Sorry, I'm still chucklin.

Bedouin Ascent - Crouched on broken glass - http://youtu.be/pFujzA0k6AA

Jeff Mills - Java - http://youtu.be/QbJms6GMC9A

Jeff Mills - The Bells - http://youtu.be/Xf-KqgJ323o

Poifect for a Sunday.

http://www.discogs.com/ar...don%2C+The

The Future Sound Of London

"British duo who met in the 1980's in Manchester. Their very influential discography shows off influences spanning acid house, hardcore techno, ambient, krautrock, 60's psychedelica, and more. Previously Dougans, as Humanoid, had a UK Top 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 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-1990's. After Dead Cities came out in 1996, they dropped off the radar. After a long hiatus 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."

Amorphous Androgynous - Liquid Insects - http://youtu.be/2RIwU0oG0dI

The Far-Out Son Of Lung - Ramblings of a Madman - http://youtu.be/YrVdskE2GS4

The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea - http://youtu.be/OjQqYFNK50M

The Future Sound of London - Moscow - http://youtu.be/Yfb3NFF4GsU

The Future Sound Of London - Cerebral - http://youtu.be/1l9QJSy63T8

The Future Sound Of London - Glass - http://youtu.be/l59EhziGhFs

MLO - Sleeper

http://youtu.be/EkHEJ85W_MU

Someday this war's gonna end. Never get outta the boat.

This Sunday and for any other Sunday to come, on any given Sunday and sometimes on Sundays therafter or as near as dammit. On any other day, or on that day, the people will come together, not only to rejoice and taste the sounds that nourish but to stand for the right of any free man, regardless of creed or colour, to float on imaginary sandals and be at one with his lesbian side.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. Let Man-lesbian hetros ring from the curvaceous trippy slopes of their planets. Let Further Self Evident Truths spin in the red strobe of dotness for it shall sound good, some of it. But not only that, let the cats out for a quack and when this happens, when we allow the cats out for a quack, we can go unconcious and we can say, I'll... Have a dream...

Jon Anderson - Amor Real (global communication remix) http://youtu.be/ZGpdF4nFblQ

Nav Katze - Wild Horses (Global Communication) - http://youtu.be/rKOuxe37Uq0

Aphex Twin - Ageispolis - http://youtu.be/BlZ-NEMt_iI

Aphex Twin - Cow Cud Is a Twin - http://youtu.be/5xqbR_2wKcs

Syzygy - I Am The Sky - http://youtu.be/SbvTLCe9RQc

Fuck it Edit: Wagon Christ - Redone EP - http://youtu.be/-NTF2nPN-zs

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Cerebus said:

Use Discogs, man.

It's not perfect, doesn't have every release by every artist and label, but it's pretty close.

Discogs and AllMusic are the crackhouses for the liner notes crackhead.

This one's odd but, at the Stones Throw site, someone last year shared a snippet from a Buck Rogers episode of the late 70s which had a deliciously quirky synthesiser score of what the composer envisaged as "space music."

http://www29.zippyshare.c.../file.html

Holy shit! I'm in this video. You can't see me, but I know where I am. I checked my box and I still have the flyer for this party, too. Move along to 1:05 to get an idea of why the early-mid 90s parties in the Bay Area were some of the best, EVER! That's in the morning, after dancing all night. Folks just refusin' to leave.

DJ Garth, early morning after the lights went up at a Gathering, Concourse Exhibition Center, San Francisco, April 1992

Edit: Was so tripped out I posted the link wrong.

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arX said:

Cerebus said:

Use Discogs, man.

It's not perfect, doesn't have every release by every artist and label, but it's pretty close.

Discogs and AllMusic are the crackhouses for the liner notes crackhead.

So true. I'll go to Discogs to look up one thing, click on a random link within the release I was searching for and all of a sudden its an hour later.

Moby's Drum Machine & Synthesizer Collection

The Future Sound Of London - The Early Rave Tracks

Classic, this one...

Mental Cube - Chile Of The Bass Generation (1990)

And this one, from the same 12"...

Mental Cube - Dope Module (1990)

And this one, that damn piano sample melted my brain more than once...

Metropolis - Hyporeel (1991)

Mental Cube - So This Is Love (1991)

Indo Tribe - In The Mind Of A Child (First Born Mix) (1991)

The Future Sound Of London - Pulse State (831 AM Mix by Yage) (1991)

Mental Cube - I'm Not Gonna Let You Do It (1992)

Smart Systems - The Creator (1992)

Lastly, probably the most well known of their early rave era tracks..

