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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] [2] | |||
| 1992 | Accelerator | 75 | 26 | |
| 1992 | Earthbeat | - | - | |
| 1994 | Lifeforms | 6 | 1 | |
| 1995 | ISDN | 44 | - | |
| 1996 | Dead Cities | 26 | 2 | |
| 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 [4] | UK Sales [4] | UK Dance [4] | |||
| 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 [5] | |||
| 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) | - | - |
| 2024 | Captures (pre8ep 001) | - | - |
| Year | Single details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [6] | |||
| 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 [4] | |||
| 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. [7]
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.
Marcella Levy, known professionally as Marcy Levy and Marcella Detroit, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She co-wrote the 1977 Eric Clapton hit "Lay Down Sally" and released her debut studio album Marcella in 1982. She joined Shakespears Sister in 1988 with ex-Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey. Their first two studio albums, Sacred Heart (1989), and Hormonally Yours (1992), both reached the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. Detroit sang the lead vocals on their biggest hit, "Stay", which spent eight consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1992. Detroit left the band in 1993 and had a UK top 20 hit with "I Believe" in 1994. She formed the Marcy Levy Band in 2002, and finished third in the 2010 ITV series Popstar to Operastar.
The Magic Numbers are an English alternative rock band consisting of two brother-and-sister pairs, from Hanwell in west London. The group was formed in 2002, releasing their debut album titled The Magic Numbers on 13 June 2005. Their follow-up album, Those the Brokes, was released on 6 November 2006; The Runaway was released on 6 June 2010, Alias was released on 18 August 2014, and their most recent album, Outsiders, was released on 11 May 2018.
Christian Jay "C. J." Bolland is an English-Belgian electronic music producer and remixer with British roots.
Klubbheads is a team of dance music producers and DJs from the Netherlands. They have more than 40 aliases for their recordings, including Hi_Tack, DJ Disco and Drunkenmunky.
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".
Dead Cities is the third studio album by the British electronic music duo The Future Sound of London. It was released through Virgin Records in October 1996. The record entered the Dance Albums Chart at No. 2 and the Albums Chart at No. 26.
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.
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.
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 an English electronic musician and composer who forms one half of the Future Sound of London.
"Stakker Humanoid" is a 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.
You Took My Love by Candese is a 1991 house track produced by FSOL. Candese sings very spiritedly over a funky acid house beat.
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.
Tingler may refer to:
Phillip Kayode Moses, better known as Pheelz, is a Nigerian record producer, singer, songwriter, and graphic designer. Pheelz is credited to have produced all but one song on Olamide's Baddest Guy Ever Liveth album. In 2022, he had a hit with his song "Finesse", a collaboration with Bnxn.