Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers - Exhibition Catalogue
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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
100% Cotton short sleeved t-shirt featuring the cover artwork from Kraftwerk's ground breaking Autobahn album
Please note: that the small size is a slightly lighter colour blue (see third and fourth images) than the medium, large and XL, which are all the same.
For over forty years they have entertained us in a wordly, low-key way. All the while they've written music history and one hit after the other: the musicians of the techno pop band Kraftwerk
Their depersonalised style has produced both sonic and visual master performances that are now even noticed by the world of contemporary visual arts, as a unique form of artistic performance. The visual and musical metamorphosis of the group that is indeed more of a power plant than a band, has always been driven by the development of new technologies
Now they are presenting Kraftwerk videos in 3D projections in a museum tour in Munich, London, and New York that will, of course, also be part of future Kraftwerk concerts. The book, complete with 3D glasses, will be published by Schirmer/Mosel
The essay is by Matthias M hling, curator of the October 2011 show in Munich
A History of Dance Music and Rave Culture, The Summer of Love Edition
A history of dance music and rave culture mapped out on the circuit diagram of a 303 bass synthesiser
Celebrates over 900 DJ's, clubs, musicians, free parties, sound systems, record labels, radio stations and fanzines who have been pivotal to the evolution of acid house and its subsequent impact on dance music and rave culture
The print pays homage to the cities, clubs and individuals that were forerunners of acid house, rave and dance culture
Organised around key scenes, clubs, and DJs
Focuses on key moments (Second Summer of Love, Castlemorton, Criminal Justice Act) and features underground clubs (Chicago’s Music Box and London’s Clink Street), pioneering and occasionally overlooked DJ’s (Nancy Noise, Lisa Loud), super clubs (Cream, Ministry of Sound, Gatecrasher), superstar DJ’s (Tiësto, Pete Tong, Sasha, Carl Cox) bands (New Order, 808 State, S’Express, The KLF), producers (Larry Heard, Derrick May, Andrew Weatherall), fanzines (Boy’s Own), record labels (Trax Records, R&S, Warp) and stores (Manchester’s Eastern Bloc) who all played a part in bringing acid house and dance culture to the masses
60 x 80cm
Single colour screen print
135gsm Colorplan Factory Yellow uncoated paper
Designed by Dorothy
