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Futuromania
- Author
- Simon Reynolds
- Narrator
- Rich Keeble
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 11 April 2024
- Run Time
- 12 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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.
Critics Review
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A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward
Record Collector
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Should be guaranteed a place on the bookshelf of everyone who claims to be a music lover
Blitzed Magazine
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Read it and you will believe he believes in life after love
Mojo
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The deeper he digs, the better it gets - his explanation of Auto-tune is fascinating
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Futuromania is a testament to our ever-changing imagination of what the future holds and whether radical sounds equate to radical politics
TANK
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Beautiful, combining irresistible period detail with astute critical insight
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Details
- Author
- Simon Reynolds
- Narrator
- Rich Keeble
- Duration
- 12 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 April 2024
- ISBN
- 9781399618366
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Music: styles and genres
Synopsis
Pre-order Simon Reynold's forthcoming Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-1994, publishing June 2026.'A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward' RECORD COLLECTORFuturomania 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.
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