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Manchester, United Kingdom (1988 – present)
The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a British experimental electronic music duo, formed in 1988 at Manchester, United Kingdom, and made up by Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. Their music style covers most areas of electronic music, such as techno, drum and bass, house, trip-hop, ambient, dub, and often incorporates elements of jazz, classical and psychedelic rock. In addition to music composition, they are involved in 2D and 3D computer graphics, video, animation (in making almost all their own videos for their singles), radio broadcasting and creating their own electronic devices for sound making.
They are mostly known for the ambient-dub single “Papua New Guinea” and the innovative ambient album Lifeforms.
They have released works under numerous aliases like The Future Sound of London (main moniker), Amorphous Androgynous, Yage, Humanoid, Amorphous Androgynous, Mental Cube, Q, Zeebox, Heads of Agreement, Semtex, The Far-Out Son Of Lung, PART-SUB-MERGED, Art Science Technology, and many more.
Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans met in the mid 80s while studying electronics at university in Manchester, England. Dougans had already been making electronic music for some time, working between Glasgow and Manchester, when they first began working in various local clubs. In 1988, Dougans embarked on a project for the Stakker graphics company. The result was the club hit “Stakker Humanoid”, issued under Humanoid alias. In the following three years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases, releasing a plethora of singles and EPs, including the successful bleep techno singles “Q” and “Metropolis”.
Papua New Guinea” and the innovative ambient album Lifeforms. They have released works under numerous aliases like The Future Sound of London (main moniker), Amorphous Androgynous, Yage, Humanoid, Amorphous Androgynous, Mental Cube, Q, Zeebox, Heads of Agreement, Semtex, The Far-Out Son Of Lung, PART-SUB-MERGED, Art Science Technology, and many more.
Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans met in the mid 80s while studying electronics at university in Manchester, England. Dougans had already been making electronic music for some time, working between Glasgow and Manchester, when they first began working in various local clubs. In 1988, Dougans embarked on a project for the Stakker graphics company. The result was the club hit “Stakker Humanoid”, issued under Humanoid alias. In the following three years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases, releasing a plethora of singles and EPs, including the successful bleep techno singles “Q” and “Metropolis”.
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AffectingShades wrote:
Papua New Guinea = Holli Would
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Woodawgy wrote:
How did I not know about the Environment releases until yesterday?? Environments 2 and 3 are absolutely stunning. It is like they took exactly what I loved about their earlier works (Dead Skin Cells, Cerebral, Yage, etc) and made 2 dreamlike albums just for me. :) Ambient/chill out bliss.
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VK1990 wrote:
Bird Wings
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kaczkapogdansku wrote:
Dead Cities..Turn on, Tune in.. go for a walk in Canary Wharf on Sunday morning.. .Drop out.
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MonochromeNight wrote:
"Future Sound Of London – We Have Explosive (2011 rebuild) WipEout edit"
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B-eatchSkin wrote:
[img]www.last.fm/group/Holli+Would[/img]
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jeff071 wrote:
I hear there is new FSOL in the next Wipeout game due in February.
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swoephowx wrote:
Everyone in this World is having Sex without me
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notandorgates wrote:
Good stuff ...
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Panther_Panther wrote:
papua new guinea ... catches me still
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Meltfore wrote:
Srsly, Lifeforms is such a gem. It's got hooks without being pop music, FX without being masturbation, and emphasis on rhythm without being shallow club music. Hell, even the cover art is fitting. I get the feeling they had a story to tell rather than random ideas pieced together. Not to mention there's two CDs of it.
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DEATH_OF_FIRE wrote:
Thanks FSOL for enjoin in the jungle world!!Witch frends we everytime weed and lisiening FSOL Lifeforms album perfect album for as brain :))
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grimel0rd wrote:
is there anything similar to ISDN?
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Epstra wrote:
FSOL has been very influential in my musical explorations and taste
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mellohippo wrote:
well, FSOL = also Yage (not the screamo one 'tho)
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jaTaa wrote:
whoelse sees yage (screamo) as similar artist? kinda strange.
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mellohippo wrote:
yeah, one of the best mixes yet.. some spooky shit right there ;)
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whatd0y0uw4nt wrote:
anyone heard ebs #7 yet ?
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SecondThought wrote:
Environments 3 is very Dead Cities-like in the imagery it conjours up, although it's much more serene and spooky and less violent and rhythmic sounding.
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christianzajdek wrote:
Environments II has become my favourite album of theirs, as the songs meld to form a seamless journey. It hasn't been submitted here yet, though.
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