Futuromania : electronic dreams, desiring machines, and tomorrow's music today /

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Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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 emphasizing 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." --