Tape Leaders: A Compendium Of Early British Digital Music Composers

Within the type of a richly illustrated compendium, Tape Leaders is an indispensable reference information for anybody fascinated about digital sound and its origins within the UK. For the primary time, a guide units out info on virtually everybody energetic with experimental electronics and tape recording throughout the nation to disclose the untold tales and hidden historical past of early British digital music.

With a person entry for every composer, it covers everybody from well-known names like William Burroughs, Brian Eno and Joe Meek to the ultra-obscure resembling Roy Cooper, Donald Henshilwood and Edgar Vetter.

There are sections for EMS and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and amateurs, teams and ensembles that experimented with electronics, together with The Beatles, Hawkwind and White Noise.

Writer Ian Helliwell attracts on his expertise and intensive analysis into digital music. After six years and dozens of interviews, he has amassed info by no means earlier than delivered to gentle on this fascinating topic.

A necessary guide for anybody fascinated about digital music historical past in the course of the Nineteen Fifties and 60s.