The Future Sound of London

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electronic, ambient, electronica, idm, chillout

Лондоне (1989 – present)

Future Sound of London (FSOL) are a British electronic music band, the duo of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans, one of the most influential electronic acts of the last 15 years. The pair are notoriously enigmatic and have rarely granted interviews. Their work covers a number of areas, including film and video, 2D and 3D computer graphics and animation, the Internet, radio broadcasting as well as recorded music.

Although often labeled as ambient, Dougans and Cobain have demonstrated that they are too eclectic to be pigeon-holed into any particular genre. Their work covers most areas of electronic music, such as ambient, drum and bass, trip-hop, ambient dub, and often involves extreme experimentation. They have also garnered a reputation as remixers, transforming the work of a variety of different artists, including Curve, Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Jon Anderson, and Apollo 440. The results are often novel and complex, and in some instances the original track is barely recognisable.

Dougans was also involved in the seminal dance track “Stakker Humanoid”. This track is widely regarded as a true dance classic.

In tandem to this the more performance based work was recorded under the name Amorphous Androgynous. The first of the releases under this name was Tales of Ephidrena released in 1993 and following in the same sample-based vein as FSOL releases.

1	Papua New Guinea	799
2	We Have Explosive full track	524
3	Cascade full track	503
4	My Kingdom full track	472
5	Dead Cities full track	463
6	Herd Killing full track	425
7	Her Face Forms in Summertime full track	418
8	Antique Toy full track	410
9	Dead Skin Cells full track	392
10	Bird Wings full track	391
11	Everyone in the World Is Doing Something Without Me full track	382
12	Ill Flower full track	377
13	Lifeforms full track	349
14	Max full track	336
15	Glass full track	335

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Dead Cities
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Accelerator
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ISDN (Limited Edition)
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Lifeforms (disc 1)
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RaggaR wrote:
yesterday afternoon

....and FSOL's doing a gig in Moscow next August the 31st day....

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RaggaR wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Not quite sure but i think it means "Londone"....

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Terrasidius wrote:
yesterday morning

what does Лондоне mean?? And why is Cyrilic here?

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Theartofstu wrote:
16 days ago

Haha, I should have known someone somewhere would have recorded it somehow! Thanks for finding that, good to be able to listen to it again

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mellohippo wrote:
18 days ago

Stu: That sucks, that's why true fans can head here to get the mix (it's kick ass BTW): http://www.fsolboard.co.uk/

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Terrasidius wrote:
18 days ago

lol remember to check this video of Gaz Cobains "quite sunday walk" at speaker corner, the stuff of legend! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DNtlDv4H9PQ

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Theartofstu wrote:
last month

Well I think you can only purchase the right to stream it again, not download it, which kind of sucks ;p It does say on the site that they sometimes re-stream shows for free but it's unscheduled so you'd have to get lucky that way I suppose. As long as their next album is the same sort of style as the broadcast I will be happy anyway. :)

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Wiktorion wrote:
last month

Papua NG for the freaking win.

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lolitas_last wrote:
last month

*love*

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ryadeum wrote:
last month

~'~b

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mellohippo wrote:
last month

yeah, live @ protonradio.com. You can purchase the mix for a couple £ on the site..

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Theartofstu wrote:
last month

I was lucky enough to be alerted to a set they did on an online radio station the other day, it was jism-inducing. I think it's safe to say that they haven't lost their skillz after the different style of their Amorphous Androgynous stuff. All we need now is a new album...

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Backslash0 wrote:
last month

I'd say Lifeforms and Amber sound equally dated (but they were both very ahead of their time, so not much)

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g_l_s wrote:
last month

So to win this bet, I put the movie 'Aliens' on, and jumped to the scene where the marines just got to LV-426. That's where they [FSOL] got the sample included in 'Dead Cities': Is everybody online, let's see what we can see...looking good. True story

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mellohippo wrote:
last month

I never got into Autechre, although i like some tracks by them.. The Lifeforms EP is better than the album IMO.

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nuevababilonia wrote:
last month

To me Lifeforms sounds dated compared to Autechre´s Amber (1994)

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seanipooh wrote:
last month

High on energy!!!!!!!!!

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lactophobia wrote:
last month

wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jack_Kashmir wrote:
last month

Cool stuff...glad I ran across them... Shameless self promotion below: http://www.last.fm/music/Jack+Kashmir/Anti+Reality+Blue+Fusion+Hurricane

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Markko- wrote:
last month

Multidimensional art for multidimensional beings.

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