Futuromania
Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow’s Music Today
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£0.00 for first 30 days
LIMITED TIME OFFER
Get 3 months for £0.99/mo
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.
Futuromania
Narrated by:
Rich Keeble
Buy Now for £12.99
-
Narrated by:
-
Rich Keeble
-
By:
-
Simon Reynolds
About this listen
Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way music can stir anticipation for a thrillingly transformed world just around the corner: a future that might be utopian or dystopian, but at least will be radically changed and exhilaratingly other.
Starting with an extraordinary chapter on Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer, taking in illuminating profiles of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Boards of Canada, Burial, and Daft Punk, and arguing for Auto-Tune as the defining sound of 21st century pop, Futuromania shapes over two-dozen essays and interviews into a chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to now. Reynolds explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's utopian dreams and nightmare visions, always emphasising the quirky human individuals abusing the technology as much as the era-defining advances in electronic hardware and digital software.
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.©2024 Simon Reynolds
Listeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward
Should be guaranteed a place on the bookshelf of everyone who claims to be a music lover
Read it and you will believe he believes in life after love
The deeper he digs, the better it gets - his explanation of Auto-tune is fascinating
Futuromania is a testament to our ever-changing imagination of what the future holds and whether radical sounds equate to radical politics
Beautiful, combining irresistible period detail with astute critical insight
Love the contents, sometimes too superficial
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
90s rave nostalgia and much more
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Honestly the best book on Electronic music I've ever read
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.