Raiding the 20th Century

Mentions of Paul Morley’s Words and Music book reminded me of the audio-doc Raiding the 20th Century which I linked to a couple of years ago but you might not have heard it. It’s a fascinating hour long look at the history of the mashup from musique concrète and Alvin Lucier to the present anarchy of, as Morley puts it, “Pro-tooled-up laptop artists”. Go listen to it now.