Futuromania

An example of what I call "the rhetorics of temporality" - the way critics compulsively position and reposition things they like, or are unimpressed by, using temporal coordinates, a reshuffling of past / present / future, with each term given a different…

Thanks to Gemma Ross for including Futuromania in the Mixmag list of summer reading for dance music fiends - the full list is here

INCUNABLES [Old Music 1980 - 1993] (Open 23h) Una noche dedicada a recordar locales como Attica, Saratoga, Xcandalo, Cobre, Voltereta (Cubos), Laberinto, Planta Baja, Nacional III, New World, Casi Casi, etc EBM / Synthpop / New Beat / Gothrock / Sonido de…

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Released 1978, recorded at the start of the 1970s.

So I was feeling like it was time to read a Margaret Atwood and I fancied Oryx and Crake, having been intrigued by a chapter on it in Mark Fisher’s The Weird and The Eerie.

A magazine asked me for the 3 most futuristic moments in music, from the period circa 1987 to around 2020.

In November last year, Kieran and I joined Argentine critics Pablo Schanton and Antonia Kon to discuss music writing and music's future as part of the 20th Anniversary celebrations for the Buenos Aires publisher Caja Negra.

The paperback edition of Futuromania has just come out Older eyes will recognise the graphic design's nod to this best-seller of the 1970s An earlier post about Future Shock and the Orson Welles presented TV program based on it.

Early 1980s youth subculture - imagined from 1971 from Disc and Music Echo, March 1971 - it's a sweep of youth cults / looks from the beginning ie. rock'n'roll to the present - and beyond!

A rock book I have never ever heard of before, by a writer I never heard of before - until this moment.

Specifically the future of cinema - specifically specifically 3D movies, as reported in this Atlantic piece .

Like a spaceship made of oak...

A Futurist, but not a Brutalist - too ludic, too goofy I guess Gehry (RIP) was considered a postmodernist, but I don't see what he is quoting, citing, reviving here... these are shapes and surfaces without precedent, surely.

1972 program based on Alvin Toffler's best-seller, with a wonderfully grave narration from Orson Welles and occasional shots of the great man wandering pensively through the city.

the shock of the new and the shock of the impossible are mysterious phenomena - because, you would think, simply by your experiencing it, the Newness would almost instantly evaporate - it would by definition be no longer new, it would seem increasingly fa…

Not actually "music" though - more like sermons and speeches via Mercier Catholic Record Club Irish Christian club LP series in 1960/70s Parent Label: The Mercier Press I wonder if they really thought that, in the face of declining attendance and interest…

"Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches" - Italo Calvino "He, still unvanquished, eternally directed toward the future, whose own restless energies never leave him in peace, so that his future digs like a spur into the flesh of…

Forgot how prominently the Moog is used on this exciting Supremes track - this must have blown a few minds back in the day!