Track Listing

1. Swab
2. Mountain Goat
3. In Mind
4. Ephidrena
5. Auto Pimp
6. Pod Room
7. Fat Cat

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7675 in Music
• Released on: 1993-07-05
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
This collection of hypnotic tracks is actually the work of the prolific electronic mad scientists Future Sound of London. It's a wild ride, full of dense sonic tapestries and snaky dance pulses. The underlying sonic texture of the album isan aqueous one, which is set loose from the opening bleats of "Liquid Insects". With its soupy acid-stew gurgles and thunderclaps, one almost imagines the song being broadcast from the surface of Jupiter.
Other rapturous tracks include "In Mind", where an electronic melange of bleeps and tweets is grafted over the sound of an underwater heartbeat. The electronic string-led "Mountain Goat" almost sounds like something culled from the Windham Hill catalogue. "Auto Pimp" sounds very much like what its title implies, except that high-pitched synth sounds lend the track more of a trance-like bearing. Both "Swab" and "Fat Cat" will please denizens of thedance floor, with the songs' rolling beats and dense, light-saber like sweeps of sound.

Customer Reviews

Great if you like FSOL...
The title/artist of this CD belies the content; this is actually an album by The Future Sound of London, made up of the leftovers after "Lifeforms" was released. Not to disparage it by any means; this is quality stuff! It's just that the material didn't fit in with the rest of "Lifeforms" so rather than shelve it, FSOL released it under another name. Consequently, if you like FSOL, from their first to most recent album, you'll love this CD. Twisting between undefinable sounds and haunting melodies with phat beats and bass to die for, this album is all we have come to expect from FSOL. Can't wait for the new album out after Xmas 2000...

liquid rhythms,sonic beauty. its all there
Thoroughly recommended if you like fsol,basically outtakes from the lifeforms sessions,being in favour of using monikers,fsol released this as amorphous androgenous,not much hype with the release,but for those in the know,this is a gem of an album,easily on a par with their best work to date(still waiting for new sounds boys!).one track segues into another,not exactly ambience more beats orientated,i like to use the expression 'liquid sounds' when describing this album and much of fsol's later work,the sounds are so crisp,clear,clean and dirty,just close your eyes when listening,images build up in your mind almost as if its narrating a place or time to you,give it a try you wont be disappointed

This album is huge
Sadly this is the type of old stuff no one cares for anymore. Regardless, this little jewel is a masterpiece of ambient sounds and some beats which stands highest among "early" electronica stuff. Everyone who likes FSOL will like this even better. All of the tracks are very good and it is a very pleasurable album to listen to in the dark, letting your mind go, flowing freely. Great artwork too.

I got into FSOL and related releases when I was living in London, so these albums are very cherished to me. I guess I am a nostalgic, anyway.