Matt Stokes (born 1973 in

Penzance Penzance ( ; ) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the westernmost major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated in the ...

) is an artist and film-maker. Stokes had a residency at Grizedale Arts in 2002 during which he researched the history of rave culture in the

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. In 2006, he won the Beck's Futures art prize for his film ''Long After Tonight''. In 2005, Stokes developed Sacred Selections, a series of experimental transcriptions of Underground Music, then performed live on historic Pipe Organs in

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, following a commission by Dundee Contemporary Arts. Recordings based from these live performances were released on a CD also titled ''Sacred Selections''. In 2006 ''Sacred Selections'' was shown as part of EASTinternational which was selected by

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and Dirk Snauwaert, and presented as a series of organ recitals replacing ecclesiastical music with

happy hardcore Happy hardcore, also known as 4-beat or happycore, is a subgenre of hardcore dance music or " hard dance". It emerged both from the UK breakbeat hardcore rave scene, and Belgian, German and Dutch hardcore techno scenes in the early 1990s ...

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and

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. From the liner notes:- 'Sacred Selections was conceived by artist Matt Stokes, and comprises three pipe organ recitals that present music chosen by people from a range of underground music and cultures strongly represented within Dundee - Northern Soul, Happy Hardcore and Black Metal.'

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