Futuromania
Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow's Music Today
Published on 5. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-3996-1834-2 (ISBN)
Description
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'A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward' RECORD COLLECTOR
Futuromania is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow: the vanguard genres and heroic innovators who prefigure and shape pop music's future. It explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's utopian dreams and nightmare visions, paying as much attention to the febrile creativity of the human mind as it does to the era-defining advances in electronic hardware and digital software.
From Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer to Boards of Canada, Burial, Flying Lotus and dozens more, this collection of essays and interviews by critically-acclaimed author Simon Reynolds coheres into an exhilarating chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to today. A fascinating guide through adventures in sound, there is a lifetime of electronic listening here.
'A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward' RECORD COLLECTOR
Futuromania is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow: the vanguard genres and heroic innovators who prefigure and shape pop music's future. It explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's utopian dreams and nightmare visions, paying as much attention to the febrile creativity of the human mind as it does to the era-defining advances in electronic hardware and digital software.
From Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer to Boards of Canada, Burial, Flying Lotus and dozens more, this collection of essays and interviews by critically-acclaimed author Simon Reynolds coheres into an exhilarating chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to today. A fascinating guide through adventures in sound, there is a lifetime of electronic listening here.
Reviews / Votes
A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward * Record Collector * Should be guaranteed a place on the bookshelf of everyone who claims to be a music lover * Blitzed Magazine * Read it and you will believe he believes in life after love * Mojo * The deeper he digs, the better it gets - his explanation of Auto-tune is fascinating * Uncut * Futuromania is a testament to our ever-changing imagination of what the future holds and whether radical sounds equate to radical politics * TANK * Beautiful, combining irresistible period detail with astute critical insight * TLS *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
364 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3996-1834-2 (9781399618342)
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04/2024
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Person
Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 - 1984 and, most recently, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.