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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Baker, Baker Arthur
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2025
• EAN: 9780571387427
• ISBN: 978-0-571-38742-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 42 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Memoirs, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, History of Music, Popular Music, Music: styles & genres