Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow: sounds that prefigure pap music's future-the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually become accepted by the wider mass audience. 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 twenty-first century pop, Futuromania shapes over two dozen essays and interviews into a chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to the present. Reynolds explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's Utopian dreams and nightmarish visions, and he emphasizes 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 humanity meets machine, Futuromania is an enthused listening guide that will propel readers toward adventures in sound and a lifetime of electronic listening.