Last night a dj saved my life
by Bill Brewster · first published 2000
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…their unique contributions to a style that would eventually grow far larger than they ever expected. There are also some good books on the history of electronic music I can recommend, the best one being "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" http://www.amazon.com/Last-Night-DJ-Saved-Life/dp/0802146104...
on “Beatbox: A Drum Machine Obsession” ↗Oof - beautiful writing. That sounds like it was out of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life [1]! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Night_a_DJ_Saved_My_Life_...
on “Who killed the rave?” ↗…[Searls] - Open Sources 2.0 [O'Reilly] - Innovator's Dilemma [Christensen] - Net Worth [Hagel] - Democratizing Innovation [von Hippel] - Fooled by Randomness [Taleb] Other books I always keep around are "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" (a history of DJ's and electronic music), The Singularity is Near, and some Calvin and Hobbes ;-) All the reading is most definitely worth it, if you don't feel that way you're not reading the right…
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