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Bass Mids Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

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An oral history of the UK's soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and others In the years following the arrival of the Windrush generation, the UK's soundsystem culture would become the most important influence on contemporary pop music since rock and roll. Pumped through towering, home-built speakers, often directly onto the thronged streets of events like the Notting Hill Carnival, the pulsating bass lines of reggae, dub, rave, jungle, trip hop, dubstep, and grime have shaped the worlds of several generations of British youth culture, but have often been overlooked by historians obsessed with swinging London, punk, and Britpop This oral history, consisting of new interviews conducted by respected dance music writer Joe Muggs, and accompanied by dramatic portraits by Brian David Stevens, presents the story of the bassline of Britain, in the words of those who lived and shaped it

Inner City Pressure: The Story Of Grime

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The year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumbling council estates of inner-city London. Making beats on stolen software, spitting lyrics on tower block rooftops and beaming out signals from pirate-radio aerials, a group of teenagers raised on UK garage, American hip-hop and Jamaican reggae stumble upon a dazzling new genre Against all odds, these young MCs will grow up to become some of the UK's most famous musicians, scoring number one records and dominating British pop culture for years to come. Hip-hop royalty will fawn over them, billion dollar brands will queue up to beg for their endorsements and through their determined DIY ethics they'll turn the music industry's logic on its head But getting there won't be easy. Successive governments will attempt to control their music, their behaviour and even their clothes. The media will demonise them and the police will shut down their clubs. National radio stations and live music venues will ban them. There will be riots, fighting in the streets, even murder. And the inner-city landscape that shaped them will be changed beyond all recognition Drawn from over a decade of in depth interviews and research with all the key MCs, DJs and industry players, in this extraordinary book the UK's best grime journalist Dan Hancox tells the remarkable story of how a group of outsiders went on to create a genre that has become a British institution. Here, for the first time, is the full story of grime

Kraftwerk 3D Book

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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

SEQUENCE: A Retrospective Of Axis Records

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Sequence is selected and compiled by Jeff Mills to commemorate 20 years of Axis Records and its commitment and contributions to Electronic Dance Music Contains LP covers, portraits, live pictures, artsy photography and some limited text Limited edition of 500 copies Supplied with a USB memory stick containing 30 carefully curated tracks produced by Jeff Mills Tracklist:1 –Jeff Mills: The Art Of Barrier Breaking 4:472 –Jeff Mills: G-Star 3:233 –Millsar: Gamma Player 5:494 –X-102: Daphnis (Keeler's Gap) 5:255 –Jeff Mills: GATA 3:576 –Jeff Mills: Unfastened And Floating 3:247 –Jeff Mills: Le Mer Et C'est Un Caractere 5:568 –Jeff Mills: Flying Machines 5:189 –Millsart: The New Arrivals 5:2610 –Jeff Mills: Perfecture 5:5011 –Jeff Mills: The Loss Of Power 3:5012 –Jeff Mills: Condor To Mallorca 5:4113 –Jeff Mills: Utopia 4:1814 –Jeff Mills: A Universal Voice That Speaks To All That Will Listen 3:3315 –Jeff Mills: Expanded (A1) 3:1316 –Jeff Mills: Microbe 5:2017 –Jeff Mills: Tracer 4:5718 –Jeff Mills: Time Slip (Unreleased Version) 4:2619 –Jeff Mills: Spiral Galaxy 4:1420 –Jeff Mills: The Industry Of Dreams 4:3721 –Jeff Mills: Life Cycle 5:2322 –Jeff Mills: The Bells 4:4723 –Jeff Mills: Star Chronicles: Orion Belt 3 10:1524 –H&M: Real Life 4:2425 –Jeff Mills: Automatic 4:5126 –Jeff Mills: The Dancer 5:0127 –Jeff Mills: Changes Of Life 4:5228 –Jeff Mills: See This Way 5:0729 –Jeff Mills: The Realist 3:2730 –Jeff Mills: Spider Formation 4:38

The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club

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Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created. This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid GBP20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write HACIENDA. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith