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  Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min

  Look closely at any typically "American" article of clothing these days, and you may be surprised to see a Japanese label inside. From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese designers have taken the classic American look - known as ametora, or "American traditional" - and turned it into a huge business for companies like Uniqlo, Kamakura Shirts, Evisu, and Kapital. This phenomenon is part of a long dialogue between Japanese and American fashion; in fact many of the basic items and traditions of the modern American wardrobe are alive and well today thanks to the stewardship of Japanese consumers and fashion cognoscenti, who ritualized and preserved these American styles during periods when they were out of vogue in their native land. In Ametora, cultural historian W. David Marx traces the Japanese assimilation of American fashion over the past 150 years, showing how Japanese trendsetters and entrepreneurs mimicked, adapted, imported, and ultimately perfected American style, dramatically reshaping not only Japan's culture but also our own in the process. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Nishii. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027225/bk_adbl_027225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hail to the Dragon Slayer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 175min

  Hail to the Dragon Slayer is Arthur A. "Buddy" Lemann's memoir of a life of criminal law practice in New Orleans, America's most unique city. Buddy was born in Donaldsonville, LA, the scion of a sugar plantation family. For one too many acts of "youthful exuberance", he was sent, some would say sentenced, to Marion Military Academy in Marion, AL. In 1964, he received his undergraduate degree from Tulane University. He attended Loyola University Law School where he was editor in chief of the Law Review and ultimately received a master of laws from George Washington University. Buddy's criminal law practice spans almost 50 years of some of the most difficult and sensational cases in the history of the American criminal justice system. His client list includes reputed Mafia Don "Carlos" Marccello, Father Dino Cines, the notorious priest accused of trafficking in child pornography, and a host of other colorful and compelling clients. Hail to the Dragon Slayer is appealing to lawyers and people in law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice, fans of true crime and pulp fiction, persons interested in the far-flung reaches of the Jewish diaspora, and cognoscenti of the Southern literary tradition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur A. Lemann, III. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226765/bk_acx0_226765_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  All Tomorrow’s Parties: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min

  From the award-winning, esteemed cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazine, All Tomorrow's Parties is an intimate, spirited memoir of a rebellious young man's fierce pursuit of an artistic life and a portrait of a shifting Berlin in the midst of a cultural renaissance. Rob Spillman has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti in a city 200 miles behind the Iron Curtain. There, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder of the split between East and West, between suppressed dreams and freedom of expression. After an unsettled youth moving between divorced parents in disparate cities, Spillman would eventually find his way into the literary world of New York City, only to abandon it to return to Berlin just months after the wall came down. Twenty-five and newly married, Spillman and his wife moved to the anarchic streets of East Berlin in search of the bohemian lifestyle of their idols. But Spillman soon discovered he was chasing the one thing that had always eluded him: a place, or person, to call home. In his intimate, entertaining, and heartfelt memoir, Spillman narrates a colorful, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artist's life that is also a cultural exploration of a shifting Berlin. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008603/bk_blak_008603_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Inventing the California Look: Interiors by Frances Elkins, Michael Taylor, John Dickinson, and Other Design in Novators

  The influential rooms of Elkins, Taylor, Dickinson, and other great talents-as photographed by Fred Lyon-represent the innovation and splendor of postwar Northern California interiors, which continue to inspire the work of designers today. From the 1940s to the 1980s, some of the best resi-dences in Northern California were decorated by a coterie of designers whose names were once recognized only by the cognoscenti of interior design. From Frances Elkins and Tony Hail, with their aristocratic aesthetics, to Michael Taylor and John Dickinson, with their bold fantasies, these designers created revolutionary settings that were idiomatic of their time and place-fresh, luxurious spaces complementing the various terrains and lifestyles of the northern part of the state. Fred Lyon (b. 1924) is perhaps the only photographer who knew and documented the work of this talented group. Akin to what Julius Shulman was doing in Southern California, Lyon worked closely with the designers and magazine editors to help shape the look for posterity. In the years following the work of these giants, most of the spaces they created are gone or vastly changed, replaced by different tastes and new styles. Now re-appreciated for their artistry, we can relive this exciting era through Lyon's superb photography.

