Around this time, Sounds actually had a Futurists Chart in their charts page. Initially it was compiled by Stevo of Some Bizzare fame, a deejay and coiner of the term Futurists (for a while, a rival to New Romantics) but increasingly various other deejays and club promoters submitted the chart.
A Sounds feature on the Futurist scene by Betty Page
The UK edition of Futuromania is out today on White Rabbit ! Via select record stores, comes with a limited edition freezine of bonus pieces!
Check out this radio show about Futuromania I pulled together for NTS - also available at Soundcloud and Mixcloud.
And here's an interview I did with Metal magazine's Lainie Wallace about the book.
Here's a chat I had with Moonbuilding's Neil Mason.
And here's a conversation with Bill Proctor for his electro-history podcast Spacelab
Watch this space for news about more podcast appearances, webzine and radio interviews, and upcoming events.
US edition out May 7 via Hachette
Futuromaniac playlists - Spotify, Spotify(long mix), Tidal (longest mix)
About the book:
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines & Tomorrow's Music Today 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.
Futuromania shapes over two-dozen essays and interviews into a chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to now. The book 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.
Futuromania is an enthused listening guide that will propel readers towards adventures in sound. There is a lifetime of electronic listening here.
