| F S O L Mp3, F S O L Music Lyrics
| |
F S O L biography, F S O L discography
The results are often novel and complex, and in some instances the original track is barely recognisable.The artists are notoriously enigmatic.History
FSOL was formed in Manchester, England, in the mid 1980s.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.Cobain contributed to the accompanying album.In the following three years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases.UK chart in 1992, followed by the breakthrough ambient dub track "Papua New Guinea" featuring a looping Lisa Gerrard vocal sample, which was their first official release.Virgin Records were looking for electronic bands and quickly signed them.Lifeforms followed in 1994 to critical acclaim.The new work featured unconventional use of percussion interspersed with truly ambient segments.The eponymous single from the album featured Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins on vocals.The album was a top 10 hit on the UK album chart.In 1996, they released Dead Cities.The new material was a curious mix of ambient textures and hard, gritty dance music."We Have Explosive (Radio Edit)" was used on the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation soundtrack, released in 1997, and on the video game Wipeout 2097, along with the track "Landmass".It was preceded by Papua New Guinea Translations, a mini album which contained a mixture of remixes of FSOL's seminal track as well as new material from The Isness sessions.The album was ignored by the press, but more favourable among 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, which extended to live shows which the band had undertaken away from the ISDN cables, from 2005 onwards.Surround Sound and created for an exhibition at the Kinetica art museum entitled, appropriately, "Life Forms".The piece contained reworked material from their archives and newer, more abstract ambient music.The piece was coupled with a video called Stereo Sucks, marking the band's theories on the limitations of stereo music, released on a DVD packaged with Future Music Magazine Issue 182 in December 2006.In 2007, the band uploaded several archive tracks online, for the first time revealing much of their unreleased work and unveiling some of the mystery behind the band.Real)
(1992) Metropolis (as Metropolis)
(1993) Liquid Insects (as Amorphous Androgynous)
(1993) Cascade
(1994) Lifeforms (feat.Alice in Ultraland (as Amorphous Androgynous)
(2006) Teachings from the Electronic Brain (remixes and radio edits)
(2007) From the Archives Vol.External links
Future Sound of London.This page was last modified on 18 February 2008, at 17:58.Here's your chance to help choose the next Future Sound Of London digital single to be released at your favorite digital download provider.To listen to tracks and place your vote for the next FSOL digital single check out the Vote page.Lifeforms, ISDN, Dead Cities,The Isness and The Otherness, and the very first Astralwerks label album release, Tales Of Ephidrina, recorded under their alias Amosphous Androgynous).Years before the advent of iPods and MP3 players, FSOL were creating, delivering and releasing music digitally, even as a means of live performance, all from the confines of their small North London studio.Stakker Humanoid, accompanied by a video that Gary worked on.Over the next 3 years their partnership grew and they released a number of early techno and dance records under a variety of aliases.The Cocteau Twins) on vocals.This was soon followed by a reissue of this album six months later under the same name, but with a slightly altered track listing and in a white instead of black album cover.FSOL their biggest US club and radio single.The video has been added to your playlist.Thank you for sharing your concerns.Content of this nature is not necessarily prohibited on YouTube, however we will review this video and take action as appropriate.Per our Community Guidelines, hate speech is specifically defined in reference to "protected groups."We can only process copyright complaints submitted by authorized parties in accordance with processes defined in law.There may be significant legal penalties for false notices.In order to process a privacy complaint we need more information from you.Change this to see only comments above a certain value.Change the value of a comment by clicking on a thumb.Pretty sure it is a special video version yes, bit of Lifeforms mixed with Dead Skin Cells and some other stuff.This is electronic music culture and should be spread around the world.Try to find the FSOL Videos on sale.Seeing this on MTV late at night, not understanding English properly and thinking "what is this strange thing"...Would you like to comment?The code changes based on your selection.The video has been added to your playlist.This video will appear on your blog shortly.We can only process copyright complaints submitted by authorized parties in accordance with processes defined in law.Thank you for sharing this video!Yeah MTV went to hell...The most bugged out thing about this clip by far is the MTV logo in the corner.SHORTENED videos a day, to playing NO videos at all.They're cunts that's what happened, even now on digital with and 50 brands of MTV they can't manage to put a decent station together.The code changes based on your selection.
|
| |
|
 |
|
