If I put on “Global” from Future Sound of London's predecessor Humanoid, it will always first or only exclusively be side B, track 4 - „Crystals“. I first heard this track on Monika Dietl's House show on SFB2 (of course). I could hardly believe what I heard there. Humanoid was the baby of Brian Dougans before he made music history with Gaz Cobain as Future Sound of London and produced unforgettable sounds and tracks & previously had success at number 17 in the charts with “Stakker”, a pretty acidic, technoid track, and of course an inevitable appearance on Top of the Pops (see following post).
“Crystals” is a moment on the album that also comes quite late. If you listen to the album from beginning to end (side B, penultimate track), which you certainly did back then, it completely blows you away and surprises you (if you read the track of course you didn't already know, see above). But in any case it remains surprising. In addition to “Stakker Humanoid”, “Slam”, “Cry Baby” & “Technoid”, the album contains another 303 technoid tracks, two hip house-like tracks with “the Deep” & “Don't Stop” and the very nice by “Tonight” sung by Sharon Benson, melodic acid house, absolutely 1990.
I can't figure out what the story behind "Crystals" is, the information about it is scarce or simply non-existent. Even on the cover, in contrast to the other tracks, there are no details or credits for vocals or what I know. “Crystals” is something from The Beloved, New Order in the “Technique” era, Pet Shop Boys “Being Boring” or Electronic’s “Patience of the Saint”. That's a lot of text and fuss about a single track, I'm happy to admit that, but for me it was an incredibly intense moment & it represents an important part of my musical taste. And this moment comes in the middle of an album that actually takes you somewhere completely different, only to amaze the music listener with this incredible, beautiful acid ambient pop song.
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