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All rights reserved.Future Sound Of London - ISDN (CD 1995)
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| Track Listing 1. Just A Fuckin' Idiot 2. Far Out Son Of Lung And The 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. Are They Fighting Us 13. Kai 14. Amoeba 15. Study Of Six Guitars 16. Snake Hips
Album Notes This is the second edition of ISDN. The first was a limited edition of 10,000 copies that sold out in 3 days. It features a different cover than the original and two newly substituted tracks.Recorded live at Earthbeat Studios, London, England in 1994.Techno meets technology when Future Sound of London brings the noise, live and direct, and an ISDN digital phone link provides the conduit. ISDN is FSOL's third album, compiled in 1994 from European and North American radio feeds. Released on the cusp of the Bristol trip-hop revolution/revelation, ISDN finds FSOL moving away from the trance and dance mentality of prior incarnations and toward a synthesis of organic beats and tactile sound-play. Brian Dougans and Garry Cobain, FSOL's electronic brains, present a far less ambient affair than their earlier LIFEFORMS but remain defiant originals. This American edition of ISDN has been resequenced to include a preceding EP, FAR OUT SON OF LUNG AND THE RAMBLINGS OF A MADMAN. Heralding a shift in favor of hip-hop beats (often sampled from obscure antecedents like 23Skidoo) and downtempo cyberjazz, the EP's title track, "Snake Hips," "Amoeba," and "Smokin' Japanese Babe" ballast ISDN's ghost-infested electronics and amorphous, eerie sound constructions ("You're Creeping Me Out," "Appendage," "Dirty Shadows") with a root system of sinister electronic funk. FSOL's luscious, ever-otherworldly textures define such album tracks as "Egypt," "Tired," and the Robert Fripp-derived "A Study of Six Guitars," while "Slider" and "Kai" ensure a fluid transition between ISDN's merging dynamics. Editorial Reviews New Musical Express (12/10/1994) Option (03/01/1995) Option (03/01/1995) NME (12/10/1994) | |||||||||||||
Reviews  ISDN - An FSOL exercise in the Avant Garde Not as vastly wide-ranging as other albums in the FSOL canon, but still worth a listen to; and worth remebering that when you hear this it was truly at the cutting edge to broadcast your concert from your studio - this dates from 1995, for goodness sake! Listen to this an hear a bit of musical history - the album title says it all. Lifeforms would probably get you to appreciate the vast tonescapes that FSOL can create in your mind, ISDN creates images that are slightly smaller, but just as visceral. Review ID: 10000000006451973 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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