DJ Three comes to Orlando this week to give a sneak peek of Florida dance music zine anthology ‘TRiP Magazeen’

As much as I’ve personally tried to remedy this over the years through my own coverage, Central Florida’s 1990s dance music scene remains one of the most overlooked stories in modern American music history. But an upcoming homegrown book could help the cause.

Releasing May 30,TRiP Magazeen: The Complete Collection is a 350-page book that unearths and compiles some essential frontline coverage of the ’90s Central Florida rave boom. Running from 1992 to 1994, TRiP Magazeen was a Tampa zine that specialized in underground dance culture with extensive coverage of the era’s history-making sounds, figures and happenings.

As with many pre-internet things, however, TRiP got a bit buried in the dust of time, much like the otherwise primetime story of our native scene at the time. Now, for the first time ever, all that archival footage will be compiled and released in this deluxe book. Hopefully, with this new spotlight, Florida’s world-class electronic music legacy will be a big step closer to getting its due propers in the dance canon.

This weekend, Orlando gets a special advance peek at a pre-release event headlined by the legendary DJ Three, who was the senior editor of TRiP (7 p.m. Friday, April 18, Iron Cow, $15-$60).

The loaded evening will feature a meet-and-greet, book signing and a full bill of music including DJ sets by Three, Chad Andrew b2b Atnarko, Lola B. and a live performance by Jennifer Place. Making it a total multisensory time warp will be Factory Visuals’ Gary Davis. This will be an extraordinary night of living Florida history.

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This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2025.