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Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today elvis and Shindig Smith and theAuthor: Simon Reynolds A collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the Future Simon 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 futurethe 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