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Ah, never heard of that Lionel Shriver book - so it's definitely from a right-wing perspective? The Guardian review of it mentions a collapsed US economy / currency and a ban on people leaving the country with more than $100. Which does sound a bit like 1990 and its restrictions on emigration...

I suppose a lot of alt-right type literature must have this quality - conspiracy theory is a kind of future-present dystopian hallucination. Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream is an unclassifiable one - an alt-history where failed painter Hitler emigrates to the USA and becomes a graphic artist...

Atlas Shrugged - hadn't realised that was set in the future. But then I know little about Rand apart from her influence on Rush and on techbro disruptor types.

The Wanting Seed I read as a teenager - and got a copy again recently but not reread. It's about overpopulation, right? Is the future explicitly socialist?

I have Gender Genocide and Regiment of Women but the Parley J. Cooper book goes for $130

A couple of subgenres and side-genres: anti-socialist alternative history In the 1939 collection If It Had Happened Otherwise (scholars and historians - including Churchill - engaging in counterfactual parlor games, "if the South won the Civil War", "if Napoleon escaped from Elba" etc), an...

By which I mean, not dystopias as imagined by socialists (there are plenty of these - The Space Merchants, by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, imagines a near-future dominated by advertising agencies and megacorporations, overpopulated and resource-depleted... Pohl and Kornbluth belonged to a...

No I never did - and I don't have the transcripts anymore, Some of the 'extended interviews' would be the original pieces I did on certain artists for magazines that then got filleted for the book - Tricky, Aphex Twin, Goldie, Oval, etc etc.

ooh another use of the Fonda Rae vocal

the sample chain continues original vocal is Fonda Rae misspelled on the label

Can heartily recommend Lahore Village, near Shepherd's Bush. 364 Uxbridge Rd, London W12 7LL

Most groups - most artists... start out imitating. Most? Nearly all, I should say, is closer to the truth (this probably applies to most painters etc etc. certainly most writers, as my early music crit scribblings would reveal) but the getting-it-interestingly-wrong phenom doesn't seem to...

Neds Atomic seem possibly construable as 'late grebo' One of Bentley Rhythm Ace used to be in grebo-aligned turned cackhanded-samplers Pop Will Eat itself NME came up with a bunch of genres terms that didn't catch on, I can't remember the exact terms but things along the lines of 'snaggle rock'

"or in this older write up on james chance, with the comparison to michael jackson at the end." Well I was nudged towards that by the cover of "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" in James Chance's live set. That's on one of the albums I was reviewing. But certainly there's something...

i never heard that, it's great (I would venture that - in a sort of funny way, Fatboy Slim / Big Beat are about a similar sort of mind-evacuating relentlessness). Actually, I'm in the miniscule minority of British-born males completely immune to the bleached-blonde-with-roots-showing / Silk...

"My group consists of Dr. Poo Pah Doo of Destine Tambourine and Dr. Ditmus of Conga, Dr. Boudreaux of Funky Knuckle Skins and Dr. Battiste of Scorpio in Bass Clef, Dr. McLean of Mandolin Comp. School, Dr. Mann of Bottleneck Learning, Dr. Bolden of The Immortal Flute Fleet, The Baron of Ronyards...

Recently did a whole post tracing its provenance https://energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2024/05/through-rushes-and-through-briars.html

Respectfully, bollocks It's like dancing inside a dream Like dancing inside a painting (I was going to say that "One and Only" is the Sistine Chapel of d&B just in terms of the scale and grandeur, but keeping it ambient-aligned, probably should say Monet's Water Lilies or Matisse's "Swimming...

It certainly is