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  • Depeche Mode - The Early Years 1981-1993

    by Trevor Baker ...
    Depeche Mode are one of the UK's most popular global bands, a multi-million selling phenomenon their last album Sounds Of The Universe went top three in 25 countries worldwide. But it is their astonishing series of early albums that made them such a legend among their hardcore army of fans. Mostly ignored by the UK press at the time, LPs such as Some Great Reward, Black Celebration and Music For ... Read more

    R122,46

  • 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

    R54,61

  • Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend

    by Flea ...
    Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder**, alongside Anthony Kiedis,** of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star.Michael Peter Balzary was born in Melbourne, Australia, on October 16, 1962. His more famous stage name, Flea, and his wild ... Read more

    R294,85

  • Weep, Shudder, Die

    A Guide to Loving Opera

    by Robert Levine ...
    "Icouldn't imagine a finer or livelier guide through the world of opera. . . . [Levine] distills a lifetime of passion and insight into this immenselyenjoyable survey, and with the right comic touch to make you wonder how operaever seemed intimidating." —Thomas May, author of Decoding WagnerDespitethe popular success of the Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” series, opera’s grandworld of soaring ... Read more

    R332,91

  • Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality

    by Martha Mockus ...
    Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality examines the musical career of the avant-garde composer, accordionist, whose radical innovations of the 1960s, 70s and 80s have redefined the aesthetic and formal parameters of American experimental music. While other scholars have studied Oliveros as a disciple of John Cage and a contemporary of composers Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Gordon ... Read more

    R1 246,31

  • Take No Prisoners: The Desert Storm Sound System Story

    by Keith Robinson ...
    On September 18, 2016, Keith Robinson, a pioneering figure in the free party scene, tragically lost his life in the River Thames. To say Keith lived an eventful life would be an understatement. In 2011 he started writing his autobiography and involvement with the Desert Storm Sound System but never completed it. It's taken this long – and lots of hurdles to overcome – to bring Keith's story to the ... Read more

    R190,44 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wildfire

    My Ten Years Getting High in The Prodigy

    by Leeroy Thornhill ...
    Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to Japan and the United States in the late '90s, by which point the band were one of the biggest on the planet.Rave pioneers whose sound also encompassed hip hop, punk and rock, The Prodigy arguably had as ... Read more

    R682,97

  • Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

    by Dr. Roshanak Kheshti ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    So much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, has examined the importance of spy technology, the Cold War and Carlos's gender to this critically important innovation.Through a postcolonial lens of feminist science and technology studies, Roshanak ... Read more

    R99,12

  • Let The Music Play: How R&B Fell In Love With 80s Synths

    by Steven Vass ...
    Let the Music Play is the overlooked story of how R&B, disco and funk were transformed by the explosion of music tech in the era of ghetto blasters and Ronald Reagan. It traces how pioneers like Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock inspired a new generation of black musicians and producers to reinvent music with a whole new set of rules. From superstars like Prince and Sade to production geniuses like ... Read more

    R158,67

  • Sideral

    Estrella fugada

    by Héctor Castells, Randi Vergés Tramullas ...
    Aleix Vergés, DJ Sideral (Barcelona, 1973-2006), fue el emblema de una década, un faro involuntario y generacional que fraguó su leyenda a los platos del mítico club Nitsa y como líder, cantante y guitarrista del hype más clamoroso del pop español de los noventa: Peanut Pie. La estrella de Sideral afluyó en la encrucijada postolímpica, y su intuición, su talento y su influencia presenciaron el ... Read more

    R267,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bent Fabricius-Bjerre

    En biografi

    by Danni Travn ...
    Næsten 100 års dansk kulturhistorie er samlet i Bent Fabricius-Bjerre. Foruden at være komponisten bag eviggrønne melodier som ’Matador’, ’Olsen-banden’ og ’Forelsket i København’ har han haft en karriere som tv-stjerne, produceret store film- og teatersucceser og skabt verdenshits. Efter årtusindskiftet trak han en ny generation på dansegulvet med ‘Jukebox’ og fik alle til at flække af grin som ... Read more

    R99,23

  • Supercell's Supercell featuring Hatsune Miku

    by Keisuke Yamada ...
    Series series 33 1/3 Japan
    The lead singer on Supercell's eponymous first album is Hatsune Miku-a Vocaloid character created by Crypton Future Media with voice synthesizers. A virtual superstar, over 100,000 songs, uploaded mostly by fans, are attributed to her. Supercell is a Japanese creator music group with the composer Ryo leading ten artists, who design album illustrations and make music videos. These videos are ... Read more

