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Papua New Guinea Translations

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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."

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.

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.

IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THE IMPROVEMENT UPON PERFECTION, YOU WOULD HAVE "PAPAU NEW GUINEA- TRANSLATIONS". SEVEN REMIXES OF THE ALREADY AMAZING 92 RAVE CLASSIC. THIS BAND IS AN AUTHORITY ON MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU IN MANY WAYS.

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.