First Floor Volume 1

English language

Published 2023 by Velocity Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-913231-34-7

A collection of Reynaldo’s most thought-provoking essays, First Floor Volume 1 provides a nuanced, wide-ranging look at contemporary electronic music culture, with a particular focus on systemic issues that often go undiscussed.

Topics covered included the evolving nature of electronic music fandom and artistry, value shifts brought on by the current changing of the generational guard, the shortcomings of the modern music press and the growing gap between electronic music’s foundational rhetoric and the genre’s present-day norms.

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2 editions

tele_well reviewed First Floor Volume 1 by Shawn Reynaldo

Review of 'First Floor Volume 1' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

3,5 stars. Converting a substack newsletter into a book is a hard task, this one has worked out, partly. Put together, these short essays form as a timestamp of the post-covid era, from a viewpoint of someone who is deeply involved in the music journalism and (broken) music business. Streaming, poptimism, DJing and partying after covid are some of the topics covered. The recurrinng topics and (sometimes) too plain language writing, reliance on ephemeral topics and sources (Twitter) will make it probably date quite fast, but that is yet to be seen, i’ll get back to it in a few years.

Subjects

Music