This song was played at my Dad’s funeral. Such a nostalgic song, makes me feel like a little kid again when my dad was taking me and my brother on days out in the car playing tune after tune. RIP Dad, miss you big time!
@@mystychrysmthehumanprism3507 "member-berries" my friend.. But yeah if I could go back in time....... raves and free parties would be the destination.
I still remember the first time I heard this song in a club in the 90s, off my face on a dove and I was just mesmerised by it. Everytime I hear it I close my eyes and I'm back in the 90s with not a care in the world.
@@kylecollette3787 Hello Kyle. Sadly there aren't really many events that use the "rave" name these days. Now the best way to approximate that atmosphere is by going to an electronic music festival. Sadly a lot of these play the pop music version of techno, or what they call (EDM) You don't get the same quality of underground music and vibe at these EDM events. But if you're into that music then you should by all means check one out. To here the more underground type of electronic music, you'll have to find club nights in your city. You can find events by following local DJs on Facebook and look for events there as well. Of course meeting people who are in the know will be a great help as well. I don't know where you live, but there's probably some fun to be found if you look enough.
Screaming inside!! Searched for years for this!! My mum used to play her mixtape in the 90’s cleaning the house and this song used to steal my heart as a little girl! Still gives me all the feels! Otherworldly; ethereal; majestic ❤❤❤
@@Trudon I think the biggest shitshow in the world started after the US invaded the middle-east in 2001 and before then everything was so great so I'd say the 90s were the last good decade on this planet tbh.
Thanks for making the connections explicit. I shared a house with someone who listened to Dead Can Dance and Cocteau Twins 24x7, and when I first heard this, back in 1991, it felt like "coming home."
In 1991, Future Sound of London released ‘Papua New Guinea’. This was essentially a breakbeat techno track that differed from the norm in its featuring of uplifting atmospheric pad sounds in lieu of the customary rave stabs or piano riff samples.
Im 18 years old 1992 my dallas cowboys are in the superbowl and I'm raving I'm a rave kid in dallas and this song comes on at that perfect moment in the club, life was so good! XTC
An explosion of creativity and access to tools that were otherwise expensive or needed really in depth knowledge to use, and it's still going on, but it's just getting harder to find that stuff because SO MUCH other music is coming out and the old channels for discovery aren't as relevant anymore
I was there punctuated by three years at Sheffield University. Great tunes, great times, sadly all gone. Now it's all deadly viruses, lockdowns and long dark nights.
my dad said that when me and my twin sis were born, this song was playing in the background and now he plays it a lot around me and it’s a beautiful song!
They also sampled Dead Can Dance Dawn of the Iconoclast vocals. they didn't "nick" anything. They sampled mate :) Just like 99.99% of every trance tracks from teh 90's
This gives me a darkly nostalgic yet uplifting, wistful feeling. It reminds me of lying in bed with my friends at 9AM coming down from a crazy trip, or even just coming back to my bedroom after a great night and putting my headphones on, trying to not wake up my parents.
time when you're still given leniency and room for experimentation without much pressure, simply because you are young. this seems to be something people slowly lose as they get older, and societal expectations of them start to change and become more strict and less forgiving
Ok, have to say this. I heard this when it first came out. I live in the Pacific Northwest of America. I worked at Hewlett-Packard on the night shift maintaining a room full of printers. Sometimes busy but mostly boring. I was the only one in this lab. Things were different then, the only thing I had was a radio. I would browse around the dial, but always did the BBC top 10 in London and guess what played one night? This. It really blew me away. Cheers~
This track invented an entirely new genre - we used to call it Ambient Dub back in the day. Still going strong today - I'm off to see The Orb tomorrow night at Trinity in Bristol (plus Eat Static, but that's another story entirely).
This is the only time I've watched a music video and genuinely started to tear up at the end and I really don't know why. All I can say really is that this song was truly a masterpiece.
