Lifeforms

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It was a lonely place making this kind of music. It wasn't about a band, or being in a club. It was two guys, almost meditating on sound, forming their own rules in near isolation. The atmosphere conjured up by the album is stunning. Lifeforms really shows the oxymoron better than any other album - an organic, breathing jungle is being created purely with electronic sounds and some instrumentation. Cascades begins as such, with a guitar supported by an ambient landscape. Flak builds up the dense environment with magical chimes and plodding herds. Dead Skin Cells is the beautiful and sad call of a lonely animal. Lifeforms showcases the darker and more hostile side of the jungle. Amongst Myselves - the death of an explorer lost in glimmering caves below the rainforest. Lifeforms is the second studio album by British electronica group The Future Sound of London. The album was released on 23 May 1994 by Virgin Records and later by Astralwerks. Now it's the turn of Future Sound Of London's Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans to accept their elder statesman status, and re-claim turf in an increasingly crowded landscape of self-consciously future-minded musicians. Thing is, Environment Five, the duo's first entirely new output under the FSOL moniker since 1996's Dead Cities, is a tad of an anachronism: it safely sounds a lot like past Future Sound Of London. But is that safety boring? No. Environment Five's success rests in its ability to temper novelty with venerability.

Tom Hull, Hull (12 November 2023). "Grade List: Future Sound Of London". Tom Hull – on the Web . Retrieved 12 November 2023. Creation Itself as an Album I came around to The Future Sound of London far too late in my life. As a matter of fact, there still remains a large range of classic electronic albums that haven't graced my ears, even though that list gets a little smaller every day. Strange how that works, especially with art that you're attached to. I can't tell you how many movies I've watched during the course of film school and still have classics that are considered essential that I need to listen to. It's only when you actually consume that media does it actually hit you what you've been missing out on. In many respects, Lifeforms is one of the biggest delayed favorites in my life. I'd heard about the album since I was in high school but just never got around to it. Lifeforms achieved commercial success and produced hit singles such as " Cascade" and " Lifeforms". The album was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for over 60,000 units sold.

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Filename Y:\_EAC_New\The Future Sound of London - Teachings From The Electronic Brain (The Best of FSOL).wav Whether or not now is the right time to splash out on this album is down to you. If you're at the stage where you are still out nailing the clubs, then you may want to hold out buying this for a few years. Everything is fairly downtempo, much more trip hop, ambient and, like an electro symphony. This definitely moves in a more orchestral way, with lots of wave like pianos, choirs and, enormous sounding string sections. They have also garnered a reputation as remixers, transforming the work of a variety of different artists, including: Brian is revolutionary in terms of his sound and what he can twist, and my forte is the need to express feelings and to concentrate on interaction between the sounds. Within ambience, I could bring in all this absolute epic beauty in terms of the melody." Dead Skin Cells

FSOL news: 21/04/10 – Monstrous Psychedelic Remix Album". Fsolnews.blogspot.com. 21 April 2010 . Retrieved 31 August 2010. Just like " ISDN" the soundscapes of "Lifeforms" are massively varied. It takes the listener to the most mystic and the most beautiful paradise on Earth. The rainforests, the beaches, the mountains, the living organisms. Every thing lives on a perfect symbiosis. It forces the listener to enjoy the fruits of the earth and feel the sweet freedom on skin. It continues the "rainforest" theme legacy and has more experienced potential than " Accelerator" and " Tales of Ephidrina" had. The music we liked was a mix of romance and harshness, so what evolved in the studio was a kind of euphoric sadness. We combined found, organic sounds with sample modification, triggering, pitching and splicing. Together, it amounted to something disorientating, but strangely familiar and emotional." The trance nature of their early work is almost absent here, aside from some instruments that are decidedly acid techno. Their use is just so strange. It can be very un-techno at points and it's only to the album's benefit. The six-minute album version of Cascade is so different to the 40-minute single. We saw it as a great opportunity to write another album, but based around one song.

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Right now we are making this process mental and verbal, but there was no mental or verbal involved in making the album. It was all about activating a feeling… once we'd triggered it once, it was like a drug twisting sounds each time to activate similar feelings we couldn't articulate. It was two guys, almost with their eyes closed, responding to sound." Little Brother

http://www.discogs.com/Future-Sound-Of-London-Teachings-From-The-Electronic-Brain...L/release/802517 But, there is definitely more here. This really is one of those perfect and uniquely innovative post modern journeys into the total fusion allowed by modern technology and the cut and paste mentality that really took hold as electronic music evolved. From a compositional view, think of this as essentially reinventing classical whilst keeping choirs and orchestras but adding, dreamy airy effects, modern synthesisers, sampling. The Future Sound of London: Welcome to the Galaxial Pharmaceutical". Secondthought.co.uk . Retrieved 22 March 2009. From "Vit" till "Little Brother" takes you to its individual journey. It is a breathtaking trip to the core of the jungles and inner mind. It shines like a thousand stars and tastes like the most delicious fruit. It swims with dolphins ("Omnipresence"), takes you to a lovely hotel ("Room 208") and even makes the forest turn frozen solid ("Elaborate Burn"). Hehehe, i once was spending a night at a hotel and it also had a room #208 near my room. I bet the people who spent the night there had a jungle there.

In 1992, Cobain and Dougans released their debut, techno-driven album together, Accelerator. It was followed by " Papua New Guinea", a single based on a sample from " Dawn of the Iconoclast" by Dead Can Dance, and a bassline from "Radio Babylon" by Meat Beat Manifesto. In 1992, after the chart success and several accolades [4] [5] of "Papua New Guinea", Virgin Records signed the band with free rein to experiment.

AA 7 hour Bubble at Green Man festival (and more news)". Users.boardnation.com . Retrieved 22 March 2009. Following on from the band's 1997 DJ set of the same name, a series of Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind mix CDs were begun in 2006. The first two were released under the Amorphous Androgynous alias, subtitled "Cosmic Space Music" and "Pagan Love Vibrations", with the first taking over two years to compile, mix and gain sample clearance, both featuring the band's psychedelic influences. A third is set for release sometime in 2010, and will be more electronic, mixed by the Future Sound of London. [22] Further mixes in the series are expected in the future, to be curated by related artists, [23] and the band took the concept live with an eleven-hour spot at 2009's Green Man festival, [24] to contain live bands and DJ spots. [25] News, Fsol (3 November 2012). "The Future Sound of London – The Galaxial Pharmaceutical: 03/11/12 – Archive 7, Prime World, Noel Gallager tired of Amorphous collab, Amorphous get soupy". Fsolnews.blogspot.com . Retrieved 27 April 2019. {{ cite web}}: |last= has generic name ( help) People were starting to get into ambience, but it was all pretty and escapist. We called it 'dolphin music', courtesy of the fact everyone seemed to throw in dolphin mating sounds.

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The music we liked was a mix of romance and harshness, so what evolved in the studio was a kind of euphoric sadness." Cerebral a b Mikesn (7 February 2009). "The Future Sound of London – Lifeforms". Sputnikmusic . Retrieved 28 February 2012. a b c Raggett, Ned. "Lifeforms – The Future Sound of London". AllMusic . Retrieved 28 February 2012. For the 40-minute single, Liz Fraser did ten amazing versions, almost completely improvised on the spot. We hope to release the full results. We'd made two full versions of the album before we scrapped it and began making Lifeforms. They were failed attempts, really. We were being influenced by fun, bumpy Balearic stuff, and there were basslines that were moving in that way - if they had appeared on the album it would have absolutely destroyed it.