The Future Sound Of London [UK]

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BIOGRAPHY

The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain (sometimes stylised as Gaz Cobain) and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music. Although often labelled as ambient, Cobain and Dougans usually resist being typecast into any one particular genre. Their work covers many areas of electronic music, such as ambient techno, house music, trip hop, ambient dub, acid techno. In addition to music composition, their interests have covered a number of areas including film and video, 2D and 3D computer graphics, animation in making almost all their own videos for their singles, radio broadcasting and creating their own electronic devices for sound making. They have released works under numerous aliases.

The artists have been fairly enigmatic in the past but have become more candid with their fanbase in recent years with social websites like Myspace, YouTube, their forum and many interviews in which Cobain almost always speaks for the group.

HISTORY

Together as FSOL, they scored a major crossover success with Papua New Guinea. Their first full-length Accelerator charted their dancefloor-friendly early career, after which FSOL moved into deeper, more album-oriented world. Lifeforms was a double-disc set spanning long stretches of breakbeat-flavored ambience. It was followed by Dead Cities which added hip-hop, trip-hop, industrial textures, and bleak urban imagery into their mix of influences. Their ISDN album compiled music from their ISDN-uplinked radio broadcasts from the mid-1990s. After Dead Cities came out in 1996, they felt like they were moving in the wrong direction and they dropped off the radar after the A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Vol.1 mix in mid 1997.

After a 4 year long hiatus in which they were surrounded by rumors of insanity and drug addiction (whereas the real situation was mercury poisoning from teeth fillings and some soul-searching travels), the Papua New Guinea Translations concept remix album came out in 2001, followed by the full-length The Isness and more material under the Amorphous Androgynous name.

In March 2007 they finally went independent and launched FSOLDigital.com releasing dozens of unreleased material (under the From The Archives series), as well as old and new material from their other aliases. One of the most anticipated albums in ambient history, Environments got released 13 years since its recording, and then Environments continued as a series, the first volumes were reproduced old material blended with new neoclassical material. By the time they reached Environment Five in 2014, all recorded material was brand new.

DISCOGRAPHY

Albums:

Accelerator (1991)
Lifeforms (1994)
ISDN (1994)
Dead Cities (1996)
The Isness (2002)
Environments (2007)
Environments II (2008)
Environments 3 (2010)
Environments 4 (2012)
Environment Five (2014)
Environment Six (2016)
Environment 6.5 (2016)

Singles, EP's:

1992 Papua New Guinea (CD, Single)
1993 Cascade (CD, Maxi-Single)
1994 Expander (CD, Single)
1994 Lifeforms (CD, EP, Mixed)
1994 Promo 500 (Vinyl, 12', Promo, 45 RPM)
1995 Far-Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman (CD, Single)
1996 My Kingdom (CD, Single)
1996 Papua New Guinea (CD, Single, Multi-Image)
1997 We Have Explosive (CD, Single)
1997 We Have Explosive (CD, Single, Promo)
1997 We Have Explosive Remixes (CD, Single)
2001 Papua New Guinea 2001 (CD, Single)
2001 Papua New Guinea 2001 (Vinyl, 12')
2001 Papua New Guinea 2001 (Vinyl, 12', 33 ⅓ RPM)
2007 A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Antistatic (File, Single)
2007 Archived (CD, EP, Promo) (V0)
2007 Teachings From The Electronic Brain (The Best Of FSOL): Rare Tracks Edition (File, EP) (V1)

MORE INFO https://www.discogs.com/artist/2549-The-Future-Sound-Of-London