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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.
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] | UK Dance Album Chart [1] | |||
| 1992 | Accelerator | 75 | 26 | |
| 1992 | Earthbeat | - | - | |
| 1994 | Lifeforms | 6 | - | |
| 1995 | ISDN | 44 | - | |
| 1996 | Dead Cities | 26 | 13 | |
| 2006 | Teachings from the Electronic Brain | - | - | |
| 2007 | From the Archives Vol. 1 | - | - | |
| From the Archives Vol. 2 | - | - | ||
| From the Archives Vol. 3 | - | - | ||
| Environments | - | - | ||
| 2008 | From the Archives Vol. 4 | - | ||
| From the Archives Vol. 5 | - | - | ||
| Environments II | - | - | ||
| 2010 | Environments 3 | - | - | |
| From the Archives Vol. 6 | - | - | ||
| 2012 | Environments 4 | - | - | |
| From the Archives Vol. 7 | - | - | ||
| 2014 | Environment Five | - | - | |
| 2015 | Archived 8 | - | - | |
| Life In Moments | - | 24 | ||
| 2016 | Environment Six | - | - | |
| Environment 6.5 | - | - | ||
| 2017 | 2017 Calendar Album | - | - | |
| Archived : Environmental : Views | - | - | ||
| 2018 | 2018 Calendar Album | - | - | |
| From the Archives Vol. 9 | - | - | ||
| 2019 | FSOL Calendar Album 2019 | - | - | |
| Yage 2019 | - | - | ||
| 2020 | FSOL Calendar Album 2020 | - | - | |
| A Controlled Vista | - | - | ||
| Cascade 2020 | - | - | ||
| 2021 | FSOL Calendar Album 2021 | - | - | |
| Music for 3 Books | - | - | ||
| Music from Calendars 2017-2020 | - | - | ||
| We Have Explosive 2021 | - | - | ||
| Mind Maps | - | - | ||
| Mind Maps 2 | - | - | ||
| 2022 | Calendar Album 2022 | - | - | |
| Rituals >e7.001 | - | 33 | ||
| 2023 | Calendar Album 2023 | - | - | |
| A Space of Partial Illumination E7.002 | - | - | ||
| Environments E7.003 | - | - | ||
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [3] | UK Sales [3] | UK Dance [3] | |||
| 1993 | Tales of Ephidrina | - | 100 | - | |
| 2002 | The Isness | 68 | - | - | |
| 2003 | The Otherness | - | - | - | |
| 2005 | Alice In Ultraland | - | - | 32 | |
| 2008 | The Peppermint Tree & the Seeds of Superconsciousness | - | - | - | |
| 2008 | A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 1 | - | - | - | |
| 2009 | A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 2 | - | - | - | |
| 2010 | A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 3 | - | - | - | |
| 2013 | The Cartel Vol. 1 | - | - | - | |
| 2013 | The Cartel Vol. 2 | - | - | - | |
| 2015 | A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: The Wizards of Oz | - | - | - | |
| 2020 | We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal (with Peter Hammill) | - | - | - | |
| Year | Single details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [4] | |||
| 1991 | Pulse EP | - | - |
| 1991 | Pulse Two EP | - | - |
| 1992 | Papua New Guinea | 22 | - |
| 1993 | Cascade | 27 | - |
| 1994 | Expander | 72 | - |
| 1994 | Lifeforms (feat. Elizabeth Fraser) | 14 | - |
| 1995 | The Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman | 22 | - |
| 1996 | My Kingdom | 13 | - |
| 1997 | We Have Explosive | 12 | - |
| 2001 | Papua New Guinea 2001 | 28 | - |
| 2002 | Papua New Guinea 2002 | 106 | - |
| 2007 | Archived EP | - | - |
| 2014 | Artworks 1 | - | - |
| 2017 | Ramblings Vol. 1 | - | - |
| 2018 | Ramblings Vol. 2 | - | - |
| 2019 | Ramblings Vol. 3 | - | - |
| 2020 | A Controlled Vista 2.7 (MiniPack 1) | - | - |
| 2020 | A Controlled Vista 5.6 (MiniPack 2) | - | - |
| Year | Single details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [5] | |||
| 1988 | Stakker Humanoid | 17 | - |
| 1989 | Slam | 54 | - |
| 1989 | Tonight (feat. Sharon Benson) | - | - |
| 1989 | The Deep | - | - |
| 1989 | Crystals | - | - |
| 1992 | Stakker Humanoid '92 | 40 | - |
| 2001 | Stakker Humanoid 2001 | 65 | - |
| 2007 | Stakker Humanoid 2007 | - | - |
| 2018 | 30303 EP | - | - |
| 2020 | KAAGE EP | - | - |
| 2020 | Future: Turned EP | - | - |
| 2020 | Orfan Atmosphere EP | - | - |
| 2021 | sT8818r Humanoid | - | - |
| Year | Single details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Physical Singles [3] | |||
| 1993 | Liquid Insects | - | - |
| 2002 | The Mello Hippo Disco Show | - | - |
| 2003 | Divinity | - | - |
| 2005 | The Witchfinder | - | - |
| 2021 | The World Is Full Of Plankton | 38 | - |
They have also garnered a reputation as remixers, transforming the work of a variety of different artists, including:
The results are often novel and complex, and in some instances the original track is barely recognisable. [6]
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California, formed in 1988. They have sold over 20 million albums worldwide, and they have obtained multi-platinum and platinum certifications. The group has been critically acclaimed for their first five albums. They are considered to be among the main progenitors of West Coast hip hop and 1990s hip hop. All of the group members advocate for medical and recreational use of cannabis in the United States. In 2019, Cypress Hill became the first hip hop group to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Future Sound of London is a British electronic music duo composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. They have been described as a "boundary-pushing" electronic act, covering techno, ambient, house music, trip hop, psychedelia, and dub.
