Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound

by Peter Shapiro

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A technophile's wet dream going beyond the limits of an encyclopedia or a record guide, here are essays by musicians and music journalists which illuminate genres techno, house, krautrock, disco, hip-hop, jungle, drum'n'bass, ambient and downtempo. Probing the conceptual origins of synthesised sound and including legendary names Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Robert Moog and John Cage, the black roots of electronic music are also documented, from free-jass traveller Sun Ra to funk inovators show more Parliament and Funkadelic. With sections on fusion, dub, post-punk, breakbeats+. show less

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A great book describing a part of the electronic music history with various stories. Stories are sometime connected and show how the electronic movement evolved. The book is not exhaustive but that's clearly impossible in the fuzzy electro musical world. If you want to remember your old days of moving in darked rooms. That's a nice flashback.

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