Electronic music

The Radio Phonics Laboratory delves into the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century.

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.

Renegade Snares is the definitive book on drum & bass music.

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

The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians.

For the biggest artists to the most underground, field recordings have become the vital spark of electronic music.

Shimmering in maximal minimalism, joyful bleakness, and bodiless intimacy, Laurie Anderson's Big Science diagnosed crises of meaning, scale, and identity in 1982.

Shimmering in maximal minimalism, joyful bleakness, and bodiless intimacy, Laurie Anderson's Big Science diagnosed crises of meaning, scale, and identity in 1982.

El texto explora la evolución de la música electrónica en México desde sus inicios en los años 20, influenciada por las vanguardias y la experimentación musical, hasta las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI.

Hardware Hacking ist die Kunst, banale Alltags-Elektronikgeräte so umzubauen, dass sie überraschende Geräusche produzieren.

Marlene Krahl lebt für die Musik.

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.

Organised crime puts on a smiley face.

Depeche Mode's 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band.

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.

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.

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.

Depeche Mode's 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band.

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

In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV.

In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV.

In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground.

Paul Oakenfold has sold over 5 million records, has played to over 50 million people and is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the most successful DJ in the world.

In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground.

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.

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

Mein Buch zeichnet den Weg der Punk- Musik der 70er Jahre bis hin zu der Musik in den 2020ern kurz und kompakt nach.

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

Im Namen des Beat, des Break und der BasslineSchon zu Zeiten des Gottes Dionysos gab es ravende Nymphen, in Madagaskar ergreift ein Hip-Hop-DJ die Macht, und der schreibende DJ Hans Nieswandt ist überall dabei!

Ende der Sechzigerjahre schufen Instrumente wie Mellotron und Synthesizer neue Möglichkeiten für ambitionierte Soundtüftler.

"My man Hans Nieswandt!

1997 verfasste Matthew Collin zusammen mit seinem Kollegen John Godfrey mit Altered State - Im Rausch der Sinne das Standardwerk über die damalige Dance-Kultur, ihre Ursprünge, ihre Einflüsse und ihre verschiedenen Gesichter.

Als wir anfingen, ein Instrument zu lernen, waren wir neugierig und fasziniert davon.

From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads: The Secret DJ's Guide to Surviving Dance Music is yje true story of DJing, from an authentic voice speaking to this scene.

'An excellent history of UK dance culture' - The Sunday Times'Engrossing history' - The ObserverFrom the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer of Love in 1988 to the increasingly corporate dance music culture of the post-Covid era, Party Lines is a groundbreaking new history of UK dance music from journalist and filmmaker Ed Gillett, exploring its pivotal role in the social, political and economic shifts on which modern Britain has been built.

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.

Fruto de un año y medio de trabajo, y de cientos de horas de entrevistas con los principales actores y protagonistas de la escena musical y empresarial, "¡Bacalao!

In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry.

** CONTAINS NEW MATERIAL ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER & WINNER OF THE ATTITUDE BOOK AWARD 'Refreshing, inspiring and candid.

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.

In the 1990s, an incredible revolution swept across dance floors worldwide.

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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.

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Hacienda to The Warehouse Project.

Bart van der Heide plädiert mit dieser Publikation dafür, dass Techno-Musik nicht nur als ekstatisches sowie kollektives Erlebnis fungieren, sondern auch als Plattform für gesellschaftskritische Diskurse dienen kann.

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrete.