Futuromania - Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow’s Music Today: Book BirdPen His 1987 album Africa is

His 1987 album Africa is soulful but also searching for a strong groove at the same time

B-sides and rarities from the period and extensive new sleeve notes

unexpected collaborations (including Sia

A throbbing

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Futuromania - Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow’s Music Today: Book BirdPen His 1987 album Africa isSimon 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