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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

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Accelerator
The Future Sound of London · 1991
Pulse Two
The Future Sound of London · 1991
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ISDN
The Future Sound of London · 1994
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ISDN Show
The Future Sound of London · 1994
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Lifeforms
The Future Sound of London · 1994
Lifeforms
The Future Sound of London · 1994
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The Deseo Remixes
The Future Sound of London · 1995
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Dead Cities
The Future Sound of London · 1996
The Greatest Hits 1999
The Future Sound of London · 1999
The Papua New Guinea Anthology
The Future Sound of London · 2001
Lifeforms (Remixes)
The Future Sound of London · 2006
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Teachings From the Electronic Brain: The Best of FSOL
The Future Sound of London · 2006
A Gigantic Globular Burst of Antistatic
The Future Sound of London · 2007
A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Antistatic
The Future Sound of London · 2007
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By Any Other Name
The Future Sound of London · 2007
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Environments
The Future Sound of London · 2007
From the Archives
The Future Sound of London · 2007
From The Archives
The Future Sound of London · 2007
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From the Archives, Volume 1
The Future Sound of London · 2007
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From the Archives, Volume 2
The Future Sound of London · 2007
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From the Archives, Volume 3
The Future Sound of London · 2007
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From the Archives, Volume 4
The Future Sound of London · 2007
Teachings From The Electronic Brain (The Best Of FSOL): Rare Tracks Edition
The Future Sound of London · 2007
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Environments II
The Future Sound of London · 2008
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From the Archives, Volume 5
The Future Sound of London · 2008
FSOL Digital Mix
The Future Sound of London · 2008
FSOL Digital Mix
The Future Sound of London · 2008
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Kiss 100 FM, Test Transmission 2
The Future Sound of London · 2008
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Kiss 100 FM Transmission 1
The Future Sound of London · 2008
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Kiss 100 FM, Transmission 2
The Future Sound of London · 2008
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Kiss 100 FM Transmission 3
The Future Sound of London · 2008
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Kiss 100 FM, Transmission 4
The Future Sound of London · 2008
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Kiss 100 FM, Transmission 5
The Future Sound of London · 2008
The Mello Hippo Disco Show
The Future Sound of London · 2008
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The Pulse EPs
The Future Sound of London · 2008
The Pulse EPs
The Future Sound of London · 2008
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Environments 3
The Future Sound of London · 2010
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From the Archives, Vol. 6
The Future Sound of London · 2010
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Environments 4
The Future Sound of London · 2012
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From the Archives, Volume 7
The Future Sound of London · 2012
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Environment Five
The Future Sound of London · 2014
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Archived 8
The Future Sound of London · 2015
Life in Moments
The Future Sound of London · 2015
Mushroom 11 Soundtrack
The Future Sound of London · 2015
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Environment 6.5
The Future Sound of London · 2016
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Environment Six
The Future Sound of London · 2016
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Archived : Environmental : Views
The Future Sound of London · 2017
FSOLdigital Presents 2017 Calendar Album
The Future Sound of London · 2017
FSOL:Digitana – The SX‐One Live Improvisations
The Future Sound of London · 2017
Archived 9
The Future Sound of London · 2018
FSOLdigital Presents 2018 Calendar Album
The Future Sound of London · 2018
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My Kingdom: Re‐imagined
The Future Sound of London · 2018
FSOLdigital Presents 2019 Calendar Album
The Future Sound of London · 2019
Yage 2019
The Future Sound of London · 2019
A Controlled Vista
The Future Sound of London · 2020
A Controlled Vista 2.7 – Mini Pack 1
The Future Sound of London · 2020
A Controlled Vista 5.6 – Mini Pack 2
The Future Sound of London · 2020
Cascade 2020
The Future Sound of London · 2020
Mental Cube (Original Recordings From 1990)
The Future Sound of London · 2020
FSOL Calendar 21
The Future Sound of London · 2021

Credits

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