The Future Sound of London
| The Future Sound of London | |
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 The Future Sound of London |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Electronica , experimental music |
| founding | 1991 |
| Website | www.futuresoundoflondon.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Brian Dougans | |
| Garry Cobain | |
The Future Sound Of London (FSOL) is a British electronica music group founded in 1991 in Manchester . It consists of the artists Garry “Gaz” Cobain and Brian Dougans, both of whom can be counted among the pioneers of techno and ambient and who met in the mid-1980s. They became known, among other things, with the track Papua New Guinea and the bigbeat piece We Have Explosive , which can be heard in the computer game Wipeout . FSOL has had the most success in the UK .
history
Brian Dougans and Garry Cobain met in the mid-1980s at a university in Manchester . Dougans had been producing music for a while and had a hit in 1988 under the pseudonym "Humanoid" with the acid house single Stakker Humanoid , which reached number 17 on the British singles chart and number 1 on the British dance charts. As a result, Dougans and Cobain worked together under different project names until they released their first album in 1991 under the name Future Sound of London.
music
The works of Dougans and Cobain are characterized by their musical diversity. In the late eighties and early nineties a number of early techno and ambient techno productions emerged. In the course of the 90s, their music was more strongly influenced by pure ambient, ambient dub , drum and bass , big beat and trip-hop . At the same time, the work of Dougans and Cobains took on an increasingly complex and sometimes very experimental character. It combined a skilful game between harmonies and dissonances with sometimes quite dark sound collages, which find their climax on the album Dead Cities .
At the end of the 1990s it became quite quiet around FSOL and after a creative break the two artists devoted themselves increasingly to the project Amorphous Androgynous, which in the past was very closely based on FSOL. However, they have reinvented themselves musically and created a very experimental mix of electronic music and psychedelic rock & pop.
It wasn't until 2006 that Dougans and Cobain turned to FSOL again. A best-of album was released, a live set with previously unknown material was played on BBC 6 Music , and a 5.1 soundtrack was produced for a sound installation at the Life Forms exhibition at the Kinetica Museum .
further activities
Music projects
Further projects of the two artists are or were: Aircut, Amorphous Androgynous, Art Science Technology, Candese, Deep Field, Homeboy, Humanoid, Indo Tribe, Intelligent Communication, Mental Cube, Metropolis, Semtex, Semi Real, Smart Systems, The Far- out Son Of Lung, Yage, Yunie, Zeebox.
Labels
FSOL have founded two labels that essentially serve as a platform for their own music. In 1993 they founded Electronic Brain Violence (EBv) and in 2002 the label Future Sound Of London Recordings , which is a sub-label of FullFill . During the EBv era, production took place mainly in the Earth Beat Studio (London). Their new main production space is called Galaxial Pharmaceutical .
Others
In addition to their music, Dougans and Cobain's artistic activities also span areas such as film , video art , 2D & 3D computer graphics and animation , the Internet, and radio broadcasts. So all music videos were created by FSOL itself, which are based on the music, artful collages of video material and computer animations.
In 2007 a separate online shop was launched to sell old, unpublished and new material by the two artists.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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 UK
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| as Future Sound of London | |||
| 1991 | Accelerator |
UK75 (1 week) UK |
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| 1994 | Lifeforms |
UK6th  (8 weeks)UK |
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| ISDN |
UK44 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 1996 | Dead Cities |
UK26 (3 weeks) UK |
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| as Amorphous Androgynous | |||
| 2002 | The Isness |
UK68 (1 week) UK |
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More albums
Future Sound of London
- 1997: ISDN Show
- 2001: Accelerator 2001 (re-release, contains "Papua New Guinea - Mix Anthology" as a bonus CD)
- 2006: Teachings from the Electronic Brain (Best-Of Album)
- 2007: A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Antistatic ( Kinetica-Museum Soundtrack)
- 2007: From The Archives Vol. 1
- 2007: From The Archives Vol. 2
- 2007: From The Archives Vol. 3
- 2007: Environments
- 2008: The Pulse EPs
- 2008: From The Archives Vol. 4
- 2008: By Any Other Name
- 2008: Environments II
- 2008: From the Archives Vol. 5
- 2010: Environments III
- 2010: From the Archives Vol. 6
- 2012: Environments 4
- 2012: From the Archives Vol. 7
- 2014: Environment five
- 2015: Life In Moments
- 2015: Archived 8
- 2016: Environment six
- 2018: From the Archives Vol. 9
- 2019: Yage 2019
Amorphous androgynous
- 1993: Tales of Ephidrina
- 2005: Alice In Ultraland
- 2008: The Peppermint Tree & Seeds of Superconsciousness
Remix albums
Future Sound of London
- 2001: Papua New Guinea Translations
Amorphous androgynous
- 2003: The Otherness
EPs
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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UK
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| as Future Sound of London | |||
| 1993 | Cascade |
UK27 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 1994 | Lifeforms |
UK14 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 1996 | My Kingdom |
UK13 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 1997 | We have Explosive |
UK12 (3 weeks) UK |
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More EPs
- 2007: Archived
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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UK
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| as a humanoid | |||
| 1988 | Stakker humanoid |
UK17 (8 weeks) UK |
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| 1989 | Slam |
UK54 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 1992 | Stakker Humanoid '92 |
UK40 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 2001 | Stakker Humanoid 2001 |
UK65 (2 weeks) UK |
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| as Future Sound of London | |||
| 1992 | Papua New Guinea Accelerator |
UK22 (6 weeks) UK |
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| 1994 | Expander Accelerator |
UK72 (2 weeks) UK |
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| 1995 | Far Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman ISDN |
UK22 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 2001 | Papua New Guinea 2001 |
UK28 (3 weeks) UK |
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More singles
Future Sound of London
- 1991: Pulse EP 1
- 1991: Pulse EP 2
- 1991: Pulse EP 3
- 1992: Pulse EP 4
Amorphous androgynous
- 1993: Liquid Insects
- 2002: Mello Hippo Disco Show
- 2004: Divinity
- 2005: The Witchfinder
Remixes
- 2009: Oasis Feat. Alisha Sufit - Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix) (as The Amorphous Androgynous)
- 2010: Paul Weller - Aim High / Pieces Of A Dream - The Amorphous Androgynous Remix (as The Amorphous Androgynous)