Brian Dougans & Garry Cobain, a.k.a. The Future Sound of London, are actually hailing from Manchester. Their very influential discography shows off influences spanning acid house, hardcore techno, ambient, krautrock, 60's psychedelica, and more. Previously Brian, under the name of Humanoid, had a UK#10 hit with 'Stakker Humanoid'. 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 word. Lifeforms was a double-disc set with long stretches of breakbeat-flavored ambience and contain my favourite track by them, Cascade. 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-1990's. After Dead Cities came out in 1996, they dropped off the radar. After a long pause in which they were surrounded by rumors of insanity and drug addiction, the 'Papua New Guinea Translations' concept remix album came out, followed by the full-length The Isness and more material under the Amorphous Androgynous name.
The Future Sound of London - Cascade (1993)
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