Semi Real - People Livin' Today (1992)

The Future Sound Of London - Defining Sound, The Early Years

Still very four on the floor with a house vibe, but starting to reach for something higher. That FSOL sound creeping in around the edges...

Art Science Technology - Esus Flow (Vast Galaxy Mix) (1990)

Their first album, released in 1991 during the height of their alias fun (obviously they were saving their best tracks for this), for me, still fits the description above. It's good music, and it points to what their next few albums and EPs would sound like, but it's not quite there. However, it contains Papua New Guinea, and that track is completely untouchable in my opinion. I've heard/seen people say that track is overrated in recent times. I always ask if they were ever on a dancefloor when it was played from 91-93, and then the conversation is over. The 12" Original Mix has already been posted, and I don't think there's a better version than that one, to be honest. But I always liked the Dumb Child Of Q mix, too (basically, the original without the drum programming.)

Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea (Dumb Child Of Q) (1991)

Another track I dig from the first album...

Future Sound Of London - Calcium (1991)

I wanted to post 1 In 8 as well but YouTube can't find it.

The Future Sound Of London - A Sound Defined, Experimentation, The Edges of Psychedelia

For me, the real Future Sound Of London starts with the Cascade EP. Produced in a format they would use several times over the next few years, it contains several remixes, or "parts" of the title track. Thing is, the tracks were rarely anything like the original album versions, and they were often blended together, created one long journey.

In regards to this particular release, Cascade, it's amazing how far they had moved forward in less than two years. Papua New Guinea is a GREAT song, but this is the music that actually made me a lifelong fan of FSOL...

Papua New Guinea - Cascade (1993)

Part Two begins around 7:12

Part Three begins around 16:30

Part Four begins around 20:40

Part Five bings around 25:10 ends at 31:20 (the music after that is the "Shortform" single edit of the album version)

More soul- and jazz-infused electronics from the godfather of U.S. and U.K. garage, Todd Edwards.

Steal Your Heart (1995)

Saved My Life (1995)

Sunshine: Sunrise (1997)

Push The Love (Dub) (1997)

Thank You (1998)

St Germain - Alabama Blue...ix) (1995)

There's nothing I love more than a pinch of swing in my music.

The next FSOL album, the two CD release, 'Lifeforms', has never moved me as much as the EPs released from it. I like it well enough, but it's a very confused album. It's largely ambient, but it's not at all relaxed. And it completely ditches the house rhythms the were known for just a couple years prior. Instead, it gives you an hour and a half of layered sound collages, off-kilter, undanceable beats, and it starts to get dark and uneasy around the edges. It wasn't even all that fun on drugs, to be honest.

A couple of the tracks I like from this album...

Future Sound Of London - Eggshells (1994)

Future Sound Of London - Vit (1994)

Cerebral is a good one, too.

The next EP released from the 'Lifeforms' album was, uhh, 'Lifeforms'. Another great piece of music, it reminded me very quickly of why I liked them so much. I mean, you can't go wrong with horse hooves and water splashes for your rhythm tracks. The haunting vocal samples, middle-eastern influences and near perfect build and pacing throughout the EP didn't hurt, either.

Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Path 1) (1994)

Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Path 2) (1994)

Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Path 3) (1994)

Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Path 4) (1994)

Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Path 5) (1994)

Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Path 6) (1994)

'Far-Out Son Of A Lung and The Ramblings Of A Madman', FSOL's 1995 EP has always felt like a slight acknowlegment to the fact that last couple years had been hard to wrap your head around as a fan. For FSOL, it was almost funky, jazzy, and sexy, and it had solid beats all over the place. Although it's only four tracks (roughly), it's one of the most quality releases in their catalog (my opinion, of course).

Fonky already posted 'Ramblings Of A Madman', here's a couple of my other favorites...

FSOL created a ton of psychedelic, acid drenched videos over the years. These are bad quality, but they are official...

Future Sound Of London - Snakehips Pt 1 (1995)

Future Sound Of London - Snakehips Pt 2 (1995)

Future Sound Of London - Smokin' Japanese Babe

If FSOL's last album, 'Lifeforms' was starting to get dark and uneasy around the edges, the next one, 'Dead Cities', was completely immersed in that darkness, uncomfortable, paranoid and angry, and an absolute masterpiece.

I could easily post the entire album, but since I doubt very many people are paying attention to this, and the people who are probably know all this already, I'll try to just post some of them...

These first three tracks open the album, 'Her Face Forms In Summertime' is one of my all-time favorites...

