What you say
No-one has reviewed From The Archives – Volume 4 by The Future Sound Of London yet.
What we say
 This record left our Ant feeling happy.
Future Sound Of London are back with volume 4 of their 'From The Archives Series' this 12 track CD is another fine comp of tracks they've been sitting on for years. From early pioneering acid and breakbeat experiments to more Balearic and tribal tunes. They have a good balance of accessible melodic tracks and weirder ones, well worth a peep.
What the label says:
Hidden Sign
Plasmatik
West Path
100 Baby Spiders
Absent With Concept
Wookii
Shingles
5 Months 5 Acres
Mango Tree (Original)
Golden Burnt
Climbing
Speed Ball
Brian Dougans and Garry Cobain began their musical partnership and friendship in Manchester, England, in the mid 1980s whilst the two were studying at Manchester University. Dougans had already been making electronic music for some time when they first began working in various local clubs. In 1988, Brian embarked on a project for the Stakker graphics company. The result was Stakker Humanoid.
In the following three years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases, followed by the breakthrough classic ambient dub track Papua New Guinea in 1992, which was also the first release under the Future Sound of London moniker.
Lifeforms followed in 1993. The new work was almost entirely free of percussion and was truly ambient across both discs. It was a top 10 hit in the UK album chart, and is still hailed as one of the greatest ambient electronica albums ever devised.
In 1996 they released Dead Cities. The new material was a mixture of ambient textures and hard gritty dance music. Promotion for the album culminated in a headline slot at the Essential Festival in Brighton in 1998. Once again utilising ISDN they played the gig from their studio in London.
Spanning 25 years of recordings the FSOL library is vast and varied and a recent foray into the vaults has revealed a highly anticipated 3CD collection of previously unreleased golden nuggets. “From The Archives” Volumes 1 – 3 exceeded all expectations and inspired the guys to dig deep and find a fourth volume of gems from their most prolific period.
|
|
Other customers buying this also bought:
A Joy by Four Tet (Fourtet)
(12", £5.49)
Other items by The Future Sound Of London:
|
