Future Sound of London aka FSOL poll

Dead Cities for sure

Lifeforms prob best album but PNG far and away their best track

Lifeforms for me as well, very closely followed by Dead Cities

inspired by recently watching "deep cover" and laurence fishburne's bit of narration that was sampled on 'dead cities'

I would have voted for dead cities a few years back but since reinvesting in these dudes I would have to agree Lifeforms is definitely the best album
Accelerator's more like a collection of singles from early on, isn't it?

has anyone heard these "environments" releases? they kinda sound like the river run stuff that underworld put out, in terms of release and concept, but i could be wrong.

"Slider" off of ISDN for best track btw

accelerator reminds me of driving at night between upstate ny and chicago during my college years, i would listen to this and second toughest by underworld 3x each during the drive

j0hn d, confirm/deny any possible connection between tales of ephidrina song title and your own work

the Environments releases are good but a touch spotty. not as good as From the Archives 1 & 2, but worth having. i voted for Lifeforms but ISDN and the promo only ISDN:SHOW are phenomenal recordings.

Globular Burst of Antistatic (Longform) is a great track. heard that on thanksgiving while i was sunk into the couch.

Really tough ,but yes, dead cities

FSOL is one band in which the EPs hold up as well as the the albums, and are sometimes longer. No poll would be complete without the Cascade (1993), Far-Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman (1995), My Kingdom (1996), and We Have Explosive (1997) EPs. We're they included, Cascade would get my vote. Without them, I lean towards ISDN, simply because it has a spontanaity that was pro-Tooled out of existence on the other releases.

I will always vote for the release that has PNG on it.

I never really connected the dots between all of their various works in the 90s but I've had Lifeforms in heavy rotation for a couple of years now, ever since I heard a few of the top songs woven into some keen DJ mixes. Of course, "Papua New Guinea" is one of the top songs of the 90s flat-out, but I also think "Calcium" deserves much more credit too, a song that I keep thinking I should be sick of by now but as of yet I'm not.

"We Have Explosive" seems to mark the advent of them listening to way too much Prodigy or something, though. I think I actually owned Dead Cities at one point and I all I can remember is that it was more along the lines of that song. The EPs sound really nice though...I didn't realize there were five parts to "Cascade"! And is "My Kingdom" more along the lines of "We Have Explosive" or closer to the earlier stuff?

"my kingdom" EP = so dope

viborg: the My Kingdom ep is closer in sound to to their golden era than to We Have Explosive. There's some absorption of d n'b on one track, but little of the noisier big beat post-happy hardcore Prodigy flogged.

ISDN for me. in fact i like it so much i have both the "white" and the "black" version.

To add to the confusion, there's also a 7 part Lifeforms EP featuring Liz Frazier, in addition to the double album of the same name.

Also, I need to retract any implied recommendation on Far Out Son of Lung etc ep. Its just four extracts from the rerelease version of ISDN, two of which not appearing on the original limited release.

as much as i like Lifeforms and ISDN, i voted for Tales of Ephidrena. The summer of 93 that and Orbital's Brown album came out a few months apart; they both soundtracked a good six months of raving every weekend up and down the east coast and midwest. ToE was the best late-morning post-rave drive-home jam.

j0hn d, confirm/deny any possible connection between tales of ephidrina song title and your own work

no, but I do feel that kinda kinship - there was a period there when I just listened to dead cities all the damn time. and the remixes of "we have explosive," over and over.

I really need a copy of ISDN.

I need a copy of ISDN, too.

I keep forgetting that I really love these guys.

for a lover of music, I really have a very spotty purchasing record. there are a million great bands that I only have one album from. I think the gap between buying Loveless and Isn't Anything was almost ten years for me. At least ISDN is still in print, which is more than I can say for a lot of great electronic music.

also I blame Simon Reynolds for being such a good writer.

I bought the ISDN ltd cd the day it came out. Got loads of their eps too and yes theyre great.

i spent most of the workday yesterday listening to the FSOL "similar artists" thing on last fm

as someone who only owns the above (minus the isness), tell me what FSOL i should seek out posthaste

Cascade and Lifeforms EP's, as mentioned above, are great. I really enjoyed the first 2 volumes of their From The Vaults series and think you would too.

http://www.discogs.com/release/997603 - From The Archives Vol1
http://www.discogs.com/release/997605 - From The Archives Vol2

download the peel session of "yage" its fucking awesome.

there are a few live radio sessions (other than that great Peel Session) that should be heard too. i'll have to go home to check the specific dates but they shouldn't be hard to find online.

http://users.boardnation.com/~fsoladmin/index.php?board=1;action=messageindex

go there and find shit that looks like it might be good.

I need to find my dvdrs of session stuff i have by them. Lots of terrific stuff on them.

Inner City - Praise (The Future Sound Of London Concept Dub) (15:23)

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Lifeforms prob best album but PNG far and away their best track

Ditto.

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tales of ephidrina, really?

and the remixes of "we have explosive," over and over.

Hey, I did this too!

I get a really strong urge to listen to "Herd Killing" every few years.

fair enough.

loving the new gaz groove.

he is totally telling all re the AA vs Noel troubles on facebook ..

This song from 2014 is gorgeous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha-6-jC0NqA