Release date:20-05-2001

2001 UK 8-track 2-LP vinyl set, featuring remixes from the classic 90s album, picture sleeve plus printed inner bags - sealed

Tracks:
01. 12" Original
02. Papsico
03. The Lovers
04. Wooden Ships
05. The Great Marmalade Mama In The Sky
06. Requiem
07. Things Change Like The Patterns and Shades That Fall From The Sun
08. The Big Blue

A founding stone of contemporary dance music, Future Sound of London's 'Papua New Guinea' will be familiar to everyone - whether it be in the middle of a muddy field at 4am in the morning or accompanying Changing Rooms on TV, it's pretty ubiquitous. Pleasing in a very base way, 'Papua New Guinea' and it's swirling clouds of synth, celestial choirs and wistful flute can't help but please on a variety of levels. Deciding that there's room for a whole albums worth of reinterpretations, this set of translations kicks off with the original 12" version and still manages to sound far more appealing than it has any right to - with all the bits that made it appealing way-back-when still intact. Treating their source material with evident reverence, the remaining seven pieces are all spliced and diced by FSOL themselves - ranging in style from slick jazz grooves on 'The Lovers', euphoric grandstanding on 'Papsico' and the prog-rock broil of 'Wooden Ships'. Lobbing a dancefloor belter into the mix (the breakbeat business of 'Great Marmalade Mama In The Sky'), the whole thing is a little self-indulgent but will please those with a real soft-spot for FSOL