The Future Sound of London – Environments 3
FSOL are without doubt, legends in the realm of electronic music and in my opinion, the finest producers to ever put hand to keyboard. In the past few years they’ve been releasing quite a lot of material from their archives (the 5CD “From The Archives” collection is a must have) sprinkled with the odd piece of new material (Environments 2 was allegedly about 50% new material) and this week saw the full release in the 3rd of the “Environments” series. Who knows if the material is old or new, and frankly, it doesn’t really matter. The album is packed with genius FSOL moments from start to finish, blending otherwordly atmospherics and soundscapes with their unique ear for a beautiful melody.
I’ve picked a couple of my favourites below but the album lends itself (as with most FSOL material) to a full start to finish listen.
Pick this up from FSOLDigital and have a wander around while you’re there – there’s a whole host of goodies available. Also available on CD from Play.com.
The Future Sound of London – Summer’s Dream
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The Future Sound of London – Surface Water
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[...] this week we covered the new FSOL album “Environments 3″ and it got me thinking about my favourite tracks of theirs. So for today’s classic I’ve [...]
Yes. I’ve been struggling to listen to as much FSOL material as possible but I haven’t heard these beauties yet. If they aren’t the finest electronic music producers ever, I’d definitely put them in the top five.