INTO THE GROOVE

By mixing lo fi charm into hi fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject jumping and skipping with real analogue delight Sunday Times The story of recorded sound the technological developments the people that made them happen and the impact they had on society from the earliest inventions via the phonograph to LPs EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl While Thomas Edison s phonograph the first device that could both record and reproduce sound represented an important turning point in the story of recorded sound it was really only the tip of the iceberg and came after decades of invention tinkering and experiment Into the Groove tells the story of the birth of recorded sound from the earliest serious attempts in the 1850s all the way up to the recent vinyl resurgence This book celebrates the ingenuity rivalries and science of the modulated groove Vinyl collector and music buff Jonathan Scott dissects a mind blowing feat that we all take for granted today the domestication of sound He examines the first attempts to record and reproduce sounds the origin of the phonograph and the development of commercial shellac discs Later he moves through the fascinating story of the LP record from the rise of electri