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59-399: The Path may refer to: Music [ edit ] The Path (Carbon Based Lifeforms album) , 1998 The Path (Fit for a King album) , 2020 The Path (Show of Hands album) , 2003 "The Path", a song by HIM from their 2003 album Love Metal "The Path", a song by The Human Abstract from their 2008 album Midheaven "The Path",

118-448: A big influence on them; Vadestrid called them "our role models". After initial tracks were put together still under their Notch moniker, the duo wished to explore the genre further by incorporating drone and chill out elements. This led to the formation of their own identity, Carbon Based Lifeforms, in 1996, initially as a side project. They named themselves after a Notch demo album, and thought it fitted "with our underlying themes of

177-596: A fan and asked the band to remix the following Oasis single "Falling Down". The Amorphous Androgynous responded with a 5 part, 22-minute Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble remix, which Noel liked enough to release on its own 12". Noel also invited Cobain to DJ at the afterparty for one of Oasis' gigs at Wembley Arena. The band continue the psychedelic theme to the mixes on their podcast site The Pod Room and on February 2010s Mojo Magazine cover CD. The Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble remixes grow in popularity with commissions from Paul Weller and Pop Levi , and Cobain has suggested

236-450: A full album of remixes and covers will appear on their recently formed Monstrous Bubble label On 6 July 2011 it was announced that Noel Gallagher's second solo album would be in collaboration with The Amorphous Androgynous, and was set for release in 2012. In August 2012, Gallagher mentioned in various interviews that he was considering scrapping the collaborative album with Amorphous Androgynous due to not being completely satisfied with

295-541: A horror PC game See also [ edit ] Path (disambiguation) PATH (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Path . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Path&oldid=1140296781 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

354-455: A live musician. The group's first live gigs took place in 2004. Vadestrid chose their performance at the 2006 Ozora Festival in Hungary as "something special" as the gig took place during a thunderstorm. Their debut studio album, Hydroponic Garden , was released in 2003, followed by World of Sleepers in 2006. Vadestrid chose "Photosynthesis" from the latter as a track that contains all of

413-752: A pair of synthesisers created in collaboration with Digitana, the SX-1 and the HALia, the former being manufactured as of July 2018, the latter still in pre-production. A series of re-recordings of older tracks, combined with new remixes and related material, was released between 2018 and 2021 for Record Store Day, in place of conventional reissues; the reissue series so far features My Kingdom Re-Imagined , Yage 2019 , Cascade 2020 and We Have Explosive 2021 . As well as The Future Sound of London, Dougans and Cobain have also revisited older side-projects. Dougans's solo project Humanoid has been active again since 2014, releasing

472-450: A project for a graphic studio Stakker , which resulted with a single " Stakker Humanoid " that reached number 17 in the UK charts, introducing acid house to mainstream audience. Cobain contributed to the accompanying album Global . In the following years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases, releasing a number of singles and EPs, including " Q " and "Metropolis", later featured on

531-425: A publishing outlet, with books exploring the artwork and history of the band, each combined with a music package; a series of A6 books entitled The Ramblings of a Madman was also produced, with the accompanying download EPs later repackaged into an album entitled Music for 3 Books . Alongside books, the band have further explored multimedia, including a series of digital artwork releases as NFTs on Foundation and

590-475: A record deal to release their albums on CD and for the first time, on vinyl, with updated artwork, leaving the band to handle the digital releases themselves. They had not released their albums on vinyl before because Ultimae were "too busy to bother" about the format, and that there was not a big enough demand. In 2015, the band remastered their first three studio albums with the aim of getting "a more coherent sound between them", and for bringing out more details in

649-407: A song by Lorde from her 2021 album Solar Power Television [ edit ] "The Path" ( The Twilight Zone ) , 2002 episode of the series The Path (TV series) , a 2016 series Other [ edit ] The Path (book) , a collection of essays by Konosuke Matsushita The Path (comics) , an American comic book series by CrossGen Entertainment The Path (video game) ,

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708-436: A tool for psychic exploration, entertainment, and healing. The pair returned in 2002 with " The Isness " , a record heavily influenced by 1960s and 1970s psychedelia and released under their alias Amorphous Androgynous. It was preceded by Papua New Guinea Translations , a mini album which contained a mixture of remixes of FSOL's track as well as new material from The Isness sessions. The album received mixed press due to

