Which is also why the 40th anniversary of Neuromancer gets a shout out, while Electric Boogaloo’s does not. Black Rain’s Neuromancer, a recent reworking of post-industrial soundscapes created for the 1994 audiobook version of Gibson’s novel, read by the author himself, and Clipping’s Dead Sky Channel, whose title echoes its famous opening line, are steeped in a sense of dystopian dread. The sky above the port may well be “the color of television, tuned to a dead channel” – but what exactly is the colour of television, and what is a dead channel? Dead Sky Channel doesn’t keep still for a minute. Retreating to the comfort of a used future, even a dystopian one, no longer seems like the most realistic option.