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FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON GLASS FSOL FSOLDIGITAL

Future Sound Of London, The - Dead Cities

Label:
Catalog#:
V2814
Format:
2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
28 Oct 1996
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Leftfield, Abstract, Big Beat, Ambient, Downtempo, Experimental

Tracklist

A1   Herd Killing 2:09 X
A2   Dead Cities 6:20 X
A3   Her Face Forms In Summertime 5:57 X
A4   We Have Explosive 5:42 X
B1   Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me 3:35 X
B2   My Kingdom 4:25 X
    Drums - Richie Thomas
B3   Max 2:03 X
    Saxophone - Richie Thomas
B4   Antique Toy 4:05 X
C1   Quagmire / In A State Of Permanent Abyss 7:22 X
C2   Glass 4:16 X
D1   Yage 7:29 X
    Flute - Yage
D2   Vit Drowning / Through Your Gills I Breathe 5:24 X
D3   First Death In The Family 2:26 X

Credits

Artwork By [Photography And Image] - Buggy G. Riphead
Engineer - Yage
Written-By, Producer - Future Sound Of London, The

Notes

Comes in a gatefold sleeve.

Recorded at Earthbeat Studios, London '96.

A1 + A4 'We Have Explosive' and 'Herd Killing' mix
Guitar stab, wah guitar and vocal yell sourced from Run DMC - LP Tougher Than Leather (J.Simmons/D. McDaniels/J.Mizell).
We Have Explosive' vocal - B's processing too
A2 Outro poetry from 'Dead Cities' by Dick Verbatim.
B1 'Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me'
Vocal by Cobain from ' I need re-calibrate' recorded at The Womb - London.
Layered Voices sampled from an improvisation by Rebecca Caine.
Intro Breath environment sourced from an orchestral re-working of Eggshell by Craig Armstrong.
Pig - recorded and rendered at the electronic farm - Norfolk - by Yage on an 'Always' working vacation.
B2 Guitar sample swapped for cubase with Ozric Tentacles - Taken from Pungent Effulgent
Flute sample - sourced from 'Once Upon A Time In America' (Ennio Morricone).
Voice sample from 'Rachel's Song' (Vangelis) from the film soundtrack Bladerunner soundtrack sung by Mary Hopkin.
Drums - Richie Thomas 'caught with the DAT running'.
B3 Child's voice recorded 'Outside of the web' at little Venice by 'The Block's a Nutter.
Piano fed through the machines - restructured and re-collaged from midi-files written by max Richter.
Alto-sax sample mechanically removed from a day's recording of Richie Thomas.
C1 Original samples collected and collated by Baker St. Mythology.
Quagmire Environment ' He thinks he's very funny' sourced from 'Childhood Memories Of Pin' from the Philip Pin archives.
C2 'In A State Of Permanent Abyss' :
Environment from a lost recording of Max Richter's 'Ripple'.
Girl crying in the park unknow - Hyde Park June 96.
D1 Moroccan flute by Yage recorded at sordid accomodation - London - 1989.
'jane jane' sourced from shrine by Riz Maslen 1983.
Some weird greek instruments no one can remember the name of apart from the greeks who are in Greece' - played by Byron Con
'Regurgitated bits' leon Mar
D3 Recorded and performed on an unscheduled Baker St-Dollis Hill day trip by B.
14 Mouth whistle by inert armchair sampling from The Best Selling Show laughter - 'honey sunshine' from a hi-8 ' putts goes to Sri lanka'
Dead Cities re-prise recorded by Simon Wells at Headstone Lane from Snuff recordings, ' The Disappearance of Troy Motherwell'.

℗ 1996 Virgin Records Ltd. © 1996 Virgin Records Ltd.
Barcode: 7243 8 42068 1 9

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Rated 5/5
Review by goanoah Jul 17, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)
The strangest prediction of a dystpoian world will emanate from your stereo when you play this. Textures undulating with Orwellian- painted moon-lit soundscapes leave you staring down at the wreckage of your spaceship that was your perception of ambient music before you listened to Dead Cities. There isn't much room for light in this world, and remember to open your eyes once or twice and remind yourself of the photons. This is not just the future sound of london, but if it is, you had better get there when it will be.
Or not?