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Artist: The Future Sound of London
Album: Environments II
Label: fsoldigital.com
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/Future-Sound-Of-London-Environments-II/release/1751440
Catalog#: CD TOT 62
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: Jan 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, IDM, Abstract, Ambient
Codec: FLAC

Tracklist
1 Viewed From Above 2:34
2 Glacier (Part 1) 8:55
3 Serengeti 4:32
4 Colour-blind 3:39
5 A Corner 3:24
6 Newfoundland 2:03
7 North Arctic 3:19
8 Factories And Assembly 4:59
9 Ice Formed 4:20
10 Small Town 3:14
11 Nearly Home 3:38
12 Boca Manu 2:22
13 Journey To The Center 3:40
14 Glacier (Part 2) 6:18

Environments II is the second release of The Future Sound of London’s “Environments” series of which another is planned, it was released on 29 August 2008. A CD version of the album was released on 5 January 2009.

Continuing from the first album in the series, part II is equally ambient (as opposed to the more breakbeat led material of their albums and archive series), but features strings, choir sounds and synthesiers, in contrast to the more abstract, sample-based nature of the original album. There are a few low-fi type tracks with subtle beats, similar in sound to tracks from Aphex Twin’s “Selected Ambient Works…” series. The strings mentioned are Goldenthalian in sound and weave into the electronic ambience. The album features contributions by Max Richter, Daniel Pemberton, Chris Margory, Robert Fripp, Colin Bell and Will White.