I first heard this played late at night on Radio1. I was studying engineering at the time. For some reason I think it's best to be looking out the window at the rain hammering down. It's a special tune in a way that I can't really explain! :-)
I im now 59 I dance to this track at many underground parties and I just want to take a moment to thank my lord for allowing me to attend to many underground parties it save my life looking forward every weekend to go to one
A timeless masterpiece that left an infinite legacy on electronic music. I remember when I first stumbled upon a record of this amazing group. Till this day I listen to them very often
Wtaf. 30 years old now. Has anyone produced anything better in that time - despite the HUGE advance In technology available? I think not!! FSOL - take a bow! This genius will never grow old!
I've just heard this again today and it's been 25 years since I last heard it.....and I was driving in the dark on the motorway late at night and it was good to hear again whilst driving .....
Hardcore punk, speed, lsd weed n ecstacy...and all this techno shit...late 80s-early 90s...you had to be there...what a fucking time to be alive....and H n benzos fer the comedown...
Even after all these years this track still sounds Fantastic.. still remember the very first time hearing this ..rave in local woods lights bouncing off the trees loads of people hit by the base line …..magic 👍👍👍👍👍
Ahhhh yes. It was these guys, The Orb and Orbital that got me into making electronic music. So many layers, so much depth, such imagination. Yes, a masterpiece of the genre.
The 90's haunt me all the time now! another forgotten nugget of brilliance. The music and were I was at back then feels millions of miles away now. I miss this so much!
Early 90's music was SO advanced that we had such high hopes in what the future would bring and what a bloody letdown it was. Made fact that we failed to realise that it would be the 90's music that actually showed us how far music was really at at that time and we failed to recognise that because we thought that the 21st would've been such top sh!t but it was a major letdown! It was the 90's that was as far as music would've pushed and would've let us believe.....
@@mickclarke5741 naw... just the inevitability of mainstream marketing jumping on counter culture in an attempt to be considered cool by the posers... because the posers are generally the ones with the disposable incomes.
Since the early seventies, I’ve followed what one could call ‘advanced music’ bands who used the then latest technology; bands such as Can, Cluster, Egg, Kraftwerk, Neu, The Residents, Orbital, to name but a few, but this track is surely around the summit of technology inspired music. An absolute Classic.
It's early summer 2018 and a Saturday night at 9pm. I've got wife, kids, mortgage, life insurance, credit card bills, the hallway and landing need redecorating and the lawn needs mowing. I can't remember too much of the early 90's, but I do know that if I could wind the clock back to a summer time Saturday night 25-27 years ago, almost to the minute, then I can guarantee I'd have been nicely pilled and phet'd up and would have been having another bloody banging night. Life was so much simpler then. So much more carefree then. So much more fun then.
Wow I remember owning the vhs tape of this called "future shock" It came with a pair of 3d glasses and had the most amazing visuals. Perfect for chilling out after returning from the clubs :)
This was truly the sound of London back then. Wild parties, crazines, easy drugs... lots of cultural diversity: Brixton = Africa, Dalston = India, Peckham - junkies, Hammersmith - Poland.... Hampsted - Bevery Hills...Old street - White supremacist's... Oxford & Regents street - poshes places in the world... Piccadilly - tourists united... mix of everything...
![The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea [NuTone remix]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5g8a9luSZVI/mqdefault.jpg)
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I am a 67 year old woman who first heard this at a student party in the early 90's. I loved it and still love it.
Love that, all the best to you :)
we would say music that makes you dream in a Fantastic universe!!
never too old ! it’s just a number ! music goes trough times and generations
i discovered that beautiful tune when i have 25 yo
never too late ^^
With you bro and me....❤
Piano line keys always gets you....
This song was played at my Dad’s funeral. Such a nostalgic song, makes me feel like a little kid again when my dad was taking me and my brother on days out in the car playing tune after tune. RIP Dad, miss you big time!
:'(
...sending you LOVE Chloe!
Sorry to hear about your loss madam condolences to you and your family
I didn't know him, but I can say he had good taste in music.
