In Dismantle, Destroy, Reinvent, Youth writes about his creative life as one of the most celebrated and influential producers of his generation through a dozen of the classic albums he's shaped and cultivated. With an extraordinarily eclectic rage of artists and genres, ranging from Paul McCartney to Kate Bush, The Orb to The Verve, and from Goa Trance to Britpop, and full of unexpected, wise and witty digressions drawing on personal memoir and philosophy, Youth takes us deep into the creative process, unearthing the true role of the producer in creating sonic mastery.
Youth can go from the giddy heights of producing albums by the biggest superstars on the planet to the deepest and weirdest underground dance scenes in dark basements and far-flung corners of the planet. From the wild and combative sound barrage of Killing Joke via untold blissed-out ambient and acid house vistas and the mainstream song structures of Crowded House and The Verve to pure pop. From creating some of the UK's first ever hip-hop beats back in the early '80s to pioneering brand new 21st century methods for sonic immersion.
Part producer's manifesto, part music history of the past 40 years, Dismantle, Destroy, Reinvent is a tribute to music's transformative power and a paean to the creative act as a whole.