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Celebrate of the history and significance of both the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster for the company's 75th anniversary in this combined edition of Dave Hunter's two best-selling books! The Fender Telecaster, created in Les Fender's Fullerton,...

FOREWORD BY JAMES MURPHY'Literally changed the course of my life' James MurphyWhen someone says, 'You have to know your history...' this is it. A pop culture classic for over two decades, now fully refreshed and updated as part of White Rabbit's Deep...

'The rainbow reaches right across the sky, for miles and miles, and has landed right in the middle of our field. My mother, Alison, is standing at the beginning. I'm sure it's a beginning, rather than the end, as there's no pot of gold in sight. The...

Dive hands-on into the tools, techniques, and information for making your own analog synthesizer. If you're a musician or a hobbyist with experience in building electronic projects from kits or schematics, this do-it-yourself guide will walk you through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262681544Author Curtis RoadsFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm * 19mm

With hundreds of interviews conducted over a 35-year span, this book is the most comprehensive history of television scoring to date. Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV...

Mastering Electronic Dance Music is a guide to the sonic considerations of EDM audio. Written by a successful Apple-approved mastering engineer, it introduces readers to all the techniques behind mastering electronic dance music.Beginning with the...

Organised crime puts on a smiley face.When the Summer of Love hit Britain in '88, Wayne embraced the bright new world of dance music, MDMA and all-night celebrations. But alongside the ecstasy, his natural East End entrepreneurial instincts kicked in,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231163Author Martin JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. As author, veteran synthesizer instructor Brian K. Shepard draws on his years of experience in synthesizer pedagogy in order to peel back the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231798Author ElijahFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

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 vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231347Author Shawn ReynaldoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Creating Sounds from Scratch is a practical, in-depth resource on the most common forms of music synthesis. It includes historical context, an overview of concepts in sound and hearing, and practical training examples to help sound designers and...

In 1999, Underworld's Karl Hyde began writing a public diary. Every day since then, Hyde has documented his thoughts, lyrical works-in-progress, poetry and biographical essays alongside 'found' visuals. For the last sixteen years, these entries have...

In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the...

The Moog synthesizer "bent the course of music forever" Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog, the man who did that bending, was a lovable geek with Einstein hair and pocket protectors. He walked into history in 1964 when his homemade contraption...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733074025Author Mike EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Scout MediaPublisher Scout Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231323Author Matt AnnissFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Recorded in England, Denmark and Italy between May and September 1989, Depeche Mode's seventh studio album 'Violator' was a landmark record beloved by fans and universally regarded as the band's creative highpoint. Eventually selling 7.5 million...

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental manifestations of electronic music. From early recording equipment to the most recent multimedia performances, the history of electronic music is full of interesting characters,...

When LCD Soundsystem broke up in 2011, they left behind a small but remarkable catalog of music. On top of the genius singles and a longform composition for Nike, there was a trilogy of full-length albums. During that initial run, LCD Soundsystem-and the...

Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an...

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In Mars By 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through to the familiar sounds of electronica, house and techno that we know today. It's a tale of mavericks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739996574Author Ashley HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Stereo Output LimitedPublisher Stereo Output LimitedWeight(grams) 172g

Featuring a foreword from Annie MacIn 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 Hacienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the...

Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devices. This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999600372Author Ashley HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Stereo Output LimitedPublisher Stereo Output LimitedWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231521Author Ben MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

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 fans...

No other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys. In 1991, the band toured North America for the first time shadowed by journalist Chris Heath and legendary rock photographer Pennie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231064Author Oli FrekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231057Author The Secret DJFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

'Heavenly is more than a record label, it's the absolute nectar of all that's brilliant in the culture of these island. I love the shit out of them and everything they stand for.' Irvine WelshBELIEVE IN MAGIC tells the story of Heavenly Recordings in...

The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage's philosophy is not simply a novel method for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793530779Author Jeff RonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Everything you want to know about the fabulousness that is Eurovision! The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the world's longest running TV programmes, and has become a much loved tradition across Europe and now Australia. From the spandex to the...

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.'A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary...