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The Amorphous Androgynous
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 music, ambient, house music, trip hop, psychedelic music, psychedelia, and dub music, dub. While keeping an enigmatic image and releasing music under many aliases, the band found commercial success with singles "Papua New Guinea (song), Papua New Guinea" (1991), "Cascade (song), Cascade" (1993), and albums ''Lifeforms (The Future Sound of London album), Lifeforms'' (1994) and ''Dead Cities (album), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gogolfest
GOGOLFEST ( uk, Гогольфест) is an annual multidisciplinary international festival of contemporary art and cinema in Kyiv, Ukraine, dedicated to the famous writer Mykola Gogol. The festival showcases theater, music, film, literature, and visual art. Background GOGOLFEST was founded in 2007 on the private initiative of Vladislav Troitsky, director and producer of the DAKh Center for Contemporary Art. The co-founder of the Festival and Chairman of its Board of Trustees is Evgeni Utkin, a prominent Ukrainian IT entrepreneur. Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol is the festival’s namesake. In accordance with contemporary trends, the festival is held in venues unaccommodated for traditional art. The festival emphasizes five types of art: theater, music, film, literature, and visual art. There is also a history of collaboration between artistic mediums at the festival; for instance, audiovisual presentations are especially common, as well as collaborations with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |