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Mars by 1980

The Story of Electronic Music

by David Stubbs ...

Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant garde. But how did we get here? In Mars by 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of synthesised tones, from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through the musique concrete of the Futurists and radical composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Karl Stockhausen, to the ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant garde. But how did we get here? In Mars by 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of synthesised tones, from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through the musique concrete of the Futurists and radical composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Karl Stockhausen, to the
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The Secret DJ Presents Tales From The Booth

by Colin Steven, The Secret DJ ...

The Secret DJ's first two books lifted the lid on what really happens behind the decks in the sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing world of the superstar DJ. Now they've reached out to dozens of DJs from around the world - and from every scene and genre - for their own true stories of the DJ life. Tales From the Booth raises the BPM, rounding up an all-star cast of Secret DJs to tell their ... Read more

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The Secret DJ's first two books lifted the lid on what really happens behind the decks in the sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing world of the superstar DJ. Now they've reached out to dozens of DJs from around the world - and from every scene and genre - for their own true stories of the DJ life. Tales From the Booth raises the BPM, rounding up an all-star cast of Secret DJs to tell their
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Trip-Hop

by Mr. R.J. Wheaton ...

Series series Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized albums.“Your playlists will soon be overflowing.” - Spectrum CultureThe music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized albums.“Your playlists will soon be overflowing.” - Spectrum CultureThe music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid
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Club Commons

Moving Bodies to Grow Movements in Queer Nightlife & Beyond

by Anjali Prashar-Savoi ...

Queer communities have long transformed parties into something powerful: spaces where care flourishes, injustice gets challenged, and new worlds are danced into being. But today DJs command huge fees while behind-the-scenes workers earn below minimum wage. Corporations profit from our culture while communities who created these spaces are displaced. As venues shut and workers burn out, it's clear ... Read more

$14.89 CAD

Queer communities have long transformed parties into something powerful: spaces where care flourishes, injustice gets challenged, and new worlds are danced into being. But today DJs command huge fees while behind-the-scenes workers earn below minimum wage. Corporations profit from our culture while communities who created these spaces are displaced. As venues shut and workers burn out, it's clear
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Porcelain

A Memoir

by Moby ...

From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s.There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s.There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of
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Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii

the subject of new Netflix documentary 'Avicii – I’m Tim'

by Måns Mosesson ...

The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon.Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European house music took over the world.But Tim Bergling was also an introverted and fragile young man who was forced to grow up at an inhumanly fast pace. After a series of emergencies resulting in hospital stays, he ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon.Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European house music took over the world.But Tim Bergling was also an introverted and fragile young man who was forced to grow up at an inhumanly fast pace. After a series of emergencies resulting in hospital stays, he
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Pink Floyd - Uncensored On the Record

by Bob Carruthers ...

This is the ultimate critical guide to the music of and career of Pink Floyd, brought together in one amazing collection. Using the actual words of the band and critics, this is the definitive review of the work of the band on stage, on record and on film from the Syd Barrett era to Pulse. This eBook also features many rare photographs spanning the entire career of Pink Floyd. ... Read more

$4.06 CAD

This is the ultimate critical guide to the music of and career of Pink Floyd, brought together in one amazing collection. Using the actual words of the band and critics, this is the definitive review of the work of the band on stage, on record and on film from the Syd Barrett era to Pulse. This eBook also features many rare photographs spanning the entire career of Pink Floyd.
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Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass

by Geddy Lee ...

“A treasure trove for any fan of the four-stringed (and occasionally more) instrument.” — Billboard"It's not surprising that sooner or later I'd dive down the proverbial rabbit hole into the world of vintage bass guitars."—Geddy LeeFrom Rush frontman Geddy Lee's personal collection of vintage electric bass guitars, dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, comes the definitive volume on the subject ... Read more

$59.99 CAD

“A treasure trove for any fan of the four-stringed (and occasionally more) instrument.” — Billboard"It's not surprising that sooner or later I'd dive down the proverbial rabbit hole into the world of vintage bass guitars."—Geddy LeeFrom Rush frontman Geddy Lee's personal collection of vintage electric bass guitars, dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, comes the definitive volume on the subject
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My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top

the ZZ Top Letters...and More 100% Real, Never Before Seen Documents from the World of Rock n' Roll

by Jon Glaser ...

With this shocking tell-all, revealing the all-true, 100% fake secrets about music’s biggest names, Jon Glaser—a writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and the creator and star of Adult Swim’s Delocated—is about to rock the world of, well, rock and roll. The long-buried (or possibly, never-yet-imagined) dreadful secrets of music’s most notable talents—including Prince’s bar mitvah remixes, ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

With this shocking tell-all, revealing the all-true, 100% fake secrets about music’s biggest names, Jon Glaser—a writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and the creator and star of Adult Swim’s Delocated—is about to rock the world of, well, rock and roll. The long-buried (or possibly, never-yet-imagined) dreadful secrets of music’s most notable talents—including Prince’s bar mitvah remixes,
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Composing Electronic Music

A New Aesthetic

by Curtis Roads ...

Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new domain, pitch occurs as a flowing and ephemeral substance that can be bent, modulated, or dissolved into noise ... Read more

$43.19 CAD

Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new domain, pitch occurs as a flowing and ephemeral substance that can be bent, modulated, or dissolved into noise
... Read more
Tales from the Dancefloor

Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda

by Sacha Lord ...

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project.Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter.Over the past three decades, Sacha Lord has hosted countless iconic parties, booked legendary DJs, and shaped an underground scene ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project.Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter.Over the past three decades, Sacha Lord has hosted countless iconic parties, booked legendary DJs, and shaped an underground scene
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An April Fools' Day

by Mike Bozart ...

