Lifeforms

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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. We'd made two full versions of the album before we scrapped it and began making Lifeforms. They were failed attempts, really. We were being influenced by fun, bumpy Balearic stuff, and there were basslines that were moving in that way - if they had appeared on the album it would have absolutely destroyed it.

The music we liked was a mix of romance and harshness, so what evolved in the studio was a kind of euphoric sadness." Cerebral August 2009". The Green Man Festival. 17 August 2008. Archived from the original on 17 May 2003 . Retrieved 22 March 2009. The Future Sound of London: Welcome to the Galaxial Pharmaceutical". Secondthought.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012 . Retrieved 22 March 2009.Tom Hull, Hull (12 November 2023). "Grade List: Future Sound Of London". Tom Hull – on the Web . Retrieved 12 November 2023. We knew we could put 4/4s all over it, but we didn't want to make it recognisable to a very receptive market. We looked down at everybody who played that card. Ultimately, we tried to do something that was alien and timeless." Flak

People were starting to get into ambience, but it was all pretty and escapist. We called it 'dolphin music', courtesy of the fact everyone seemed to throw in dolphin mating sounds. The FSOL Message Board • View topic – Forthcoming releases". Ilovecubus.co.uk . Retrieved 27 April 2019. The gulf in production value between Environment Five and any given laptop/ software artist is overwhelming: it's obvious that FSOL have a lot of really top gear to play with, and have further honed their craft through the years, which makes the album just sound so much better than almost everything else out there. It's less an album than a mantra, a chant, an incantation. And it makes you realize that you've forgotten how good electronic music could, and should, sound.Muggs, Joe (6 March 2018). "Future Sound Of London – Lifeforms". Resident Advisor . Retrieved 13 September 2018. Baker, Ross (2 October 2001). "The Future Sound of London – Lifeforms" . Retrieved 3 June 2022– via fractionaldifference.wordpress.com. We had a record deal, yes, but we also had this enormous pressure on our shoulders to make an album that would recoup the money invested in us, which ultimately meant it had to be a commercial success however noble our art pretensions." Vertical Pig