Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers - Exhibition Catalogue
£20.00
At more than 120 bpm, electronic music sets the tempo on dancefloors around the globe. Accompanying the exhibition Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers, this book offers an insight into the visual culture of electronic music, and how technology, design, art and fashion have contributed to its power. With its roots in Detroit and Chicago in the early 1980s, electronic dance music was popularised across Europe through underground rave parties. Its impact on contemporary culture is still unfolding today. Containing interviews with early pioneers such as techno legend Jeff Mills, The Designers Republic’s Ian Anderson, and those pushing the political dimension of electronic music, such as ballroom dancer and DJ Kiddy Smile, Electronic bears witness to the shifting nature of the genre
Illustrated with over 300 images, some published here for the first time, Electronic features Jean-Michel Jarre’s virtual studio; work by pioneer Daphne Oram of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; audiovisual performances by musicians like Bicep and the Chemical Brothers; fashion collections by Raf Simons and Charles Jeffrey of Loverboy; iconic photography by Jacob Khrist and Tina Paul; artwork by Christian Marclay; club graphics from Peter Saville and Mark Farrow; and iconic venues such as the Haçienda, Gatecrasher, Fabric, Berghain and the Warehouse Project. Reflecting the shifts in society over the past thirty years, electronic music has generated distinct visual languages as well as its own political and cultural ideals
Edited by Jean-Yves Leloup, Gemma Curtin and Maria McLintock
Designed by Agnès Dahan Studio and Design Museum Publishing
A new NEON print celebrating the most influential and exciting electronic albums of the last 50 years
42 seminal electronic albums reimagined as a series of oversized postage stamps beginning with the 1968 groundbreaking eponymous album by Silver Apples and featuring other classics including Kraftwerk and their 1974 album Autobahn, Brian Eno and Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Gary Numan and The Pleasure Principle, The Human League and Dare, New Order and Power, Corruption and Lies, Depeche Mode and Violator, Massive Attack and Blue Lines, Aphex Twin and Selected Ambient Workds 85-92, Portishead and Dummy, The Chemical Brothers and Exit Planet Dust, Daft Punk and Homework, Bjork and Homogenic and Jamie xx and In Colour
Each stamp features a graphic inspired by the album (or tracks on the album), the date of release, the label it was released on and its running time
Developed in a unique electric blue colourway exclusively for the Design Museum Electronic Exhibition
A history of electronic music mapped out to the circuit board of a theremin, one of the world's first electronic musical instruments
Celebrates over 200 inventors, innovators, artists, composers and musicians who (in our opinion) have been pivotal to the evolution of electronic music, from the invention of the earliest known sound recording device in 1857 to the present day
The print loosely groups genres, from the obscure Musique Concrète (Pierre Schaeffer) to the better known Krautrock (Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream, Neu! and Faust), Synthpop (Gary Numan, Human League and Depeche Mode) and Electronica (New Order, Massive Attack, LCD Sound System and Daft Punk)
Key pioneers featured include Léon Theremin, Bob Moog, Karlheinz Stockhausen, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, John Cage, Brian Eno, BJÖRK, Aphex Twin and our favourite innovating record labels Mute and Warp
