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this is a unique novel about music/for people who love music/the idea of music/the emotions of music
after years of playing bass in lousy two-bit bands, elliot finally gets his big chance/he meets a singer, a dj and a drummer who seem to have everything/passion, talent, hypnotic songs, and a whole new way of funky seduction/but just as their first dance record is climbing the charts, one of the band disappears/elliot's search for the missing musician becomes a wild, fiercely emotional trip into the dark soul of rhythm
in this astonishing novel jeff noon conjures the mystery of dance culture like no other writer/allowing the complex rhythms of the music to infect his language, noon creates a new kind of writing/liquid dub poetics/in the grooves he discovers a world where the scratches of the stylus cut the body/a dj's samples are melodies of blood/love is a ghost lost in the boom box/and the only remix that really matters is the remix of the heart
this book is not just about music: it IS music/ the prose is remarkable: loose, rhythmic, constantly bringing order from chaos the way elliot's bassline does, its apparent disorder masks its precision/it riffs and stutters like the music running all their lives/jeff noon's style is unique; he is one of a handful of writers who can truly be called originals
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. . . takes a psychedelic trip through time, visiting key moments in Manchester's pop history including major events at the last night of the Electric Circus, the premier punk club.
. . . deals sensitively with the subject of rock and roll suicide including Manchester being plagued by young male suicide. The book starts on Ian Curtis Boulevard.
. . . is Jeff Noon's farewell to Manchester novel. He now lives in Brighton.
. . . is a reaction against the rampant "laddism" that has dominated contemporary fictional accounts of rock and dance music up to now. This is a different kind of book about music - one that explores the real and deep way in which music affects us and changes our lives.
. . . experiments with a new recording medium - the concept of liquid music in line with the increasingly liquid state of modern existence.
. . . shows Jeff Noon experimenting with fiction using the five great techniques of dance music: remixing, segueing, dub, scratching and sampling. This is a new kind of writing - let it take you on a dubtextual adventure. Experience Metamorphiction!
. . . is published simultaneously with the needle in the groove CD - this is not just another talking book but an experiment in words AND music and a remix of the concepts in the novel.
First published by Anchor in may 2000 priced £9.99. Now available in Black Swan paperback priced £6.99.
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