Ratcat are an Australian indie rock band from Sydney who formed in 1985. The band is fronted by mainstay vocalist and guitarist, Simon Day. Their combination of indie pop song writing and energetic punk-style guitar rock won them fans from both the indie and skate-punk communities. They found mainstream success with their extended play, Tingles, album Blind Love and the single, "Don't Go Now" (April), which all reached No. 1 on the ARIA Charts during 1991. The band released two subsequent albums that did not match their earlier chart success. Ratcat ceased performing live regularly in the late 1990s; however, they continue to perform sporadically. During their career, much of Ratcat's albums and singles artwork was created by Simon Day.
Christian Jay "C. J." Bolland is an English-Belgian electronic music producer and remixer with British roots.
Accelerator is the debut studio album by British electronic group the Future Sound of London. It was released in April 1992 by the record label Jumpin' & Pumpin'. It includes the hit single "Papua New Guinea".
Ian Pooley is a German record producer and DJ. While incorporating samples of various musical genres, Pooley's creations are usually classified as house or tech house with Brazilian influence.
Dead Cities is the third studio album by electronic music group The Future Sound of London released in 1996.
Tales of Ephidrina is an ambient/techno album by electronica duo Amorphous Androgynous, better known as The Future Sound of London (FSOL). It was released on 5 July 1993 through Quigley Records, a subsidiary label of Virgin. It was created from material the pair had been working on around the same time as their ambient FSOL title Lifeforms, while still containing some of the techno feel of Accelerator.
"Papua New Guinea" is a 1991 song by the electronic music group Future Sound of London. It was the group's debut single and later appeared on their full-length album Accelerator. The single reached #22 on the UK singles chart.
Brian Robert Dougans is a Scottish musician and composer, who is a member of the British electronic duo, the Future Sound of London (FSOL).
Garry John Cobain is a British electronic musician and composer, and one half of the Future Sound of London.
"Q" is a single released in 1990/1991 by Mental Cube. It is a widely respected dance classic among DJs and has a distinctive bleeping, electronica feel reminiscent of work by Orbital.
"Stakker Humanoid" is an 1988 track by Humanoid released in 1988 on the London-based label Westside Records. It is described by The Guardian as "the first truly credible UK acid techno record to break into the mainstream."
Graham Vernon Massey is a British record producer, musician, and remixer.
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.
The Pulse EP is an EP released by The Future Sound of London partly under the alias Indo Tribe, two tracks under that name, and the other two are FSOL tracks. One FSOL track is from their first album Accelerator and one of the Indo Tribe tracks is from the 1992 compilation album Earthbeat.
Pulse 2 EP is an EP released by The Future Sound of London partly under the alias' Indo Tribe, Smart Systems and FSOL. The FSOL tracks "Stolen Documents" and "In 8" would later be put on the Accelerator album with "In 8" becoming "1 in 8".
Urban Hype were an English breakbeat hardcore group. The group was formed in 1988, consisting of Bob Dibden and Mark Lewis. They are best known for their toytown techno single, "A Trip to Trumpton", which peaked at No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1992. They had two other minor UK chart entries, and briefly saw their second album Conspiracy to Dance released in the United States through Radikal Records.
American music producer and DJ Armand van Helden has released seven studio albums, ten compilation albums, two remix albums, eight DJ mix albums, sixteen extended plays (EPs) and sixty singles.
Tingler may refer to: