«The most solid and penetrating analysis until the date of what the author calls sonic fiction: the alien mental landscapes conjured by Genres such as the Dub, the Hip-Hop, the Techno and the Jungle.» Simon Reynolds

"This book can be considered as an exercise of psychogeography: only that the method of it is not to walk but to dance." McKenzie Wark.

After its original publication in 1998, brighter than the Sun, the essayist and British artist Kodwo Eshun, he scored a before and after in musical criticism and cultural studies. Participation experiment cyberpunk, part Journey through the underground layers of black music, this book is proposed to abandon the classic approach that explains the sound innovations by social, the historical or the biographical to get into full in vinyl materiality And discover the concepts that music produces to theorize itself. From a constant adjustment of the perception telescope, since the most attentive listening to the samples of a track until the contemplation fascinated before the art of lid of a disc, this book is designed to produce sensations in your body, like when your Fingers are attracted to a disk and stretch to reach it, or when a rhythm gets under your skin causing an electrical shudder. Because the body is the definitive path to understand music.

Since Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane A Lee Perry and Tricky, from Public Enemy and Funkadelic to Underground Resistance and Drexciya, which persists is not a notion of the black as something pure and unified, with roots in the past or in the authenticity of the Street. Emerged from the experience of the diaspora, slavery and uprooting, African-American culture and Afro-futuristic jazz sounds, FUNK, DUB, hip hop, techno and jungle are by definition synthetic, alien and posthumans. From a type of imagination nourished by comics and science fiction, Kodwo Eshun finds indications of new ways in that music: sensory shocks that show us towards worlds that come to us from the future.