The Future Sound of London thread / song-by-song blog

A quick write-up about a short Smart Systems PA in somewhere in Cornwall, 1991.

“Pinn had decided that one track was what they got for £100
Pure Pinn economics. The promoters rushed backstage ‘great the crowd love it but go and play more’
‘No we’ve only brought one song’
Things turned nasty, bouncers were called.”

Been at this over a month and now, finally, the first ever proper FSOL release!

Papua New Guinea
-Dali Mix
-Dumb Child of Q Mix
-Qube Mix

Got a lot of information from this incredible Sound on Sound article where they discuss the making of the track, which is an essential read in its own right.

Couple of remixes to cover tomorrow, and then it's off to 1992, a year of huge change which starts with a couple of alias releases and ends with their debut release on Virgin and their first radio transmissions.

So, those remixes...
Loleatta Holloway - Do That to Me (Set Me Free) (Future Sound of London Remix)
100Hz - Progress (People Living on Mars Mix)
100Hz - Progress (Jx3p Mix)

1992 begins with a record that should have been released in 1991. More importantly, it's the debut FSOL album, Accelerator. Lots to read here.

Accelerator
And the six tracks not already covered by Pulse EPs:
-Expander
-While Others Cry
-It's Not My Problem
-Papua New Guinea
-Moscow
-Central Industrial

Yage - Fuzzy Logic
-Quazi
-Coda Coma
-Livin' for the Love
-Fuzzy Logic

I’m loving this series of posts. Thank you!

Superb work here Ross, really enjoying reading every post. Keep up the good work

Cheers guys!

Bit of time off for mental health stuff but back on it again now...

What's this, then? Ah yes.
Papua New Guinea (1992 Reissue).
Spelling mistakes, Top of the Pops and lots of other fun.

And all its many remixes:
12" Original
Andrew Weatherall (Full Length) Mix
Dub Mix
Journey to Pyramid
Monsoon Mix
Graham Massey Mix
Dumb Child of Q Mix
7" Original
Andrew Weatherall Mix [CD Edit]
Hamish McDonald Mix
Andrew Weatherall Mix [7" Edit]

A handful of alias releases left to fill out the rest of this week before heading on to new worlds...

Mental Cube / Smart Systems / Indo Tribe - Pulse Four
Mental Cube - I'm Not Gonna Let You Do It
Smart Systems - The Creator
Indo Tribe - Shrink
Smart Systems - Space Virus

Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid '92
-Smart Systems Remix
-Gary Cobain '94 Mix
-Snowman Mix
-303 Tribe
-Outer Limits
-Dub Drums

+ enter at your own cost
Humanoid '92 (Tempus Et Iocondum)
Humanoid '92 (Maxi Version)
Humanoid '92 (Single Edit)

Ok, tying up the Passion Music era today!

Aircut - Visual Attack (1992)
-Visual Attack (Humanoid Attack)
-Visual Attack (Oh Bonic Assault)
-Visual Attack (Oh Bonic Attack)

Semi Real - People Livin' Today
-7" Mix
-Original
-Med Mix
-Endorphine Mix
-Deep Field Mix
-Radio Med Mix

EarthBeat
Three exclusive tracks / mixes:
-Mental Cube - Q (EarthBeat Version)
-Yage - Theme from Hot Burst
-Smart Systems - Tingler (Remix)

Next up, the first FSOL radio transmissions.

FSOL - Kiss FM Test Transmission 1

Detailed info & tracklist for the first ever FSOL radio broadcast. 

I've ported over my Forthcoming Releases page from the FSOLBoard to the blog. 

https://fractionaldifference.wordpress.com/2021/06/23/forthcoming-releases/

John Peel Session 1
Recorded 25/08, broadcast 18/09
Lifeforms / Expander (Remix) / Papua New Guinea / Space Hippy

Kiss Test Transmission 2

+

Metropolis - Metropolis
-Metropolis (Original)
-Metropolis (Sueto Mix)
-Hyporeel
-Metropolis (Analog)

1992 remixes
Nomad - Your Love is Lifting Me (Smart Systems Mix)
Nomad - Your Love is Lifting Me (Deep Field Mix)
Nomad - Your Love is Lifting Me (Stateside Mix)
Unity - Unity (Future Sound of London Remix)
Unity - Unity (Future Sound of London 7" Edit)
Unity - Unity (Future Sound of London Tuff City)
Unity - Unity (Future Sound of London Piano City)
Inner City - Praise (The Future Sound of London Conceptual)
Inner City - Praise (The Future Sound of London Concept Dub)
Inner City - Praise (The Future Sound of London Instrumental)
Stereo MC's - Connected (Future Sound of London Mix)
Prefab Sprout - If You Don't Love Me (Deep Field / Stateside Swamp Mix)

And thus FSOL's time as a dance act comes to an end, and 1993 calls with ambient music on the horizon. & I'm glad because, on the whole, this is the start of the era that is the reason I love them so much. 

Kiss Transmission 1

Kiss Transmission 2 aka - confusingly - Transmission 4

Very good reads again Ross, I should dig out the Metropolis and Semi-Real singles I have. I don’t remember being very impressed with either of them at the time or since, but not played them for years

Semi-Real is definitely... questionable. Still fond of Metropolis though.

Amorphous Androgynous - Tales of Ephidrina

-Liquid Insects
-Swab
-Mountain Goat
-In Mind
-Ephidrena
-Auto Pimp
-Fat Cat
-Pod Room

this is really awesome, big appreciation for threads like this! awesome to have as resource in the future..

Tales of Ephidrina is a perfect album in my opinion

It's definitely not my favourite, although I think part of that is down to how I first heard it, as I wrote on the blog. If only I could go back in time...

Amorphous Androgynous - Liquid Insects
-Sky-Scraper

The Future Sound of London - Cascade
That took long enough to write, so I'll do a song-by-song for Cascade later in the week!

Might be an idea to add something about the video for Papua New Guinea that appeared on the 1993 Future Shock VHS. The best of a bad bunch. I recorded the whole thing to tape at the time and probably listened to it more than anything else for a year or so.

  On 7/26/2021 at 3:57 PM, droid said:

Might be an idea to add something about the video for Papua New Guinea that appeared on the 1993 Future Shock VHS.

I've held on to my copy of Future Shock, and I've kept it well - everything's NM.

A miracle. Mine was destroyed in a cycling accident in 1994.

Discussed and embedded on the entry for the track.