ISDN
Front Cover
Media:
Audio CD
Release Date:
05/06/1995
Date Added:
11/06/2007
Price:
£7.99
Label:
Virgin
Artists:
Future Sound Of London
Format:
Single
EAN:
0724384038724
UPC:
724384038724
Tracks:
Disc #1
  1. Just A Fuckin' Idiot
  2. Far Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman
  3. Appendage
  4. Slider
  5. Smokin' Japanese Babe
  6. You're Creeping Me Out
  7. Eyes Pop Skin Explodes Everybody Dead
  8. It's My Mind That Works
  9. Dirty Shadows
  10. Tired
  11. Egypt
  12. Are They Fighting Us
  13. Kai
  14. Amoeba
  15. Study Of Six Guitars
  16. Snake Hips
Description:

Amazon.co.uk Review "They're so antisocial," said Mixmaster Morris of the reclusive Future Sound of London. "They won't even go to parties anymore--they do all their gigs over the telephone." After the success of their majestic "Papua New Guinea" single and the Accelerator album from which it was taken, FSOL retreated to the studio and never left. Their only communication with the outside world was through their music, an increasingly abstract Dadaist collage of overdubbed beats and noises that defied genres and stymied trend-happy journalists. While some of the material on ISDN was previously released under the pseudonym Far Out Son of Lung (the worst-kept secret in dance music), the bulk of the album was taped from performances delivered via digital telephone links to radio stations throughout Europe. Naturally, the ubiquitous and intrusive medium of radio encourages challenging and elaborate environmental music. So unlike their previous album, Lifeforms, whose closest earthly relation was techno, ISDN is the distant cousin of jazz, both in its blatant sampling of sax and drums and its freeform, exploratory nature. --Matthew Corwine

Average Customer Rating:
4.54.54.54.54.5
Total Customer Reviews:
8
Customer Reviews:

IT'S UNIQUE 55555
In reponse to the it's it's awful comment - it's different.

Music does not have to be poptastic, it can be based around sounds and rhythms.

And these guys know how to put together amazing examples of audio you will not here anywhere else on this earth.

I cannot reccomend this duo enough however read the previous post, and if you can't appreciate the genre O.K.

It's worth the try, and you'll never look back.

Absolutely awesome, mind blowing, get it and if you wish for a gentle start to the FSOl experience go for lifeforms.

Get them all, theyr're all interesting and a sonic fantasyland.

Unbelievable.

Well worth the money 55555
FSOL were a pretty new thing to me when i bought this - i bought the album because it was cheap and i knew it was like a lot of the other stuff i listen to (leftfield, faithless etc). A particularly good album for chilling out to - makes good background music for a party or just for lying in bed if you feel ill or want to get to sleep. Well worth a buy, it only costs a few quid. Especially like the far-out son of lung and the ramblings of a madman.

Earth calling... 33333
FSOL had obviously been spending far too much time noodling at home with their new studio toys before this came out. Far more evolved in range and scope than their earlier work. Much, much stranger. Not necessarily in a bad way, although some of the swirling ambient randomness does grate a little - problem looking for a solution anyone? However the less experimental dance tracks on this are absolute stormers and will still merrily blow a floor away and would merrit 5 stars if it wasn't for the interspersed interludes. I particularly admire 'far out son of a lung...' for writing in a 3/4 rhythm, not too common a thing in a techno style... Tried playing the whole ablum through at a party once, and these were pretty open minded folk, but I'm afraid it all got to be a bit much about halfway through... The good material is the best they've ever done, but you do need to bear with the rest of it at times... For not much over a fiver you're not going to go far wrong here.

This is truly awful 11111
I bought this on the recommendation of the reviews on this site and was bitterly disappointed when I heard it.

I have a varied music taste and will listen to almost anything, but I have to draw the line at this.

I have listened to it over and over again, in the hope that it is one of those albums that grow on you. I tried listening to it in the car, after work, late at night...just about everything, but this is one album that really should be avoided for any and all occasion.

Different flavour, same quality 55555
Performed by ISDN lines during "live" shows, these tracks form a compilation of their 1994 world tour, and show the band are as good in the studio as they are in...the studio. erm. more trip-hop and jazz based. the original versions on the live shows are actually superior, though - here, Dirty Shadows lacks the guitar textures of Fripp and the 8 minute version of It's My Mind That Works which graced our radios all those years ago. that aside, the album is an outstanding 75 minutes of top quality music