Series
Electronic Music
Genres are usually explained as a family tree, which makes them look tidier than they were. This series follows the equipment, the record shops and the licensing laws instead, because those are what actually shaped the sound.
Contents
2 published, 3 planned. Planned pieces are titles only.
How jungle assembled itself
A genre built in a few years out of a borrowed drum break, cheap samplers, sound system culture and a licensing crackdown. None of it was planned.
Breakbeat hardcore and the ardkore years
For about three years British dance music was faster, sillier and more inventive than anyone involved could sustain. Almost everything that followed came out of it.
- Planned
Sound systems, dub and the arrival of bass as a subject
- Planned
The sampler, and what it did to musical authorship
- Planned
The hardcore continuum argument, and its critics