If we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, wrote Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book Future Shock, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching force for the creation of the habit of anticipation. Our children should be studying it, not because these writers can tell them about rocket ships and time machines but, more important, because they can lead young minds through an imaginative exploration of the jungle of political, social, psychological, and ethical issues that will confront these children as adults.

As is well documented most vividly in Kodwo Eshun's conception of sonic fiction music, and especially club music, can be science fiction too. Each new generation encounters the musical environment as technological-imaginative space outside the quotidian thanks to the visual/social/chemical/durational/sonic assemblage of the dancefloor and associated spaces and that too can lead minds through exploration of past, present and possible futures. Of course there are waves and shifts in how styles and techniques facilitate this, but none completely replaces those before: past sonic fictions past futures retain functional value and are continually re-incorporated into the circulating library of usable forms. Always, too, from the Mothership to Metalheadz to Techno has never been about the future, it always pooled together futures past P-Funk, Blade Runner, Toffler, Kraftwerk to build a generalised future dreamtime into its sound: that Tofflerian habit of anticipation coded as rhythmic psychedelia. Techno as expressed on this album is no more retro or dated than watching Akira after a night out is rendered obsolete by Metal Gear Solid. We are now in Toffler's future deep into the uncanny valley of laser surgery, virtual reality, gene editing, drones, machine learning, mind reading, microsecond-sensitive global trading, face transplants, our neighbouring planet being populated by robots, meme culture, Anonymous, Kanye West and occasionally it's desirable, even essential, to revisit those old tools and mind-stretching forces.Mumdance , there are explicit sci-fi signifiers woven into the sound and vision