The Future Sound of London is an experimental ambient electronica group made up of British multimedia artists Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. The duo began to perform in 1989. Along with recording music, the pair have worked on other projects, including developiong 2D and 3D computer graphics, animation, film and video and radio broadcasts. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-future-sound-of-london-p74795/biography

The band has made music that is a distillation of several genres of electronic music including ambient, jungle, industrial and trip-hop. Their three mid-'90s albums - Lifeforms, ISDN and Dead Cities - are considered to be important benchmarks in electronic music.http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-future-sound-of-london-p74795/biography

Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans began their careers as the dance music duo, Humanoid. Early on, they released club hits such as "Stakker Humanoid" and "Paupau New Guinea", but would soon turn to experimentation in electronic music as The Future Sound of London. The pair would release their first album, Accelerator, in 1991.http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-future-sound-of-london-p74795/biographyhttp://www.discogs.com/artist/Future+Sound+Of+London%2C+The

1994 saw the release of Lifeforms, a double-disc album. The record captured a sound that was a complete departure from the duos previous music.http://www.discogs.com/artist/Future+Sound+Of+London%2C+The The same year they released their third album, ISDN, which compiled sounds from the bands ISDN-uplinked radio broadcasts during the mid-'90s. In 1996, the band would release their third album, Dead Cities, which introduced elements of hip-hop and industrial music.http://www.discogs.com/artist/Future+Sound+Of+London%2C+The

During their career, the pair became remixers, adding their touch to songs by artists such as Curve, David Sylvian, Robert Fripp and Apollo 440.http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-future-sound-of-london-p74795/biography After a hiatus, Dougans and Cobain returned to music in 2002, making the album The Isness, under the new moniker, Amorphous Androgynous. They released a compilation in 2006 of material garnered over 15 years called Teachings from the Electronic Brain. They released two albums thereafter, Environment in 2008 and Environment 2 in 2009.http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-future-sound-of-london-p74795/biography http://www.astralwerks.com/fsol/

• Garry Cobain
• Brian Dougans

• 1991: Accelerator
• 1994: Lifeforms
• 1994: ISDN
• 1996: Dead Cities
• 2008: Environment
• 2009: Environment 2

"There’s quite a few different sides to FSOL, there is the very, very abstract, what we term the more male, machine music. We tried to not go too extreme into that but keep it melodic, experimental..." &mdash Garry Cobain, interview with Barcodehttp://www.barcodezine.com/The%20Future%20Sound%20Of%20London%20Interview.htm

"And that was the FSOL thing, we invented the idea of inert, armchair sampling, the idea that at some point you would just make music sitting in an armchair accessing everything coming through one system." &mdash Garry Cobain, interview with Barcodehttp://www.barcodezine.com/The%20Future%20Sound%20Of%20London%20Interview.htm