Played this at my mates funeral. I wrote him a good bye note on a 12 inch copy of this track to go in his coffin
The 90's were like the 60's , a birth of music that will leave it's mark for posterity. I,m glad i was there . . . . in one form or another.
Celt 5971 I felt that way back then and still believe. We must find a (new?) way to those times again.
Me too . Great comment.
@@mystychrysmthehumanprism3507 "member-berries" my friend.. But yeah if I could go back in time....... raves and free parties would be the destination.
If I could go back to the 90s I would go to Raves
IM GLAD YOU WERE THERE TOO. KTHXBYE
I still remember the first time I heard this song in a club in the 90s, off my face on a dove and I was just mesmerised by it. Everytime I hear it I close my eyes and I'm back in the 90s with not a care in the world.
those were some good doves back then
Over 30 years old and still sounds like the future. F***ing amazing.
Yesss!
Many times i think 90s had full futuristic vibes
I couldn’t agree more! 🔥🔥🔥
One of the best ever.
Shout out to all my lifelong ravers! I'm 46 and still doing it since 1991.
synapticflow - im 19, always wanted to go to a rave party but got no idea on where I can find one and all that jazz, any tips?
@@kylecollette3787 Hello Kyle. Sadly there aren't really many events that use the "rave" name these days. Now the best way to approximate that atmosphere is by going to an electronic music festival.
Sadly a lot of these play the pop music version of techno, or what they call (EDM)
You don't get the same quality of underground music and vibe at these EDM events. But if you're into that music then you should by all means check one out.
To here the more underground type of electronic music, you'll have to find club nights in your city. You can find events by following local DJs on Facebook and look for events there as well. Of course meeting people who are in the know will be a great help as well.
I don't know where you live, but there's probably some fun to be found if you look enough.
@@synapticflow thanks man, Ill try that!
😁
WITH U!!!
STILL sounds amazing in 2024!
Heard this on pirate radio in 91 I was about 12, never forgot it.
Screaming inside!! Searched for years for this!! My mum used to play her mixtape in the 90’s cleaning the house and this song used to steal my heart as a little girl! Still gives me all the feels! Otherworldly; ethereal; majestic ❤❤❤
90s was the last good decade on this planet.
2000 - 2010 too
@@Trudon I think the biggest shitshow in the world started after the US invaded the middle-east in 2001 and before then everything was so great so I'd say the 90s were the last good decade on this planet tbh.
@@TrudonJan 1st 2000 to Dec 31st 2009 is a decade
R.I.P . Andrew weatherall. Producer of this tune .Well ahead of his time .this tune is 29 years old and still sounds futuristic.
Sorry. Weatherall wasnt a Producer of this tune. He remixed it.
Doesnt Matter. ;-)
@@Suckz2002 .just looked on wikipedia. He,s down as one of three producers .might be wrong information like.????
@@eddiekeato He only produced his own remix.
@@waterorjazz oh right .makes sense. I suppose.
The original is about 35 years old.
The vocals are a sample of 'Dawn of the iconoclast' by Dead Can Dance.
Thanks for making the connections explicit. I shared a house with someone who listened to Dead Can Dance and Cocteau Twins 24x7, and when I first heard this, back in 1991, it felt like "coming home."
Also samples from Shelter
by Circuit feat. Koffi
Just listened to that. Thanks for the heads up.
The bass is from Meat Beat Manifesto´s Babylon
I cant belive how i didnt recognize DCD, one of my 10 fave bands! Couse is this song sooooo beautiful and full of awareness!!! WOOOOW!!! :)
In 1991, Future Sound of London released ‘Papua New Guinea’. This was essentially a breakbeat techno track that differed from the norm in its featuring of uplifting atmospheric pad sounds in lieu of the customary rave stabs or piano riff samples.
Became a medium-sized chart hit in May/June 1992.
