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I A HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC ^HROBBING WORDS ON SOUND EDITED BY PETER SHAPIRO MODULATIONS 4 MODULATIONS A HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC: THROBBING WORDS ON SOUND EDITED BY PETER SHAPIRO PROJECT DIRECTOR lARA LEE V CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Foreword bylara Lee Introduction by PeterShapiro Ctironology / Timeline PIONEERS 1 Roll Tape: Pioneers in Muslque Concrete byRob Young Interview: Pierre Henry 2 KRAUTROCK 24 Kosmlk Dance: Krautrock and its Legacy bySimon Reynolds Interview: Can 3 DISCO 38 9 AMBIENT 156 Disco: Playing With a Different Sex Basic Ambient Story byPeterShapiro by TonyMarcus Interview: Giorgio Moroder Sidebar: ut 10 DOWNTEMPO 168 - Sidebar: Jazz-Funk Lost in Music Interview: Tec Macero byKurt Reighley Sidebar: Afro-FututKin Interview: Scanner 4 POST PUNK 58 n TECHNOLOGY 188 Snarl: A Post-Industrial Automaton Analog Fetishes and Digital Futures byPeterShapiro by MichaelBerk Interview: Genesis P-Orridge Interview: Robert Moog Sidebar: ^v.i i r EPILOGUE 210 5 HOUSE 72 Interview: Alvin Toffler The Reinvention of House byKodwo Eshun INDEXES 214 Glossary of Terms 6 HIP-HOP 88 Artist Biographies Iron Needles of Death and a Piece of Wax Authors and Editor Biographies byDavid Toop Index of Artists/Producers Interview: Arthur Baker Index of Song/Track Titles Sidebar: Miami Bass Index of Record/Long Work Titles Sidebar: Freestyle Index of Record Labels Index of Equipment 7 TECHNO 108 Index of Styles Days of Future Past Index of Photographer Credits byMike Rubin Interview: Derrick May Caipirinha Productions Information Director's notes on the making of Modulations 8 JUNGLE 130 Credits and Acknowledgements f^odern States of Mind by Chris Sharp Interview: Squarepusher Sidebar: Breakbeats Sidebar: Gabba Editedby:PeterStiapiro Project Director:laraLee Graphic Design:AlanHill ProductionManagers:Mark Lukowitsky,RobMarane.CraigWillis ProductionCoordinator:GilesMiller Modulations-A HistoryofElectronicMusic: TtirobbingWordsonSound.Copyrigtit®2000byCaipirinhaProductions, Inc.Allrightsreserved.No partofthisbookmaybereproduced inanymannerwhatsoever(beyondcopyingpermittedbySections107and108oftheUnitedStatesCopyright Law)withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisherexcept inthecaseofbriefguotationsembodiedincriticalarticlesorreviews.Alltexts®2000 bytheAuthors.Allimages®2000bythephotographersorcopyright holdersandusedbypermission. Publishedin2000by: inassociationwith: CaipirinhaProductions,Inc. D.A.P./DistributedArt Publishers,Inc. 510LaGaurdiaPlace»5,NewYorkNY10012 155SixthAve.2ndFloor.NewYorkNY10013 [email protected] www.caipirlnha.com Tel:212-627-1999 Fax:212-627-9484 dap^dapinc.com www.artbook.com ISBN1-e91024-06-X PrintedinHongKong ManufacturedThroughAsiaPacificOffset