A group of takeover men grew up who began to break up the old paternalist world that had dominated British industry. The social centre for the takeover men was the Clermont Club, a gambling club in Berkeley Square in Mayfair. Adam Curtis, The Mayfair Set II: Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V *****
To the establishment the Clermont set were a group of destructive gamblers. They were tearing up British industry and fuelling a dangerous boom in the stock market … ibid.
Tiny Rowland now became a close friend of Jim Slater and the other tycoons. They dined together at the Clermont and sold each other companies. All of these new tycoons were making fortunes by tearing up an old system of industrial power that had dominated Britain and its empire for over 100 years. ibid.
The summer of 1976 was one of the hottest on record. Berkeley Square in London became infested by a plague of caterpillars … even inside the Clermont Club. One of the few Clermont members left in London that summer was James Goldsmith … Goldsmith was sueing the satirical magazine Private Eye. Adam Curtis, The Mayfair Set III: Destroy the Technostructure
Big corporations were at the heart of American life … A patrician elite who had run America for fifty years. ibid.
There is a music that has soundtracked our era. It has many forms but one beat: ‘Gotta have house music all night long.’ Whether you find your groove in house, techno or electronic dance music, our hedonistic escape into the night has become a priceless commodity. The bedrock of a business worth billions. How Dance Music Conquered the World I: The Beat, BBC 2018
It started on a few dancefloors with a few pioneers. ibid.
To make the dance music we love, technologies have been conquered. To create the sound of the future. ibid.
‘It’s the dominant genre on the planet.’ ibid.
The sound has transformed the lives of countless clubbers and left millions lost in music. ibid.
It all started with a beat: four to the floor. ibid.
Two gifted DJs in two inspirational clubs sparked something special. ibid.
‘Their spirit is feeling something to a higher power.’ ibid. Chicago DJ
To this day, the breathtaking innovation of techno’s pioneers has made Chicago a place of pilgrimage for generations of electronic artists. ibid.
In 1986 Pete Tong put together the album that introduced Chicago house to British music fans. ibid.
UK No. 1: Steve Hurley, Jack Your Body. ibid.
Britain had welcomed house and techno with open arms and they quickly warmed to the next boundary-pushing dance genre from Chicago – acid house. ibid.
The 4/4 beat behind house and techno was now being successfully recreated by British artists. ibid.
Millions of us have spent the biggest and best nights of our life clubbing. How Dance Music Conquered the World II: The Club
Narcotically charged hedonism grabbed the headlines. ibid.
Hacienda: Manchester now the had the most avant garde nightclub in the world. ibid.
A sudden proliferation of ecstasy pills was an undeniable vital part. ibid.
These fields of Albion offered an escape. ibid.
Clubbing needed to change. To scale up and smarten up. A new generation of entrepreneurs was emerging. ibid.
In Cream, Liverpool now boasted the biggest club in Europe. ibid.
The superclubs had arrived in Britain’s cities. For the next evolution in the club scene came on the very island that had inspired our dance music culture – Ibiza. ibid.
We’re now in the era of electronic dance music – EDM. ibid.
The DJ: the mastermind behind our daily soundtrack. And our nightly escape … They are very very powerful. This is an epic story of staggering highs and crushing lows that reveal how our lives have been shaped by a vanguard of visionaries. How Dance Music Conquered the World III: The DJ
At his peak Avicii played an outstanding three hundred gigs a year. ibid.
Trance became the soundtracks to weekends all around the world. ibid.
The American mainstream was finally embracing dance music. ibid.
We’re on the trail of a businessman whose rip-offs have gone on unnoticed for years. He’s made million of pounds kicking communities when they are down. Social classes, sports classes, working men’s clubs. Across England and Wales they say they have been dealt a bad hand. It’s a game where one man usually wins. Panorama: Ripped Off? Join the Club, BBC 2018
The elite, the so-called establishment teams, and those that know best, the visions of the anointed ones, are obsessed with the occult. Reprise: Dark Secret Inside Bohemian Grove, Prison Planet TV 2005
You see for over 120+ years in northern California in Sonoma County on a 2,700-acre secluded Redwood grove, leaders from around the world – prime ministers, chancellors, presidents, governors, again the heads of industry, banking, academia, the media, Hollywood – travel there to engage in bizarre ancient Canaanite Luciferian Babylon mystery religion ceremonies. ibid.
The Bohemian Club as it’s known today was founded in 1873 in San Francisco in northern California. ibid.
Amongst the great redwood trees they revived ancient ceremonies that in truth had their roots not in the druids but in Babylon itself. ibid.
It is a gathering place for the world establishment, the elite. ibid.
The entire federal government at the highest levels is infested with Bohemian Club members. ibid.
Parade magazine February 22nd 1981: This story was the most accurate and revealing detailing the so-called mock human sacrifice. ibid.
They even admit that they wear bizarre Ku-Klux-Klan style robes. ibid.
They even admit that a corpse, a sacrifice, is borne across the lake. ibid.