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  KMS 25th Anniversary Classics

  Detroit-Legende Saunderson gehört mit Juan Atkins und Derrick May zu den Gründervätern des Detroit Techno. Mit Inner City (Good Life) feierte er Chart-Erfolge. Hier seine wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen!Saunderson ging mit Juan Atkins und Derrick May auf die Belleville High School in Detroit (The Belleville Three). Er gilt als Mitbegründer der Stilrichtung Detroit Techno und hatte mit dem kommerziellen Projekt Inner City Chart-Erfolge. Er gründete das Label KMS Records, auf dem er unter den Projektnamen Reese, E-Dancer, Tronik House und anderen Titel wie The Sound, Bounce your body to the box, The groove that won't stop und Rock to the beat veröffentlichte. Die neue Compilation gibt einen Überblick über seine wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen. CD1 - 1. Kreem - Triangle of Love CD1 - 2. Reese - The Sound CD1 - 3. Reese - Just Want Another Chance CD1 - 4. Reese & Santonio - How To Play Our Music CD1 - 5. Keynotes - Let's, Let's, Let's, Let's Dance CD1 - 6. Reese & Sanantonio - Bounce Your Body To The Box CD1 - 7. Kevin Saunderson - The Groove That Wont Stop CD1 - 8. Reese & Santonio - Truth Of Self Evidence CD1 - 9. Symbols & Instruments - Mood CD1 - 10. Reese - Rock To The Beat Founded in 1987, by Kevin Maurice Saunderson, his first release was Triangle Of Love produced by, 'Kreem', (just one of his many guises), little did Saunderson know, at that time, that two and a half decades later, he would still be releasing music on his KMS label. Let's go back to the beginning... Born in Brooklyn in 1964, Saunderson moved to the picturesque Detroit suburb of Belleville, when he was nine, a different world to the urban decay of the city itself. Saunderson has an enviable dual reputation. To the dance cognoscenti he's one of the Belleville Three, (with Saunderson being the 'Elevator', Juan Aktkins being the 'Originator' and Derrick May being the 'Innovator'), the trio of friends invented Detroit Techno. The trio met at Belleville High School where, Saunderson befriended Juan Atkins and Derrick May, who introduced him to the eclectic post-disco playlists of Detroit radio DJ Charles The Electrifying Mojo Johnson. Johnson played disco, funk, Prince, Parliament/Funkadelic, Kraftwerk, the B52's and Tangerine Dream, to name just a few. Saunderson already had a serious love for music, but he didn't realise he was going to produce music, until then. In his first year at East Michigan University, where he studied telecommunications, he gave up football to become a DJ himself. He took inspiration from visits to Larry Levan's Paradise Garage in New York and Frankie Knuckles' Warehouse and Music Box in Chicago. Saunderson, Atkins and May, played at campus parties, until setting up their own club in Detroit, the fabled Music Institute. Of the Belleville Three Atkins was the first to make a record, with electro group Cybotron's Alleys of Your Mind in 1981, then May, with Rhythim is Rhythim's Nude Photo in 1987. Inspired by his friends, Saunderson bought some basic equipment and made his own debut in 1987 with Triangle Of Love. I just had a good ear and a good heart for music, he says. Juan Atkins led me into DJing which led me into making extra beats to play in my set. Then I started learning how to play basslines, putting a lot of work in, just elevating it from there Undeniably, Saunderson is a gifted producer (going under guises such as Reese, E-Dancer, Tronikhouse and Reese Project), remixer and a tireless international DJ. To lovers of great pop music he's also one third of Inner City, who made regular visits to the Top 20 in the late 80s with jubilant hits like Big Fun and Good Life, paving the way for hundreds of underground-to-chart crossover records to come. On a visit to England in 1988 Saunderson realised that a mythology had built up around the Belleville Three. To his even greater surprise, Big Fun became not just a massive club record but a pop hit. He also helped to revolutionise remixing when he worked on We Know It by Wee Papa Girl Rappers. Over the following decade Saunderson would continue to produce imaginative remixes for the likes of New Order, Pet Shop Boys, The Shamen, Paula Abdul and the Lighthouse Family. Even whilst travelling the globe, djing or touring with Inner City, Saunderson continued to produce and release not only his own tracks on his KMS label (with tracks such as The Sound by Reese, Rock To The Beat by Reese, Truth Of Self Evident by Reese & Santonio, Let's, Let's, Let's, Let's Dance by Keynotes and Colour Of Love by The Reese Project), but he also released tracks by other up and coming artists, releasing classic underground gems, such as Flash by Fix, Can You Feel It by Chez Damier, Soundscape by Kosmic Messenger, Definition Of Love by Kaos and Use Me by R-Tyme. The list is endless. Fast forward to 2012 and it's hard to believe that KMS is still releasing records. With such a long history, what better way to celebrate than to release a special CD Boxset. The KMS 25th Anniversary Classics will be released on CD, Digital (and for those vinyl collectors, there will be 6 x 12 Samplers). Each format includes a plethora of gems which have been released on KMS over the last 25 years. KMS may be celebrating it's 25th Anniversary, but there's no slowing down for Kevin Saunderson. He's still producing, remixing and djing (all over the world). Here's to the next 25 years.... TRACKS: CD2 - 11. Nexus 21 feat Donna Black - Still Life (Keeps Moving) CD1 - 12. Kaos - Definition of Love CD1 - 13. MK - Somebody NewCD2 - 1. The Reese Project - Direct Me CD2 - 2. Tronikhouse - Smooth Groove CD2 - 3. Tronikhouse - Speaker Pushing (The Dirty Mix) CD2 - 4. Reese Station Of The Groove CD2 - 5. Tronikhouse - Sparkplug CD2 - 6. Reese - Bassline CD2 - 7. Tronikhouse - Straight Outta Hell CD2 - 8. Tronikhouse - Uptempo CD2 - 9. The Reese Project - Colour Of Love CD2 - 10. Chez Damier - Can You Feel It CD2 - 11. Fix - Flash CD2 - 12. Chez Damier - I Never Knew Love CD2 - 13. Reese - Funky Funk Funk CD2 - 14. Inner City - Do Ya (Carl Craig Build Up Mix)

