British electronic band, The Future Sound Of London, often abbreviated to FSOL, have shocked fans by revealing that their sound is no longer futuristic and admitted that if you were to listen to one of their old albums you would now just hear the sound of London.
Band member Gaz Cobain recently spoke about the ground breaking sampling techniques used by FSOL on their album Dead Cities, released in 1996, “Dead Cities, in my opinion, is still out finest work to date. It was our fourth studio album and it really signaled a new direction for us as a band at the time.”
“We were really dedicated to our work at the time and instead of just using synthetic sounds we wanted to create a new wholesome and gratifying sound that you can only get go by going out and sampling real sounds made by real things,” explained Gaz. “So we took to the streets to find what we believed to be sounds that were so rare they could be interpreted as future sounds,” he recounted.
“If you listen very carefully to the track We Have Explosive you can clearly hear the sound of a fixed gear bike cog spinning, we sampled it from a BMX, slowed it down a bit and added some reverb, it really pulls the track together,” he proudly continued. “It was the 90’s and gears on bikes were very much in fashion, the more gears you had the cooler you were as far as I’m concerned.”
“We always felt that fixed gear bikes would make a come back but we thought it would be years into the future, long after our music was still considered futuristic,” he claimed, “but now, thanks to all the hipsters, you can hardly leave your garden in London without hearing that fixed gear cog noise , it’s a shame to say it but I think our music has finally caught up with the future.
Mr. Cobain also revealed that a sample of a man waxing his moustache, a sound which has become increasingly popular in London in recent years, was used in the track Max and a sample of a group of far-right, fascist, football hooligans chanting was used in the intro to the title track Dead Cities, which is very similar to the sound heard at at UKIP rally or the sounds that come out of David Cameron’s mouth when he talks in his sleep revealing what he actually thinks.”
Mr. Cobain explained that FSOL are considering changing their name to The Sound Of London. Although, fellow band member, Brian Dougans, feels the band should keep their futuristic qualities and change the name by using a place which is not quite as technologically advanced as London, like the small landlocked African nation of Lesotho or the Irish county Leitrim, both of which are described as being “stuck in 1955” by Mr. Dougans.
FSOL have since opted to go with the name The Future Sound Of Lesotho, on the grounds that there is “very few hipsters in Africa” and that it’s “rare to see gentlemen from Lesotho sporting moustaches”.
Oh dear.. run out of obvious people to lampoon?
FSOL were musically light years ahead of everyone else, so it goes without saying that here, now, some 20 years since Lifeforms was released, it STILL sounds as fresh today as it did back then. Can you release better music?
I know Wunderground, why not try writing about random funny stuff again… you did it so well… hmm, stuck for stuff? OK, heres a better story to brush past this crap..
“Art imitating life? Drug dealers are blaming ‘Breaking Bad’ for dwindling profits.
The hit HBO show has inspired too many wannabe/bedroom chemists who are now saturating the market with actual, quality goods, thus making it far too competitive for the average street peddler to push their crap. ‘Two gram Sam’ (a long established dealer) had this to say
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