The Future Sound Of London – Dead Cities
Label: |
Virgin – 7243 8 42068 2 6 |
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Format: |
CD
, Album, Stereo
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Country: |
Europe |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
Style: |
Electro |
Tracklist
| 1 | The Future Sound Of London– | Herd Killing | 2:36 |
| 2 | The Future Sound Of London– | Dead Cities | 6:36 |
| 3 | The Future Sound Of London– | Her Face Forms In Summertime | 5:39 |
| 4 | The Future Sound Of London– | We Have Explosive | 6:19 |
| 5 | The Future Sound Of London– | Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me | 4:10 |
| 6 | The Future Sound Of London– | My Kingdom | 5:46 |
| 7 | The Future Sound Of London– | Max | 2:49 |
| 8 | The Future Sound Of London– | Antique Toy | 5:43 |
| 9 | The Future Sound Of London– | Quagmire / In A State Of Permanent Abyss | 6:57 |
| 10 | The Future Sound Of London– | Glass | 5:38 |
| 11 | The Future Sound Of London– | Yage | 7:32 |
| 12 | The Future Sound Of London– | Vit Drowning / Through Your Gills I Breathe | 5:32 |
| 13.1 | The Future Sound Of London– | First Death In The Family | 2:18 |
| 13.2 | The Future Sound Of London– | (no audio) | 1:00 |
| 13.3 | Headstone Lane– | Dead Cities Reprise | 1:28 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Virgin Records Ltd.
- Copyright © – Virgin Records Ltd.
- Pressed By – EMI Uden
- Published By – Sony Music Publishing
- Recorded At – Earthbeat Studios
- Recorded At – The Womb, London
- Glass Mastered At – EMI Swindon
Credits
- Artwork [Choked Up / Sunshine And Brick-image] – Riphead*
- Artwork [Choked Up / Sunshine And Brick-text] – Cobain*
- Artwork [Liquide / Dead Cities Logo] – B Dougans*
- Artwork [Praying Hands / Ecuador / Dead Cities Graffiti / Eggs] – Buggy G. Riphead
- Artwork [Spike And Dome / Old Woman / Herd Killing-art] – Riphead*
- Artwork [Spike And Dome / Old Woman / Herd Killing-concept] – Electronic Brain Violence
- Artwork [Spike Modelling] – Olaf Wendt
- Engineer – Yage
- Photography By [Dead Cities-city Ruins] – Riphead*
- Photography By [Dead Cities-human Computer Manipulation] – B Dougans*
- Photography By [Dead Cities-human] – Andrea Giacobbe
- Photography By [Dead Cities-overall Image Construction] – Cobain*
- Written-By, Producer – The Future Sound Of London
Notes
Issued in a standard jewel case with 12-page booklet.
The credits on the CD are misleading as to what the actual tracklist is, the back cover of the CD shows 15 tracks, the CD itself has 13 tracks. Two of the tracks are actually two songs in one. By reading the booklet notes carefully, there are actually 16 tracks.
The last hidden song, track 13.3 - "Dead Cities Reprise", starts at 3:18 min after 1:00 min of silence. The total running time of track 13 is 4:46 min.
Tracks 1, 4: Guitar stab, wah guitar and vocal yell sourced from Run-DMC's track "Tougher Than Leather".
Track 5: Vocals by Garry Cobain from 'I Need Re-Calibrate' recorded at The Womb - London. Intro Breath environment sourced from an orchestral re-working of Eggshell.
Track 6: Guitar sample swapped with Ozric Tentacles for Cubase.
Track 7: Child's voice recorded 'Outside Of The Web' at Little Venice. Piano fed through the machines - restructured and recollaged from midi-files. Alto-Sax sample mechanically removed from a day's recording.
Track 11: Moroccan flute recorded at Sordid Accomodation - London - 1989.
Track 13.3: 'Honey Sunshine' from a hi-8 'Putts Goes to Sri Lanka'. Recorded at Headstone Lane from Snuff Recordings, 'The Disappearance Of Troy Motherwell'.
Recorded at Earthbeat Studios, London '96.
Printed in Holland (on the rear cover). MADE IN HOLLAND (on the CD).
℗1996 Virgin Records Ltd.
©1996 Virgin Records Ltd.
CDV2814 is a UK cat .
The credits on the CD are misleading as to what the actual tracklist is, the back cover of the CD shows 15 tracks, the CD itself has 13 tracks. Two of the tracks are actually two songs in one. By reading the booklet notes carefully, there are actually 16 tracks.
The last hidden song, track 13.3 - "Dead Cities Reprise", starts at 3:18 min after 1:00 min of silence. The total running time of track 13 is 4:46 min.
Tracks 1, 4: Guitar stab, wah guitar and vocal yell sourced from Run-DMC's track "Tougher Than Leather".
Track 5: Vocals by Garry Cobain from 'I Need Re-Calibrate' recorded at The Womb - London. Intro Breath environment sourced from an orchestral re-working of Eggshell.
