{"id":262,"date":"2024-08-10T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/?p=262"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:10:45","slug":"sl045-future-conditional-isotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/2024\/08\/10\/sl045-future-conditional-isotech\/","title":{"rendered":"SL045\u00a0– Future Conditional – Isotech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Future Conditional have crafted a truly special record here. It’s closer to flawless than anything I’ve heard in a long time.” – Electronic Sound magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘ISOTECH’ TRACKLISTING : <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Cold Love (feat. Josh Cowey)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Indexed To Impulse (feat. M\u00fccha)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Demolitions (feat. Bobby Wratten & Beth Arzy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Dumbstruck<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Isotech (feat. M\u00fccha)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Doubts Even Here (feat. Bobby Wratten & Beth Arzy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Two Sugars (feat. Lidija)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Stephen<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Softech<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Digital-only bonus tracks :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Indexed To Impulse (M\u00fccha Strobe Like Remix) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Stephen (Ghost In The Frame Remix)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Dumbstruck (Fur Voice Remix) <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Future Conditional is the sleek electro-pop project from Glen Johnson and C\u00e9dric Pin, both former members of the Anglo-French \u201cghostrock\u201d group, Piano Magic. Johnson, based in London and Pin, located in Al\u00e8s, Southern France, have been slowly, meticulously assembling \u2018Isotech,\u2019 the second Future Conditional album, since 2007. Originally intended as a fast follow-up to their first album, \u2018We Don\u2019t Just Disappear,\u2019 that year on LTM Recordings, things didn\u2019t quite go to schedule – Pin relocated to his native France and Johnson directed his full-time attention to Piano Magic. When the latter disbanded in 2016, Johnson and Pin reunited to work on a much darker project, \u2018The Burning Skull\u2019 (Second Language Music, 2018) but Future Conditional was never far from their hearts (and hard drives).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u2018Isotech,\u2019 a portmanteau of isolationist and techno, imagines a dystopian clubland where, as the title track opines, \u201cthe kick is numb, the snare is dead.\u201d As Johnson explains, \u201cI had this idea\u2026.well, more of a hope, that, in the future, there might be clubs where androids go to dance and humans are banned. No alcohol, none of the idiocy, violence and garishness we currently associate with clubbing, just pure music and non-stop dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Even so, \u2018Isotech\u2019s draws inspiration as much from \u201880s Kraftwerk, DAF and John Foxx, as it does from science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      As with their debut album, Johnson and Pin are joined once again by Bobby Wratten (formerly of The Field Mice\/Trembling Blue Stars\/Northern Picture Library and now Lightning In A Twilight Hour) on vocals. Alongside partner, Beth Arzy (formerly of Aberdeen and Trembling Blue Stars; now of Jetstream Pony and The Luxembourg Signal), Wratten lends his voice to a sublime cover of New Order\u2019s \u2018Doubts Even Here\u2019 (from \u2018Movement\u2019) and \u2018Demolitions,\u2019 a Future Conditional original which takes aim at the destruction of community by merciless town planners. \u201cThey take a chapter from my history and they replace it with a travesty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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