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Music : Environments Vol.1
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Environments Vol.1 by: Future Sound Of London List Price: £11.99 CD-Charts Price: £10.98 You Save: £1.01 ( 8%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5013993905929 Label: Jumpin & Pumpin Manufacturer: Jumpin & Pumpin Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Jumpin & Pumpin Release Date: July 21, 2008 Studio: Jumpin & Pumpin Sales Rank: 9030 Disc 1: Related Items:
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 Rating:  - TAKING CARE OF THE ENVIRONMENTThe sonic boom boys are back with a beautifully recorded opus,that will have all fans of electronic music salivating,OK it doesn't have the depth of emotion that ,say,Tangerine Dream have,buit it does have soul and mysticism in abundance. The use of samples is fantastic,Sitars weave in and out of electronic patterns that bring early seventies German Rock to mind. These two tracks are lengthy explorations of what is achievable with synthesizers these days,the sound shifts and alters and creates mosaics of sound that meld well together admirably. Rating:  - Worth the 14 year waitIt is important to remember that Environments was originally planned as an Amorphous Androgynous album (at the time, AA was the outlet for the band's stranger experiments), which is why Environments may initially seem slightly underwhelming in light of its most obvious comparison, Lifeforms. Most of the music here is pure ambient, with rhythmic elements only appearing for a few minutes at the end of each 'side' of the album. After the album was scrapped in the early '90s, many of the musical elements were reworked, so fans may notice melodies and moments from such favourites as Ill Flower, An End Of Sorts and Tired. It is really enjoyable to hear them in differing forms in entirely different contexts, however, fading in and out of the mire ... Read More: Rating: - Evil twin of Lifeforms finally releasedThe long lost FSOL album finally gets released. Intended as the follow up to Lifeforms, until now it has remained merely a myth. Instead they chose a different direction - released ISDN and Dead Cities then vanished only to reappear as psychedelic rock band Amorphous Androgynous and scare off most of their following. In recent years they began releasing archive compilations through their website and eventually on CD. The first few were of variable quality, lacking cohesion, Volume 4 onwards being much more serious offerings that have clearly had more time spent on them. With Environments however they raised the bar. Musically it's a tough one to describe - almost like FSOL's take on the KLF's Chill Out. Less straight ... Read More: Rating: - Masterclass in ambient electronicaBack in the early 90's, after they'd made a name for themselves with the timeless brilliance of Papua New Guinea, FSOL went deeper into ambient electronica than just about anyone else at that time, losing most of the beats but none of the innovative, hallucinogenic magnificence on the way, oustripping even the mighty Orb in their pursuit of the ultimate psychedelic musical futurescape. For many, they achieved an era-defining perfection with the Cascade EP, the Lifeforms album, and the unutterably gorgeous My Kingdom EP. After such dizzying heights, the only way was down, and over the next couple of albums, ISDN and Dead Cities, they began to lose their audience, alienating them as they forewent the trippy beauty of those earlier works and mined a harsher, ... Read More: |
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