With a Foreword by Brian Eno
The Ambient Century reveals the drift in twentieth-century music from composers to non-musicians, from strict rules to no rules and from the single note to the sample. From the expanding classical horizons of Debussy ro the revolutions in electronic music inaugurated by Stockhausen and Cage; through the epoch-defining music of rock maestros The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix to the pure electronic creations of Kraftwerk, Goldie and Moby - this is earthed by the development in Ambient Sound. Ambient has established itself beyond question as the 'classical music of the future', and this book is exhaustive in its knowledge and coverage. In this new edition, Mark Prendergast has updated the bible of electronic sound.

‘Prendergast's highly stimulating book courses across the last century, criss-crossing happily between classical, jazz, rock and its subdivisions, charting the myriad ways composers, musicians and galloping technology have expanded our sonic horizons’ —The Times

'It's not so much a Desert Island Discs as the soundtrack for a misson to Mars ... Prendergast describes a fascnitaing musical journey' —Uncut

'A stonker of a coffee-table wonder ... one of the most comprehensive representations of electronic music' —Bassline and Blank Magazine