Artist: Future Sound of London
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
The Isness
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Papua New Guinea Translations
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
My Kingdom (Single)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 5
Dead Cities
Year: 1996
Tracks: 13
Cascade (Single)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 6
Accelerator
Year: 1992
Tracks: 13
First recognized as the dance yoke behindhand the club hits "Stakker" (as Humanoid) and "Papua New Guinea," Future Sound of London afterwards became unrivalled of the near acclaimed and respected international data-based ambient groups, incorporating elements of techno, classical, jazz, rap, electro, industrial, and dub into expansive, sample-heavy tracks, ofttimes fine produced and usually without easy precursor.
Notoriously puzzling and often disdainful of the press, the group's Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans worked their future-is-now aesthetic into a diverseness of different w. C. Fields, including film and video recording, 2- and 3D calculator art and vitality, the Internet, wireless broadcast, and, of course, recorded music. Although they normally patronage their in the beginning work as play-for-pay club fare non illustration of their later musical vision, many of the thematic concerns of their sooner 12"s and their outset, heavily dance-oriented LP, Throttle valve, followed them into their by and by work. Usually filed under ambient, that work is oftentimes a great deal more than that, drafting from the history of data-based electronic music with a relentlessness that has helped to push the calmer elements of that genre's report into by all odds more than difficult directions.
The geminate also grew in reputation as remixers, obliterating tracks by Curve, Jon Anderson, David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, and Apollo 440, and rebuilding pieces of about purple complexity with the remnants. The duo's whole shebang of the mid to late '90s -- Lifeforms, ISDN, and Dead Cities -- were important stopping points on the road of fanatic hybridizing characteristic of post-rave European experimental electronica (ambient, jungle, trip-hop, ambient dub, etc.), and the pair's pretty punk stone attitude (despite their success) did much to underline the scene's underground roots. After a drawn-out hiatus marked by rumors of mental illness and a bungalow life-style, Cobain and Dougans returned in 2002 with The Isness, a record hard influenced by '60s and '70s psychedelia.
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