What is hardcore? It means many things to many people, and they're all correct. It's best described as a feeling, an attitude, a way of life. This diehard anthology tracks the outsiders and outcasts who banded together to party, in protest, over more than 30 years of obnoxious rebellion, in ecstasy and escape, as a nighttime community more family than family, who need this hard, loud, fast/slow, aggressive, noisy, occasionally silly, kick drum or breakbeat-driven dance music, to connect with people, to survive the world, and to get through the week. Full of colourful anecdotes from artists, promoters and fans, Dance or Die is the first critical study of hardcore as a radical clubbing community and enduring phuture rave movement.