Future Sound Of London - Herd Killing (1996)

Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities (1996)

Future Sound Of London - Her Face Forms In Summertime (1996)

Future Sound Of London - Yage (1996)

And then there's 'My Kingdom', an EP based around a track from 'Dead Cities'. In my opinion, this is the single greatest piece of music they've ever released. Other people feel differently, I'm sure, but for me, this is it...

Future Sound Of London - My Kingdom (1996)

Part Two begins around 10:50

Part Three begins around 14:00

Part Four Begins around 21:00 and ends at 26:20 (the music after that is the "Shortform" single edit of the album version)

Then they disappeared for six years....

When the returned they were all of a sudden a 60s psych/folk/rock/electronic band thing, with real instrumentation and singing, and barely even a nod to the sounds of the sounds of their past. That music grew on me, and in the end recognized enough of what I loved about them before that I stuck with it. Good thing, too, because they eventually went on to release a HUGE amount of archival (still doing so) and new, more experimental material through their website (which has evidently been a VERY succesful venture for them). But never anything that sounded remotely like THIS ^^, for which I will always be a little bit sad.

FSOL Digital

Genaside II - Sirens of Acre Lane (1990)

Eze Ozo - How To Stay Alive (1991)

Life After CD – Addiction (1991)

Model 500 – What’s The Game (1988)

Bobby Konders – Nervous Acid (1990)

Coco Steel & Lovebomb – Feel It (1991)

Da Juice – C’mon C’mon (Mental Bass Mix) (1991)

Speedy J – Analogical (1991)

Bass Is Base feat Syndicate 305 – The Spirit (1991)

Sheila – Acid Kiss (Hacienda Mix) (1989)

Sungods – Ascension (The Sun) (1991)

The Outerlimit – Dance In A Daze (1989)

Joe Smooth – Inside My Mind (1988)

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All these tracks and a few more can be heard on this incredibly great set from DJ Jeno back in 1991. The first few minutes of Side A have some good ol' fashioned tape warble, but it sounds fine after that (my twenty plus year old tape doesn't have it, but dude might be a little put out if I uploaded the same thing ).

Jenö - Inside the Mind Side A (1991)

Jenö - Inside the Mind Side A (1991)

Cerebus said:

arX said:

Discogs and AllMusic are the crackhouses for the liner notes crackhead.

So true. I'll go to Discogs to look up one thing, click on a random link within the release I was searching for and all of a sudden its an hour later.

Yep, I'm convinced. Discogs is red hot. I was looking at it last night, when I could get the lappy working. Easy to get lost for a while, I'm leading myself all over the place getting far too involved

Twiki was a legend too and there's nothin wrong with space music.

FSOL were shit hot. Cerebus pretty much said it all. Or should we just post the lot? They were up there with Black Dog and B12 in my book. Different thing yeah, but quality stuff. A lot of people would prolly put em in front of the other two but I couldn't. Cobain always seemed too far up himself for me but the tunes were mustard. Videos and graphics weren't bad either.

Cascade was the bollocks. They did a lot of good stuff. I Haven't heard a lot of the newer bits but I love the oldies. I had a mate offer me £100 for my Papau New Guinea once. I shoulda sold it, he was mental. Shows how mad I am that I didn't. We were shit-faced to be fair.

I remember the first of their 'Pod-Room Transmissions' too, well worth a listen. There's hours of it. 'Early days of internet broadcasting'... We heard it on KissFM with it's poxy 'spoiler technology'. Didn't have 'the internet' or ISDN connection.

http://youtu.be/vU7rBcEOczM

A lot of tracks I don't remember by name. I'll know the tune or where it is on the vinyl so clicking links in the thread and hearing all my favourites come on is cracking me up. Or were they my own posts?

I've been pulling out records I haven't seen for years. I've got boxes of tapes all over the place and was just pissin and moanin about it when I found a little bag of skunk with the Pod Room tapes! BONUS! Fuck knows how old it is but I'll have summa that.

Black Dog Productions/Atypic - Otaku - http://youtu.be/OYusX7V1SaI

(I don't care if 'Otaku' is a repost. You could post that all over the net and never get a complaint from me. Too gorgeous.)

Black Dog Productions/Bytes - Merck - http://youtu.be/6auWjUrWULU

B12 - Ancient Egypt - http://youtu.be/dTPjIodcy2Q

B12/Musicology - Telephone 529 - http://youtu.be/ClVoVYq4meM

B12/Redcell - Scriptures - http://youtu.be/TAlvVY6vStU

Have to look up the old Warp videos later. Artificial Intelligence stuff. They were shit hot too. There's another birds nest to get into... Warp. I love it.

