Electronic music

It's 2013.

'The best non-fiction book I've ever read.

Writing on Raving is the definitive mix of voices from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, providing fresh language for the shared and infinitely varied experience of dancing through the night until the morning.

Tweedy: The Little Amp Who Found His Song is a story of a little amp without hope thatfinally finds its place, purpose, and meaning in the music world in a most unusual way.

Der Techno-DJ und Rave-Philosoph über dreißig Jahre Musik, Feiern und ClubkulturenDie Nächte beginnen oft im Morgengrauen – mitten in der Pampa am anderen Ende der Welt oder in einem Club einer angesagten Metropole.

Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning.

Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning.

From its roots in 1970s New York disco and '80s Detroit techno to today's international, mainstream explosion of such genres as house, trance & dubstep, electronic dance music has reshaped the popular musical landscape.

Electronics Concepts, Labs, and Projects introduces concepts, techniques, and tools needed for productive growth in the fields of audio, video, and multimedia recording.

A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and 70s told through the story of the periods most important forgotten comedy group.

Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr.

Iannis Xenakis' Persepolis stood as witness to one of the most important events in modern human history, the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Iannis Xenakis' Persepolis stood as witness to one of the most important events in modern human history, the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement.

Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement.

The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM's place on the map of popular music.

The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM's place on the map of popular music.

Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas.

Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas.

Call it batida, kuduro, Afro house, Lisbon bass: anyone with a keen ear for contemporary developments in global electronic dance music can't fail to have noticed the rise in popularity and influence of Lisbon-based DJs such as DJ Marfox, DJ Nervoso and Nidia.

Call it batida, kuduro, Afro house, Lisbon bass: anyone with a keen ear for contemporary developments in global electronic dance music can't fail to have noticed the rise in popularity and influence of Lisbon-based DJs such as DJ Marfox, DJ Nervoso and Nidia.

The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music.

The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music.

Modeselektor, the Berlin electronic duo consisting of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, released Happy Birthday!

Modeselektor, the Berlin electronic duo consisting of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, released Happy Birthday!

Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde.

Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde.

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades.

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades.

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.

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.

From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events.

From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events.

In Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid.

Beginning early in the 1980s, a dance music revolution swept across Europe and Britain, merging rock, new wave, disco and worldbeat sounds.

Dance music has seen an unprecedented explosion in the 21st century as a stampede of subgenres, such as dance pop and EDM (electronic dance music), have come to define the pop music scene worldwide.

FOREWORD BY JAMES MURPHY'Literally changed the course of my life' James MurphyWhen someone says, 'You have to know your history.

The Pet Shop Boys are one of the most successful and unusual bands of the last five decades.

No other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys.

Wiley is Wiley, and if you don t know me, you don t know much.

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.

The future of modern music began in Dusseldorf in 1970, when an avant-garde German band, the Organisation re-invented themselves as Kraftwerk and set in motion a train of events which introduced a whole new language into popular culture.

Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22.

This exhaustive bibliography, reflecting current interest in electronic music, includes all available citations of books, articles, and monographs pertaining to "e;musique concrete,"e; "e;Elektronische Musik,"e; "e;tape music,"e; and "e;computer music"e; from  publications in fourteen languages.

When they were creating and releasing their most influential albums in the mid to late 1970s, Kraftwerk were far from the musical mainstream - and yet it is impossible now to imagine the history of popular music without them.