Tapeworks - Art & Design of 80s Experimental Electronic Music (Book)
Selected cassette tape and vinyl artwork from experimental electronic music of the 1980s. Touching on industrial, noise, new wave, minimal, drone, sound art, ambient and more. A visual archive of the xerox scanned imagery, disorderly type and hand illustration used to present the decade's boundary-pushing music and abstract compositions.
Pet Sounds: Animals and Musicians on Record Sleeves (Book)
This title by Alberto Vieceli is about musical artists and their appearences on record sleeves from around 30 countries of all different genres including next to super exotic examples the following: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Alice Cooper, Kate Bush, Frank Zappa, John Lennon / Paul Mc-Cartney, Patti Smith Group, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Chér, Giorgo Moroder, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Rod Stewart, Cat Stevens, Johnny Guitar Watson, Brigitte Bar…
Favoritism DIsc Guide - 7 Inch Japan Domestic Disc Disco B-Side Edition (Book)
*2024 Stock* "Disco Beats has created a disc guide zine in paper format. The theme is domestic disco 7-inch B-sides. Please get a copy of this zine and go on a treasure hunt at record stores. Most of the records in the zine can be obtained for a few hundred yen. (Some of them are chill soul, some are disco, so please check out YouTube and listen to them)."A lovely little book about rare Japanese 7" records that comes, well, in a 7x7" format. The book focuses mostly on neglected B-sides, which i…
Mati & The Music: 52 Record Covers 1955–2005 (Book)
Mati Klarwein (1932–2002) was a major presence in the New York art scene, admired by everyone from Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí to Jimi Hendrix and Jackie Onassis. His Pop-Surrealist universe of pantheistic religious harmony, sexual fertility and gender and racial unity gave visual expression to an era. Mati & the Music presents Klarwein’s 52 paintings that appeared on album covers, a body of work that began in the mid–1950s and continued for half a century. Many of the album covers were commis…
It Was the Streets that Raised Me
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * Coming from a HipHop and Punk/Hardcore background, the streets are the place where all our relevant references come together: music, skateboarding, graffiti, political action. The book thus combines selftaken photographs of our surroundings and found footage ranging from movie stills to reproduced magazines and record covers. Both layers are intertwined in a fictional script, formulating an attitude which links Leipzig in 2010 to the New York City of the late 80…