Another gorgeous can of worms, The Orb/Alex Paterson:

Dr Alex Paterson – Loving You Live - http://youtu.be/1joiGECwPMA

Better stop there fo a minute.

(Motion) #3 Richard H. Kirk - Reality Net http://youtu.be/IxgJlCqSKfo

(Motion) #4 Speedy J - Symmetry - http://youtu.be/r_69ChyVMS8

(Motion) #1 Beaumont Hannant - Utuba - http://youtu.be/SoOXScA2SSA

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Cerebus said:

Genaside II - Sirens of Acre Lane (1990)

Eze Ozo - How To Stay Alive (1991)

Life After CD – Addiction (1991)

Model 500 – What’s The Game (1988)

Bobby Konders – Nervous Acid (1990)

Coco Steel & Lovebomb – Feel It (1991)

Da Juice – C’mon C’mon (Mental Bass Mix) (1991)

Speedy J – Analogical (1991)

Bass Is Base feat Syndicate 305 – The Spirit (1991)

Sheila – Acid Kiss (Hacienda Mix) (1989)

Sungods – Ascension (The Sun) (1991)

The Outerlimit – Dance In A Daze (1989)

Joe Smooth – Inside My Mind (1988)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All these tracks and a few more can be heard on this incredibly great set from DJ Jeno back in 1991. The first few minutes of Side A have some good ol' fashioned tape warble, but it sounds fine after that (my twenty plus year old tape doesn't have it, but dude might be a little put out if I uploaded the same thing ).

Jenö - Inside the Mind Side A (1991)

Jenö - Inside the Mind Side A (1991)

Some blinders in there.

Me then:

Me now:

Lets try something new here. PLEASE do not post YouTube videos within the thread. Rather, post them as links, like this...

This will make the thread load MUCH faster, particularly when Replying, and allow more people to take part because their browsers won't freeze (assuming there will ever be that many videos in the thread ).

I should of thought this for my "Whats your song for today" thread

One of the oldest and best and favorite electronic song

Donna Summer-I feel love (1977)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7r83-y3j2A

iaminparties said:

I should of thought this for my "Whats your song for today" thread

You aint kiddin. Nice to have something to watch but when it takes 10 mins to post we're all a bit fooked. Your thread was prolly the reason so it aint all bad. You mad squirter.

Dr.Timothy Leary meets the Grid Origins of Dance - http://youtu.be/LIF7h5X2Yas

2 Frenchmen - Black Planet (Save The Planet Mix) - http://youtu.be/HeNQsvK5m4I

Holy Noise - The Noise - http://youtu.be/XkrGdzVw0hM

G.T.O - PURE (PURE ENERGY) - http://youtu.be/pPI2Qym07iQ

LFO - LFO (Leeds warehouse mix) - http://youtu.be/RpZVPSCv79U

Temple Of Life ‎– EDP - http://youtu.be/-48n6JyA5K0 (Too slow FFS)

Temple Of Life ‎– EDP - Slayer - http://youtu.be/q8ogNk06dnU

Fonkyman said:

iaminparties said:

You aint kiddin. Nice to have something to watch but when it takes 10 mins to post we're all a bit fooked. Your thread was prolly the reason so it aint all bad. You mad squirter.

Started a new "Whats your song thread"

Self - Edited Best not to post pics of Purple ohms and a handful of pills.

[Edited by the editor 808/909/303 trippin:am]

[Edited again as somehow I'd posted it all twice. 0/00/13 twilight:zone am]

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Clubland - Let's Get Busy - http://youtu.be/ZoE_6_5bh7Q

I converted a tape with this on it a couple of weeks ago. We used to chuck samples all over the place and this tune had P all over it. Bit's from UTCM when he's on the phone "Yes, this is Lou, may I speak to mister Sharone (Or whatever) please?" and "We'll be landing on the moon in three minutes." Doesn't sound right without our samples.

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THIS is suppose to be an electronic music thread and NOT one orger mention Kraftwerk OR Yellow Magic Orchestra, two of THE greatest electronic bands of all time!

Allow me to save this thread!

Kraftwerk -- The Robots

http://www.youtube.com/wa...Xa9tXcMhXQ

Kraftwerk -- Computer World

http://www.youtube.com/wa...Qi78vlKKBs

YMO -- Behind The Mask

http://www.youtube.com/wa...DSue36BpH8

YMO -- Firecracker

http://www.youtube.com/wa...4UjAVzTl4A

Without these bands, there is no electonic music or any of its different genres (especially electro, house, italo disco, techno, synth-pop, synth-funk/electro-funk, trance, or EDM in general.).