A memoir of house music, 1988–2002
God is a DJ**but he only warms up for Sasha
Brendan Blood was there for the illegal raves, the Haçienda, and the eight months at Shelley's that turned a shy kid from North Wales into the first superstar DJ. He knew Sasha before anybody else did.
The title isn't a Faithless lyric. In 1994, Mixmag put Sasha on the cover under the headline “SON OF GOD?” — a coronation he reportedly hated. Three years earlier the same magazine had made him the first DJ ever to front it: “SASHA MANIA — THE FIRST DJ PINUP?”
Between those two covers, the job of “DJ” changed for good. This book is about the people who were in the room while it happened.
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The special edition
110 copies. Numbered and signed. Reserve yours before they're printed.
Brendan is printing one short run of 110 numbered copies, each signed by hand. Put your name down now and we'll hold your number — nothing to pay today. When they come off the press you'll get first refusal, before anyone else hears about it.
— of 110 reserved
The Archive
Stories from the book, and the ones that didn't fit in it
Extracts, club histories, and the odd argument about tracklists.
Origins
The night Sasha mixed with the pitch control
Before Shelley's, before Renaissance, before Twilo, there was a room in Stockport and a nineteen-year-old who thought the pitch fader was the volume knob.
Club history
Shelley's Laserdrome: eight months that built a superstar
September 1990 to May 1991. A converted ballroom in Stoke-on-Trent, Italian piano house, and the residency that turned a Haçienda regular into the first DJ anyone queued for.
Why it's called that
'SON OF GOD?' — the magazine cover this book is named after
In 1994 Mixmag crowned Sasha, and he hated it. The title of this book is a joke with a real target, and most people who repeat it have no idea.
Coming soon
The audiobook, read by Brendan
The whole thing, in the accent it was written in. It launches here first — and everyone on the mailing list gets the opening chapter free before anybody else.
The Warm-Up
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