Ritchie Kellingray, better known as Strange Rollers to the Nu-Rave community, has just announced his own book - a hard working project that took nearly 3 years.
Ritchie K is a music producer for almost 23 years releasing music in all formats and various label with a versatile style with the likes of bass driven House to Breaks, Future Jungle, Dubstep and many more.
His brand new book titled 'The Rave List 1988-1994' includes a massive content of rave images, record shops, record shop adverts, record covers, magazine covers, flyers, tapes, and all things rave related! It showcases over 1000 labels and their discography and interviews and features with Nookie, Nicky Blackmarket, Remarc, Ron Wells, Evil Eddie Richards, Production House, Sammy Try Unity, Jay Cunning, Fat Controller, Vinyl Junkie, Creative Wax and many more! There are also written pieces with pivotal record shop owners, record sleeve designers, pirate radio stations. Add to that the fact that you can take a look at previously unseen photos from Tonka at The Zapp Club – Brighton.
"This is the most in-depth list of rave record labels you will ever see in print. Ritchie K is by far the most intense record collector, and vinyl enthusiast I have ever met. All of these labels listed, spanning the golden era of rave. Ritchie has passionately dug for since 1988, and continues to do till this very day. Not only does it list every rave related record label ever, the ultimate guide for vinyl diggers. It also has a complete documentation of all the amazing flyers, magazines, tapes, pictures Ritchie has collected throughout his life. Not only as a vinyl enthusiast, but a rave lover and someone with quite the overwhelming amount of physical rave archive. He may just have one of the biggest treasure chests of rave history alongside his gargantuan record collection in the world. To top it all off there is also a number of incredible interviews from a number of pivotal DJ’s, Labels, Promoters, Producers, Record Shops. This book is an essential guide to get lost in. Every page is a new road of discovery to the history of rave music. Every page sparks nostalgia. Every page has been lovingly created from Ritchie K’s 36 years of love for all things “Rave Music”. This is the Ultimate RAVE LIST!" - Billy Daniel Bunter
You can pre-order your copies now on the link above via Music Mondays (impront of Billy Daniel Bunter) by the price of £30, which includes a free entry to launch party on Saturday December 7th / Electrowerkz / all dayer.
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