The Future Sound Of London - We Have Explosive (06:19)
Available on: Dead Cities

Lyrics:
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have we have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive

Notes:
The unfortunate centerpiece of Dead Cities, We Have Explosive was FSOL's attempt to keep their record company happy and record a piss-take of the music they had once championed. Gaz explains:
"Having written some of our deepest and most personal music, the unimpressed faces of the record company execs was evident - this weird shit wasn't what they'd signed us for - they wanted a leftfield dance band (it had been suggested we'd only been signed because Leftfield had signed elsewhere and were unavailable) Anyway, I felt these very fun esoteric sound games were ending - communication was breaking down and constipated corridors confronted us at Virgin. One day, feeling gloomy, stuck and misunderstood, we wrote the most straightforward thing we could - right in the face totally apparent - it was a kind of unconscious trap to see if they'd bite and if they did our respect would die. Of course they bit - within a day it was on the Wipeout game and they were going for it - strategising and plotting to use the dance mechanism which had lost its allure about five years earlier but was now hitting boomtime. Within a day of writing it we watched dismayed while the mechanism that was beginning to seize up on the music we truly loved effortlessly clicked into gear - for us the track quickly paled into something reprehensible - funny enough it was set to become our biggest hit (no 12). I was mortified and felt that after all the great exploring of unknown terrain we'd done this was several big steps back - oh no we were a fuckin techno band again forever consigned to the techno section of record shops"
The piece is a straight forward breakbeat track with acid synths and electronic vocals, and the most straightforward piece the band had recorded in years. It is also a semi remix of Herd Killing, with the same samples. Both tracks were mixed into one the piece We Have Explosive (Herd Killing). To counter this, the piece ends with a dream-like soundscape, including tinkling bells and what sounds like a dying pig. The track was released as the second single from Dead Cities, in a slightly altered form.

Credits:
Written by Dougans/Cobain. Produced by The Future Sound Of London.
Guitar stab, wah guitar and vocal yell sampled from Tougher Than Leather by Run DMC. Pig recorded and rendered at the electronic farm by Yage on an 'always' working vacation. Vocal by B's processing tools.