The Future Sound Of London - Alice in Ultraland
Label: EMI
Release: 2005
Style: Futurefunk
1. Emptiness Of Nothingness
2. Witchfinder
3. Witch Hunt
4. All Is Harvest
5. Prophet
6. Indian Swing
7. Seasons Turn
8. High & Dry
9. Yes My Brother (You've Gotta Turn Yourself Around)
10. In The Summertime Of Conciousness
11. Billy The Onion
12. Another Fairy Tale Ending
13. World Is Full Plankton
14. Wicker Doll
Infamous British group, with influences spanning acid house, hardcore, ambient, krautrock, 60's psychedelica, and more. They were responsible for the old-school club hits "Humanoid" (as Stakker) and "Papua New Guinea", which put the Jumpin' And Pumpin' label on the map as a classic hardcore label. Their first full-length Accelerator charted their dancefloor-friendly early career, after which FSOL moved into deeper, more album-oriented word. Lifeforms was a double-disc set spanning long stretches of breakbeat-flavored ambience, followed Dead Cities which added hip-hop, trip-hop, industrial textures, and bleak urban imagery into their mix of influences. Their ISDN album compiled music from their ISDN-uplinked radio broadcasts from the mid-1990's, after which the duo promptly dropped off the rader. After a seven-year hiatus in which they were surrounded by rumors of insanity and drug addiction, the Papua New Guinea: Translations concept remix album came out, followed by the full-length The Isness in 2002.