Members Only is a premium “coffee table” book showcasing the iconic membership cards and passes (VIP, Access All Areas etc) of the acid house and rave generations. It features over 500 items of memorabilia from the late 80s and 90s...... Read more
Out Of Space: How UK Cities Shaped Rave Culture by Jim Ottewill is a book that journeys through the different UK towns and cities club culture has found a home. From Glasgow to Margate via Manchester, Sheffield and unlikely dance music meccas...... Read more
Pleased to announce that we’re publishing Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music and Club Culture Capital this spring. Told through Paul Hanford‘s novelistic narration, the book mixes imagination and interview...... Read more
Our second book of 2022 is Dreaming in Yellow, a biography of the infamous free party collective DiY and the remarkably eclectic, outrageous and occasionally deranged story of them doing it themselves. Here author Harry Harrison explains how he...... Read more
Our forthcoming book Daft Punk’s Discovery analyses the French duo’s second album. Discovery was a record that confounded many fans when it was released in 2001, thanks to its blatant pop hooks and unlikely sonic bricolage. It was a...... Read more
Our forthcoming book The Label Machine is a practical guide to starting, running and growing your own record label. Here author Nick Sadler explains how he came to write...... Read more
Our forthcoming novel Trip City was originally released in 1989 along with a soundtrack by A Guy Called Gerald on cassette. Not only are we reissuing the book but all five tracks from the soundtrack will be available on vinyl for the first time...... Read more
It’s exciting any time we announce a new book but particularly so with our latest, Trip City, as it’s our first fiction title and it comes with a soundtrack by A Guy Called Gerald on vinyl. Author Trevor Miller explains how he came to...... Read more
Our next book Long Relationships details exactly what DJing is like for the 99% of DJs who never make it big. Here author Harold Heath explains how he came to write the...... Read more
Our first book of 2021, Who Say Reload: The Stories Behind the Classic Drum & Bass Records of the 90s, is an oral history of the records that defined jungle/drum & bass straight from the original sources. Photography is provided by Eddie...... Read more
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...... Read more
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...... Read more
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