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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
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
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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