Papua New Guinea Translations [Import]

Future Sound of London | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 5, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Jumpin & Pumpin
• ASIN: B00005QITQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #388,207 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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In 1992, Future Sound of London released the single "Papua New Guinea". Fueled by electronica-meets-dub rhythms, an insistent sequencer pattern, and the sampled voice of Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance, it floated alongside Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" as one of the signature sounds from those trippy years. On this disc, FSOL creates a "Papua New Guinea" canon with eight variations on the original theme. As opposed to the guest remixers who twiddle the tune on the reissue of FSOL's Accelerator, here, the boys retool their own work. There's an Isaac Hayes-like "Shaft" revision on a version called "The Lovers" and an ambient chamber music rendition with banjo on "Requiem." Filtered through acid rock guitars on "Wooden Ships," the original "Papua" is rendered completely unrecognizable. And if this isn't enough, the bonus CD of Accelerator Deluxe has 10 more versions. Translations also includes the original video of "Papua New Guinea." FSOL can be accused of milking their greatest hit for all it's worth, but the milk is still sweet. --John Diliberto

Product Description

The Future Sound Of London's Translations takes their very essence, subverts it, turns it on it's head, twists and nurtures it. This is an album that makes a global journey of rare insight and beauty through the history of musical composition. Translations grew from the seminal 'Papua New Guinea' and is a transportive journey through the world of music and image, an album which is a stepping stone between their former works and their new incarnation.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you liked the original, you'll love the translations..., August 4, 2002

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Matt Copeland (Vacaville, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Papua New Guinea Translations (Audio CD)

I really don't know too much about this group, I just caught a catchy version of Papua New Guinea on the Wipeout Fusion soundtrack about two months ago, and couldn't get it out of my head. Soon after I purchased Deluxe Accelerator and Translations, without knowing too much about the overall sound of the group.

It took a couple listens, but Translations has been in my car CD player or home ever since. The original 12" mix is great, but some of the true translations are just amazing.

If you've ever felt bad cause you've bought an album and play one song to death for months, this is the album for you. You can hear papau new guinea influencing each translation, but the melody and core has been warped far beyond a mere remix. Just buy this album and give it a shot. It's got something for everyone.

My personal favorites right now are "the lovers, the big blue, things change..., and requiem."

5.0 out of 5 stars well, they're not rusty, that's for sure, April 17, 2003

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Supabowl (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Papua New Guinea Translations (Audio CD)

Heaven knows what the Future Sound of London busied themselves with in the five years between Dead Cities and Translations, but they obviously haven't lost their touch. Some will be surprised by this disc's flavor, which employs a lot of '60s and '70s-sounding guitars and sitars and definitely doesn't go for the raw industrial edge of a lot of the ISDN and Dead Cities tracks. But on the other hand, what two FSOL albums before this sounded alike anyway?
Note that I call this an album, not a single, because the tracklisting aside, that's what it is. No two of these tracks sound alike enough to be called the same song. Only "Papsico" bears any notable resemblance to the 12" Original. This is refreshing material, and far more creative than the original Papua New Guinea single from back in '92. Welcome back, FSOL! We missed you.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Start your journey in Papua New Guinea..., November 20, 2002

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Anthony Hillerson "Tony Hillerson" (Arvada, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Papua New Guinea Translations (Audio CD)

What people visiting this page need to understand is that Papua New Guinea in any form is but a gateway drug. No argument: it is a wonderful song that rises above much of the Dance/Trance/House/Floor pap of today, and debatably has more staying power than any other song from those heady days when Electronic began its glorious assault upon the ears of the world, fulfilling its manifest destiny.

What you must realize is that FSOL is more than Papua New Guinea; to truly understand their genius you must receive the ISDN transmission, examine Lifeforms, walk along Lifeforms:Paths 1-7, and travel unaccompanied through Dead Cities. With these albums FSOL exhibit through the newest musical medium musical genius that would make the great classical masters bow their heads. In those songs are aural landscapes of such beauty and sonic visions of such complete sublimity that other musics will be measured against them from then on, and either found lacking or at best: in complete harmony.

Start your journey in Papua New Guinea, but do not stop there.