767-525: A top 10 hit on the UK album chart. The eponymous single featured Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins on vocals. The record introduced an array of exotic, tropical sound samples. Dougans' father's involvement in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop had a heavy influence on Lifeforms . Often asked whether Brian Eno was an influence, Cobain and Dougans said they were about looking to the future not

826-424: A version with beats and put it out as Interloper , hence the title, and later on finished a full beatless album as Twentythree . After about ten years with Ultimae, the band departed from the label to focus on digital releases and to achieve greater control over their music. They formed their own label, Leftfield Records, to handle the digital releases. In 2014, the band were approached by Blood Music which led to

885-501: Is a British electronic music duo composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans . They have been described as a "boundary-pushing" electronic act, covering techno , ambient , house music , trip hop , psychedelia , and dub . While keeping an enigmatic image and releasing music under many aliases, the band found commercial success with singles " Papua New Guinea " (1991) and " Cascade " (1993), and albums Lifeforms (1994), ISDN (1995) and Dead Cities (1996). In recent years,

944-416: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Path (Carbon Based Lifeforms album) Hedberg and Ringström (both born in 1976) first met in 1991 when they were 15 years old, after the former was transferred to the same class as Ringström. They became friends, and shared similar tastes in music, films, and video games. They started collaborating on

1003-420: Is planned as a trilogy, the first volume released for Record Store Day 2022 under the name Rituals . In a move further from traditional structures, several albums have been released under the banner FSOLDigital Presents, including yearly Calendar Albums , presented to subscribers as a track each month, and mix albums as part of the A Controlled Vista and Mind Maps series. FSOLDigital has also been used as

1062-466: Is set for release sometime in 2010, and will be more electronic, mixed by the Future Sound of London. Further mixes in the series are expected in the future, to be curated by related artists, and the band took the concept live with an eleven-hour spot at 2009's Green Man festival, to contain live bands and DJ spots. Noel Gallagher of British rock band Oasis , after hearing the first release, became

1121-465: Is the only salvation now. Dance music taught us how to use the studio in a new way, but we have to now take that knowledge and move on with it. This stuff, electronic music, is not dead. It's a process that is ongoing. We have to take hold of the past and go forward with it... The FSOL moniker re-appeared in 2006 with a piece entitled "A Gigantic Globular Burst of Anti-Static", intended as an experiment in 5.1 Surround Sound and created for an exhibition at

1180-687: The Environments albums feature a mixture of old demos, recently completed, and new tracks. The band have continued to use the FSOLDigital platform to release side-projects and solo work, under names such as Blackhill Transmitter, EMS : Piano, Suburban Domestic and 6 Oscillators in Remittance, as well as distributing digital releases from other artists, including Daniel Pemberton, Herd, Kettel & Secede, Neotropic, Ross Baker and Seafar; they also continue to update The Pod Room with ISDN transmissions from

1239-523: The Teachings from the Electronic Brain compilation without them, but the duo insisted on taking control of the production of the project. Cobain says that, even with Virgin, the reason they were able to do their own thing and create the music they wanted in the 1990s was because they already had some major hits under their belts such as "Papua New Guinea", "Metropolis" and "Stakker Humanoid" before joining

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1298-456: The music tracker sequencer software Protracker and later, the Amiga computer system. In 1994, they started to work with PCs and formed a music tracker trio with fellow Swedish musician and producer Mikael Lindqvist called Bassment Studios. In the following year, they moved once more to MIDI -oriented music and formed Notch, a group focusing on acid , techno , and house music . Their first track

1357-547: The 1990s. Following on from the band's 1997 DJ set of the same name, a series of Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind mix CDs were begun in 2006. The first two were released under the Amorphous Androgynous alias, subtitled "Cosmic Space Music" and "Pagan Love Vibrations", with the first taking over two years to compile, mix and gain sample clearance, both featuring the band's psychedelic influences. A third

1416-571: The 1992 compilation Earthbeat . They were initially signed to the British sub-label of Passion Music, Jumpin' & Pumpin'. In 1991, Cobain and Dougans released their breakthrough single, " Papua New Guinea " on Jumpin' & Pumpin'. The song was based upon a sample from " Dawn of the Iconoclast " by Dead Can Dance and a bassline from "Radio Babylon" by Meat Beat Manifesto . It enjoyed great success, charting at #22 for seven weeks in 1992. The single

