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    Join the Future Bleep Techno and the birth of British Bass Music

    The untold story of British dance music’s first sub-bass revolution, tracing the origins, development, impact and influence of bleep techno, and the subsequent musical styles it inspired, on UK club culture.

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      Jamie Lidell & Luke SchneiderA Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams
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            Don CherryEternal Now
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              Don CherryHear & Now
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                Up the Youth Club : Illuminating a Hidden Historyby Emma Warren
                'A timely reminder of what we all truly crave as human beings - connection.' Doc Brown'Warren hows why youth spaces matter - not just for young people,...
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                  Rock Against Racism 1976-1981By Syd Shelton
                  Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For...
                    Greensleeves BOOKThe First 100 Covers
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                        Soul Jazz Records hoodie (navy)
                        Brand new Soul Jazz Records Functional Outer Wear Product #1 Exclusive to Sounds of the Universe Limited edition navy hoodie (large) with design.
                          Susan SontagNotes on 'Camp'
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                            The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)by Simone de Beauvoir
                            Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage...
                              Beneath the UnderdogBy Chalrles Mingus
                              Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated,...
                                The Art of DancehallPosters and Flyers of Soundsystem Culture
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                                      Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11
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                                        Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12
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                                          The Blood of OthersSimone de Beauvoir
                                          Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These...
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                                            Salsa Y Ache
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                                              Alice Coltrane - Monument Eternal (DELUXE HARDBACK)By Ann Philbin, Franya J. Berkman
                                              Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and others pay tribute to a truly extraordinary figure in 20th-century American jazz. This volume unpacks the cultural legacy...
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                                                THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary work of beauty,...
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                                                  Nova Scotia House : A Novel
                                                  Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era. It is both a love story and a lament; bearing witness to the enduring...
                                                    This Woman's Work : Essays on Music
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