Wie sind die Öffnungszeiten?

Montag 12:00 - 20:00 Dienstag 12:00 - 20:00 Mittwoch 12:00 - 20:00 Donnerstag 12:00 - 20:00 Freitag 12:00 - 20:00 Samstag 12:00 - 20:00

Echo Buecher

Echo Bücher is a space for contemporary music, sound and club culture. A main focus on electronic music and techno lifestyle. Books, records, sound object

Bookstore for contemporary music and club culture

Projects / Event Manager contact:
[email protected]

10/01/2026

New!

Home is Where the Heart Strives
Philipp Rhensius, Janina Neustupny, Thomas Burkhalter, Hannes Liechti, and Vinzent Maria Preuß (eds.)
Norient Books July 2025

The new Norient book Home is Where the Heart Strives explores what place means in relation to music and sound. 85 contributors from 38 countries map their sonic landscapes of migration, war, q***rness, and home through essays, poems, articles, artworks, photos, and songs. From a metalhead smuggling banned tapes across the Syrian border to an oasis in the mountains of Bogotá where people gather to vogue, we are looking for places where differences don’t dissolve but resonate.
with contributions by Lendl Barcelos, Bananamonkey, Basil Anliker aka Baze, Marina Benetti, Persis Bekkering, Birds WG, Penelope Braune, Thomas Burkhalter, Kadallah Burrowes, Sinatra Chumo, Juliana Cuervo, Sumangala Damodaran, Domingos, Rana Eid, Ronja Falkenbach, Faravaz Farvadin, Šejma Fere, Vera Fonseca, Chandra Frank, Sally Garama, Dennis Gupa, Rehab Hazgui, Sizo Hlope, Hitman Kaht, Umi Hsu, Ibaaku, Andra Ivănescu, Bruce Johnson, Devangana Kalita, Paul Kammies, Raphael Kariuki aka djrPH, Karun, Anahid Kassabian, Paola LaForgia, Sasha J. Langford, Lutivini Majanja, Chris McGuinness, Elia Meier, Luigi Monteanni, Zahra Motallebi, Jesse Munene, Isaac Abraham Williams aka Isaac Mutant, Natasha Narwal, Janina Neustupny, Saba Niazmand, Kai Oh, Shaahin Peymani, Vinzent Maria Preuẞ, Nazifah Raidah, Philipp Rhensius aka Alienationist, Urs Rihs, Rami Sabbagh, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Sergio Salazar, Justin Oliver Salhani, Jacek Szczepanek Nate Sloan, André Santos, Diana Santos, Ali Sayah, Tillman Severin, Martin Stokes, Studio Flux, Anubhuti Sharma, Majd Shidiac, Jorgé Aarón Silva Rodríguez, Thasil Suhara Backer, Suvani Suri, Gisela Swaragita, Pjotr Tkacz-Bielewicz, Shzr Ee Tan, Wiwi Tri, Fujiko Urdininea, Maria Uthe, Ujif_notfound, Upendra Vaddadi, Abhishek Vidyarthy Singh, Johann Voigt, Elijah Wald, McKenzie Wark, Arief Wibisono, Ytasha Womack, Kimihiro Yasaka

22/12/2025

New!

Studio Electrophonique
The Sheffield space age, from The Human League to Pulp
Jamie Taylor
Manchester University Press April 2025

The amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain's most beloved bands.
The Sheffield space age began in 1961, when local mechanic Ken Patten won a tape-recording competition by recreating the sound of a rocket launch using a pencil and a bicycle pump.
In the decades that followed, the makeshift home studio he constructed became the launch pad for a group of young musicians who would shape the futuristic sound of 1980s pop. The Human League, Heaven 17, Pulp, ABC and others made their early recordings with Ken, whose DIY ethic was the perfect fit for a city facing industrial decline but teeming with ideas.
Studio Electrophonique tells the story of a generation seeking new frontiers in music, using everything they could lay their hands on - from science fiction novels to glam rock, Dada art and cheap electronics - to get there. Drawing on original interviews with Jarvis Cocker, Martyn Ware, Mark White and others, it brings to light a world of humour, charm, creativity and unfounded yet undaunted self-belief.

19/12/2025

New!