1475-679: The Kinetica art museum entitled, appropriately, "Life Forms". The piece contained reworked material from their archives and newer, more abstract ambient music. The piece was coupled with a video called "Stereo Sucks", marking the band's theories on the limitations of stereo music, which was released on a DVD packaged with issue 182 of Future Music Magazine in December 2006 and on FSOL's own download site in March 2007. They also moved into creating their own sounds when they began constructing electronic instruments,

1534-565: The album with a continuation of the Amorphous Androgynous project, Alice in Ultraland . Rumoured to be accompanied by a film of the same title, the album took The Isness ' psychedelic experimentation and toned it down, giving the album a singular theme and sound, and replacing the more bizarre moments with funk and ambient interludes. The album was ignored by the press, but was received more favourably among fans than its predecessor. Unlike The Isness , which featured almost 100 musicians over

1593-410: The albums Built by Humanoid and 7 Songs as well as a string of EPs. Meanwhile, Cobain, in collaboration with Dougans and new co-producer Enrico Berto, began work on new Amorphous Androgynous material, with a double album of versions and remixes of the track "We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal" appearing in 2020. Alongside contributors such as Paul Weller , Ray Fenwick and Brian Hopper ,

1652-545: The alias of their imaginary engineer Yage. Unlike the techno work recorded as Yage in 1992, this new record was darker, more trip hop and world music -oriented and featured ex- Propellerheads member Will White. From 2008, the band showcased a series of radio broadcasts and podcasts called The Electric Brain Storms, originally on stations such as Proton Radio , PBS radio in Australia, and Frisky Radio. The remaining shows appeared on

1711-457: The band released a new online album as Amorphous Androgynous entitled The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness , which they describe as "A collection of psychedelic relics from The Amorphous Androgynous, 1967–2007". The release retains the sound of their last two psychedelic albums, while expanding on the element of funk first introduced on 2005's Alice in Ultraland . They recorded their following album, The Woodlands of Old , under

1770-508: The band signed a record deal with French label Ultimae Records after the label discovered them on MP3.com. Vadestrid said that the deal boosted their profile as a result, and the band started to perform at trance festivals during a time where it was uncommon for ambient acts to be on the big stage. Hedberg called the group's early years as "rough" partly due to his fear of flying which he did not conquer until 2009, which left Vadestrid to often perform abroad by himself, sometimes accompanied with

1829-415: The band's "key components". Released in 2010, Interloper was the album the group recalled as the turning point where they "grew big" as an act, and look back on the it as their defining moment. The follow-up, 2011's Twentythree , was originally finished in 2009 without beats, but the group became doubtful and self-critical about it and withheld its release. After discussing it with Ultimae, they produced

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1888-480: The band's later psychedelic projects of the following decade, while others appeared on the subsequent album series From The Archives . After a four-year hiatus, rumours of mental illness began to spread. In an interview, Cobain revealed that he had been undertaking spiritual experimentation and had dealt with a bout of mercury poisoning , with over one hundred times the amount deemed to be safe. He gained much from his experience, realising that he could use music as

1947-424: The band's official site. and SoundCloud. The shows featured electronic, krautrock, experimental and psychedelic favourites of the band mixed in with known and unknown FSOL material, including newly recorded tracks, archived pieces, and new alias recordings. Many of the new tracks appeared on the band's Environments series. Cobain has described the new music as having "the introspective, kind of euphoric sadness that

2006-531: The combination of biology and technology, also it alludes to a lot of sci-fi concepts." The band had built a following as Notch on MP3.com and Last.fm , but accumulated a bigger one as Carbon Based Lifeforms which led to increased exposure from radio airplay. When Last.fm switched from Winamp to another media player, the band saw a boost in traffic which also increased their income. Much of their music from their early period relied on delay and filter effects, and simpler sounds than their later tracks. In 2002,

2065-470: The course of it and the various alternative versions and remix albums, Alice in Ultraland featured a fairly solid band lineup throughout, which extended to live shows which the band had undertaken away from the ISDN cables from 2005 onwards. ...song form has just become too limited. And when I say 'psychedelic', it's not a reference to 60s music but to the basic outlook of a child, which we all have. I think this

2124-512: The drastic change in sound which was inspired by Cobain's and Dougan's (separate) travels to India and immersion in spiritualism, nevertheless the majority was positive with Muzik magazine offering the album a 6/5 mark and dubbing it "...a white beam of light from heaven..." and other British publications such as The Times , The Guardian and MOJO praising the album and the band's ability to do something so completely different from what they had done before. Three years on, they followed

