Armed only with a Roland-606 and 303, a teenage Kurtis Mantronik redefined the sound of hip hop, while simultaneously plotting a new course for dance music.

The disco hippies who took on the mainstream music industry (and won) – then promptly crashed spectacularly

A delightfully frank account of running New York's hottest label, Sleeping Bag, his relationships with leftfield luminary Arthur Russell, before the dream crashed and burned in a haze of.... freebasing.