02 December 2025

Future Sounds

I've shared several releases from Amorphous Androgynous, but never anything from the originators, the Future Sound of London.

 



The Manchester duo have released music spanning a vast gamut of genres, including their unique versions of Ambient techno. First the double-disc Lifeforms with breakbeat Ambience. 

 

The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms 2xCD, Astralwerks 6113-2, 1994.
all decryption codes in comments

CD 1 -
Cascade    
Ill Flower    
Flak / Bird Wings / Dead Skin Cells    
Lifeforms / Eggshell    
Among Myselves    

CD 2 -
Domain / Spineless Jelly    
Interstat / Vertical Pig    / Cerebral / Life Form Ends
Vit    
Omnipresence
Room 208 / Elaborate Burn / Little Brother
 
 
 
 

Next up is Dead Cities that added Trip / hip-hop as well as industrial textures to the duo's Ambient techno sound. The last track is a reprise of "Dead Cities" by Simon Wells (Headstone Lane).
 
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The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities, Astralwerks ASW6181, 1996.

Herd Killing / Dead Cities
Her Face Forms in Summertime
We Have Explosive
Everyone in the World is Doing Something Without Me
My Kingdom
Max
Antique Toy / Quagmire-In a State of Permanent Abyss
Glass / Yage
Vit Drowning-Through Your Gills I Breathe    
First Death in the Family
Dead Cities Reprise - Headstone Lane
 
 
 

At one with my surroundings,

5 comments:

  1. Lifeforms CD1
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    Lifeforms CD2
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    Dead Cities
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  2. This is getting even better than I expected. I''m very happy about the FSOL albums.
    I also enjoy Solar Lodge a lot. Didn't know them. As I do, I'm asking if you've got anything else by them ... It seems like their music is rather hard to find. As ever, many thanks!

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    1. Sorry, I don't have anything further by Solar Lodge. I just had the one release stashed away In my Musick that Needs Work folder & included it as I was trying to finish up all the S from last month & had that one left-over. It fit in perfectly as the into to Decambier.

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    1. Sublime! They're third wave ska. (Just kidding). Thanks, shine3y3.

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