From the cacophonous surrounds of London to the sea stacks of Orkney, via the abandoned military facilities of the Suffolk coast and the watery expanses of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, from the quarries and neolithic sites of Snowdonia and the wide open skies of Norfolk to the hubbub of Nairobi and Berlin, the streets of Kyiv and the windblown wilds of Antarctica – music is everywhere. You just need to know or learn how to listen. Ears To The Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and E...

Renegade Snares is the definitive book on drum & bass music. Pieced together using original interviews conducted with all the scene’s main players, it traces the history of jungle/drum & bass from its early roots in sound system culture and rave music right through to the present day.With its hyperspeed breakbeats, warping bass pressure, and vast spectrum of sounds, drum & bass quick spawned a whole new movement in youth culture. What began as an outlaw st...

For the biggest artists to the most underground, field recordings have become the vital spark of electronic music. Whether documenting nature, sampling the city or capturing the atmosphere of archaeological sites, musicians are using found sounds to make sense of our world. Ears To The Ground explores the relationship between electronics, landscape and field recordings in the UK, Ireland and around the globe, discovering how producers and artists evoke the natural world, history and folklo...

When the Gold Rush came to Murrayville, it brought with it rogues and bandits, but none of them more daring than the one who came to be called "The Ghost." He got his name from his mysterious knowledge of all the comings of going of the town and its gold transportation. The miners and townsfolk had to band together to hire Silver Pete to take care of their ghostly problem.

In Pete's Bar in the Bowery in New York, Pete tells some newspaper friends the story of Morgan the Fearless, a notorious desperado in the west. After terrorizing the Bridgewater region, the mayor hires Buck Christie to confront and defeat Morgan. Christie makes sure his challenge is heard. One night, Morgan enters the bar in Bridgewater with both guns trained on Buck Christie. The bar patrons freeze, and the atmosphere turns deathly quiet. Which one will walk out alive?

A week-long dust storm has almost destroyed Bob Lindsey’s ranch and the surrounding region. He soon learns that the storm has also put his friend Andy Barnes’ cattle at risk and the only clean water for them is at a cost of ten cents per head from his former friend, John Street. Why would Lindsey jeopardize his life to save someone else’s cattle and risk the rage of two former friends?