2183-499: The duo has become more candid with their fanbase online. Their later work include their series of experimental Environments and Archives albums. Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans met in the mid-1980s while studying electronics at university in Manchester . Dougans had already been making electronic music, working between Glasgow and Manchester, when the pair first began working together in local clubs. In 1988, Dougans embarked on

2242-400: The first in a series of Monstrous Bubble Soundtracks , entitled The Cartel . On Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' album Chasing Yesterday , The Amorphous Androgynous are credited as Co-producers of the tracks "The Right Stuff" and "The Mexican". With the freedom of working independently from a record label, the group have remained prolific, working on multiple projects at once. Since 2014,

2301-404: The first world tour without leaving a studio. While the 1994 tour focused on creating soundscapes and unreleased material, the 1996 and 1997 shows were more conventional, each offering a different take on music featured on Dead Cities , blending current with occasional unreleased tracks. The final performances included considerable use of live guitar and percussion. These sessions were the basis of

2360-410: The free sampling of ISDN . In 1996, the band released Dead Cities which expanded upon these early demos, in a mix of ambient textures and dance music. The new sound was introduced in the lead single " My Kingdom ." The album featured the first collaboration with composer Max Richter , including on a 1997 big beat single " We Have Explosive " that featured manipulated samples of Run DMC . The track

2419-414: The label. Why is it, everybody, from the fucking fish and chip shop to a magazine ends up selling itself, getting the millions and retiring. Why don't people keep going with it, why can't they change it so that it keeps being important to them. Why didn't Anita Roddick keep going with Body Shop , why did it get so alien to her that she had to sell it, why? Surely she's making so many millions she can get

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2478-463: The majority have releases through FSOLDigital have been of newly recorded material, with Environment Five being the first in the series to feature all new tracks. Since then, FSOL releases have been less conventional, with Environment Six being split over three volumes, named Environment Six , Environment 6.5 and Environmental , the latter part of a triple LP release called Archived : Environmental : Views . Similarly, Environment 7

2537-609: The mixes. Two songs from the project have surfaced as B-sides to Gallagher's singles in 2012: "Shoot a Hole into the Sun" (based on Gallagher's track " If I Had a Gun... ") was a B-side to the single "Dream On" , and a mix of " AKA... What a Life! " featured on the B-side of " Everybody's on the Run ". However, as the project was shelved in November 2012, the group have returned to original material, releasing

2596-465: The music. Also that year, the band revealed that Spotify is their top source of income. In 2017, the band released their first studio album in six years, Derelicts . They made the conscious decision to take elements from their first three albums that they enjoyed the most and develop new tracks from those ideas. It marked a development in their sound, as by now, they were almost exclusively working with hardware-based instruments and setups which gave

2655-448: The mystery behind the band. The old FSOL material, including the previously unreleased album Environments , along with a selection of newer experiments, the 5.1 experiments and a promise of unreleased Amorphous Androgynous psychedelic material, was uploaded for sale on their online shop, FSOLdigital.com. The FSOLdigital platform has performed very well – we are delighted that people still dig us – we dig you all too. In early March 2008,

2714-461: The other member had put down. Their seventh studio album, Seeker , was released in June 2023. With the pandemic dying down, the group reunited and worked on music that, unlike the origins of Stochastic , had a more unified direction. This was followed by the band's first live album, Live at Ozora 2022 , which features the band performing with a live drummer, guitarist, and bassist. From 2005 to 2009,

2773-505: The pair released music as their electropop outfit, Thermostatic . In March 2022, Vadestrid announced that he had completed the first draft of a book about the history of the band. Its working title is The Path to Derelicts . Carbon Based Lifeforms Live musicians Studio albums Compilations Soundtracks EPs DJ mixes Regrouped compilations of other artists. Live albums The Future Sound of London The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated FSOL )

2832-658: The past. To them, Lifeforms was a new work not just another Eno-type ambient album. That year, the Future Sound of London released a limited-edition album ISDN , which featured live broadcasts made over ISDN lines to various radio stations worldwide to promote Lifeforms , including The Kitchen , an avant-garde performance space in New York, and several appearances on BBC Sessions hosted by John Peel . The shows featured ambient soundscapes with previously released material performed alongside unheard tracks. One performance for BBC Radio 1 featured Robert Fripp . The tone of ISDN

