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 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.
