More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction [Deluxe Edition] [Paperback]

Kodwo Eshun (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Quartet Books (UK); 10th Anniversary edition edition (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0704380250
• ISBN-13: 978-0704380257
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 8.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #403,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Mind-bending Manifesto October 19, 1999

By Tom Moody

Format:Paperback

Less a critical survey than a manifesto for the neuron-altering powers of "breakbeat science," this ingenious book traces the development of sampladelia from the "jazz fission" era of '68-'75 (with excellent analyses of George Russell's and Herbie Hancock's sonic experiments), through the Parliament/Funkadelic groovescapes of the late '70s (including close scrutiny of Pedro Bell's subversive cover art), through Electro (early '80s synth oriented hip hop) and Detroit Techno, to the present Jungle milieu of time stretching and spatio-acoustics. Eschewing a traditional music-crit vocabulary in favor of a riffing, neologistic verbal poetics, Eshun perfectly captures the sci-fi convolutions of the music he describes, and makes an infectious case for the birth of a new audio-paradigm.