> Does anyone have any more info on > this book? Looks like great reading.
It is a great read, though Detroiters will have to laugh at the transcripts of Michigan place names -- apparently Juan studied at Wotshenaw Community College in Ipsonati or somesuch blather. It's pretty formulaic too (each DJ gets the same questions), but there's a lot of great info inside and it's one of the books I come back to a lot -- almost everyone talks about how they grew up, why they became a DJ, thoughs on the scene, etc. Here's a review I wrote for the All Music Guide to Electronic(a), which will *definitely* be published by May. "Jonathan Fleming's in-depth look at the British club scene of the late '80s and early '90s is an invaluable tool to better understand the individuals involved in making house and techno into a global force. In the first part of the book, Fleming publishes his one- or two-page interviews with close to one hundred DJs (and a few producers). Each of his selections are major influences on the style (some of whom rarely give interviews), including British names Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Carl Cox, Grooverider and Andrew Weatherall as well as American legends like Frankie Knuckles, Larry Heard, Juan Atkins, Todd Terry, Jesse Saunders, Derrick May, DJ Pierre, Joey Beltram and many others. The second part of the book focuses on famed clubs around the globe including British entries like the Haçienda, Shoom, Spectrum, Land of Oz, Ministry of Sound and Cream plus a few from America like the Tunnel Club, Limelight, the Roxy, the Sound Factory and the Music Box. Though Fleming's interviews focus on only a few standard questions (and his transcriptions of the American interviews could've used an informed spell-checker), there's an astonishing amount of information (and many pictures) about the early lives and careers of most of the seminal figures in electronic dance music. What Kind of House Party Is This? is easily dance music's most educational resource."
