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Environments (album)
''Environments'' is the first part in a series of planned releases by The Future Sound of London The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated FSOL) is a British electronic music duo composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. They have been described as a "boundary-pushing" electronic act, covering techno, ambient, house music, trip h ... over 2007/2008 via digital download and then CD. The album Originally planned for release in 1994 under the Amorphous Androgynous alias, it was scrapped, despite being given a catalogue number for its US release and being announced in the liner notes of '' Lifeforms''. Some of the material featured on live shows, the ISDN album, and the From The Archives series. In 2007, Brian Dougans reconstructed the album from archived material. Contained within the record are samples and elements from released tracks such as "Tired", "Wookii", "Cascade Part 1", "Life Form Ends" and "Ill Flower". Further Environments records - volumes II & III - ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to refer to electronic music generally. History Early 1990s: origins and UK scene The original wide-spread use of the term "electronica" derives from the influential English experimental techno label New Electronica, which was one of the leading forces of the early 1990s introducing and supporting dance-based electronic music oriented towards home listening rather than dance-floor play, although the word "electronica" had already begun to be associated with synthesizer generated music as early as 1983, when a "UK Electronica Festival" was first held. At that time electronica became known as "electronic listening music", also becoming more or less synonymous to ambient techno and intelligent techno, and was considered distinct from other em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambient Music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody.The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual",Prendergast, M. ''The Ambient Century''. 2001. Bloomsbury, USA or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and the sounds of acoustic instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer. The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as the synthesizer. It was presaged by Erik Satie's furniture music and styles such as musique concrète, minimal music, and German electronic music, but was prominently named and popularized by British mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experimental Music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, institutionalized compositional, performing, and aesthetic conventions in music. Elements of experimental music include Indeterminacy in music, indeterminate music, in which the composer introduces the elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance. Artists may also approach a hybrid of disparate styles or incorporate unorthodox and unique elements. The practice became prominent in the mid-20th century, particularly in Europe and North America. John Cage was one of the earliest composers to use the term and one of experimental music's primary innovators, utilizing Indeterminacy (music), indeterminacy techniques and seeking unknown outcomes. In France, as early as 1953, Pierre Schaeffer had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Brain Violence
Electronic may refer to: *Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductor * ''Electronics'' (magazine), a defunct American trade journal * Electronic storage, the storage of data using an electronic device * Electronic commerce or e-commerce, the trading in products or services using computer networks, such as the Internet * Electronic publishing or e-publishing, the digital publication of books and magazines using computer networks, such as the Internet *Electronic engineering, an electrical engineering discipline Entertainment * Electronic (band), an English alternative dance band ** ''Electronic'' (album), the self-titled debut album by British band Electronic *Electronic music, a music genre * Electronic musical instrument * Electronic game, a game that employs electronics See also * Electronica, an electronic music genre *Consumer electronics Consumer electronics or home electronics are electronic ( analog or digital) equipment intended for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passion Records
Passion, the Passion or the Passions may refer to: Emotion * Passion (emotion), a very strong feeling about a person or thing * Passions (philosophy), emotional states as used in philosophical discussions * Stoic passions, various forms of emotional suffering in Stoicism Suffering of Jesus * Passion of Jesus, the suffering of Jesus leading up to and during the crucifixion ** Passion (music), musical setting of the texts describing these events ** Passion Play, dramatic representation of these events ** Passion Sunday, the second Sunday before Easter * Passion Conferences, Christian organization People * Pasion, ancient Greek slave and banker * Passion Richardson (born 1975), American former sprint athlete Books * "The Passion" (Milton), 17th-century poem by John Milton * ''The Passions'' an 18th-century poem by William Collins * ''Passion'', (in Italian, '' Fosca''), 1981 novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti * ''Passion Play'' (play) or ''Passion'', 1981 play by Peter Nichols * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FSOL