Track 6: Guitar sample swapped with Ozric Tentacles for Cubase.
Track 7: Child's voice recorded 'Outside Of The Web' at Little Venice. Piano fed through the machines - restructured and recollaged from midi-files. Alto-Sax sample mechanically removed from a day's recording.
Track 11: Moroccan flute recorded at Sordid Accomodation - London - 1989.
Track 13.3: 'Honey Sunshine' from a hi-8 'Putts Goes to Sri Lanka'. Recorded at Headstone Lane from Snuff Recordings, 'The Disappearance Of Troy Motherwell'.
Recorded at Earthbeat Studios, London '96.
Printed in Holland (on the rear cover). MADE IN HOLLAND (on the CD).
℗1996 Virgin Records Ltd.
©1996 Virgin Records Ltd.
CDV2814 is a UK cat .
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 7 24384 20682 6
- Barcode (Scanned): 724384206826
- Rights Society: bel BIEM
- Label Code: LC3098
- Price Code (On CD): PM 538
- Price Code (F:): PM 502
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): 842068 2 .1 EMI SWINDON 1-1-21-NL
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI L041
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Other Versions (5 of 37)
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Dead Cities (CD, Album) | Astralwerks | ASW 6181 | US | 1996 | ||
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Dead Cities (2×LP, Album) | EBV | V2814, 7243 8 42068 1 9 | UK | 1996 | ||
| Dead Cities (CD, Album, Limited Edition, Cardboard Slipcase) | Virgin | CDVX2814, CDVX 2814, 7243 8 42231 2 0 | UK & Europe | 1996 | |||
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Dead Cities (CD, Album, Promo) | Astralwerks | ASW 6181 AD | US | 1996 | ||
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Dead Cities (CD, Album) | Virgin | CDV 2814, 7243 8 42068 2 6 | UK | 1996 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Very much late to the game with FSOL and not because they weren't readily accessible on late night telly and or in the bin at shops but that the imagery and the music videos were so (even then) terrible that I just complexly dismissed them.
Decades later, and my aesthetic biases humbled, I've really taken with the the first three Virgin recs. Top shelf material. Shame the imagery and rave poster time stamp kept me away. Better late than never. Beauty stuff -
Do we know where the vocal of Rebecca Caine Come from ? It is an improvisation but from what ? Love this part. -
My 2nd favourite album of all time after 'lifeforms'. It is almost the anti-lifeforms in the sense that it is utterly dark and dystopian compared to the verdant,lush soundscapes of lifeforms.
That said,I would totally respect anyone who would choose dead cities over lifeforms. Just a time and place thing I suppose. -
Bought this back at the time in 1996. Have tried again and again to revisit and find something to like about it, but I find it is filled with interludes, there is little real "meat" on it at all. And the awful "We Have Explosive" gets on my nerves every time.
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Edited 3 years ago'Dead Cities' is by the Manchester originated 'Future Sound of London', pioneers of electronic music.
The duo actually are in the Guiness Book of Records for the first digital tour ever for their 'ISDN' album The music on the album is edited together from various live broadcasts that the band had broadcast to radio stations all over the world using ISDN, which at the time was a relatively new and expensive technology.
Their most famous singles include 'Pappa New Guinea' which I have on 7" single, as well as 'We Have Explosure' and 'Stakker Humanoid' which was released under the 'Humanoid' artist name although being originally created by the same two people.
A lot of their music, including this album, is quite ambient and electronica based and not necessarily dance-floor orientated at all. This was a breakaway at the time from the electronic music scene which mostly produced tracks designed for the dancefloor, not for home listening at all.
"When we signed to Virgin, we literally had all the power," says FSOL mouthpiece, Garry Cobain, "I don't think they really understood it. They viewed [g us] as their incursion into this new demographic of dance music. Of course, we got there courtesy of Papua New Guinea. Our plans via that track were just, 'Fuck the pop, let's go deep now'. - https://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/classic-album-the-future-sound-of-london-on-lifeforms-606889
This record paints a darker soundscape than 'Lifeforms' did, but it is still very ambient, experimental, and built using a combinations of samples, synthesizer FX, with soaring pads and strings. For me it is still as impressive now as it was in 1996 - as in - very. -
I've been hankering for a re-issue of this for years, so am dead chuffed to finally have a copy. Just crossing my fingers for a ISDN reissue next! -
The intro sample "I had killed a man, a man who looked like me" is Laurence Fishburne in the Movie Deep Cover (1992) -
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Over the oh' so many years this album has ALWAYS "stuck-it!" to whatever I follow it up behind. Truly a milestone in electronica/experimental.. If you do not own this one (1) album you are missing on a greatly unique & sublime album from THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON or this era/genre/place of being of music & sound ...
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FSOL
DEAD CITIES
Future Sound of London one of great 90's electronic musician that i used to add for those magical home session days .
Dead Cities the dark cinematic concept album that will haunt you to the endless electronic musical journey .
Everyone in the world
is doing something without me !. No doubt .. spin it !
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