2891-456: The progressive Harvest Records (an arm of EMI ). They also have their own label called Electronic Brain Violence on which off-beat electronic artists such as Oil and Simon Wells (Headstone Lane) have released EPs and singles. Simon Wells also contributed to Dead Cities on the track "Dead Cities Reprise" Nevertheless, Virgin records still controls FSOL's back catalog and was going to release

2950-618: The record a lo-fi quality. The album marked the band's first official music video release, for the track "Accede". Stochastic was released in 2021, and originated when the group started to test random functions on some old synthesisers, which produced musical ideas suited for "passive listening whilst not stealing focus." It developed further during lockdowns amidst the COVID-19 pandemic , during which both members started producing tracks separately. They agreed to explore drone music and developed tracks by exchanging files online and adding to what

3009-552: The release features lead vocals by Peter Hammill , who is also credited on the album cover. Further alias releases have included albums released under the Blackhill Transmitter and Synthi-A names, as well as collaborations with Ross Baker and Daniel Pemberton . Since the millennium, FSOL took a more independent turn with their career, releasing their more psychedelic Amorphous Androgynous on an independent label, The Isness on Artful Records and Alice in Ultraland on

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3068-441: The result of which can be heard on the 2007 release Hand-Made Devices . At their website Glitch TV (where the motto is "[A] sudden interruption in sanity, continuity or programme function") they sell and explain their devices such as the "Electronic Devices Digital Interface" glitch equipment. In 2007, the band uploaded several archive tracks online, for the first time revealing much of their unreleased work and unveiling some of

3127-427: The right people that she loves to keep going with the ethos; there's something dangerous there. Cobain has said that FSOL's mentality has always been about making a journey of an album rather than focusing on trying to have hit singles. He said that they had several top 40 singles (and albums) in the 90s because they had enough fans and had built up enough of a reputation to achieve these hits while still concentrating on

3186-497: Was a remix of "What Would You Think" by synthpop group Mourning After. Lindqvist soon parted ways and Notch discontinued, but encouraged Hedberg and Ringström to continue recording their own music. The pair had started to fully explore ambient music after Hedberg's sister had picked up Orgship (1994) by Solar Quest, which quickly became a favourite of theirs and influenced the two to make similar music. Electronic bands The Future Sound of London and Boards of Canada were also

3245-571: Was always there in the FSOL melodies". From this point, the band have been alternating their focus between different projects. In 2008, Environments II and From the Archives Vol. 5 were released on the band's site, followed by Environments 3 and From the Archives Vol. 6 in 2010; and Environments 4 and From the Archives Vol. 7 in 2012. Whilst the Archives feature old, unreleased material,

3304-764: Was darker and more rhythmic than Lifeforms . The band wanted to achieve something epic and grand, but no matter how much technological or personal support they had they never got to truly do what they envisioned. Cobain said that the 90s were a time of frustration because the technology didn't fit the band's ideas. In 1995, the album was re-released with expanded artwork and a slightly altered track list. The band's interests have covered different areas including film and video, 2D and 3D computer graphics , animation in making almost all their own videos for their singles, radio broadcasting and creating electronic devices for sound making. The 1995 edition of John Peel Sessions featured new tracks which moved away from breakbeat and

3363-463: Was followed by their debut album, Accelerator , which included "Papua New Guinea" among other new tracks. After a few other releases on Jumpin' & Pumpin', they were signed by Virgin Records , with the free rein to experiment. In 1993, the duo released an ambient album Tales of Ephidrina , the first under the alias Amorphous Androgynous. The focus on texture and mood, while retaining dance beats,

3422-409: Was used on popular soundtracks to Mortal Kombat Annihilation , and the video game WipE'out" 2097 , the latter also including a new track "Landmass." "We Have Explosive" was the band's highest-charting single, and over the course of its five-part extended version included hints of funk . The album was promoted by what the band described as "the fuck rock'n'roll tour" via ISDN, gaining attention as

3481-412: Was well received. The album was released on Quigley, the band's own short-lived offshoot of Virgin. The band begun experimenting with radio performance, broadcasting three-hour radio shows to Manchester's Kiss FM from their studio. In 1993, the band released " Cascade ," a nearly 40 minutes single which made the UK top 30. It was followed in 1994 by the album Lifeforms , released to critical acclaim and

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