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A few things that hit the right buttons in my brain, for better or worse.

1. Adam Warren / Dirty Pair - Channelling 80s anime through hyper-violence to insane scifi. As well as being consistently hilarious the future worlds are beautiful to look at and draw inspiration from.

2. The Designer's Republic - A UK design agency with a stark, futuristic style. Responsible for the identity of the Wip3out series on PlayStation, as well as many great record covers.

3. Jeff Mills - Quite simply the god of electronic music.

4. Iain M Banks - One of my first sci-fi influences, and the most enduring. Appeals to my socialist/utopian nature.

5. Star Trek - The incredible production design (especially TNG) has always been the aspect of Trek that grabbed me most. Combine this with looser morals and more hedonism and you have my sci-fi outlook.

6. Dave Clarke / Archive One - This record dropped just around the time I was getting in techno, and was a pretty constant soundtrack when I first seriously tried to write.

7. Alexander McQueen - Joyfully futuristic, and beautiful, design. A huge loss to forward thinking fashion.

8. Masamune Shirow - If Iain Banks is the literary end of my sci-fi influence, this is the visual. Not just girls and guns, but convincing future worlds and ideas and, okay, girls and guns.

9. Fetish fashion - What better look for idealised cyborg bodies to run around shooting guns at stuff in?

10. Archigram - Progressive 70s architecture practice, designed and advocated walking cities and personal transport / habitation pods. Mental in a good way.

11. Orbital - Inspirational, euphoric, soundtracky electronic music. I'm sure several big ideas have spawned from post-concert come downs.

12. Yukito Kishiro / Battle Angel Alita - Glorious, complex, sci-fi saga with an existential streak.

13. Iron Man - A reminder that high tech doesn't need to take itself too seriously.

14. Wu Tang Clan - As my music tastes progressed through electronic to hip hop the Wu Tang became, for me, among the most futuristic sounding music out there.

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Description
A few things that hit the right buttons in my brain, for better or worse.

1. Adam Warren / Dirty Pair - Channelling 80s anime through hyper-violence to insane scifi. As well as being consistently hilarious the future worlds are beautiful to look at and draw inspiration from.

2. The Designer's Republic - A UK design agency with a stark, futuristic style. Responsible for the identity of the Wip3out series on PlayStation, as well as many great record covers.

3. Jeff Mills - Quite simply the god of electronic music.

4. Iain M Banks - One of my first sci-fi influences, and the most enduring. Appeals to my socialist/utopian nature.

5. Star Trek - The incredible production design (especially TNG) has always been the aspect of Trek that grabbed me most. Combine this with looser morals and more hedonism and you have my sci-fi outlook.

6. Dave Clarke / Archive One - This record dropped just around the time I was getting in techno, and was a pretty constant soundtrack when I first seriously tried to write.

7. Alexander McQueen - Joyfully futuristic, and beautiful, design. A huge loss to forward thinking fashion.

8. Masamune Shirow - If Iain Banks is the literary end of my sci-fi influence, this is the visual. Not just girls and guns, but convincing future worlds and ideas and, okay, girls and guns.

9. Fetish fashion - What better look for idealised cyborg bodies to run around shooting guns at stuff in?

10. Archigram - Progressive 70s architecture practice, designed and advocated walking cities and personal transport / habitation pods. Mental in a good way.

11. Orbital - Inspirational, euphoric, soundtracky electronic music. I'm sure several big ideas have spawned from post-concert come downs.

12. Yukito Kishiro / Battle Angel Alita - Glorious, complex, sci-fi saga with an existential streak.

13. Iron Man - A reminder that high tech doesn't need to take itself too seriously.

14. Wu Tang Clan - As my music tastes progressed through electronic to hip hop the Wu Tang became, for me, among the most futuristic sounding music out there.

Original template by fox-orian here: [link]