Futuromania

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781399618342

Price: £12.99

ON SALE: 5th March 2026

Genre: Electronic Music / Music / Music: Styles & Genres / Rock & Pop Music

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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.

Reviews

Beautiful, combining irresistible period detail with astute critical insight
TLS
Futuromania is a testament to our ever-changing imagination of what the future holds and whether radical sounds equate to radical politics
TANK
The deeper he digs, the better it gets - his explanation of Auto-tune is fascinating
Uncut
Read it and you will believe he believes in life after love
Mojo
Should be guaranteed a place on the bookshelf of everyone who claims to be a music lover
Blitzed Magazine
A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward
Record Collector