The Future is Past Archive

Welcome to the sixth installment of The Future is Past show after a prolonged hibernation period. Wearily we squint our eyes towards the sky and soberly find it’s still overcast and dismal right as we left it. Add to the misery, rain still reigns and our face is being by chapped by the cold. No one is there to embrace us in our sorrows and we feel a most undesirable sentiment creeping up inside us. Tip Tap. Bit by bit. Weltschmerz is increasing. Asudden solo piano music and films by Ingmar Bergman make sense. Longingly we wrap up warm in our blankets and reminisce about those days in summer, roller skates on our feet and the sun titilating our skin. Oh Melancholia. Dainty sweet sadness taken on lightness. You make us realize why life is worth living for. Now lets wallow in it…

The Future Is Past is a forth-nightly radio show featuring sixty minutes of eclectic and unmixed music from all genres. The next show will take us to France avec Monsieur Phillippe for another popular editon of pop cities, c’est bien ça?

Side A:

1. Sophia – Reprise (Crescendo)
2. The Knife – Colouring of Pigeons
3. Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi
4. The XX – Island (Nosaj Thing Remix)
5. Pantha Du Prince – Saturn Strobe (Ingmar Bergman Edit)
6. Joe Goddard – Sour Grapes

Side B:

1. The Books and José González – Cello Song
2. Kings Of Convenience – I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From (Live)
3. Philip Glass – Metamorphosis One
4. Justin Timberlake feat. T.I – Dead And Gone (Instrumental Edit)
5. Matias Aguayo – Rollerskate
6. oOoOO – Sadsumting

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While the  Future is still past, the origin of some pop music is particularly associated with a number of metropolises. Like an eclectic mixtape, urban territory and its diverse population is the perfect base for exploring unexplored sounds and creating unheard music. Nobody will foster any doubt that New York and London aren’t two of the most prolific players on the global playground when it comes to comparing pop history achievements. To prove that we’ll soon play the trump cards on this page…

Meanwhile we leave you in the hands of what is the sound of now and yesterday in both cities. May the battle begin. Make a wise choice. What’s your favourite Pop City?

Side A: NYC

1. Klein & M.B.O. – The Big Apple
2. Bogdan Irkük a.k.a. Bulgari – When I Dream Of New York
3. Miroslav Vitous – New York City
4. Spyder D – Big Apple Rappin’ (National Rappin’ Anthem)
5. Implog – Hollund Tunnel Drive
6. NYC Peech Boys – Life Is Something Special

Side B: LDN

7. Cornershop – The London Radar
8. Chloe Poems – London Is Paranoid
9. LDN is a Victim – LDN is a victim
10. Pulp – Mile End
11. Wbeeza – London My Home
12. London Punkharmonic Orchestra – Sheena Is A Punkrocker
13. Lord Kitchener – London Is The Place For Me

Download: The Future Is Past Vol.5

We continue our studies on anything goes-territory and, yes, we have a change at the controls this time. It’s P-time. But fear not, as usual there is a lot of past and some future(ama) caught on tape. Wrapped by beautiful elegies by two of musics’ gloomiest and most bearded wizards, you get a mixtape full of nasty gals and big men, crazed sounds and rapturing melodies. FYA.

Side A

1. Moondog – Fuyijama 1
2. Florence & The Machine – You’ve Got The Love (The XX Remix)
3. Untold – Anaconda
4. Outkast – Spottieottiedopaliscious
5. Kamasutra – Sugar Step
6. Mondee Oliver – Make Me Want You
7. Joe R. Lewis – Change Reaction

Side B

1. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra – Big Man
2. Pierre Henry – Psyche Rock
3. Betty Davis – This Is It!
4. Pantha Rei – Finis
5. Robert Wyatt – Sea Song

Download: The Future Is Past Vol.4

Third round of our weekly podcast The Future is Past: A 60minute ride in a borrowed Alfa Romeo coupé driving down the winding roads of the Corso Matuzia. Top down. Wind playing mischievously with your hair. A tiny transistor radio emitting squelches of tinny blare. Soon you will be reaching San Remo and then…

