(313) Fwd: RE: Another electronic music book...

From Lance C McGannon
Sent Fri, Jun 18th 1999, 20:59

Snipped this message from the idm list.
It looks like the below mention resource 
will be a good companion to any electronic 
music enthusiast. Get the book below AFTER
you get Dan's Techno Rebels.  :  )

>From: "John Bush" <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
>To: "James R McPherson" <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx>, <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: RE: (idm) electronica reviews ...
>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:10:35 -0400
>
>> At work a while back I saw that there was to be an
>> All Music Guide to Electronica published - it evidently
>> had its publishing date pushed back, but does anyone
>> have an idea as to when it might be published?
>
>Yup, it's still coming, sometime in middle to late fall...  The original
>publishing date was early this year, but fortunately we got a few extra few
>months to pack in many more artists (over 1000 total) and reviews (by
>list-members Sean Cooper and myself, among others).
>
>Our nominal focus is electronic(a), but we also covered the old-school
>electronic influences that always get name-checked -- from Cluster to
>Jean-Jacques Perrey to Mantronix to Ash Ra Tempel to LaMonte Young to
>Durutti Column -- with plenty of room for all yr IDM favorites like Mouse on
>Mars, Boards of Canada, Pole, Funkstorung, Push Button Objects, etc. and
>even a few former/current list-members (Solvent, Kid-606, maybe even
>Autechre!).  I'll e-mail once again when we're closer to the publishing
>date...
>
>> And I'm wondering if it
>> will actually be worth it...
>
>I know I'm biased, but I think it'll be fun.  We made the book as inclusive
>as possible, so don't be surprised or offended if you see an alphabetical
>progression like Cabaret Voltaire, Cabbageboy, John Cage, Cajmere, Can,
>Cappella, Wendy Carlos, Derrick Carter (it's in there!).  These artists have
>much more in common than most people would like to admit, and just
>personally speaking, I love throwing a bunch of things in the blender and
>seeing how it turns out...
>
>
>.John.
>

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