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FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - ISDN

1995

ASTRALWERKS

 

1. JUST A FUCKING IDIOT

2. THE FAR OUT SON OF LUNG AND RAMBLINGS OF A MADMAN

3. APPENDAGE

4. SLIDER

5. SMOKIN JAPANESE BABE

6. YOU'RE CREEPING ME OUT

7. EYES POP - SKIN EXPLODES - EVERYBODY DEAD

8. IT'S MY MIND THAT WORKS

9. DIRTY SHADOWS

10. TIRED

11. EGYPT

12. KAI

13. AMOEBA

14. A STUDY OF SIX GUITARS

 

Here is another platinum album by great british ambient producers. After Accelerator and then Lifeforms they delivered pretty trippy, even more dark release than before. After this album was followed by even more experimental Dead Cities. This album pushes boundaries of modern story telling into presenting this world in pre apocalyptic era. Dead Cities tells story afterwards but this one exactly sounds like the danger is coming. Whole feel is about inevitabilty, twisted gimmiks, alien noises, and again melancholic melodies that drag and suppress your brain into some different conciousness. I also like all songs on this one as well and cannot name favourite ones...Pure perfection...10/10

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Athough they made among the best ambient ever, in my book they get the most respect for their very early dance music as Stakker and Mental Cube among other names.

 

Hugely influential producers in both dance and ambient and everyone should bend down in awe to their creative genius :)

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Yeah, SLIDER is my favourite here too...It is not only in bass line but the whole driving structure is intelligent and clever. These guys really know how to make you trip out...

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dunno ... while I love Dead Cities and many of their songs as amorphous androginos, I haven't liked much ISDN .

I found it too much drum'n'bass for my tastes :( ,

and it lacks the complexity of dead cities .

Sadly, even it's a release by FSOL I rate it only 5/10.

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Yes, I understand your disappointment.

 

First of all, I beg your pardon for having dismissed a group made

of pure genius (FSOL) and an album that has great historical

value (ISDN) with a couple of short and superficial comments.

 

So, let me go deeper.

 

The motivations of my rating are subjective , and I made

another mistake here for not having

specified it in my previous post.

 

About my subjective motivations :

 

- it's stronger than me , I can't like anything involved too

much with acid jazz. Now, I don't feel at ease with labels,

so I don't know if "acid jazz" can rightly apply to some

arrangements of ISDN, but it's the best term I have in stock .

I don't like many of the bass loops, many of the drum patterns

and most of all the jazzy trumpets waves used in a couple of songs.

I know that if FSOL choosed to put them in the cd, they should

have had their reason. But I can't put apart my personal tastes, too.

 

- I have to admit, I am too mainstream for ISDN :( .

IMO, Dead Cities is more appealing to people coming

from mainstream trance : a part from the dance hit,

most of all because it has plenty of melodical patterns .

ISDN is without compromises : it's one of the best albums

out there to "trip", but Dead Cities offers an easier

listening.

So, if you like it better, I have to admit that basically

I don't like ISDN because of my personal limits :)

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Yes, I understand your disappointment.

 

First of all, I beg your pardon for having dismissed a group made

of pure genius (FSOL) and an album that has great historical

value (ISDN) with a couple of short and superficial comments.

 

So, let me go deeper.

 

The motivations of my rating are subjective , and I made

another mistake here for not having

specified it in my previous post.

 

About my subjective motivations :

 

- it's stronger than me , I can't like anything involved too 

much with acid jazz. Now, I don't feel at ease with labels,

so I don't know if "acid jazz" can  rightly apply to some

arrangements of ISDN, but it's the best term I have in stock .

I don't like many of the bass loops, many of the drum patterns

and most of all the jazzy trumpets waves used in a couple of songs.

I know that if FSOL choosed to put them in the cd, they should

have had their reason. But I can't put apart my personal tastes, too.

 

- I have to admit, I am too mainstream for ISDN :( .

IMO, Dead Cities is more appealing to people coming

from mainstream trance : a part from the dance hit,

most of all because it has plenty of melodical patterns .

ISDN is without compromises : it's one of the best albums

out there to "trip", but Dead Cities offers an easier

listening.

So, if you like it better, I have to admit that basically

I don't like ISDN because of my personal limits :)

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Fair enough. :D

 

And I agree about Dead Cities being better than ISDN. ;)

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