The Future Sound of London discography explained

This is the discography page for ambient electronic group The Future Sound of London. All works released as The Future Sound of London unless otherwise noted.

Albums

As The Future Sound of London

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions		Certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Album details	UK ^[1]	UK Dance Album Chart ^[2]	Certifications (sales thresholds)
1992	Accelerator	75	26
1992	Earthbeat	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
1994	Lifeforms	6	1	UK: Silver^[3]
1995	ISDN	44	style="text-align:center;"	-
1996	Dead Cities	26	2
2006	Teachings from the Electronic Brain	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2007	From the Archives Vol. 1	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	From the Archives Vol. 2	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	From the Archives Vol. 3	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	Environments	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2008	From the Archives Vol. 4	style="text-align:center;"	-
	From the Archives Vol. 5	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	Environments II	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2010	Environments 3	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2010	From the Archives Vol. 6	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2012	Environments 4	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2012	From the Archives Vol. 7	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2014	Environment Five	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2015	Archived 8	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2015	Life In Moments	style="text-align:center;"	-	24
2016	Environment Six	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2016	Environment 6.5	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2017	2017 Calendar Album	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2017	Archived : Environmental : Views	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2018	2018 Calendar Album	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2018	From the Archives Vol. 9	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2019	FSOL Calendar Album 2019	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2019	Yage 2019	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2020	FSOL Calendar Album 2020	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	A Controlled Vista	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	Cascade 2020	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2021	FSOL Calendar Album 2021	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	Music for 3 Books	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	Music from Calendars 2017-2020	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	We Have Explosive 2021	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	Mind Maps	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	Mind Maps 2	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2022	Calendar Album 2022	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2022	Rituals >e7.001	style="text-align:center;"	-	33
2023	Calendar Album 2023	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	A Space of Partial Illumination E7.002	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
	Environments E7.003	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-

As Humanoid

(1989) Global
(2003) Sessions 84-88
(2007) Your Body Sub Atomic
(2019) Built by Humanoid
(2021) 7 Songs
(2022) sT8818r

As Amorphous Androgynous

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions			Certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Album details	UK ^[4]	UK Sales	UK Dance	Certifications (sales thresholds)
1993	Tales of Ephidrina	style="text-align:center;"	-	100	style="text-align:center;"	-
2002	The Isness	68	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2003	The Otherness	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2005	Alice In Ultraland	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	32
2008	The Peppermint Tree & the Seeds of Superconsciousness	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2008		style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2009		style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2010		style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2013	The Cartel Vol. 1	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2013	The Cartel Vol. 2	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2015	A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: The Wizards of Oz	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2020	We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal (with Peter Hammill)	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-

As Zeebox

(2007) Zeebox 1984-1987 Vol. 1
(2007) Zeebox 1984-1987 Vol. 2
(2009) Zeebox 1984-1987 Vol. 3

Other stage names

(2003) Eurotechno (as Stakker)
(2007) Hand-Made Devices (as Polemical)
(2007) 4 Forests (as Part-Sub-Merged)
(2007) The San Monta Tapes (as Heads Of Agreement)
(2007) By Any Other Name (as FSOL, Mental Cube, Indo Tribe, Dope Module, Yage and Smart Systems)
(2008) The Pulse EPs (as FSOL, Indo Tribe, Smart Systems, Yage and Mental Cube)
(2008) The Woodlands of Old (as Yage)
(2016) Blackhill Transmitter (as Blackhill Transmitter)
(2016) Ignition of the Sun (as Synthi A)

Singles and EPs

As The Future Sound of London

Year	Single details	Peak chart positions	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Single details	UK ^[5]	Certifications (sales thresholds)
1991	Pulse EP	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
1991	Pulse Two EP	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
1992	Papua New Guinea	22	style="text-align:center;"	-
1993	Cascade	27	style="text-align:center;"	-
1994	Expander	72	style="text-align:center;"	-
1994	Lifeforms (feat. Elizabeth Fraser)	14	style="text-align:center;"	-
1995	The Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman	22	style="text-align:center;"	-
1996	My Kingdom	13	style="text-align:center;"	-
1997	We Have Explosive	12	style="text-align:center;"	-
2001	Papua New Guinea 2001	28	style="text-align:center;"	-
2002	Papua New Guinea 2002	106	style="text-align:center;"	-
2007	Archived EP	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2014	Artworks 1	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2017	Ramblings Vol. 1	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2018	Ramblings Vol. 2	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2019	Ramblings Vol. 3	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2020	A Controlled Vista 2.7 (MiniPack 1)	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2020	A Controlled Vista 5.6 (MiniPack 2)	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-

