Music-Genres & Styles-Electronic

An expansive and illuminating account of the development of electronic music, told with passionate enthusiasm by Matthew Collin, the critically-acclaimed author of Altered State and Rave On.Dream Machines tracks the music's evolution from early avant-garde experiments after World War Two through psychedelia, art-rock and...

How to Build Your Own Home Recording Studio will step the reader through acquiring the required equipment, cable types, configuration, and testing. You will also be shown how to setup the DAW (digital audio workstation) software and configure it based on the equipment you...

The Pet Shop Boys are one of the most successful and unusual bands of the last five decades. They are the pop duo that proves pop music can be modern, ecstatic and playful as well as serious and intelligent, winning them legions of devoted...

At the time, it was unclear why the UK government targeted the Spiral Tribe travelling sound system. Even after arresting many key members and launching one of Britain's biggest court cases against them. Was it really because they were a marauding horde of anarcho-techno-pirates,...

Using a concept she calls authenticity maneuvering to explain how clubs, clubbers, and DJs navigate authenticity, branding, and commercialism, Danielle Hidalgo argues that the strategic use of a rave ethos bolsters acceptance in dance music spaces while also making commercial practices less visible or...

This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of heavy metal culture in Argentina between 1983 and 2002. Contributors address the music's rituals, circulations, cultural products, lyrics and intertexts, allowing readers to rethink the place of national heavy metal within Argentinean politics and economics, after...

From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists. In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the...

Listening to the Music the Machines Make is the revolutionary story of electronic pop from 1978 to 1983, a true golden age of music.This definitive account explores how krautrock, disco, glam rock and punk inspired a new generation to rip up the rulebook and...

A lavishly produced collection of more than 1,000 press and magazine cuttings, not included in The Annotated Scrapbook, that illustrates the career of Gary Numan, from his first Tubeway Army single to the Berserker tour of 1984, with particular emphasis on his reception in...

Whether you want to learn how to purchase songs online to rip and burn CDs, convert old albums and cassettes to digital formats, this book will teach you everything you need to know.Author: Rick Broida, Denny AtkinISBN-10: 0072257083ISBN-13: 9780072257083Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2004Pages: 299Format:...

An inside look at the music born, bred, and perfected in Chicago. Chicago house music originated in the city's Black, gay underground in the late seventies and became one of the most popular musical genres in the world by the end of the century....

Author: MomusISBN-10: 1665197897ISBN-13: 9781665197892Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2020Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d

ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCTION WITH SYNTHESIZERS Unleash Your Musical Genius: Dive into Electronic Music Production with Synthesizers!"From Novice to Maestro: Master Electronic Music Production with Synthesizers!"Revolutionize Your Sound: The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Music Production with Synthesizers!"Synthesize Your Success: Elevate Your Music with Electronic Music...

A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of...

A collection that goes beyond the canon to analyze influential yet under-examined works of electronic music.This collection of writings on electronic music goes outside the canon to analyze influential works by under-recognized musicians. The contributors, many of whom are composers and performers themselves, offer...

Designed for introductory courses in electronic music and multimedia, Digital Audio and Acoustics for the Creative Arts presents the fundamental concepts of musical acoustics, psychoacoustics, electronics, digital audio, audio recording, and communication among devices via the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) and Open Sound...

Bringing together a diverse group of world-leading professionals across post-production film sound and electroacoustic music, Art of Sound explores the creative principles that underpin how sonic practitioners act to compose, tell stories, make us feel and communicate via sound.Author: Andrew Knight-Hill, Emma MargetsonISBN-10: 0367755882ISBN-13:...

Explore the captivating journey of synthwave through "The History of Synthwave" by Herkimer Throckmorton. From its roots in '80s electronic music to the global spread of this retro-futuristic genre, this comprehensive guide delves into subgenres like Outrun, Dark Synthwave, and Dreamwave. Uncover the influence...

Featuring a foreword from Annie Mac In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Ha輅enda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights...

From the cacophonous surrounds of London to the sea stacks of Orkney, via the abandoned military facilities of the Suffolk coast and the watery expanses of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, from the quarries and neolithic sites of Snowdonia and the wide open skies...

Depeche Mode's 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its "Concert for the Masses," 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche Mode, despite low American album sales and a lack of...

Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across its 16 studies. It aims to address means of increasing appreciation and understanding related to the experience of sonic creativity (music involving any sounds, not just musical notes).Author: Leigh...

A collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the Future Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future--the...

DO NOT BUY THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS Seriously, just don't do it. This book is full of poor grammar, highly irregular spelling, and pointless descriptions of terrible music on an outdated medium. If you DO know what this is then OMG...

Explore the captivating journey of synthwave through "The History of Synthwave" by Herkimer Throckmorton. From its roots in '80s electronic music to the global spread of this retro-futuristic genre, this comprehensive guide delves into subgenres like Outrun, Dark Synthwave, and Dreamwave. Uncover the influence...

