Papua New Guinea (Translations) - Future Sound Of London

Advantages: The latest offering from one of the most under rated women in music industry
Disadvantages: if i had to be picky a couple of tracks go on slightly too long and would love t hear a bit more of her voice

...This is the latest offering from the multi talented riz maslen. Riz has been on the music scene for well over ten years now and just seems to keep coming up with something more musically enchanting with each release. Her music has been used in commercials, she has dj-ed around the uk and sang vocals on the chart topping hit papua new guinea with thee future sound of london. White rabbits is a beautiful 9 track album album, opening with my favourite track New Cross, a song about a relationship which is coming to a end. As her tranquil voice ' your doing my head in, isnt it time we said goodbye' something we can all relate to! the rest of the album follows in much the same way, although the vocals are quite thin on the ground there seems to be some sort of beautiful saddness to the album. For those who have heard neotropic before... Read review

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Advantages: Ferry Corsten, need I say more.
Disadvantages: Cheese like Robert Miles

.... Twilo thunder - Breeder (1) 31. 9pm (til I come) - ATB 32. Bulgarian - Travel 33. World - Pulp Victim 34. Venus of my dreams - Airwave (1) 35. Wide eyed angel - Origin (1) 36. Papua New Guinea - Future Sound Of London... Read review

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Advantages: Totally compelling, excellent chill out album, total madness
Disadvantages: It's hard to get a grip on it, can be pretentious

...Lifeforms - What can you say? This album is the most gloriously self indulgent, pretentious and yet highly listenable hour and a half you can spend in your life. You could say that Lifeforms is the logical conclusion to ambient music, formless alien sound that manages to never get dull despite the fact that you rarely get any kind of loop or melody to lock onto for more than about 30 seconds. The Future Sound of London started off as a rave outfit in the late 80's and produced the classic acid track 'stakker humanoid' Next they turned their attentions to dub and general sound manipulation to create the dub monster, 'Papua New Guinea' and the 'accelerator' album before giving birth to the sprawling monster that is 'Lifeforms'. This album consists of 2 cd's of seemingly random electronic sounds that have been individually crafted... Read review

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