Side A – Bordighera

1. Cerrone – The Loft
2. Albatros – L’ Albatros
3. Dj Okawari – Afterschool
4. Koudlam – Eagles of Africa (via alainfinkielkrautrock)
5. Joel Van Droogen Broeck – New Wave Rock (via lovefingers)
6. Jackson Jones – Put Your Pants On
7. Malatu Astatke – Yekermo Sew
8. Thomas & Richard Frost – December Rain (via lovefingers)

Side B – Ospedaletti

1. Jeremih – Birthday Sex ( Sorry!)
2. Dam Funk – Hood Pass Intact
3. Chromeo – I Can’t Tell You Why (Dub Version)
4. Mayer Hawthorne – Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix)
5. Soft Rocks – Leave Your Earth Behind (Roots Unit Remix) (via 20jazzfunkgreats)
6. Tocotronic – Pure Vernunft Darf Niemals Siegen (Lawrence Remix)
7. Léo Delibes’ – Lakmé – Les Lianes En Fleurs

Download: The Future is Past Vol.3
 

The second edition of The Future is Past show is dedicated solely to love songs. Old and new. Happy and sad. Because love, you know, has two sides. Just like a tape. Enjoy xx

Side A – Glory of Love

1. The Paradise – In Love with You
2. Antony And The Johnsons – Crazy in love
3. Electronic Concept Orchestra – The Look Of Love (Thanks Half Boy!)
4. Air – Love
5. Jean Michel Jarre – Geometry of Love part 1
6. Kid Cudi – Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part 1)
7. Eugene – Livin’ In Your Love
8. Paul McCartney – Silly Love Songs

+ Bonus Love Song

Side B – Tragedy of Love

1. Phoenix – Love Like a Sunset
2. TV on the Radio – Love Dog
3. Windy & Carl – My Love
4. The Big Pink – Love Song
5. Savage – A Love Again (Special Remix)
9. Man Friday – Love Honey, Love Heartache (Larry Levan Vocal Mix)
10. Slick Rick – Teenage Love

+ Bonus Love Song

Download: The Future is Past Vol.2
 

The first edition of our weekly podcast The Future is Past. It features 60 minutes of unmixed tracks that have just been released, recently published on blogs or simply rediscovered by us while digging through our dusty record collection. Why yet another podcast you might ask? Oh well, for sentimental reasons: Not long ago, when the only things that twittered were birds and a computer was just one of those sad, grey boxes in our dad’s office we used to make tapes for each other to inform us of new musical trends. An eclectic selection of songs, a TDK D-60 cassette, a handwritten track list and an appalling sound quality were the simple ingredients for this exhilarating spare time pleasure. Now that we have grown a bit older we look back longingly at those times and have therefore decided to do a Marty Mc Fly, go back in time and start all over again. That means, that there are no musical boundaries here and we also won’t take things too seriously. Thanks to 128kps compression we even kept the sound quality as appalling as possible. So there you go. The future is past. The past is the future. Enjoy.

Big thanks go out to Indra Moroder who kindly lend her voice to the jingle and Murray aka. Rekindle who mixed it all up like a reborn Conni Plank. Shout outs to Neck of tapedeck.org for sponsoring the tapes and Tom, who sent over a recording “The Future is Past” by Giorgio Moroder. We would have included it in the show, but unfortunately the song is quite bad. Very bad. Sorry Giorgio.

Side A – The Future

1. Leonard Cohen – The Future (live)
2. Foals – A Future Dub
3. Foals – A Future Dub Deux
4. Tijuana Mon Amour Broadcasting Inc. – Living In The Future
5. Fatback Band – Is This The Future
6. Prince – The Future
7. Fresh Color – Disco Future
8. Futurecop! – Ain’t That Fresh!
9. The Future – Treatment

Side B – The Past

1. Monty Python – A Minute Past
2. Le Bleu – Patel Et Noi r/ Pastel And Black
3. Peter Bjorn And John – Just The Past
4. Gregory Isaacs – Pass The Test
5. Can – Half Past One
6. Vitalic – The Past
7. Ilija Rudman – Blast from the Past Pt. 1
8. The Wake – Talk About the Past (Radio Session 2.1984)
9. Saito Koji – The Future Is The Past (43:03min Bonus track!)

Download: The Future is Past Vol.1