Provides information on how to: buy the essential equipment; set up your kit beatmatch seamlessly scratch with vinyl and CD; make a great demo; and, market yourself as a DJ. This book features: explanations in plain English; get in get out information; icons and other navigational aids; tear out cheat sheet; and, top ten lists.
Disco is the music that America tried to forget. This book includes material from over three hundred interviews, including John 'Jellybean' Benitez, Michael Cappello, Ken Cayre, Alec Costandinos, Steve D'Acquisto, Michael Fesco, Rochelle Fleming and more. It contains a series of compiled discographies and a collection of more than seventy photos.
DJs like Fatboy Slim, Sasha and Paul Oakenfold are the new pop stars: high priests in the rapidly expanding world of dance music. Drawing on many nights out, this is DJ Dave Haslam's fascinating collection of portraits of the major players.
Since its foundation in 1989, Warp Records has become a synonym for futuristic adventures in sound and vision. 'Warp' tells the story of how a small sheffield dance label grew to foster an international range of artists.
Experiencing Disco, HipHop, House, Techno, Drum 'n' Bass and Garage Discographies traces the history of ideas about music and dance in Western culture.
Few bands have had as significant an impact as South London's So Solid Crew. Asher D - notoriously imprisoned for gun possession - is one of the most famous faces of this controversial collective; here, he tells his story in his own words.