Back to the Future
Birth of a New Day, 2814’s newly reissued vaporwave classic, takes place in a dreamed-up Japan where the bubble economy never burst and the good times never ended — it’s made by people who know full well they did.
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Johny Pitts
Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer and broadcast journalist. He is the curator of the online journal Afropean.com and author of the book Afropean (Penguin, 2019).
To Peripheral Plaza
A new book on Kraftwerk’s ‘Future Music from Germany’ and a Caribbean tribute both reckon with the echoes of an imagined utopia in a bleak present.
Journeys Through Black Europe
We speak to Johny Pitts – author of the book Afropean – about cities, race, class, colonialism, the 1990s, and going from CD:UK to socialism.