It’s hard for me to describe what a huge impact Nicolas Collins’ sample-rich album Devil’s Music (1985) had on me, not to mention his later book, Handmade Electronic Music (2006), so it was a huge pleasure to be invited by The Wire to review his memoir, Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket, due out later this month, just in advance of his 70th birthday. It’s in the new issue, the one with Masma Dream World on the cover.
I love that 2006 book!