The Future's What It Used to Be

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The Future's What It Used to Be
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Studio album by
Released30 January 2012
Genre Electronica, electronic rock, breakbeat, drum and bass, house
Length41:52
Label Radikal
Producer Apollo 440
Apollo 440 chronology
Dude Descending a Staircase
(2003)
The Future's What It Used to Be
(2012)

The Future's What It Used to Be is the fifth studio album by the British electronic band Apollo 440. It was released in January 2012 by Radikal Records.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Stay Frosty"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane2:47
2."The Future's What It Used to Be"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane, Ashley Krajewski4:50
3."Smoke & Mirrors"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane4:57
4."Stealth Cantorum"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane0:11
5."A Deeper Dub" Robert Clivillés, David Cole 5:25
6."Love is Evil"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane5:11
7."Odessa Dubstep (feat. TNMK)"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane4:58
8."Motorbootee"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane, Ian Hoxley4:15
9."Traumarama"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane3:52
10."Fuzzy Logic"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane5:40
11."Music Don't Die"Gray, Noko, Gray, MacFarlane4:44
Total length:41:52

Personnel

Apollo 440

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