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  Going For It

  For five years in the mid-1980s, the 1369 Club in Cambridge, MA was a thriving, vibrant and colorful home to a diverse clientele of both jazz "newbies" and the cognoscenti. The roster of performers was equally diverse, made up of top local and national jazz artists as well as a lucky group of amateur musicians who were able to join the "pros" on stage at the frequent open sessions featured by the Club. For three nights in 1985 the awe-inspiring triumvirate of guitarist and Miles Davis al

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  Sign in Please

  2008 reissue of the L.A. Metal band's debut album, originally released in 1984. Feted and championed by the Hard Rock cognoscenti (supporters included Motley Crue and Ozzy Osbourne), this Los Angeles based quintet made all the right noises by packing both melody and muscle into their music, highly valuable commodities that found Autograph reaching a level of success that would see them out perform most of the competition. Sign in Please was, then, the bands highly praised debut album, unleashing a beast of significant fire power and songs that would stand not only the test of time but would also improve with age including the classic hit single 'Turn Up the Radio'. Taped by renowned British producer Neil Kernon (Queensryche, Dokken etc) the album exudes Class-A hard rock all the way with big hooks and solid riffs. Rock Candy.

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  Valentine

  Digitally remastered edition. Includes booklet with 3,500 word essay, enhanced artwork with previously unseen photos and new interview. Rock Candy is no stranger to bad timing and misfired opportunities. For most people the results are of no great consequence but occasionally, the repercussions - especially with years of hindsight to put the loss into perspective - are truly lamentable. The failure of Valentine's sole album is one such case in point. If any melodic rock band should have made a huge international splash then this should have been the one. Formed in New York during the mid-'80's and fronted by the sensational vocalist Hugo Valenti, the band soon made friends amongst the NY music business cognoscenti, leading to major management opportunities (Michael Bolton's manager Louis Levin) and a coveted major label deal with Columbia Records. It was easy to see why they attracted such a passionate reaction, armed with music that was not only powerful and memorable but also displayed a songwriting ability that left the competition in the dust. Amazingly the band's fortunes took a nose dive when executive changes at the label left them high and dry, forcing them to switch to another company, Giant Records, helmed by industry heavyweight Irving Azoff. Produced by Neil Kernon (Autograph, Queensryche, Lynch Mob) the album was eventually released in late 1990, and it received a great reception from the melodic rock aficionados. Packed with incredible songs, ranging from gilt-lined AOR such as 'Runnin' On Luck Again', 'Too Much Is Never Enough', to the pomp blast of 'Where Are You Now' and Once In A Lifetime'. But the icing on the cake must surely be 'Never Said It Was Gonna Be Easy', one of the greatest power ballads of all time.

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