I think you’re missing a trick and should start doing balearic drop videos…
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Niche genre.
Oh boy 
Could say it’s trancy, or progressive, but for sure some of these artists have my attention e.g. Priori
https://www.ninaprotocol.com/articles/progressive-house-has-never-been-all-that-progressive-but-it-is-oddly-rewarding
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I’m a fan of this series generally but really sparking with this one, lots to say about the creative process, a good one to sit alongside Rick Rubin
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That looks good. I used to work with somebody with the same name, whose nickname was “Dissa”.
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I loved the Ted Kessler book. The decline of the music press laid bare. I just couldn’t get on with the Rick Rubin book, like a book written by someone who is way too into inspirational quote memes .
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I’m struggling with the Rubin, typography is driving me mad. Really is piss poor expected more from Pentagram and the whole ‘creative shtick’ of the book. Such a shame.
Widow on page one didn’t help.
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Yeah. Its bobbins isn’t it. He must have a thousand Run DMC anecdotes, he could surely fill a whole book with stories about Glenn Danzig.
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Just finished this. The stories about Coil and Neubauten are all pretty glorious. Really interesting that Jane Rolink who worked there went on to become Mrs Woods.
Boring vacuous garbage from yet another privileged mega wealthy white bloke who thinks they have the answer to personal happiness - and worse that the rest of us should listen to them. Messiah complex bobbins. Someone recommended it to me as being brilliant, but it found it completely unreadable.
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New DJ name:
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I know what you mean. There are some real gems in there though.
I listened to Rick Rubin on Desert Island Discs. It was incredibly disappointing - the one song he chose to sum up that whole vibrant 80s NYC melting pot was by LCD Soundsystem. Mostly because he met his wife at one of their shows.
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More of a ‘lowering’ than a drop surely?
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Loved Mountains of the Mind. Need a holiday book so this maybe it!
Any other non-fiction recommendations welcome btw🤓
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I found this pretty mind blowing (don’t let the business book tag on the cover put you off 
), particularly the bit on semiconductors.
Also a Dutch guy Geert Mak, latest one about Europe (follow up to his 1999 one)
And one he wrote about the US:
And finally, thought I’d reached peak Partridge but his latest: Big Beacon is very funny if you like him and definitely non-fiction 
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If you haven’t read the John Higgs KLF book I can heartily recommend that
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not a lot that i didn’t already know, but i do appreciate that more time and care was applied to the context of kraftwerk’s locality and “growth plan” rather than a long rundown of the gear they used.
speaking of, the EMS synthi on the cover? i love that fuckin’ synth, but beyond “radioactivity” i don’t remember hearing it all.
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