From the Archives 7 out November 19th

[dell1972]

... according to the big south american river...

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"Brian Dougans and Garry Cobain began their musical partnership and friendship in Manchester, England, in the mid 1980 s whilst the two were studying at Manchester University. Dougans had already been making electronic music for some time when they first began working in various local clubs. In 1988, Brian embarked on a project for the Stakker graphics company. The result was Stakker Humanoid. In the following three years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases, followed by the breakthrough classic ambient dub track Papua New Guinea in 1992, which was also the first release under the Future Sound of London moniker. Lifeforms followed in 1993. The new work was almost entirely free of percussion and was truly ambient across both discs. It was a top 10 hit in the UK album chart, and is still hailed as one of the greatest ambient electronica albums ever devised. In 1996 they released Dead Cities. The new material was a mixture of ambient textures and hard gritty dance music. Promotion for the album culminated in a headline slot at the Essential Festival in Brighton in 1998. Once again utilising ISDN they played the gig from their studio in London. The Future Sound of London are still active as writers and producers, working behind the scenes with celebrity artists and on film scores, along the way accumulating revisiting music from their vaults and enhancing to bring fans a series of albums, From The Archives . "

[mcbpete]

Good investigating Batman ! I still think I've only heard Archive 6 once - I've got such a backlog of music, I've got to but buying stuff ...

[Dennis]

Wow, great, that is 2 albums in 2012, not bad. Wonder if E5 is waiting close behind on the release schedule...
Btw, no 'hydromedusa' among the tracktitles.'Switzerland' sounds familiar. Where do I know this from?

[dell1972]

They've posted the tracklist now

1. Lost in the Mists of Time
2. Temples
3. Outer Heaven
4. Many Moons Away
5. Shifting Sands
6. Walls of Thought
7. War Machines
8. Flygon
9. Earth's Twin
10. Switzerland
11. Must be Mistaken
12. Old Train
13. Heat Distortions
14. Exchanged

Switzerland was that really odd track that somebody unearthed a few years ago now. Talking of odd, I'm pretty sure I saw Garry at Legoland yesterday, complete with his country gent clobber (and child obviously). Either that or I'm seeing things...

[Ross]

I wonder if we'll ever get a proper copy of Tudor Oak?

[LooseLink]

Hmmm, looking good Switzerland was an early version of what became Antique Toy.

[mcbpete]

Woah, really - How did you know that ?! (are there any previews up somewhere)

[Pandemonium]

No Pete, LooseLink probably has the unreleased version

A package of unreleased FSOL tracks has been circling under-the-radars for years...
There's about 30 of them, off-course, some are just versions, some got released in the Archives,
and the pile of unreleased material is really small now

[LooseLink]

Aww thanks alot for blowing the lid off of that one

It could be something different entirely on Archive 7, we'll see.

[TheWallOfSacrifice]

Such a great news.. i still think the majority of the FTA tracks are / were release-worthy, really. Stuff like Tokyo Travel could be easily named as one of their best piece ever in my opinion. This better of all reflects the quality control of the guys !

[dell1972]

I guess you can see much of it on the header of fsoldigital.com, but here's the full cover:

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[darktrain]

looking forward to this and another nice looking cover.

[Dennis]

Damn, Vit turned bald and old with the years. Just like me.

[Ross]

That cover's pretty insane. I wonder if that really is an elderly Vit...

[dubmasta]

mama mia!!! its gorgeous...i want a poster of this beauty :