Writing on Raving
Z. Beery, G. Mak & M. Wark (ed.)
OR Books May 2025

New York rave culture is having a moment. The music, mostly, is techno, certain flavors of which became the soundtrack to a dancefloor culture that is q***r in a different way to house music-centered gay nightlife. Wark, Mak, and Beery want to document and annotate and celebrate, but also critique, this world in the making. Writing on Raving centers the New York scene, but isn’t limited to it.

This is a book for all of those who need the rave. Who need to dance. Who have at some point needed that beat in their lives. This is a book for all those who have journeyed through the night, through sound, through movement, through chemistry, into other places, other times, other encounters.

Contributors: hannah baer, Zoë Beery, Destiny Brundidge, Harry Burke, Ev Delafose, Zoey Greenwald, Isabelia Herrera, Kumi James, Zora Jade Khiry, Geoffrey Mak, madison moore, MOREN###, Afsana Mousavi, Brittany Newell, MX Oops, E. R. Pulgar, Slant Rhyme, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Anne Lesley Selcer, Journey Streams, Linn Tonstad, cranberry thunderfunk, McKenzie Wark, Frankie Wiener, Simon Wu, Chris Zaldua.

10/12/2025

New!

Sound—Space—Sense DNA #21
HKW (ed.)
Spector Books

People perceive audio events in very different ways. There is still a great deal of uncertainty about the physics, biology, signifiers and unconscious processes on the basis of which auditory experiences are constructed. The book applies the methods of artistic research to convey a sense of how mental space, social practice and the direct experience of sound relate to each other and how connections are generated between these levels – a topology of resonances, reflections and vibrations in perpetual motion.
With contributions by J.-P. Caron and Patricia Reed, Diana Deutsch and Marc Matter, Tim Johnson, Vera Molnar, Gascia Ouzounian, Matana Roberts and David Grubbs as well as Paolo Thorsen-Nagel

Table of contents:

Introduction – Detlef Diederichsen, Arno Raffeiner, Jan St. Werner

Listening to Unencoded Worlds – J.-P. Caron and Patricia Reed

“A strange woman had entered the room and begun to sing” – Diana Deutsch and Marc Matter in Conversation

This somewhere that is still moving – Tim Johnson

View from the Balcony – Matana Roberts and David Grubbs in Conversation

Becoming Air: On Sonic Spatial Metaphysics – Gascia Ouzounian

The Body as Sound, the Sound as Body – Paolo Thorsen-Nagel

With graphic works by Vera Molnar courtesy DAM Projects

03/12/2025

New!

Memorabilia: A Scan Through Dutch Rave Culture Vol. 1
One Eye Witness November 2025

"Designed by Luca Lozano and part of a broader initiative by Podiumkunst and Archival Consciousness, this project will digitise and archive artefacts of Dutch club culture and nightlife, ensuring they remain accessible to future generations. By inviting communities, researchers, nightlife actors, and creators to share and republish their materials, it helps keep electronic music and nightlife heritage alive through a book, a digital archive and an exhibition. Cycling through 432 individual flyers, it is, hopefully, the first in a series of Dutch rave ephemera from the One Eye Witness vaults. Not attempting to present itself as the definitive collection, the book has been assembled from the collections of friends and peers, with the likes of Amsterdam-based cultural institution Paradiso, the legendary RoXY, visual artist Dadara, and Djax-Up-Beats’ Miss Djax included in the credits. 'Memorabilia Vol. 1' serves as a time capsule for a storied and vibrant period in Dutch rave culture - an era that bore witness to gabber's rise and decline, the emergence of modern standard-bearers like Rush Hour and Clone and a scene that has shifted and evolved with the times. But even through all that change, these flyers are a testament to how DIY ethos often endures as the primary driver for innovation in the creative sphere. Adorned with the names of house and techno exports from the American Midwest, illustrious names from the UK's hardcore continuum, and pillars of local Dutch scenes, it documents a two-decade period that saw dance music transcend geographical boundaries. A timely reminder of how the rave can be a vessel for borderless cultural exchange, and beyond the obvious escapism, it is inherently revolutionary; a place where radical expression can reign supreme."

28/11/2025

New!

