The Future is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds by Matt Bluemink

It’s finally here! The official release date for my new book The Future is Not Lost is 24th of June Continue reading →

New Sci-fi Media, Anti-Hauntology, and the Future of Cinema

Faceshopping: Deconstructed Club and the Queer Futurity In February 2021, after electronic musician SOPHIE’s death, Matt Bluemink wrote a blog Continue reading →

Taylor Swift Does Not Exist: In Memoriam Achim Szepanski

The original version of this essay was published as the afterword to the new edition of Achim Szepanski’s (1957–2024) In Continue reading →

Empire of Sounds: Reconstructing the Japanese Pop of the 1980s

The anime Megazone 23, directed and written by Ishiguro Noboru and produced in 1985, can be cited as an example Continue reading →

Music or Barbarism: Dos Atomos by Dos Monos

On the 31st of May 2024, Dos Monos, the experimental hip-hop group formed by Zo Zhit, Taitan, and NGS, returns Continue reading →

Taylor Swift and Totalitarianism

The system is broken. The celebrity is brighter than the sun. Only she can decide when it is day. There’s Continue reading →

Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism

News of the mass of layoffs by Condé Nast, as well as discourse on the decline of music journalism and Continue reading →

Arabic Hauntology: The Sound of Habibi Funk Records

The twenty-third album by Habibi Funk Records was released on the 14th of July 2023. But it may as well Continue reading →