The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated FSOL) is a British electronic music duo composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. They have been described as a "boundary-pushing" electronic act, covering techno, ambient, house music, trip hop, psychedelia, and dub. While keeping an enigmatic image and releasing music under many aliases, the band found commercial success with singles "Papua New Guinea" (1991), " Cascade" (1993), and albums '' Lifeforms'' (1994) and ''Dead Cities'' (1996). In recent years, the duo has become more candid with their fanbase online. History Formation Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans met in the mid-1980s while studying electronics at university in Manchester, England. Dougans had already been making electronic music, working between Glasgow and Manchester, when the pair first began working together in local clubs. In 1988, Dougans embarked on a project for a graphic studio ''Stakker'', which resulted with a single "Stakker Humanoid" that reache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The San Monta Tapes
The San Monta Tapes is a side-project of The Future Sound of London The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated FSOL) is a British electronic music duo composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. They have been described as a "boundary-pushing" electronic act, covering techno, ambient, house music, trip h ..., under the pseudonym ''Heads of Agreement'', described by them as ''"Experiments in polyrhythmic"''. It is described as very unmelodic with sparse percussion loops, thus an unusual experiment and departure from the "usual" FSOL sound. In the ''Freeze'' magazine interview Cobain suggests that the project is more Brian's work than his. Track listing # Yellow Way (6:48) # Elongate (5:53) # San Monta (3:12) # Antique (3:15) # Earth Magnetic (4:54) # Still Movements (5:09) # La Veshter Du Aumbre (4:24) # Low Cloud (2:16) # Bump (5:15) # Ukashan (3:42) # Slow Storm (1:35) # Northern Desert (0:34) # Cold Ground (3:36) # Waves (6:01) # Underpass (0:42) # Coasts (3:46) # T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Body Sub Atomic
''Your Body Sub Atomic'' is a 20th anniversary remix album of the Stakker Humanoid release and other tracks by Brian Dougans; the remixes are by both new and established artists and DJs. The digital download comes with an Adobe Flash liner "booklet" (with a looping ambient track) detailing the title tracks story and the remixers, it also comes with a high quality video of the ''"Feadz 2007 Mix"'' in .m4v format. Track listing # 3am and Feeling OK (9:09) #*''Remix - King Roc'' # Broken Machine ( Legiac Mix) (6:23) #*''Remix - Legiac'' # Body Electric (Graham Massey Mix) (6:00) #*''Remix - Graham Massey'' # Stakker Humanoid (Feadz Feadz (born Fabien Pianta) is a French music producer, DJ and songwriter currently signed by French music label Ed Banger Records. He combines the genres of hip hop, electronic, techno and French house in his music and frequently collaborates w ... 2007 Mix) (4:01) #*''Remix - Feadz'' # Stakker Humanoid ( Kouncilhouse Remix) (6:10) # 1.0.1 (3:07) # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Future Sound Of London
The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated FSOL) is a British electronic music duo composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. They have been described as a "boundary-pushing" electronic act, covering techno, ambient, house music, trip hop, psychedelia, and dub. While keeping an enigmatic image and releasing music under many aliases, the band found commercial success with singles "Papua New Guinea" (1991), "Cascade" (1993), and albums '' Lifeforms'' (1994) and ''Dead Cities'' (1996). In recent years, the duo has become more candid with their fanbase online. History Formation Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans met in the mid-1980s while studying electronics at university in Manchester, England. Dougans had already been making electronic music, working between Glasgow and Manchester, when the pair first began working together in local clubs. In 1988, Dougans embarked on a project for a graphic studio ''Stakker'', which resulted with a single "Stakker Humanoid" that reached ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifeforms (The Future Sound Of London Album)
''Lifeforms'' is the second studio album by British electronica group The Future Sound of London. The album was released on 23 May 1994 by Virgin Records and later by Astralwerks. Background The Future Sound of London began work on the album around the same time as they were finishing ''Tales of Ephidrina'', and the more complex, ambient direction they were taking resulted in ''Lifeforms''. The artwork also progressed from previous works, with soon-to-be familiar images of the "Witch Girl" Sheuneen Ta and the "Spike" computer model having been previously used on the group's ''Cascade'' EP. Reception ''Lifeforms'' achieved commercial success and produced hit singles such as "Cascade" and "Lifeforms". The album was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for over 60,000 units sold. AllMusic called it "one of the best experimental techno releases of the '90s" and "an inventive, fascinating aural experience, as rich and detailed as the Orb's best work." The Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