Agents 32 & 33 take a Friday trip to Asheville (NC, USA) to take in the Blackbird Blackbird show at the One Stop pub.It's a nice evening of psychedelically infused folktronica. [sic]Afterwards, they discover that there is an April Fools' joke that they have all witnessed.Mr. Malloy: Not presentSex: No.Violence: No.Drug usage: Hinted at.Strangeness level: Low to moderate.Real-life accuracy: 89%. ... Read more

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Agents 32 & 33 take a Friday trip to Asheville (NC, USA) to take in the Blackbird Blackbird show at the One Stop pub.It's a nice evening of psychedelically infused folktronica. [sic]Afterwards, they discover that there is an April Fools' joke that they have all witnessed.Mr. Malloy: Not presentSex: No.Violence: No.Drug usage: Hinted at.Strangeness level: Low to moderate.Real-life accuracy: 89%.
... Read more
Tenement Kid

From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream

by Bobby Gillespie ...

“[Gillespie] is a major influence on so many people; musicians and fans alike.” —Rolling StoneFizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Bobby Gillespie’s vivid and evocative new memoir, TENEMENT KID: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream, traces a path from a post-war Glasgow... ... Read more

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“[Gillespie] is a major influence on so many people; musicians and fans alike.” —Rolling StoneFizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Bobby Gillespie’s vivid and evocative new memoir, TENEMENT KID: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream, traces a path from a post-war Glasgow...
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Russian Disco

by Wladimir Kaminer ...

Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the émigrés in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the émigrés in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style
... Read more
Sweet Dreams

From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics

by Dylan Jones ...

David Bowie. Culture Club. Wham!. Soft Cell. Duran Duran. Sade. Adam Ant. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics.' Excellent' Guardian ' Hugely enjoyable' Irish Times ' Dazzling' LRB **'Fascinating' New Statesman **'An absolute must-read' GQOne of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era of the New Romant... ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

David Bowie. Culture Club. Wham!. Soft Cell. Duran Duran. Sade. Adam Ant. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics.' Excellent' Guardian ' Hugely enjoyable' Irish Times ' Dazzling' LRB **'Fascinating' New Statesman **'An absolute must-read' GQOne of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era of the New Romant...
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Fairport Convention and Electric Folk

Faber Forty-Fives: 1967–1970

by Rob Young ...

Series Book 2 - Faber Forty-Fives
Faber Forty-Fives is a series of six short ebooks that between them tell the story of British pop music from the birth of psychedelia in the late sixties, through electric folk, glam, seventies rock and punk, to the eclecticism of post-punk in the late seventies and early eighties. Each book is drawn from a larger work on Faber's acclaimed music list.Rob Young's Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Faber Forty-Fives is a series of six short ebooks that between them tell the story of British pop music from the birth of psychedelia in the late sixties, through electric folk, glam, seventies rock and punk, to the eclecticism of post-punk in the late seventies and early eighties. Each book is drawn from a larger work on Faber's acclaimed music list.Rob Young's Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's
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Energy Flash

A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

by Simon Reynolds ...

Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s.England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late 1980s, and ... Read more

$17.59 CAD

Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s.England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late 1980s, and
... Read more
Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

by Joanna Demers ...

Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there even a place for aesthetics in twenty-first-century culture? This book explores genres ... Read more

$38.39 CAD

Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there even a place for aesthetics in twenty-first-century culture? This book explores genres
... Read more
Composing Digital Music For Dummies

by Russell Dean Vines ...

Yes, you can turn those great melodies and smokin’ grooves in your head into stunning digital music! And you don’t have to be a musical genius or a computer geek to do it! Composing Digital Music For Dummies shows you everything you need to know to compose great tunes using the hottest digital tools.This friendly, plain-English guide explains all of the digital music basics, including how to work ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

Yes, you can turn those great melodies and smokin’ grooves in your head into stunning digital music! And you don’t have to be a musical genius or a computer geek to do it! Composing Digital Music For Dummies shows you everything you need to know to compose great tunes using the hottest digital tools.This friendly, plain-English guide explains all of the digital music basics, including how to work
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Music Production For Beginners 2020 Edition: How to Produce Music, The Easy to Read Guide for Music Producers

by Tommy Swindali ...

Everything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place!Not so long ago, studio quality recording, mixing and music production was only available to the rich and famous artists.However these days it's now possible to produce professional sounding music from your own home.In fact, you don't even need to know how to play an instrument or know anything about the technology or need expensive ... Read more

$4.99 CAD

Everything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place!Not so long ago, studio quality recording, mixing and music production was only available to the rich and famous artists.However these days it's now possible to produce professional sounding music from your own home.In fact, you don't even need to know how to play an instrument or know anything about the technology or need expensive
... Read more
Kraftwerk

Future Music from Germany

by Uwe Schütte ...

The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, expermenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, expermenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and
... Read more
England's Hidden Reverse, revised and expanded edition

A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

by David Keenan ...

An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.This newly expanded edition of England's Hidden Reverse, the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, is based on exclusive ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.This newly expanded edition of England's Hidden Reverse, the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, is based on exclusive
... Read more
Futuromania

Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today

by Simon Reynolds ...

A collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the FutureSimon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future—the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

A collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the FutureSimon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future—the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way
... Read more
Refining Sound

A Practical Guide to Synthesis and Synthesizers

by Brian K. Shepard ...

Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of learning to create sounds on a synthesizer is understanding what all the individual synthesizer components contribute to the complex finished sound. Author and veteran synthesizer instructor Brian K. Shepard draws on his years of experience in synthesizer ... Read more

$40.79 CAD

Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of learning to create sounds on a synthesizer is understanding what all the individual synthesizer components contribute to the complex finished sound. Author and veteran synthesizer instructor Brian K. Shepard draws on his years of experience in synthesizer
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