For the first time, in The Sound of the Machine, Bartos speaks candidly and with wit and humour about his life in Kraftwerk, a band widely acknowledged as being one of the most important in modern music.Some of the most beautiful, era-defining music has...

An academic analysis of the internet's favorite music genre Popular among YouTube-browsing students looking for a study soundtrack, lo-fi music offers a sense of nostalgia while cycling through relaxing images. This book-length essay looks at internet culture through the lens of psychoanalysis, semiotics and...

Effective music production can be a challenge.This is where The Music Producer's Guide comes in. Each book is designed to demystify a music production concept, bringing professional results to your tracks.Within The Music Producer's Guide to EQ, you will embark on a transformative journey,...

Author: Martin RoachISBN-10: 1906191174ISBN-13: 9781906191177Publisher: Music Press BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2010Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.48d

Electronic Music from Scratch is a complete crash course in the joys of musical circuitry. Taking inspiration from famous instruments in electronic music history, this guide shows readers how to create dozens of whimsical, unexpected, and incredibly usable musical instruments. Create oscillators that compose...

Author: MomusISBN-10: 1665197889ISBN-13: 9781665197885Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2020Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs

David Guetta: The Songbook is a collection of 42 hit songs from the world's biggest DJ, arranged for piano, voice, and guitar for the first time in one book. This artist-approved songbook features a 4-page color photo section and includes Number 1 hits such...

Just like Memphis and Rock'n'Roll, Dusseldorf is regarded as the Mecca for electronic music. The capital of North Rhine-Westphalia became the centre of an analog electronic movement from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. This is the oral account of the city's most influential...

Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary. Something radically new--an extraordinary rarity in musical culture--it was an instrument that used a genuinely new source of sound:...

Author: Illenium, Frank MarraffinoISBN-10: 8886560311ISBN-13: 9798886560312Publisher: Z2 ComicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2023Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 10.31h x 6.77w x 0.47d

Everything you need to know about making music in one place! 2024 & Beyond!Not so long ago music production was only available to the rich and famous. However, these days it's now possible to produce professional sounding music from your own home.In fact, you...

Unsayable Music presents theoretical, critical and analytical reflections on key topics of contemporary music--including acoustic, electroacoustic, and digital music--and audiovisual and multimedia composition. Six essays by Paulo C. Chagas approach music from different perspectives such as philosophy, sociology, cybernetics, musical semiotics, media, and critical...

For some people, at some times, in some places, on some drugs, dance music can be a gateway to transformative, even transcendent experiences. With the help of skilled DJs, dancers can reach euphoric states, discard their egos, and feel social barriers dissolve. Dance floors...

From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events. From free party teknivals proliferating across Europe since the...

The soundtrack to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda(tm): Spirit Tracks is packed with melodic themes that sound great on the piano With this officially licensed sheet music collection, pianists can dazzle friends and family by playing 22 familiar themes from the popular video game....

Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the definitive story of The Chemical Brothers. Told in the voices of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, with contributions from friends and collaborators, it is fully illustrated with 30 years of mind-bending visuals.Author: The Chemical BrothersISBN-10: 1399600079ISBN-13: 9781399600071Publisher: MobiusLanguage:...

Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic, popular, and avant-garde electronic musicians, is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there...

Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others? The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popular in the theatre but by those with successful cast recordings, movie versions, or even illegal bootlegs on YouTube. The...

EDM DJ & Producer MasterclassGrab your chance to own this two book bundle by Tommy Swindali. Covering Everything you need to know about Electronic Dance Music Production, Mixing and DJing. Including: Electronic Dance Music Production: The Advanced Guide on How to Produce Music for...

Everything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place!Included in this 2 Book Collection are: Music Production For Beginners 2022+ Edition. Music Production, Songwriting & Audio Engineering, 2022+ Edition: The Professional Guide. If you're serious about taking your Music Skills to a...

This book illuminates the development of electronic and computer music in East Asia, presented by authors from these countries and territories (China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan).The scholars bring forward the cultural complexities and conflicts involved in their diverse encounters with new music technology and...

When the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) began as a group of students at the University of Toronto in 1972, they performed with cumbersome, finicky analog instruments and DIY logistics, never sure if everything would work as intended. Today's CEE sound comes from a sophisticated...

From the acclaimed author of ArtSex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity andself-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionaryartists. "A fascinating tale of theinterlinking lives of three legendary trailblazers."SALENA GODDEN"Re-sisters emanates anenthralling power."JUDE ROGERS, MOJO"Cosey Fanni Tutti has...

In this issue's cover story, we go inside how an FX team built a working R/C prop of the famous disembodied hand "Thing" from Netflix's Wednesday, and how you can bring your own props and robots to life with channel mixing, telemetry, and on-the-fly...

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.Listen to the audio book read by the author at https: //vimeo.com/396183697.Hear...