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This is the discography page for ambient electronic group the Future Sound of London. All works released as the Future Sound of London unless otherwise noted.
Albums
editAs the Future Sound of London
edit| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
UK Dance Album Chart [1][2] | |||
| 1992 | Accelerator | 75 | 26 | |
| 1992 | Earthbeat | - | - | |
| 1994 | Lifeforms | 6 | 1 | |
| 1995 | ISDN | 44 | - | |
| 1996 | Dead Cities | 26 | 2 | |
| 2006 | Teachings from the Electronic Brain | - | - | |
| 2007 | From the Archives Vol. 1 | - | - | |
| From the Archives Vol. 2 | - | - | ||
| From the Archives Vol. 3 | - | - | ||
| Environments | - | - | ||
| 2008 | From the Archives Vol. 4 | - | ||
| From the Archives Vol. 5 | - | - | ||
| Environments II | - | - | ||
| 2010 | Environments 3 | - | - | |
| From the Archives Vol. 6 | - | - | ||
| 2012 | Environments 4 | - | - | |
| From the Archives Vol. 7 | - | - | ||
| 2014 | Environment Five | - | - | |
| 2015 | Archived 8 | - | - | |
| Life In Moments | - | 24 | ||
| 2016 | Environment Six | - | - | |
| Environment 6.5 | - | - | ||
| 2017 | 2017 Calendar Album | - | - | |
| Archived : Environmental : Views | - | - | ||
| 2018 | 2018 Calendar Album | - | - | |
| From the Archives Vol. 9 | - | - | ||
| 2019 | FSOL Calendar Album 2019 | - | - | |
| Yage 2019 | - | - | ||
| 2020 | FSOL Calendar Album 2020 | - | - | |
| A Controlled Vista | - | - | ||
| Cascade 2020 | - | - | ||
| 2021 | FSOL Calendar Album 2021 | - | - | |
| Music for 3 Books | - | - | ||
| Music from Calendars 2017-2020 | - | - | ||
| We Have Explosive 2021 | - | - | ||
| Mind Maps | - | - | ||
| Mind Maps 2 | - | - | ||
| 2022 | Calendar Album 2022 | - | - | |
| Rituals >e7.001 | - | 33 | ||
| 2023 | Calendar Album 2023 | - | - | |
| A Space of Partial Illumination E7.002 | - | - | ||
| Environments E7.003 | - | - | ||
As Humanoid
edit- (1989) Global
- (2003) Sessions 84-88
- (2007) Your Body Sub Atomic
- (2019) Built by Humanoid
- (2021) 7 Songs
- (2022) sT8818r
As Amorphous Androgynous
edit| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [4] |
UK Sales [4] |
UK Dance [4] | |||
| 1993 | Tales of Ephidrina | - | 100 | - | |
| 2002 | The Isness | 68 | - | - | |
| 2003 | The Otherness | - | - | - | |
| 2005 | Alice In Ultraland | - | - | 32 | |
| 2008 | The Peppermint Tree & the Seeds of Superconsciousness | - | - | - | |
| 2008 | A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 1 | - | - | - | |
| 2009 | A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 2 | - | - | - | |
| 2010 | A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 3 | - | - | - | |
| 2013 | The Cartel Vol. 1 | - | - | - | |
| 2013 | The Cartel Vol. 2 | - | - | - | |
| 2015 | A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: The Wizards of Oz | - | - | - | |
| 2020 | We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal (with Peter Hammill) | - | - | - | |
As Zeebox
edit- (2007) Zeebox 1984-1987 Vol. 1
- (2007) Zeebox 1984-1987 Vol. 2
- (2009) Zeebox 1984-1987 Vol. 3
Other stage names
edit- (2003) Eurotechno (as Stakker)
- (2007) Hand-Made Devices (as Polemical)
- (2007) 4 Forests (as Part-Sub-Merged)
- (2007) The San Monta Tapes (as Heads of Agreement)
- (2008) The Woodlands of Old (as Yage)
- (2016) Blackhill Transmitter (as Blackhill Transmitter)
- (2016) Ignition of the Sun (as Synthi A)
Singles and EPs
editAs The Future Sound of London
edit| Year | Single details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [5] | |||
| 1991 | Pulse EP | - | - |
| 1991 | Pulse Two EP | - | - |
| 1992 | Papua New Guinea | 22 | - |
| 1993 | Cascade | 27 | - |
| 1994 | Expander | 72 | - |
| 1994 | Lifeforms (feat. Elizabeth Fraser) | 14 | - |
| 1995 | The Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman | 22 | - |
| 1996 | My Kingdom | 13 | - |
| 1997 | We Have Explosive | 12 | - |
| 2001 | Papua New Guinea 2001 | 28 | - |
| 2002 | Papua New Guinea 2002 | 106 | - |
| 2007 | Archived EP | - | - |
| 2014 | Artworks 1 | - | - |
| 2017 | Ramblings Vol. 1 | - | - |
| 2018 | Ramblings Vol. 2 | - | - |
| 2019 | Ramblings Vol. 3 | - | - |
| 2020 | A Controlled Vista 2.7 (MiniPack 1) | - | - |
| 2020 | A Controlled Vista 5.6 (MiniPack 2) | - | - |
| 2024 | Captures (pre8ep 001) | - | - |
As Humanoid
edit| Year | Single details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [6] | |||
| 1988 | Stakker Humanoid | 17 | - |
| 1989 | Slam | 54 | - |
