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Obligatory reference — electronica legends the Future Sound of London (FSOL) [1] produced an album called "ISDN" that was originally broadcast over ISDN lines i
by pavlov 3y ago
Obligatory reference — electronica legends the Future Sound of London (FSOL) [1] produced an album called "ISDN" that was originally broadcast over ISDN lines in 1994:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN_(album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN_(album)
It's an interesting relic of a specific cultural moment in time just before the Internet broke through. With ISDN, you could send a nearly hi-fi quality digital audio stream to anywhere in the world, but it wasn't yet on the open network that would define the actual future we now live in. Quite fitting for a band with "future" in their name.
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[1] Even if you don't know FSOL by name, you've most likely heard their massive 1991 club hit "Papua New Guinea" somewhere.
- krylon 3y agoGreat album. (Of course, all of their albums are great in my book. ;-) )
- killerstorm 3y agoGreat album, BTW, one of my favorite. You can kinda hear this cultural moment in the music itself: Some of the sounds they use are rather primitive by modern standards. But other parts are really complex and nuanced. So you get some sense of a transition of digital technology from novelty into mainstream. You also get a cyberpunk vibe, a lot of it is dark and harsh, but at the same time organic and beautiful. It's not as abstract like Autechre's music, this is definitely about humans, but in a weird environment.
- aphrax 3y agoI’m sure they played live via ISDN at least once..