The Future Sound of London is a British electronic music group composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. Described as a "boundary-pushing" electronic act by AllMusic, their work covers many areas of electronic music, such as techno, ambient, house music, trip hop, psychedelia, and dub.
Dead Cities is a 1996 album by electronic music group The Future Sound of London.
ISDN is a music album by experimental electronica artists The Future Sound of London which was released in two different versions in 1994 and 1995. The music on the album is edited together from various live broadcasts that the band had broadcast to radio stations all over the world using ISDN, which at the time was a relatively new technology. The band repeated the format in 1997 with the limited edition ISDN Show, another live album of ISDN broadcasts.
"Cascade" is the first single from Future Sound of London's 1994 album Lifeforms. It is a series of variations on the song "Cascade", all different from the album's version as is customary for most FSOL singles.
"Lifeforms" is the second single from The Future Sound of London's 1994 album Lifeforms. Vocals on the single were performed by Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins.
Snakehips or Snake hips may refer to:
Teachings from the Electronic Brain is a compilation of songs from throughout the career of British band The Future Sound of London, and was released in 2006. The diversity of their wide range of work is even more apparent on a compilation such as this.
The Isness is a 2002 album by experimental electronica group The Future Sound of London, released under the alias Amorphous Androgynous. An expanded version was released called The Isness and the Otherness, a two disc special edition containing The Isness on disc one and The Otherness, featuring additional tracks and recordings, on disc two.
Earthbeat is a compilation album of Future Sound of London's early releases, using several aliases. All of the tracks on this album are by Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans (FSOL) but under pseudonyms such as 'Mental Cube' and 'Yage'. The duo had been releasing songs under these aliases for around two years before they recorded "Accelerator" as FSOL.
"We Have Explosive" is a song by The Future Sound of London, released in 1997. It was the band's most successful single, getting to number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in 1997. It features prominent sampling of the Run-DMC album Tougher Than Leather. Part three also samples "Rockchester" by Fats Comet.
Brian Dougans is a British musician, and a member of the British electronica duo, The Future Sound of London (FSOL).
"Expander" was a 1994 single released by The Future Sound of London from the 1992 album Accelerator. This single was released along with a remixed version and two other songs: "Moscow" and "Central Industrial". Accelerator was subsequently re-released in the US in 1996.
From the Archives Vol. 1 is a 2007 release by The Future Sound of London. It is the first part of a series of compilation albums chronicling, for the most part, their 1990s period; the series' album art, in particular, reflects this. It was widely anticipated by FSOL fans and the series as a whole has received a positive reception. Like the rest of the series, it was available for digital download on their site FSOLdigital.com first then was released a month or so later on CD.
By Any Other Name is a Future Sound of London compilation release in the same vein as 1992's Earthbeat. The tracks are by Dougans and Cobain and the aliases are the same. This 2007 album, however, has a wealth of new material from the same time period as Earthbeat. The Mental Cube track "Sightings" can be heard in the first episode of "The Day Today" in a skit with Chris Morris reporting on a new police measure to deal with noisy neighbours in which a tiger is set loose in the offending persons home in which the track can be heard. A CD version of the album was released on 13 October 2008.
4 Forests is another experimental album by Brian Dougans under the alias Part-Sub-Merged from 2007 which was released on The Future Sound of London's digital download website. It is the soundtrack to a short film made by the duo called "Part-Sub-Merged" to be released on FSOLdigital.com at some point in the near future. The music is darker than his "Polemical " work with analogue techno beats and synth ambience.
The Peppermint Tree & the Seeds of Superconsciousness is a 2008 album by the Amorphous Androgynous, it was released on the webpage of The Future Sound of London (FSOL) to buy as a digital download and was released on CD in June 2008.
The Woodlands of Old is a 2008 album by the Future Sound of London under the alias of their "engineer" "Yage". It is an electronic record foremost but using more traditional drums and percussion, ex-Propellerheads member Will White contributes drums, along with a number of ethnic sounding instruments, which tie in with the band's description of the album suggesting "the deserts of the middle east to the rain forests of Brazil". A CD version of the album was released on 13 October 2008.
The Pulse EPs is a compilation of the four Pulse EPs released in 1991 & 1992 by The Future Sound of London under various aliases in the same vein as the Earthbeat album from 1992.
So This Is Love is a soulful house track by FSOL under the moniker Mental Cube. Recorded in 1991, it was also featured on the Earthbeat compilation album of the following year.
This is the discography page for ambient electronic group The Future Sound of London. All works released as The Future Sound of London unless otherwise noted.