    R308,07

  • Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into an Electronic Music and Club Culture Capital

    by Paul Hanford ...
    Coming To Berlin reflects, through the lives and music of migrants, settlers and newcomers, how a constantly in flux city with a tumultuous history has evolved into the de facto cultural capital of Europe. And how at the heart of this, electronic music and club culture play a unique role. A plea for multiculturalism and a love letter to the borderless potential of music, the book breaks the ... Read more

    R158,67

  • 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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  • Electro Rap

    Science Fiction, Fantasy and Reality in the Circuitry of Hip Hop

    by Adam de Paor-Evans ...
    The culture of hip hop shifted dramatically soon after the first wave of studio-recorded vinyl releases at the turn of the 1980s. Drawing upon science fiction, ideas of fantasy, futurism, and sociocultural dynamics, this book presents a study of the impact and influence of electro rap on the formative years of recorded hip hop and beyond.de Paor-Evans reveals a parallel and occasionally ... Read more

    R1 399,31

  • Pink Noises

    Women on Electronic Music and Sound

    by Tara Rodgers ...
    Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of Pinknoises.com, the critically-acclaimed website founded by musician and scholar Tara Rodgers in 2000 to promote women in electronic ... Read more

    R423,07

  • Tomorrow Is the Question

    New Directions in Experimental Music Studies

    Edited by Benjamin Piekut ...
    In recent decades, experimental music has flourished outside of European and American concert halls. The principles of indeterminacy, improvisation, nonmusical sound, and noise, pioneered in concert and on paper by the likes of Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman, can now be found in all kinds of new places: activist films, rock recordings, and public radio broadcasts, not to mention in ... Read more

    R949,08

  • The Roland x0x Series

    A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909

    by James Newman ...
    Series Book 909 - Histories of Electronic Musical Instruments
    The Roland x0x Series: A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909 offers an authoritative but accessible investigation of how the design of these most influential musical instruments is shaped by technological factors, institutional contexts, market forces and imagined users and uses. Drawing on the perspectives of designers and engineers along with musicians ... Read more

    R947,14

  • The Music Producer's Guide To Polymeter and Polyrhythm

    The Music Producer's Guide

    by Ashley Hewitt ...
    Series series The Music Producer's Guide
    Effective music production can be a challenge. This is where The Music Producer's Guide comes in. Each book is designed to demystify a music production concept, bringing professional results to your tracks.In The Music Producer's Guide to Polymeter and Polyrhythm, you will learn:⦁ The music theory that underpins the Western system of meter.⦁ The simple mathematics that govern polymeter and ... Read more

    R95,14 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Balearic: Historia oral de la cultura de club en Ibiza

    by Luis Costa Plans, Christian Len Rosal, Mikel Jaso ...
    A partir de casi un centenar de entrevistas y un proceso de documentación de más de dos años, Balearic cuenta —a través del relato en primera persona de sus protagonistas— la historia de una de las mecas del clubbing mundial: Ibiza. Por primera vez, y a partir del testimonio de DJs y músicos de fama internacional, periodistas, disqueros, bailarines, promotores, hosteleros y propietarios de ... Read more

    R309,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Analyzing NES Music

    Harmony, Form, and the Art of Technological Constraint

    by Andrew Schartmann ...
    Series series Studies in Game Sound and Music
    This study of five of Nintendo’s landmark music scores offers new insights into video game music composition and creativity with limited technology.Faced with severe technological constraints on system memory, composers of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sought ways to disguise repetition in music that repeats extensively. Their efforts gave rise to a set of compositional techniques for ... Read more

    R1 460,49

  • Music Sets You Free

    A Memoir

    by Ryuichi Sakamoto ...
    Translated by Sam Bett ...
    A genre-defying artist who had acquired the status of a musical giant by the time of his death in 2023, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s long career spanned electronic, hip-hop, modern classical and pop music, inspiring artists as diverse as Questlove, Massive Attack, David Sylvian, Alva Noto and Caetano Veloso.A pivotal figure in the synthpop group Yellow Magic Orchestra during the late 70s and early 80s, ... Read more

    R423,88

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  • Queue Up And Dance - Remembering Quadrant Park 1990-91

    by Dave Evans, Emma Warren ...
    'There's never been anywhere like the Quad!' is what you will likely hear if you ever meet anyone who went to the legendary Bootle nightclub, Quadrant Park, in the early 1990s. Described as the UK's first superclub and first legal all-nighter, thousands of people danced there every week before it abruptly closed at the end of 1991.But what made a former 'Sharon and Tracy' club, in a tough, post ... Read more

    R95,30 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music, Electronic Media and Culture

    Edited by Simon Emmerson ...
    Technology revolutionised the ways that music was produced in the twentieth century. As that century drew to a close and a new century begins a new revolution in roles is underway. The separate categories of composer, performer, distributor and listener are being challenged, while the sounds of the world itself become available for musical use. All kinds of sounds are now brought into the remit of ... Read more

    R1 395,90