- Paperback: 509 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd; 1 edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0747542139
- ISBN-13: 978-0747542131
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 762 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,295,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Missed opportunity!,
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This review is from: Ambient Century (Paperback)
Upon merely skimming through the index, I came upon numerous errors, as have the other reviewers. I list a couple that I spotted with ease:Incredibly, there seems to be no mention at all of Isao Tomita, at least according to the contents and index. Wendy Carlos has never owned or used a Moog System 55. Giorgio Moroder didn't use a drum machine in anger until at last 1981, when the Linn LM-1 was released. The drums and percussion on all the groundbreaking 1970's Moroder/Bellotte recordings was provided by drummer Keith Forsey or through the use of Moog synthesizer modules. It was a tape loop of Forsey's kick drum that provided the only real drum sound on 'I Feel Love'. The inaccuracies in this book made me refrain from buying it, which was a shame since the effort was clearly well-intentioned. Roll on a properly error checked new edition!
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Errors In the Ambient Century,
By Derek Pierce (Bath ,England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ambient Century (Paperback)
I bought this book having read a review in "The Wire" magazine, the review said the book was bad, but I did'nt believe it and bought it. I have since read it and can honestly say that I have never read a book with so many factual mistakes in it. As the writer of a "History of Electronic Music" for a magazine and a lecturer in Computer music I would suggest that you do not buy this book until all the errors have been corrected. A typical example, "Robert Fripp studied JG Bennett at Sherborne House, Dorset", the Sherborne House where he studied Bennett is in Gloucestershire,near Cheltenham. Another "EMS produced the "Portobello" synth, it was in fact called the PUTNEY. There are many more mistakes which makes the book difficult to recommend to my students or indeed anyone else until such time as it has been corrected.
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Errors In the Ambient Century,
By Derek Pierce - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ambient Century (Paperback)
I bought this book having read a review in "The Wire" magazine, the review said the book was bad, but I did'nt believe it and bought it. I have since read it and can honestly say that I have never read a book with so many factual mistakes in it. As the writer of a "History of Electronic Music" for a magazine and a lecturer in Computer music I would suggest that you do not buy this book until all the errors have been corrected. A typical example, "Robert Fripp studied JG Bennett at Sherborne House, Dorset", the Sherborne House where he studied Bennett is in Gloucestershire,near Cheltenham. Another "EMS produced the "Portobello" synth, it was in fact called the PUTNEY. There are many more mistakes which makes the book difficult to recommend to my students or indeed anyone else until such time as it has been corrected.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Missed opportunity!,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ambient Century (Paperback)
Upon merely skimming through the index, I came upon numerous errors, as have the other reviewers. I list a couple that I spotted with ease:Incredibly, there seems to be no mention at all of Isao Tomita, at least according to the contents and index. Wendy Carlos has never owned or used a Moog System 55. Giorgio Moroder didn't use a drum machine in anger until at last 1981, when the Linn LM-1 was released. The drums and percussion on all the groundbreaking 1970's Moroder/Bellotte recordings was provided by drummer Keith Forsey or through the use of Moog synthesizer modules. It was a tape loop of Forsey's kick drum that provided the only real drum sound on 'I Feel Love'. The inaccuracies in this book made me refrain from buying it, which was a shame since the effort was clearly well-intentioned. Roll on a properly error checked new edition! |
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