A 20-track, 80-minute journey through cosmic consciousness, courtesy of The Future Sound Of London.
A seemingly random but well-timed comment last weekend coincided with an idea that had been percolating in my mind for a while. In response to the Stuff compilation CD I posted, blureu enquired,
"Have you ever done a The Future Sound Of London compilation post? Just curious. Thanks!"
My immediate thought was, "Yes, lots!", so I was quite surprised that whilst Brian Dougans and Gary Cobain have featured here regularly, they've only had one selection dedicated to
their own work, in August 2021. Even then, it was a relatively brisk
(under an hour) selection of remixes of other artists as either The Future Sound Of
London or The Amorphous Androgynous. You can find that post and selection here.
I was suitably inspired to have a go at creating a new selection and, I'll be honest, I'm really pleased with it. One of those mixes where each track was offering itself up whilst the previous one was playing; the sequencing is my first take, no changes, no fancy mixing, quite a lot of edits and overlays and...I love it.
I also surprised myself with some of the track choices and the feel of the selection overall. It was an entirely intuitive mix so whilst I expected to include Lifeforms or Cascades, for example, I instead found myself choosing Max from 1996's Dead Cities or an obscure John Peel session from 1992 or a FSOL remix of Candese, one of their many aliases and collected on the essential Earthbeat compilation.
It's also given me the opportunity to share a few tracks from their annual calendar series, which I've subscribed to for the past few years.
This one inevitably is for blureu - thanks, I got a real buzz from creating this selection.
1) Eyes Pop - Skin Explodes - Everybody Dead (Live ISDN Transmission From The Kitchen, New York) (1994)
2) Elaborate Burn (1994)
3) Max (1996)
4) Papua New Guinea (Mellow Magic Maze Mix By Patrick Woodcock & Pierre Begon-Lours) (2001)
5) Papua New Guinea (Andrew Weatherall Mix - 7" Edit) (1992)
6) Hidden Sign (2008)
7) Space Hippy (John Peel Session) (1992)
8) Deconstructed Room (2019)
9) We Have Explosive (Pt. 1-outro / Pt. 2-Remix By Leon Mar / Pt. 3-intro) (1997)
10) Day One (FSOL Cosmic Jukebox Mix v1): Deadly Avenger (2002)
11) 100 Baby Spiders (2008)
12) You Took My Love (Earth Mix By The Future Sound Of London): Candese (1991)
13) Mango Tree (Version) (2007)
14) Papua New Guinea (Translation 8: The Big Blue) (2009)
15) Utterance (2020)
16) Are They Fightin Us (1994)
17) Slow Photo (2017)
18) Opk Machines Trx M2 (2022)
19) Zen Jenny (2021)
20) Calcium (Album Version) (1991)
1991: Accelerator: 20
1991: You Took My Love EP: 12
1992: Papua New Guinea EP: 51992: The BBC Sessions EP (bootleg): 7
1994: ISDN: 1, 161994: Lifeforms: 2
1996: Dead Cities: 3
1997: We Have Explosive EP: 9
2001: Accelerator / Papua New Guinea Mix Anthology (2x CD): 4
2002: We Took Pelham EP: 10
2007: From The Archives Vol. 3: 13
2008: From The Archives Vol. 4: 6, 11
2009: Papua New Guinea Translations: 14
2020: FSOL Calendar 2020: 15
2021: FSOL Calendar 2021: 19
2022: FSOL Calendar 2022: 8, 18
2023: FSOL Calendar 2023: 17
