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The Future Sound of London

4.2 / 5 from 19 ratings across 3 albums
Albums
87
Members
2
Active
1988–present
Origin
United Kingdom
Biography

The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain (sometimes styled as Gaz Cobain) and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music. Although often labelled as ambient, Cobain and Dougans usually resist being typecast into any one particular genre. Their work covers most areas of electronic music, such as ambient techno, house music, trip-hop, ambient dub, acid techno and often involves extreme experimentation; for example they have, since the turn of the millennium, experimented with psychedelic rock under their Amorphous Androgynous alias.

In addition to music composition, their interests have covered a number of areas including film and video, 2D and 3D computer graphics, animation in making almost all their own videos for their singles, radio broadcasting and creating their own electronic devices for sound making. They have released works under numerous aliases. The artists have been fairly enigmatic in the past but have become more candid with their fanbase in recent years with social websites like Myspace, Youtube, their forum and many interviews in which Cobain almost always speaks for the group.

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Discography

FSOLdigital Presents 2020 Calendar
The Future Sound of London · 2021
Music for 3 Books
The Future Sound of London · 2021
Music For 3 Books
The Future Sound of London · 2021
Music From Calendars
The Future Sound of London · 2021
Music From Calendars
The Future Sound of London · 2021
We Have Explosive
The Future Sound of London · 2021
A Space of Partial Illumination E7.02
The Future Sound of London · 2022
A Space Of Partial Illumination E7.02
The Future Sound of London · 2022
FSOLdigital Presents 2021 Calendar
The Future Sound of London · 2022
FSOLdigital Presents 2022 Calendar
The Future Sound of London · 2022
FSOLdigital Presents 2022 Calendar
The Future Sound of London · 2022
Rituals >e7.001
The Future Sound of London · 2022
Rituals E7.001
The Future Sound of London · 2022
E7 Trilogy
The Future Sound of London · 2023
Environment 7.003
The Future Sound of London · 2023
Environment 7.003
The Future Sound of London · 2023
FSOLdigital Presents 2023 Calendar
The Future Sound of London · 2023
Forgotten Paradise 1
The Future Sound of London · 2024
FSOLdigital Presents 2024 Calendar
The Future Sound of London · 2024
FSOLdigital Presents 2025 Calendar
The Future Sound of London · 2025
Multiple Angled Distortions Pre8-2 EP
The Future Sound of London · 2025
Pulse 5 EP
The Future Sound of London · 2025
>>Unrealities
The Future Sound of London · 2025
Sleepwalking
The Future Sound of London · 2026
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Cascade / Lifeforms
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Cascade / Lifeforms
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Credits

Ranked #329 of 14,615 producers — 2,289.74 career Groove across 22 records.

Trip Maps 3
Producer · 2025
Pulse Five
Producer · 2024
We Have Explosive
Producer · 2021
A Controlled Vista
Design · 2020
Cascade 2020
Producer · 2020
Yage 2019
Producer · 2019
Archived 9
Producer · 2018
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My Kingdom: Re‐imagined
Producer · 2018
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Archived : Environmental : Views
Producer · 2017
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Environment 6.5
Writer · 2016
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Environment Six
Writer · 2016
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Archived 8
Producer · 2015
Life in Moments
Producer · 2015
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Environment Five
Producer · 2014
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Environments 4
Producer · 2012
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From the Archives, Volume 7
Producer · 2012
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Environments 3
Producer · 2010
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From the Archives, Vol. 6
Producer · 2010
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Let It Be Revisited
Producer · 2010
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Environments II
Producer · 2008
Falling Down (Chemical Brothers remix)
Producer · 2008
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From the Archives, Volume 5
Producer · 2008
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The Peppermint Tree & The Seeds of Superconsciousness
Producer · 2008
Archived
Producer · 2007
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By Any Other Name
Producer · 2007
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Environments
Producer · 2007
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From the Archives, Volume 1
Producer · 2007
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From the Archives, Volume 2
Producer · 2007
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From the Archives, Volume 3
Producer · 2007
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From the Archives, Volume 4
Producer · 2007
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Teachings From the Electronic Brain: The Best of FSOL
Producer · 2006
Alice in Ultraland
Producer · 2005
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The Otherness
Producer · 2004
Papua New Guinea Remix
Producer · 2003
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The Isness
Producer · 2002
Papua New Guinea Translations
Producer · 2001
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Dead Cities
Producer · 1996
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My Kingdom
Producer · 1996
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We Have Explosive
Producer · 1996
Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman
Producer · 1995
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Expander
Photography · 1994
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ISDN
Producer · 1994
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ISDN Show
Composer · 1994
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Lifeforms
Producer · 1994
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Lifeforms
Art Direction · 1994
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Cascade
Producer · 1993
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Earthbeat
Producer · 1992
Fuzzy Logic E.P.
Producer · 1992
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If You Don’t Love Me
Remixer · 1992
Metropolis
Producer · 1992
People Livin' Today
Producer · 1992
Praise: The Future Sound of London Remixes
Producer · 1992
Pulse Four
Producer · 1992
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Accelerator
Producer · 1991
Principles of Motion E.P.
Producer · 1991
Progress
Producer · 1991
Pulse Three
Producer · 1991
Q
Producer · 1991
The Tingler - Remix
Engineer · 1991
You Took My Love
Producer · 1991