Electronic music

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.

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

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.

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.

Volcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings.

The first academic introduction to Krautrock, exploring both context and legacy in addition to expert discussions of the major bands.

This volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout James Tenney's five-decade artistic career.

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

It's 2013.

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.

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.

In Akkorde ohne Applaus gewahrt Matthias Hartwig alias Jimmy de la Mar einen ehrlichen und fesselnden Einblick in das Leben eines Musikers jenseits des Rampenlichts.

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.

A thrilling, filmic immersion into Berlin's legendary club scene - a skillfully told novel about the fragility of life.

A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the definitive story of The Chemical Brothers.

Danger.

Synth-Pop (kurz für Synthesizer-Pop; auch Techno-Pop genannt) ist ein Subgenre der New-Wave-Musik, das in den späten 1970er Jahren bekannt wurde und in dem der Synthesizer das dominierende Musikinstrument ist.

This is a chapter from Alex Ross's groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, 'The Rest is Noise'.

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.

At the time, it was unclear why the UK government targeted the Spiral Tribe travelling sound system.

Just like Memphis for Rock'n'Roll, Dusseldorf is regarded as the Mecca for electronic music.

The arrival of a new style of music and a new type of drug in 1988 ignited a revolution.