Futuromania : electronic dreams, desiring machines & tomorrow's music today / Simon Reynolds.

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INTRODUCTION ; THE SONG FROM THE FUTURE: ‘I Feel Love’ by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and the Invention of Electronic Dance Music ; HOW KRAFTWERK CREATED POP'S FUTURE: A Florian-Centric Story ; THE FINAL FRONTIER: The Analogue Synth Gods of the 1970s ; TECHNOPOP: Yellow Magic Orchestra and Ryuichi Sakamoto ; DUB REGGAE: Keith Hudson, Creation Rebel, Dub Syndicate ; ELECTRONIC DREAMERS: UK Synthpop ; INDUSTRIAL DANCE AND ELECTRONIC BODY MUSIC ; INTO THE PHUTURE: Acid House ; RAVE: Acen’s Trips II the Moon ; GABBER AND GLOOMCORE: The Mover and PCP Records ; JUNGLE: The Breakbeat Symphonies of Omni Trio ; ARTCORE: A Guy Called Gerald's Black Secret Technology ; MINIMAL TECHNO: Gas and the Germanic Visions of Wolfgang Voigt ; IDM: Boards of Canada ; GRIME: We Run the Roads ; DUBSTEP: Burial ; MAXIMAL NATION: Rustie and the Rise of Digital Maximalism ; SYNTHS AND SENSIBILITY: A New Wave of Female Electronic Musicians ; XENOMANIA: Loving the Alien in the Internet’s Ever Widening World of Sound ; FOOTWORK: Jlin’s Martial Artform ; DAFT PUNK: ‘Digital Love’, Random Access Memories and the Failure of the Future ; THE LIFE OF AUTO-TUNE: How Pitch-Correction Revolutionised Twenty-First-Century Pop, from Afrobeats to Atlanta Trap ; BACK TO THE GARDEN: The Eternal Returns of Ambient and New Age ; CONCEPTRONICA ; CODA: SONIC FICTION (An Investigation in Two Parts). PART 1 — ‘If This Is the Future, How Come the Music Sounds So Lame?’: Science Fiction at the Cinema ; PART 2 — Sound, Envisioned: S.F. Writers Imagine the Music of the Future ; AFTERWORD

A tapestry of the scenes and subcultures that have proliferated in that febrile, sexy and contested space where man meets machine, Futuromania is an enthused listening guide that will propel readers towards adventures in sound. There is a lifetime of electronic listening here.