
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  • The front cover of "DANCEFLOOR THUNDERSTORM: Land Of The Free, Home Of The Rave". Cover photo shot by myself.
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  • The Crystal Methos, live at Coachella 2004.
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  • DUNE 4 desert rave, near the California/Arizona border, June 1998.
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  • EarthDance global rave, the L..A (Chatsworth) edition. Shot on Kodak EIR color infrared film.
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  • The classic Electric Daisy Carnival rave, 1999 edition. DJ Mars is on the tables as the crowd rages.
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  • The Chemical Brothers, in a 1999 photo shoot at the famous Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood.
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  • DJ Frankie Bones performing live on New Years Eve 1999 at the "Together As One" rave at the L.A. Sports Arena. Despite some great sets by Carl Cox, Donald Glaude, DJ Dan and Jesse Saunders, Frankie stole the show, IMHO.
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  • "Alien" by Michael Tullberg. Shot at a rave in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.
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  • The things that come out at night. In this case, it's Club Kids. Shot at the "Audiotistic" rave in San Bernardino, California.
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  • One of the many great nights at club Giant, the L.A. superclub that brought rave-quality music to Hollywood.
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  • Club Kids party hard at the Love Festival rave at the Palace in Hollywood.
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  • Raver girls at the WHAT! 5-Year Anniversary Party in Los Angeles
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  • Raver girl with a good message at the "Celebrate Life" protest rave at the Federal Building in Los Angeles.
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  • Legendary British electronic music group Massive Attack perform live at the Palladium in Hollywood.
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  • Girl hanging upside-down at the Bud Brothers Monday Social club at the Louis XIV restaurant. The Monday Social was one of the key clubs in Hollywood for twenty years, and the first five years at Louis' were positively magical at times.
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  • Big crowd at the "Right To Dance" protest rave at the Federal Building in Los Angeles.
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  • This is one of my favorite pieces.  It really captures the energy of the dance transforming one from within.  More than a few people have commented to me that they’ve seen religious connotations in this image, and although I’m pleased that they’re making such observations, it wasn’t what I originally intended when I made the photograph.  It truly was an example of what I used to call “letting the picture paint itself”.  In other words, I felt like I was merely the conduit for the image, which would create itself while the camera’s shutter was open.  At the time, I often felt that I had relatively little control over what would actually end up on the film—not surprising when you consider that the lights, the subjects, and even the camera were often all moving simultaneously—and to be truthful, I really didn’t want to have that control much of the time.  I liked the idea of being the messenger for the image, and not its creator…it sort of felt like I was plugged in to something larger, more ephemeral and yet more powerful, which was using me to manifest parts of itself.
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  • Part of the crowd at the "Right To Dance II" protest rave at the Federal Building in Los Angeles.
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  • "Meditation": Pure techno-bliss.  Aural nirvana.  Transcendence through sound.
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  • DUNE 4 desert rave, near the California/Arizona border, June 1998.
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  • "Quadruple Happiness"...I think the title says it all.
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  • A clubber at Magic Wednesdays, Hollywood, CA, 1997.<br />
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NOTE: Original film image shot in RAW with Nikon D750, processed lightly in Photoshop.
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