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Future Loop Foundation Present The Fading Room
Future Loop Foundation will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket infoFuture Loop Foundation: The Fading Room
Kicking off the live element of the BFI programme we are proud to present a special audiovisual performance of Future Loop Foundation's beautiful album The Fading Room. Constructed using recordings that laid dormant the attic of a family home for almost a quarter of a century, Mark Barrott has assembled a highly personal and organic album that interweaves samples of speech and sound from yesteryear with a wholly contemporary musical palette, conjuring snapshots of an imagined past. Live visuals, mixed by Myogenic, develop further the intriguing balance between past and present with a collage of resonant, beguiling home movie recordings.
Future Loop Foundation - Another English Summer
Future Loop Foundation - Biography
Future Loop Foundation have been making records for over 10 years, starting with 1996’s “Time and Bass”.
They were one of the first artists to take Drum n Bass live and played at many seminal venues like Speed in London and the Glastonbury Festival, in addition to being the first band to play live on BBC Radio 1’s “One in the Jungle”. They went on to produce two more Drum n Bass Albums, 1998’s critically acclaimed “Conditions for Living” and 1999’s jazzy upbeat “PhunkRoc”.
In 2000 they moved to Berlin and became immersed in the city’s downtempo explosion and relaxed Café Culture. This led to a change in direction and the 2004 album “This is How I Feel” was an eclectic mix of chilled out styles. Tracks from this album can be found on over 40 compilations worldwide, including the highly successful Café Del Mar series.
FLF head honcho Mark Barrott spent the next four years setting up and running one of the world¹s leading Music Consultancies and also found the time to compose soundtracks for clients as diverse as MTV, Flor de Cana and the 2002 Football World Cup. He also remixed a wide range of artists including Tom Jones, Ofra Haza, jazz singer Sarah Jane Morris and ........ Winter Wonderland by Vic Damone!
2004 saw the release of the limited edition and highly coveted Scratch and Sniff E.P., with (very literal) artwork by Jasper Goodall and a voiceover by Mr Kipling himself. The lead track “A Very English Summer” went on to receive national daytime radio play on both Radio 1 & Radio 2 in the UK.
This EP saw the start of what he calls ‘Aural History’ - using his music and composition to soundtrack spoken word samples and stories from around the world that showcase different aspects of life from a social and historical perspective.
Now in 2008, Future Loop Foundation are getting ready to unleash their most inspired and artistic project to date.
‘The Fading Room: Memories and Remixes’ is constructed using recordings from family interviews that have laid dormant in an attic somewhere in the north of England for almost a quarter of a century. Amassed back in his childhood days, the vocal snippets document a simpler existence, when family took pride of place in the carefree mind of a teenager. Barrott has assembled a highly personal and organic album around these speeches using electronic and acoustic instruments as one to present a synth-centred orchestral album that sparkles with originality and wit. Indeed ‘Memories’ achieves an intriguing balance between conjuring up a series of snapshots of a nostalgic past whilst being wholly contemporary in musical vision, whilst ‘Remixes’ features reinterpretations of the Fading Room tracks by cutting edge downtempo producers, including Rob Da Bank, Chris Coco, The Go! Team and Tunng.
‘The Fading Room: Memories and Remixes’ is out in late April 2008 on Just Music.
Most FLF material can be purchased on-line via Itunes worldwide and other leading digital stores. A new digital only album “One off’s and Remixes” will be released at the start of April, pulling together rare FLF tracks and remixes from the past 10 years, including the Quantic and Fila Brazilia remixes of “What’s Your Name ?” and previously unreleased tracks like “Jazz Mood No.1” and “Sur La Mer”.
Full information about FLF can be found at: www.futureloopfoundation.com
www.myspace.com/futureloopfoundation
Future Loop Foundation will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Written: 10th Jul, 08
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