seraph Posted December 11, 2004 Share Posted December 11, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spindrift Posted December 11, 2004 Share Posted December 11, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahf Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 this, to me, sounds like some twisted alien cousin of trip-hop or acid jazz. More beat-oriented than Lifeforms or Dead Cities, but umm, still good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasa Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 they should have released extended version of 'slider'. the baseline on that one is just... don't have the word for it. 'not bad for human,' indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fosku Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Smokin Japanese Babe and Egypt are the best tracks here. Great album! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 Dirty Shadows is from another universe. Just a Fucking Idiot is just fucking perfect....Crazy shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 Amazing album but I prefer Dead Cities and Lifeforms most. Best track EYES POP - SKIN EXPLODES - EVERYBODY DEAD!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepingzombie Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 Sadly, even it's a release by FSOL I rate it only 5/10. 605488[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepingzombie Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 607376[/snapback] 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted November 23, 2006 Author Share Posted November 23, 2006 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 648660[/snapback] Fair enough. And I agree about Dead Cities being better than ISDN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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