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Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms

Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms

Baker, Arthur

Hardcover

MusiciansMusic BusinessPop/Rock

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 057138742X
ISBN13: 9780571387427
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
For fifty years as DJ, producer and remixer, Arthur Baker has been at the pioneering forefront of hip-hop, rock, and electronic music. His unique and genre-defying sound can be heard on tracks by legendary artists like New Order, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, the Rolling Stones, Al Green, Pet Shop Boys, Quincy Jones, New Edition, Hall & Oates, Neneh Cherry, Mogwai and Fleetwood Mac.

Starting as a club DJ and disco producer at the start of the seventies in his native Boston, Baker moved to New York City in 1981. Through his early disco and hip-hop productions, he came to the attention of the most influential names in a music industry at the height of its powers. This would begin a career that would take him from the sweaty dancefloors of NYC to late-night studio sessions with Bob Dylan and to his celebrated anti-apartheid album Sun City, created with Little Steven Van Zandt.

From the underground to the mainstream, Looking for the Perfect Beat is the unique story of an artist with a need to discover new sounds and new ways to move an audience -- and who has influenced the sound of popular music for half a century.

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