“I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet…but your kids are going to love it"
Next Wednesday the world celebrates Back To The Future Day. Why? Because 21 October 2015 is the date when Marty McFly travelled to the future in the second instalment of the Robert Zemekis movie franchise.
Flying cars, self-tying shoes, petrol station robots, food hydrators and hover boards. Despite the speculative advances in technology forecast in BTTFII, they’re all still pie in the sky for us here in real October 2015. But music is the one thing that can be futuristic, and it’s here where we’re aiming this week’s Now Playing theme.
We’re after music from the future. Or in other words, music that sounds like it was made some time in the distant forward space-time continuum, then brought back in hologram form via a modified Delorean. Music that sounds ‘futuristic’.
You could choose anything from The Beatles' experimental stuff (backwards guitar solos, unintelligible lyrics), to some Daft Punk phat beats, David Bowie weirdness, Kraftwerk bleeps, Kid A-era Radiohead computer glitches and Beastie Boys spatial loops. I always thought Hawkwind's 'Silver Machine' was supposed to sound like it was from the future, but that’s just me.
You pick the music, so get your future-inspired suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #BackToTheFuture6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.
It is your density. I mean, it is your destiny.