Minor Keys: Gender, Inequality and Work In Electronic Music
Samantha Parsley
Bristol University Press October 2025

What’s it like to work in the male-dominated world of electronic music? How do women and gender-expansive music producers and DJs thrive despite clubland’s so-called ‘bro culture’? This book combines the author’s personal journey into DJing and music production with insights from a six year immersive research project and interviews with 63 global artists to explore the challenges women and gender-expansive artists face in the industry.
The book tackles common myths around gender, technology and cultural production head on, introducing the concept of ‘ameliorative work’ to recognise the continual and considerable additional work that minoritized genders do in order to succeed.
Engaging, accessible and thought-provoking, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in electronic music, the sociology of the contemporary club scene or diversity issues for workers in the creative industries.

19/11/2025

New!

Ecotones: Investigating Sounds and Territories
Valentin Bansac/Mike Fritsch/Alice Loumeau/Peter Szendy
Spector Books May 2025

In our image-saturated contemporary society, sight often eclipses other senses that are vital to understanding the unseen dynamics of our sensory relationship with environments. As a counter-project to the hegemony of images, the act of listening opens up new possibilities for exploring both built and natural environments and moving our attention to granting a voice to more-than-human agencies.

Ecotones showcases investigations on the relevance of sound in territorial studies. It is developed as a curated collection of texts from various disciplines and practitioners exploring spaces, territories, and ecologies through sonic endeavors. With a variety of formats, from essays and fiction pieces to situated case studies, Ecotones narrates sound as a medium, the act of listening as a political tool, and sonic experiments.

12/11/2025

New!

Unearthing the Music: Footnotes on Sonic Resistance in Non-democratic Europe 1950–2000
Alexander Pehlemann/Rui Pedro Dâmaso/Lucia Udvardyova
Spector Books March 2025

Unearthing the Music. Footnotes on Sonic Resistance in Non-democratic Europe 1950–2000 is the final piece of an international project initiated in Portugal, which has established an online archive for experimental underground and protest sounds. This archive encompasses both the "real socialism" of Eastern Europe and the often-overlooked regimes of Spain, Portugal, and the Greek military dictatorship.
The book presents key aspects of this spectrum: the relationship with the state, the desire for escape, the power of counter-communities, but also the disappointments that followed liberation. It covers topics such as jazz in Poland and the GDR, conceptual post-punk in Yugoslavia, state-run electronic music studios, Roentgenizdat and Magnetizdat productions, women in subcultures, Romanian avant-garde, Iberian punk, and the Ukrainian underground. A journey of discovery, enriched with numerous photos for deeper exploration.

14/10/2025

New!

Biodegradable Soundsystem
Eleanor Bickers
December 2024 / 2nd edition

A retrospective series of interviews, features, and self exploratory essays that uncover corners of old school electronic music culture. Including interviews with Ralf Hildenbeutel, Cedrik Fermont, Tony Davis, Ixindamix, Jon Nuccle & Mike Humphries. Spanning topics from nomadic free parties to hardcore history to northern UK techno institutions.

Limited edition 100 copies
5 colour risograph print
A5 slip sleeve cover
Open back spine
Loose leaf insert with poster & discography.

10/10/2025

Neu!

MF DOOM - Chroniken einer Hip-Hop-Ikone
S.H. Fernando Jr. (aka SKIZ)
Halvmall September 2025

„MF DOOM – Chroniken einer Hip-Hop-Ikone“ erzählt die unglaubliche Geschichte der maskierten Underground-Legende: von seiner Kindheit in Long Beach über erste Erfolge mit KMD bis hin zu seinem beispiellosen Comeback und bahnbrechenden Kollaborationen wie Madvillain und Danger DOOM.
In fünf Akten zeichnet S.H. Fernando Jr. (aka SKIZ) – detailreich und mit exklusiven Einblicken in DOOMs engsten Kreis – das Porträt eines Künstlers, der zum Mythos wurde. Ein einzigartiger Blick hinter die berühmteste Maske des Rap und eine fesselnde Reise durch drei Jahrzehnte Musikgeschichte.

Adresse

Kreuzberg

Öffnungszeiten

Montag	12:00 - 20:00
Dienstag	12:00 - 20:00
Mittwoch	12:00 - 20:00
Donnerstag	12:00 - 20:00
Freitag	12:00 - 20:00
Samstag	12:00 - 20:00

Telefon

+493048628448

Webseite

http://www.echobuecher.com/

Benachrichtigungen

Lassen Sie sich von uns eine E-Mail senden und seien Sie der erste der Neuigkeiten und Aktionen von Echo Buecher erfährt. Ihre E-Mail-Adresse wird nicht für andere Zwecke verwendet und Sie können sich jederzeit abmelden.