The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea (06:45)
Available on: Accelerator

Lyrics:
None

Notes:
What to say? FSOL's most famous and successful track, redefining the boundaries between club music and home listening music. Originally conceived as a Mental Cube track, but deemed too weird, the piece ended up as FSOL and begins the second side of their debut album. The album version begins with the Dumb Child Of Q mix, but soon bursts into the more famous 12" mix. Meat Beat Manifesto's Radio Babylon provided some of the break, Dead Can Dance's The Host Or Seraphim provided the vocals, but the track still sounds like its own piece - a unique and influential benchmark in the dance music scene. Re-released more than any other FSOL track, Papua New Guinea is - for better or worse - the one they will always be most famous for. Gaz has this to say on the track:
"This was a period of looking outward - we'd experienced relatively little - we tried not to be embarrassed by this - we'd never been to Papua New Guinea - in fact we'd both been hardly anywhere - some European jaunts - that was about it - at around this time we were getting a lot of sounds from the remarkably kind broadcast systems - in the mad competition for higher quality they were practically direct feeds - it suddenly occurred to us that we could go to Papua and collect dat recordings but in a way this was in itself now a tradition - a way of enhancing 'the story' - enhancing ourselves - making ourselves look worldly - providers of experience and anecdote - why not sit at home and save time - obviously this has a personal price-we missed out on the experience of life and people but at the same time we were just interested in the end result - and the end result had the flavour of Papua and no further relation Jumpin' * Pumpin' didn't understand Papua - thought it was shite and therefore didn't want it as a Mental Cube track - funny how things change - they've been mourning our departure ever since and are still regularly trying to re-release everything and anything by us"
Interestingly, this near-seven minute version is the track featured on the original promotional video for the song.

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