Teachings from the Electronic Brain

2006 compilation album by The Future Sound of London

Teachings from the Electronic Brain

Compilation album by

The Future Sound of London

Released| 28 August 2006
Genre| Electronica, ambient, IDM
Length| 64:44
Label| Astralwerks
Producer| Brian Dougans, Garry Cobain, Philip Pin
The Future Sound of London chronology
| Alice in Ultraland
(2005)  | Teachings from the Electronic Brain
(2006)  | A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Anti-Static
(2007)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic|  link
Remixmag| very favourable

Teachings from the Electronic Brain is a compilation of songs from throughout the career of British band The Future Sound of London, and was released in 2006. The diversity of their wide range of work is even more apparent on a compilation such as this.

## Album

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The album also includes two songs they recorded under the name Amorphous Androgynous.[1][2][3] Despite favourable reviews in the press, the album has been unpopular with fans, who have criticised its track list as being lazy, drawing largely from Dead Cities, and with tracks simply fading in and out rather than being properly mixed.[4]

However, in an interview with "Barcodezine" (who found it favourable) Cobain states:

> ...well in our mind we tried to make it a nice balance of light and dark, feminine/masculine – all these qualities. 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, involving, yes the hits, but in maybe edited or slightly remixed form – there’s an edit of the Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins) single on there. But actually, from our point of view, what we consider to be the most long-standing tracks, and try to get the balance right, which I think we’ve done quite well.

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## Track listing

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1. "Papua New Guinea" (12" version) – 4:59
2. "Max" – 2:55
3. "Everyone in the World Is Doing Something Without Me" – 2:00
4. "My Kingdom" – 5:39
5. "Smokin' Japanese Babe" – 5:14
6. "Antique Toy" – 4:15
7. "Lifeforms" (radio edit) – 4:39
8. "Yage" – 6:23
9. "Expander" (12" version) – 4:52
10. "Glass" – 4:55
11. "The Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman" – 4:15
12. "The Lovers" – 5:57
13. "Mountain Goat" – 4:41
14. "Cascade" (shortform) – 4:17
15. "We Have Explosive" (7" edit) – 3:10

## Crew

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* Artwork by [design] – Andrew Day in The Red Room, EMI
* Compiled by – Future Sound Of London, The
* Engineer – Stone Freshwaters (tracks: 12), Yage
* Mastered by – Ian Jones (4)
* Other [directed by] – FSOL (tracks: 13)
* Other [project coordinator] – Libby Jones, Paula Flack
* Producer – Future Sound Of London, The (tracks: 1 to 12, 14, 15), Philip Pin (tracks: 13)
* Written by – Brian Dougans, Elizabeth Fraser (tracks: 7), Garry Cobain
* "Max" written by Max Richter

## References

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1. ^ "Secondthought.co.uk".
2. ^ Future Sound Of London, The - Teachings From The Electronic Brain (The Best Of FSOL)
3. ^ Cd Review: Fsol, Teachings From The Electronic Brain
4. ^ "So where are all the FSOL fanz anyhoo???!!?". Archived from the original on 3 June 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2008.
5. ^ The Future Sound Of London Interview Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine

## External links

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* Teachings from the Electronic Brain at AllMusic
* Teachings From The Electronic Brain (The Best Of FSOL) at Discogs

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The Future Sound of London

* Garry Cobain
* Brian Dougans

Studio albums|

* Accelerator
* Lifeforms
* Dead Cities
* Hand-Made Devices
* The San Monta Tapes
* Environments
* The Woodlands of Old
* Environments II
* Environments 3
* Environments 4
* Environment Five
* Environment Six
* Environment 6.5

Albums as
Amorphous Androgynous|

| Studio albums|

* Tales of Ephidrina
* The Isness/The Otherness
* Alice in Ultraland
* The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness

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Compilations|

* A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 1
* Volume 2
* Volume 3

Live albums|

* ISDN

Compilations|

* Teachings from the Electronic Brain

Solo albums|

* Global
* Eurotechno
* Sessions 84–88
* 4 Forests

Singles & EPs|

* Stakker Humanoid (Humanoid)
* Slam (Humanoid)
* Pulse 2 EP
* Papua New Guinea
* Liquid Insects
* Cascade
* Expander
* Lifeforms
* The Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman
* My Kingdom
* We Have Explosive
* The Mello Hippo Disco Show
* Divinity
* The Witchfinder

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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