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Chess Set

£49.00

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A Chess set that is equally beautiful being played or displayed Includes easy to read instructions in English, French and German Comprised of a wooden board with an acrylic top and lacquered wood pieces

Lenticular Pattern Jigsaw Puzzle

£28.00

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A lenticular pattern jigsaw puzzle Colourful and a beautiful piece of art in its own right 500 pieces

Colour Gradient Pattern Jigsaw Puzzle - Teal / Bronze

£38.00

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Test your ability to tell shades of colour apart with the bronze to teal to white gradient jigsaw puzzle A vibrant way to meditate on colour. The act of putting it together is slow and deliberate, where the colour of each piece is used to locate its proper position 1000 pieces

Sunrise Sunset London Jigsaw Puzzle

£18.00

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A 500 piece puzzle featuring an illustration of the central London skyline including the Gherkin and the Shard Includes cotton drawstring bag for puzzle pieces  Made with recycled board 

Pocket Synthesizer - Speak

£85.00

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The Teenage Engineering Speak pocket operator is a third generation miniature, battery-operated synth that is perfect for on the go musicians A vocal synthesizer and sequencer with built-in microphone for 8 different voice character sampling microphone for sampling\ 120 seconds sample memory sequencer parameter locks\ step multiplier 8 voice characters 8 effects transpose and change scale built-in speaker 3.5mm audio I/O replaceable drum sounds with microtonic (sold separately) jam sync animated LCD display folding stand break away lock tab clock + alarm clock battery powered (2xAAA) 1 month battery life 2 year standby time Dimensions: 6 x 10.5cm Read the full user guide View all pocket operator models, which perfectly complement each other

For the Record: Conversations with People who have Shaped the Way We Listen to Music

£25.99

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To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, the Red Bull Music Academy has curated conversations with masterminds and trailblazers in today's music on their perspectives and strategies for success The Red Bull Music Academy is creating the future of music by bringing the vanguard of the industry together. In the book For the Record, the leaders shaping the current musical landscape offer their insights on today's most relevant topics and how they will affect the evolution of music production For the Record includes conversations between luminaries such as Nile Rodgers and Martyn Ware—the forces behind some of the biggest tunes in disco and pop from the likes of Chic, Daft Punk, David Bowie, Madonna, The Human League, and Heaven 17—who compare notes on the best way to create chart-topping hits. Erykah Badu, one of neo-soul's defining voices, shares career advice and psychedelic wisdom with up-and-coming New York rap duo The Underachievers. DJ Harvey and Ben UFO, two different generations of DJs, talk about the good old days, the present day, and the uncertain future of selecting records for a living. Jamaican visionary Lee "Scratch" Perry is paired with UK dub producer Adrian Sherwood. Those familiar with Perry's unique worldview will not be disappointed by this surprising and funny conversation

State of Bass: The Origins of Jungle/Drum & Bass

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As UK government legislation standardised music and bad drugs forced the euphoria of the rave into the darkness, a new underground movement emerged - jungle/drum & bass. It was the true sound of the beating heart of 1990s UK. A melting pot of Britain's multi-cultural urban hardcore rave distilled via the journey from Jamaica's Tivoli Gardens soundsystem clashes, through the UK's inner city blues parties and onto jazz-funk all-dayers and soul weekenders. The jungle/drum & bass nexus was like nothing else the world had experienced before Drawing on interviews with some of the key figures in the early years, State of Bass explores the scene's social, cultural and musical roots via the sonic shifts that charted the journey from deep underground to global phenomenon Originally published in 1997, State of Bass: The Origins of Jungle/Drum & Bass extends the original text to include the award of the Mercury Prize to Reprazent and brings new perspectives to the story of the UK's most crucial subterranean scene

Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979

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Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s-from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America's suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and Miami Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of Love Saves the Day like hot liquid vinyl. They are interspersed with a detailed examination of the era's most powerful DJs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin-as well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fuelled dance music's tireless engine Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young. It incorporates more than twenty special DJ discographies-listing the favourite records of the most important spinners of the disco decade, and a more general discography cataloging some six hundred releases Love Saves the Day also contains a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos