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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Naffrofuturist (slight return)

 





















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













A Telex from yesterday's future

An example of what I call "the rhetorics of temporality" - the way critics compulsively position and reposition things they like, ...