@Muser; but at the same time, how's he supposed to differentiate what his or Vangelis' "Futures" are supposed to sound like? I entirely get everything you're saying, but at the same time he has a preconceived notion of what sounds futuristic to him, inspired by what others have already done. How does one deviate from that?
Well I dont know really, I'm defintitely not trying to say anyone should either. Despite the fact futurism has been thrown around alot the past few years I dont think its really as part of our mentality or really a drive behind certain music in the way it was. As in music that really sets out to sound like or represent "the future".
The Glitch movement, Oval and then things like Alva Noto/ Raster-noton stuff is the most recent kind of sound I can think of that evokes a futurist feel, the sort of sound of being inside a laptop or travelling along a data stream. But I'm not sure if "futurism" actually was/is part of their mantra really, or reliably what it would represent to someone who listened to it either. It could be as much seen as inspiration from abstract ideas behind current technology.
So I guess your right whose to say that if those soundsets evoke ideas of futurism, and inspire people, that they aren't just straight up futurism. Provided that ideas of futurism don't progress relative to time, which I think is probably true. Its more of a mythology and then ascribing that to music it needs new future-mythologies and new inspirations to create new sonic ideas to tie in and for people to relate to.