| 1989 | Tonight (feat. Sharon Benson) | - | - |
| 1989 | The Deep | - | - |
| 1989 | Crystals | - | - |
| 1992 | Stakker Humanoid '92 | 40 | - |
| 2001 | Stakker Humanoid 2001 | 65 | - |
| 2007 | Stakker Humanoid 2007 | - | - |
| 2018 | 30303 EP | - | - |
| 2020 | KAAGE EP | - | - |
| 2020 | Future: Turned EP | - | - |
| 2020 | Orfan Atmosphere EP | - | - |
| 2021 | sT8818r Humanoid | - | - |
As Mental Cube
edit- (1990) Q (BZZXL 106033)
- (1991) So This Is Love
- (1991) Q (180 996)
As Amorphous Androgynous
edit| Year | Single details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Physical Singles [4] | |||
| 1993 | Liquid Insects | - | - |
| 2002 | The Mello Hippo Disco Show | - | - |
| 2003 | Divinity | - | - |
| 2005 | The Witchfinder | - | - |
| 2021 | The World Is Full Of Plankton | 38 | - |
Other stage names
edit- (1990) A.S.T. (as Art Science Technology)
- (1990) I Can See for Miles (as Yunie)
- (1991) You Took My Love (as Candese)
- (1991) The Tingler (as Smart Systems)
- (1991) The Pulse EP (as FSOL and Indo Tribe)
- (1991) Pulse 2 EP (as FSOL, Smart Systems and Indo Tribe)
- (1991) Principles of Motion EP (as Intelligent Communication)
- (1991) Pulse 3 EP (as Smart Systems, Indo Tribe and Yage)
- (1992) Fuzzy Logic EP (as Yage)
- (1992) Pulse Four EP (as Mental Cube, Smart Systems and Indo Tribe)
- (1992) People Livin' Today (as Semi-Real)
- (1992) Metropolis (as Metropolis)
- (2008) Tingler 2008 (as Smart Systems)
- (2009) Cloudscraper (as Six Oscillators in Remittance)
- (2013) EP (as Blackhill Transmitter)
- (2013) One (as EMS : Piano)
- (2013) Stillness (as Suburban Domestic)
- (2013) Salient Moons 1972 (as Sand Sound Folly)
- (2013) EP (as Blackhill Transmitter)
- (2014) 2nd (as Blackhill Transmitter)
- (2014) An Open Window (as The Jazz Mags)
- (2015) 3 (as Blackhill Transmitter)
- (2016) Four (as Blackhill Transmitter)
- (2019) MOA016 (as Humanoid / Yage)
- (2020) Pygmy EP (as Yage)
Other
edit- (1997) ISDN Show (A promo recording of a live netcast)
- (2007) A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Anti-Static (Soundtrack for an art exhibition held at the Kinetica Art Museum, London in 2006)
- (2008) FSOL Digital Mix (A free mix CD with Greek music magazine "Freeze")
- (2012) The Fears and Fantasies of the Unconscious Mind (Sampler previewing tracks released on FSOLDigital)
- (2017) FSOL:Digitana – The SX-One Live Improvisations (Live improvisations promoting the SX-1 synth)
Remix work
editThey have also garnered a reputation as remixers, transforming the work of a variety of different artists, including:
- (1991) Loleatta Holloway, Do That To Me (Set Me Free)
- (1992) Unity, Unity
- (1992) Inner City, Praise
- (1992) Nomad, Your Love Is Lifting Me
- (1992) Prefab Sprout, "If You Don't Love Me
- (1992) Stereo MCs, Connected
- (1993) Curve, Rising
- (1993) Bryan Ferry, I Put A Spell On You
- (1993) The Shamen, Re:iteration
- (1993) David Sylvian/Robert Fripp, Darshana
- (1994) Apollo 440, Liquid Cool
- (1994) Massive Attack, Sly
- (1995) Jon Anderson, Speed Deep
- (1996) Osamu Sato, Face-Savers On-line
- (2001) Robert Miles, Paths
- (2002) Deadly Avenger, Day One
- (2009) Oasis, Falling Down
- (2009) Neotropic, Home
- (2010) Paul Weller, Aim High/Pieces Of A Dream
- (2010) Pop Levi, Blue Honey
- (2014) Blu Mar Ten, Night Shift
The results are often novel and complex, and in some instances the original track is barely recognisable.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Chart Stats – Future Sound of London". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- ^ Redmond, Steve, ed. (4 June 1994). "Dance Albums Chart" (PDF). Music Week. London: Spotlight Publications. p. 22.
- ^ "Certified Awards Search Archived 15 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved on 2011-11-13. Note: User needs to enter "Future Sound of London" in the "Search" field, "Artist" in the "Search by" field and click the "Go" button. Select "More info" next to the relevant entry to see full certification history.
- ^ a b c d "Chart Stats – Amorphous Androgynous". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ "Chart Stats – Future Sound of London". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- ^ "Chart Stats – Humanoid". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ Andrea Giacobe/Astralwerks. "Future Sound of London | Music Artist | Videos, News, Photos & Ringtones | MTV". MTV. Archived from the original on 5 February 2006. Retrieved 22 March 2009.