ISDN (album)

ISDN
Second edition cover
Live album by
Released5 December 1994 (limited)
2 June 1995 (second)
RecordedEarthbeat Studios
GenreAmbient, techno, experimental
Length74:57 (limited)
75:27 (second)
LabelVirgin
The Future Sound of London chronology
Lifeforms
(1994)
ISDN
(1994)
Dead Cities
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Almost Cool(8.5/10) [2]
Muzik[3]
NME [4]
Fluffhouse [5]

ISDN is a music album by experimental electronica artists The Future Sound of London which was released in two different versions in 1994 and 1995. The music on the album is edited together from various live broadcasts that the band had transmitted to radio stations all over the world using ISDN networking. At the time ISDN was a relatively new technology that had the bandwidth to carry high-quality digital audio. The band repeated the format in 1997 with the limited edition ISDN Show, another live album of ISDN broadcasts.

  1. ^ ISDN at AllMusic
  2. ^ "Future Sound Of London – ISDN – almost cool music review". Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2008.
  3. ^ Bush, Calvin (July 1995). "Future Sound of London: ISDN" (PDF). Muzik. No. 2. p. 85. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2022.
  4. ^ NME (Magazine) (12/10/94, p.44) - 8 (out of 10) - "...has more bite and more energy [than Lifeforms], possibly as a result of being performed live...the ideal soundtrack for going surfing around the rings of Saturn or hang-gliding through the methane clouds of Jupiter..."
  5. ^ "Fluffhouse review - The Future Sound Of London - ISDN". Archived from the original on 13 July 2004.