As Humanoid

Year	Single details	Peak chart positions	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Single details	UK ^[6]	Certifications (sales thresholds)
1988	Stakker Humanoid	17	style="text-align:center;"	-
1989	Slam	54	style="text-align:center;"	-
1989	Tonight (feat. Sharon Benson)	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
1989	The Deep	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
1989	Crystals	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
1992	Stakker Humanoid '92	40	style="text-align:center;"	-
2001	Stakker Humanoid 2001	65	style="text-align:center;"	-
2007	Stakker Humanoid 2007	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2018	30303 EP	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2020	KAAGE EP	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2020	Future: Turned EP	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2020	Orfan Atmosphere EP	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2021	sT8818r Humanoid	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-

As Mental Cube

(1990) Q (BZZXL 106033)
(1991) So This Is Love
(1991) Q (180 996)

As Amorphous Androgynous

Year	Single details	Peak chart positions	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Single details	UK Physical Singles	Certifications (sales thresholds)
1993	Liquid Insects	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2002	The Mello Hippo Disco Show	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2003	Divinity	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2005	The Witchfinder	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
2021	The World Is Full Of Plankton	38	style="text-align:center;"	-

Other stage names

(1990) A.S.T. (as Art Science Technology)
(1990) I Can See for Miles (as Yunie)
(1991) You Took My Love (as Candese)
(1991) The Tingler (as Smart Systems)
(1991) The Pulse EP (as FSOL and Indo Tribe)
(1991) Pulse 2 EP (as FSOL, Smart Systems and Indo Tribe)
(1991) Principles of Motion EP (as Intelligent Communication)
(1991) Pulse 3 EP (as Smart Systems, Indo Tribe and Yage)
(1992) Fuzzy Logic EP (as Yage)
(1992) Pulse Four EP (as Mental Cube, Smart Systems and Indo Tribe)
(1992) People Livin' Today (as Semi-Real)
(1992) Metropolis (as Metropolis)
(2008) Tingler 2008 (as Smart Systems)
(2009) Cloudscraper (as Six Oscillators in Remittance)
(2013) EP (as Blackhill Transmitter)
(2013) One (as EMS : Piano)
(2013) Stillness (as Suburban Domestic)
(2013) Salient Moons 1972 (as Sand Sound Folly)
(2013) EP (as Blackhill Transmitter)
(2014) 2nd (as Blackhill Transmitter)
(2014) An Open Window (as The Jazz Mags)
(2015) 3 (as Blackhill Transmitter)
(2016) Four (as Blackhill Transmitter)
(2019) MOA016 (as Humanoid / Yage)
(2020) Pygmy EP (as Yage)

Other

(1997) ISDN Show (A promo recording of a live netcast)
(2007) A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Anti-Static (Soundtrack for an art exhibition held at the Kinetica Art Museum, London in 2006)
(2008) FSOL Digital Mix (A free mix CD with Greek music magazine "Freeze")
(2012) The Fears and Fantasies of the Unconscious Mind (Sampler previewing tracks released on FSOLDigital)
(2017) FSOL:Digitana – The SX-One Live Improvisations (Live improvisations promoting the SX-1 synth)

Remix work

They have also garnered a reputation as remixers, transforming the work of a variety of different artists, including:

(1991) Loleatta Holloway, Do That To Me (Set Me Free)
(1992) Unity, Unity
(1992) Inner City, Praise
(1992) Nomad, Your Love Is Lifting Me
(1992) Prefab Sprout, "If You Don't Love Me
(1992) Stereo MCs, Connected
(1993) Curve, Rising
(1993) Bryan Ferry, I Put A Spell On You
(1993) The Shamen, Re:iteration
(1993) David Sylvian/Robert Fripp, Darshana
(1994) Apollo 440, Liquid Cool
(1994) Massive Attack, Sly
(1995) Jon Anderson, Speed Deep
(1996) Osamu Sato, Face-Savers On-line
(2001) Robert Miles, Paths
(2002) Deadly Avenger, Day One
(2009) Oasis, Falling Down
(2009) Neotropic, Home
(2010) Paul Weller, Aim High/Pieces Of A Dream
(2010) Pop Levi, Blue Honey
(2014) Blu Mar Ten, Night Shift

The results are often novel and complex, and in some instances the original track is barely recognisable.^[7]

Notes and References

Web site: Chart Stats – Future Sound of London . officialcharts.com. 2019-12-07.
News: Dance Albums Chart . 22. London. Redmond. Steve. . Spotlight Publications . 4 June 1994.
"Certified Awards Search ". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved on 2011-11-13. Note: User needs to enter "Future Sound of London" in the "Search" field, "Artist" in the "Search by" field and click the "Go" button. Select "More info" next to the relevant entry to see full certification history.
Web site: Chart Stats – Amorphous Androgynous . officialcharts.com. 2023-10-08.
Web site: Chart Stats – Future Sound of London . officialcharts.com. 2019-12-07.
Web site: Chart Stats – Humanoid . officialcharts.com. 2023-10-18.
Web site: Andrea Giacobe/Astralwerks . Future Sound of London | Music Artist | Videos, News, Photos & Ringtones | MTV . https://web.archive.org/web/20060205024334/http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/future_sound_of_london/artist.jhtml . dead . 5 February 2006 . MTV . 2009-03-22.