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Future Sound of London

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I Future Sound of London (nome spesso abbreviato con FSOL) sono un duo Britannico composto da Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans che occupa un importante posto tra i produttori di musica elettronica .

Il duo è notoriamente enigmatico e raramente ha rilasciato interviste. Il loro lavoro copre un grande numero di settori, come film e video, 2D e 3D computer grafica, produzione di animazioni, Internet, diffusione radiofonica allo stesso modo della produzione musicale.

Troppo spesso etichettati sotto il genere ambient, Dougans e Cobain hanno dimostrato di essere troppo eclettici per essere ingabbiati nella definizione di un solo stile musicale. La loro musica copre la maggior parte dei settori della musica elettronica, dalla ambient alla house music, dal drum and bass al trip-hop, sempre attraverso una sperimentazione che li allontana dai canoni di questi generi. Negli anni si sono fatti conoscere anche come rinomati remixers, di brani principalmente dance.I risultati dei loro remix sono sempre complessi racconti nei quali raramente si riesce a riconoscere i brani iniziali.

Storia

FSOL, as the band is sometimes called, was formed in Manchester, England, in the mid 80s. Dougans had already been making electronic music for some time when they first began working in various local clubs. In 1988, Dougans embarked on a project for the Stakker graphics company. The result was Stakker Humanoid. Cobain contributed to the accompanying album. A video was also produced.

In the following three years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases. Stakker Humanoid re-entered the UK chart in 1992, followed by the breakthrough ambient dub track "Papua New Guinea", which was the first official Future Sound of London release. Virgin Records were looking for electronic bands and quickly signed them. With their new found contract they immediately began to experiment and the result was the Tales of Ephidrina album, released under the Amorphous Androgynous alias.

Lifeforms followed in 1994 to critical acclaim. 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.

1994 also saw the release of ISDN, which was as close to a live album as most electronic acts get - it featured live broadcasts FSOL had made over ISDN lines to various radio stations worldwide and to The Kitchen, an avant-garde performance space in New York. Its tone was darker and more rhythmic than Lifeforms.

In 1996 they released Dead Cities. The new material was a curious mix of ambient textures and hard gritty dance music. This album also featured a collaboration with the composer Max Richter. However, critics suggested that the duo's musical output seemed to dry up following this release, save for a few 12" singles and remixes.

After a four year hiatus, and allegations of mental illness, Cobain and Dougans returned in 2002 with The Isness, a record heavily influenced by 60s and 70s psychedelia and released under their alias Amorphous Androgynous. It was preceded by Papua New Guinea Translations, a mini album which contained a mixture of remixes of FSOL's seminal classic as well as new material from The Isness sessions. The album received mixed press, with many claiming the band had gone overboard and moved from what they did best, whilst others called it a masterpiece of modern psychedelia and one of the most exciting and unique albums of its time, such as Muzik magazine, who offered the album a suitably over the top 6/5 mark.

Three years on, Dougans and Cobain followed the album with a continuation of the Amorphous Androgynous project, Alice In Ultraland. Rumoured to be accompanied by a film of the same title, the album took The Isness's crazy psychedelic experimentation and toned it down, giving the album a singular theme and sound, and replacing the more bizarre moments with funk and ambient interludes. The album was ignored by the press, but more favourable amongst fans than its predecessor. Unlike The Isness, which featured almost a hundred musicians over the course of it and the various alternative versions and remix albums, Alice In Ultraland featured a fairly solid band lineup throughout, and this band was taken on tour from 2005 onwards; the live shows the band had undertaken away from the ISDN cables.

Alias utilizzati

  • Aircut
  • Amorphous Androgynous
  • Art Science Technology
  • Candese
  • Deep Field
  • Homeboy
  • Humanoid
  • Indo Tribe
  • Intelligent Communication
  • Mental Cube
  • Metropolis
  • N.A.M.
  • Q
  • Semtex
  • Semi Real
  • Smart Systems
  • The Far-out Son Of Lung
  • Yage
  • Yunie
  • Zeebox

Discografia

Singoli/EP

  • Q (198-)
  • Crystals (Brian Dougans) (198-)
  • Stakker Humanoid (come Humanoid) (1988)
  • Stakker Humanoid (Part 2) (come Humanoid) (1988)
  • Slam (come Humanoid) (1989)
  • Tonight (come Humanoid con Sharon Benson) (1989)
  • The Deep (come Humanoid) (1989)
  • The Tingler (come Smart Systems) (19--)
  • AST (come Art Science Technology) (1990)
  • Mental Cube EP (come Mental Cube) (1990)
  • So This Is Love (come Mental Cube) (1991)
  • Principles of Motion EP (come Intelligent Communication) (1991)
  • Papua New Guinea (1992)
  • Fuzzy Logic EP (come Yage) (1992)
  • Stakker '92 (come Humanoid) (1992)
  • People Livin' Today (come Semi-Real) (1992)
  • Metropolis (come Metropolis) (1992)
  • Liquid Insects (come Amorphous Androgynous) (1993)
  • Cascade (1993)
  • Lifeforms (con Elizabeth Fraser) (1994)
  • Expander (1994)
  • The Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman (1994)
  • ISDN (Remix) (1995)
  • My Kingdom (1996)
  • We Have Explosive (1997)
  • Papua New Guinea 2001 (2001)
  • Papua New Guinea Translations (2001)
  • The Mellow Hippo Disco Show (come Amorphous Androgynous) (2002)
  • Divinity (come Amorphous Androgynous) (2003)

Album

Speciali

  • the Otherness (album bonus di 14 tracce da "the Isness & the Otherness" (doppio CD edizione limitata)) (2004)

Progetti non pubblicati

  • Environments (sarebbe dovuto uscire come Amorphous Androgynous: il brano "Environments 3" è apparso nella colonna sonora del film "Teachings From The Electronic Brain" del 1996, il CD appare pubblicizzato nel booklet dell'album Lifeforms)

Remix

Voci correlate

Collegamenti esterni

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