Machine music. Robot symphonies. Space operas. Music made entirely by machines reaches more than just our emotions. It taps into our imagination like nothing else, opening up a world of time and space travel that's boundless.

These genres take their cues from the 80s — an era which dreamed of a future that was at once dystopian, without morals and rampant with crime, but also utopian, in terms of limitless technology and innovations.

It's a future we may never see, nor want to see, but we can visit it every time we press play. So go ahead, channel your inner spaceman or spacewoman and visit our world's fictional future.