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Key Phrases: rhythmic psychedelia, rhythm synthesizer, sleeve art, Sonic Fiction, Kool Keith, Alice Coltrane (more...)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Quartet Books (UK); 10th Anniversary edition edition (July 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0704380250
  • ISBN-13: 978-0704380257
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,136,757 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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