Decadeology: Hyperpop, Archive Fever, and the Sound of the 2020s

“The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, Continue reading →

Solarpunk Music: Notes on Anti-Hauntology and Eco-Futurism

In the introduction to The Future is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds (2026) published Continue reading →

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 →