To celebrate our Junior Tomlin book launch party at Signature Brewery in London on 3 December (more…)
Win Junior Tomlin flyers
The story of the Synth Evolution book
Our fifth and final book of 2020, Synthesizer Evolution, is an illustrated directory of every major synthesizer, drum machine & sampler made between 1963 and 1995. Author Oli Freke explains the evolution of the book! (more…)
Secret DJ Interview
Last week we announced we'll be publishing The Secret DJ: Book Two, the follow-up to the anonymous author's acclaimed debut. We called the Secret DJ in Ibiza to ask some questions... (more…)
The story of Bedroom Beats & B-sides
Our fourth book Bedroom Beats & B-sides details the rise of a new generation of bedroom producers in the instrumental hip-hop and electronic music scenes. Here author Laurent Fintoni explains how the idea for the book can be traced way back to 2008. (more…)
Electronic music book recommendations
Tim Burgess from The Charlatans recently added an extensive list of music book recommendations to his website. There are some great books well worth checking out but, as usual with these lists, it mostly includes rock titles with a token few on electronic music and club culture. However, it did inspire us to create our own list of recommended electronic music books. (more…)
Launching a book during a global pandemic
For the last six months, I’d been working towards the launch date of 2 April 2020 for our second book, State Of Bass: the Origins of Jungle/Drum & Bass by Martin James. Everything had gone to plan and we were on schedule to make the date. It was now time for marketing and promotion to let everyone know about it. (more…)
Junior Tomlin book excerpt
Veteran artist Junior Tomlin is renowned for his stunning flyer and record cover art, mostly produced during the golden era of rave culture. His visionary work combines influences from sci-fi, surrealism, fantasy, futurism and comics. (more…)
The story of State of Bass
Veteran music journalist Martin James (Melody Maker, Muzik, DJ, Mixmag, Electronic Sound) wrote the first book on jungle/drum & bass back in 1997. Entitled State of Bass: Jungle - The Story So Far, it had sold out by 1998 and has never been reprinted. Until now. (more…)
Join The Future tour recap
To celebrate the release of Join The Future, author Matt Anniss and Velocity Press owner Colin Steven went on the road in November for a series of dates around the UK and even Canada. (more…)
Join The Future excerpt
To celebrate the fact that our first book Join The Future: Bleep Techno & the Birth of British Bass Music is out now in all good book and record shops we have an exclusive excerpt from the title. (more…)