The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (05:18)
Available on: Lifeforms, Lifeforms Extracts

Lyrics:
Oooh ooh
Oooh ooh
Oooh ooh
Oooh ooh

Notes:
The oldest track on Lifeforms, the title track first debuted on 1992's John Peel session, and signalled FSOL's move away from the techno that Jumpin' & Pumpin' had just re-released (Gaz often commented how Accelerator's success came long after they'd moved on from it). Whilst the most techno-based track on the album, the song's 4/4 dance beat it quite low in the mix, and Liz Fraser's vocals collide amongst layers of organ, synth and recurring album-wide samples to give it much more of a collage feel than simple club fodder. Gaz expands:
"The Cocteau Twins were in heavy disrepair - Liz and Robin were splitting - I began to have long giggly phone calls with Liz; we'd sent her [the] track Lifeforms that had been offered in its original form (and refused by J+P). At this time a lot of people were after her - she told me she'd turned down Massive Attack cos she didn't like the new album (later to be Protection)... finally it came together".
The track appeared in a vastly remixed form on the second disc of the album, as Life Form Ends, and a related track, Ill Flower, appears earlier in the album. Whilst Lifeforms appeared as a single, it was in a completely different version, whilst this mix appeared as Path 3 on the single. The track is also the same as the extract version on Lifeforms extracts.

Credits:
Written by Dougans/Cobain. Produced by The Future Sound Of London.
Vocals by Liz Fraser.