Tag Archives: The Future Sound of London

An Interview with Loose Link!

The following is an email interview with the musical maven Loose Link. Enjoy! For those who might not know much about you, describe yourself. My name is Craig, I go under the name Loose Link for my musical trips. I’m … Continue reading

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The Life and Times of the Future Sound Of London, p. 34

Exploring FSOL’s “Environments” parts 2 through 5 It’s been well over a year since I last posted an episode in this ongoing series.  So here are four albums to make up for that fact.  After the release of the long … Continue reading

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Astralwerks Turns 20!

#astralwerks20 I can’t believe it.  I feel so old now.  This was the label that got me into electronic music all of those years ago…  So, to celebrate their (belated) 20th birthday, I’ll share my favorite releases from their vast … Continue reading

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The Life and Times of the Future Sound of London Ep. 33 – Pulse EPs / By Any Other Name / Earthbeat

In order to get the full FSOL experience, you have to at least take a look back to their earliest material.  In the early 90s, the duo donned multiple aliases and pressed vinyl to pay the bills, a few of … Continue reading

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The Life and Times of the Future Sound of London, pt. 32

Artist: Yage (FSOL) Title: The Woodlands of Old Released: 2008 Label: FSOLdigital, Jumpin’ & Pumpin’ Format: digital, CD Genre:  Abstract, Ambient, Experimental Yage, at the time this album was released, was the second alias that FSOL had resurrected from dormancy.  … Continue reading

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The Life and Times of the Future Sound of London parts 26 – 30

I decided after some time that the easiest way to cover the bulk of the Archives series was to tackle them all at once.  We’ve already got Vol. 1 out of the way, but I knew it’d take a while … Continue reading

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The Life and TImes of the Future Sound of London, pt. 25

Keith returns with a guest post to continue our long running review series on FSOL and their side projects.  We’re going a tiny bit out of order here, tackling this one first before diving back into the Archives series.  Expect … Continue reading

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The Life and Times of the Future Sound of London, pt. 21

Artist: Amorphous Androgynous (FSOL) Title: Otherness Released: 2004 Label: Psychobaby Records Format: CD Genre: Abstract, psyche rock, neo psyche, prog, downtempo Roughly two years after the release of both versions of the “Isness” albums, out came “Otherness.”  It is more … Continue reading

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The Life and Times of the Future Sound of London pt. 17

Artist: FSOL Title Papua New Guinea Translations Released: 2001/2 Label: Jumpin’ n Pumpin’, Hypnotic Format: CD, 2×12” Genre: Ambient, psyche rock, acid jazz, abstract This is the first release FSOL pushed after being silent since 1997, unless you count the … Continue reading

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The Life and Times of the Future Sound of London pt. 16

MIND THE GAP (1997 – 2002) Sometime after the release of “Dead Cities” and the “We Have Explosive” single, FSOL kind of… vanished, for a lack of a better word.  And we wondered where they went. Now, we did hear … Continue reading

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