Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Lovers
2. Isness
3. Mello Hippo Disco Show
4. Goodbye Sky
5. Elysian Feels
6. Go Tell It To The Trees Egghead
7. Divinity
8. Guru Song
9. Osho
10. Her Tongue Is Like A Jellyfish
11. Meadows
12. High Tide On The Sea Of Flesh
13. Galaxial Pharmaceutical

Disc 2:

1. Elysian Feels
2. Yo Yo
3. Goodbye Sky
4. Lovers
5. Maharishi Raga
6. Band
7. Rural Green
8. Chananah
9. She Sells Electric Ego
10. Chinese Whispers
11. Slo Mo
12. Conga Run
13. Theram
14. Toy Piano

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #185196 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-31
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
"They're so antisocial," said Mixmaster Morris of the reclusive Future Sound of London. "They won't even go to parties anymore--they do all their gigs over the telephone." After the success of their majestic "Papua New Guinea" single and the Accelerator album from which it was taken, FSOL retreated to the studio and never left. Their only communication with the outside world was through their music, an increasingly abstract Dadaist collage of overdubbed beats and noises that defied genres and stymied trend-happy journalists. While some of the material on ISDN was previously released under the pseudonym Far Out Son of Lung (the worst-kept secret in dance music), the bulk of the album was taped from performances delivered via digital telephone links to radio stations throughout Europe. Naturally, the ubiquitous and intrusive medium of radio encourages challenging and elaborate environmental music. So unlike their previous album, Lifeforms, whose closest earthly relation was techno, ISDN is the distant cousin of jazz, both in its blatant sampling of sax and drums and its freeform, exploratory nature. --Matthew Corwine

Customer Reviews

vastly different
I have been a fsol fan for ages and this albumn is my favourite. For anyone who does not know fsol they are to me a good sample/computer type of dance music that give a slow but strong and very dark vibe. I think that they have a very dim view of the future and they reflect this in their music.
The albumn (as most albumns do) has some filler but these keep in touch with the feel of the stronger songs (tracks) they just do not progress as well as they could. The stronger tracks are me real hidden classics that match Aphex Twins or the orbs best.
If you are of like mind you may, like me, find this albumn to be a permanent space in an mp3.

IT'S UNIQUE
In reponse to the it's it's awful comment - it's different.

Music does not have to be poptastic, it can be based around sounds and rhythms.

And these guys know how to put together amazing examples of audio you will not here anywhere else on this earth.

I cannot reccomend this duo enough however read the previous post, and if you can't appreciate the genre O.K.

It's worth the try, and you'll never look back.

Absolutely awesome, mind blowing, get it and if you wish for a gentle start to the FSOl experience go for lifeforms.

Get them all, theyr're all interesting and a sonic fantasyland.

Unbelievable.

Their best ever album. Truly a future sound!
This has to be one of the best ambient albums constructed with a wide variety of moods, from the thumping Track 4 (Slider) to the whale sounding 'Eyes pop skin explodes everybody dead' (Track 7). Throughout the album the incorporated samples accompanied by Eastern vocals sound to me like music that would be ideal for a Bladerunner like landscape. In one line: Eastern influence dark distorted ambient techno. Don't miss this!