Planetronics: A Popular History of Electronic Music – Zavriev Nick – Eksmo – 2024 – ISBN 978-5-04-191276-5
Planetronics: A Popular History of Electronic Music
14.99 €
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Planetronics: A Popular History of Electronic Music
14.99 €
A complete immersion into the history of electronic music.
Nick Zavriev proposes to look at the development of electronic music as a series of related but distinctive local cultural phenomena - Detroit techno, Milan disco, Rotterdam gabber, Düsseldorf krautrock, Bristol trip-hop. 22 cities, 22 styles. Underground heroes and mainstream stars. Fascinating and inspiring stories of heroes of modern music culture who created entire social movements out of nothing.
After reading this book you will definitely not confuse ambient with new-age and learn how the original techno sounds, learn how the first synthesizer appeared and what is the name of the main drum machine of electronic music.
Also:
- How disco influenced the sound of techno.
- When rockers and DJs learned to make collaborative projects and why they came to it in the first place.
- How synth-pop differs from electro and how it formed the basis of all modern music.
- How electronic music was promoted in the USSR under censorship and what the termenvox and Lenin have in common.
- What started the musical careers of David Guetta and Daft Punk.
And much more.
You can read the stories in any order, choosing first those genres and phenomena that are more interesting to you.
Nick Zavriev proposes to look at the development of electronic music as a series of related but distinctive local cultural phenomena - Detroit techno, Milan disco, Rotterdam gabber, Düsseldorf krautrock, Bristol trip-hop. 22 cities, 22 styles. Underground heroes and mainstream stars. Fascinating and inspiring stories of heroes of modern music culture who created entire social movements out of nothing.
After reading this book you will definitely not confuse ambient with new-age and learn how the original techno sounds, learn how the first synthesizer appeared and what is the name of the main drum machine of electronic music.
Also:
- How disco influenced the sound of techno.
- When rockers and DJs learned to make collaborative projects and why they came to it in the first place.
- How synth-pop differs from electro and how it formed the basis of all modern music.
- How electronic music was promoted in the USSR under censorship and what the termenvox and Lenin have in common.
- What started the musical careers of David Guetta and Daft Punk.
And much more.
You can read the stories in any order, choosing first those genres and phenomena that are more interesting to you.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author