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The Future Sound of London
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First recognized as the dance duo behind the club hits “Stakker” (as Humanoid) and “Papua New Guinea,” Future Sound of London later became one of the most acclaimed and respected international experimental ambient groups, incorporating elements of techno, classical, jazz, hip-hop, electro, industrial, and dub into expansive, sample-heavy tracks, often exquisitely produced and usually without easy precursor.
Notoriously enigmatic and often disdainful of the press, the group’s Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans worked their future-is-now aesthetic into a variety of different fields, including film and video, 2- and 3-D computer graphics and animation, the Internet, radio broadcast, and, of course, recorded music. Although they usually disdain their earlier work as play-for-pay club fare not representative of their later musical vision, many of the thematic concerns of their earlier 12”s and their first, heavily dance-oriented LP, Accelerator, followed them into their later work. Usually filed under ambient, that work is often much more than that, drawing from the history of experimental electronic music with a relentlessness that has helped to push the calmer elements of that genre’s reputation into decidedly more difficult directions.
The pair also grew in repute as remixers, obliterating tracks by Curve, Jon Anderson, David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, and Apollo 440, and rebuilding pieces of almost majestic complexity with the remnants.
Notoriously enigmatic and often disdainful of the press, the group’s Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans worked their future-is-now aesthetic into a variety of different fields, including film and video, 2- and 3-D computer graphics and animation, the Internet, radio broadcast, and, of course, recorded music. Although they usually disdain their earlier work as play-for-pay club fare not representative of their later musical vision, many of the thematic concerns of their earlier 12”s and their first, heavily dance-oriented LP, Accelerator, followed them into their later work. Usually filed under ambient, that work is often much more than that, drawing from the history of experimental electronic music with a relentlessness that has helped to push the calmer elements of that genre’s reputation into decidedly more difficult directions.
The pair also grew in repute as remixers, obliterating tracks by Curve, Jon Anderson, David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, and Apollo 440, and rebuilding pieces of almost majestic complexity with the remnants.
Top Albums
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Dead Cities
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Lifeforms (disc 1)
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Accelerator
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Papua New Guinea
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Cascade
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We Have Explosive
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Ill Flower
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My Kingdom
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Bird Wings
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Dead Cities
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Antique Toy
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Her Face Forms in Summertime
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Lifeforms
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Flak
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Dead Skin Cells
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Max
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Glass
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Shoutbox
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Terrasidius wrote:
>Best albums to start with? Dead Cities, Lifeforms + Papua New Guinea [2] + We Have Explosive! :D
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benthamand wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE
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eden_c wrote:
Accelerator kicks some butt
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defalx wrote:
Best albums to start with? I think Lifeforms (ambient), but also like so much radio-podcasts (Electric Brain Storms & A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble). It's a wonderful band.
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ajndrei wrote:
>Best albums to start with? Dead Cities, Lifeforms + Papua New Guinea
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catchdredg wrote:
Best albums to start with?
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brunlapin wrote:
love 'em
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Reincremation wrote:
with the possible exception of global communication this has to be the best electronica ever.
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skopp888 wrote:
i agree with domeknadrzewie... GLAAASSS <3 !!!1!!
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domeknadrzewie wrote:
GLAAASSS <3
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LaAtena wrote:
oh,me too..many souvenirs,many moments
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extra_sense wrote:
I love them a lot... I remember when I first listened to Dead Cities in the earlu 00's it was such a musical universe peception explode, that influenced on mu views on music heavily they are one of my favourites you can check my project here: http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Extra+Sense/Elsewhere
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24db wrote:
http://abstractprojection.blogspot.com/
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Theartofstu wrote:
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that they're the best 'band' ever. Listening through their Proton Radio set again from a while back and it's genius
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OTLisJaymz wrote:
http://www.cellartapes.com/music/TNT/20090208-midnight%20prayer.mp3
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Underhertz wrote:
Listen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this wonderfully http://www.lastfm.ru/music/The+Duchess+Jaguar
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SwimmingKnives wrote:
i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that lifeforms is the best album of the 90s.
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afx777 wrote:
They have done a few gigs this year, shame I never got to see them
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mecha51 wrote:
My Kingdom is so badass!! Granted, I'm drunk. But it's killer even when I'm sober. Great track from a criminally underrated group.
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Evrox wrote:
Does anybody know if they still perform?
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