@@rjjcms1 only medium? Not good enough haha
*Thirty-two years later, this is still the future sound of London.*
Im 18 years old 1992 my dallas cowboys are in the superbowl and I'm raving I'm a rave kid in dallas and this song comes on at that perfect moment in the club, life was so good! XTC
🧡💛🧡💛
I’m paraplegic and listening to this song gives me tingles in my toes ❤️
That's beautiful ❤️
Because this track Is ethereal,Is not From this World
Yesssssss!
We were so lucky to have had this and a million other brilliant tunes from the late 80s early 90s, what happened?
An explosion of creativity and access to tools that were otherwise expensive or needed really in depth knowledge to use, and it's still going on, but it's just getting harder to find that stuff because SO MUCH other music is coming out and the old channels for discovery aren't as relevant anymore
I left school in 1989 between then and 1998 was the craziest time with the best music in my whole life 😀😀😀
I was there punctuated by three years at Sheffield University. Great tunes, great times, sadly all gone. Now it's all deadly viruses, lockdowns and long dark nights.
This song still takes me, a 50 year old man, to that special place after all these years. What tallent!
my dad said that when me and my twin sis were born, this song was playing in the background and now he plays it a lot around me and it’s a beautiful song!
I love that, your Dad is a good man
magik in the air 🔥
Your dad was a raver! A Cheesey Quaver!!!
@@dc79music98 I know I fucking love him
Should this masterpiece go down in history as the sound of the early 90s? I think it should!
But also it still sounds like 2039.
It already has.
Yes, this one or maybe Underworld's 'Dark and Long'.
@@kt4no Dark is Better than Dark and Long 👌
@@rikatan 👍
That bassline and that piano lead. Man, still gives me chills. And then that beat kicks in. Such a dope track.
+Matt Greer dope track to walk into at the olmypics
Check meat beat manifestos radio Babylon, fsol knicked it along with a lot of the rest of the track
They also sampled Dead Can Dance Dawn of the Iconoclast vocals.
they didn't "nick" anything.
They sampled mate :) Just like 99.99% of every trance tracks from teh 90's
I like the piano and bassline lead, goodness gracious it is inspiring. Then what happens? The beat, as they say, 'kicks in'. What a jolly track.
Takes my breath away. What a special time for music.
It's rare when you listen to something so dated and it feels like it isn't at all dated. What an absolute masterpiece of an arrangement of sounds.
Lots of Classical music is the same, this track is timeless
This masterpiece was released 30 years ago already… my generation actually turning to be grandpa and grandmas . Can you believe it?
That's not rare at all, i love listening to 90s music
This gives me a darkly nostalgic yet uplifting, wistful feeling. It reminds me of lying in bed with my friends at 9AM coming down from a crazy trip, or even just coming back to my bedroom after a great night and putting my headphones on, trying to not wake up my parents.
ditto
Why does it seem like those days can never happen again?
time when you're still given leniency and room for experimentation without much pressure, simply because you are young. this seems to be something people slowly lose as they get older, and societal expectations of them start to change and become more strict and less forgiving
Ok, have to say this. I heard this when it first came out. I live in the Pacific Northwest of America. I worked at Hewlett-Packard on the night shift maintaining a room full of printers. Sometimes busy but mostly boring. I was the only one in this lab. Things were different then, the only thing I had was a radio. I would browse around the dial, but always did the BBC top 10 in London and guess what played one night? This. It really blew me away. Cheers~
Wow the 90's was a excellent decade. Nothing this good has been reproduced since. We must of really tripped out in the 90's.
Can confirm everyone was high af then
can confirm, I've very few memories of 2 decades but this is one of them
Confirm as well
Dam right we tripped hard in the 90's !
This song is so ahead of its time it would still be considered ahead of its time if it came out today.
2019 and this still sounds fantastic....
Fuckin beast THIS !!!
Immortal song.
Good creation never die
Because it is fantastic
Quality never dies. Takes me back to all nighters 1992.
Im from 83, listening to this track from 2003. So great a peace of art. ❤
honestly one of the best songs i’ve ever heard
Game changer for our scene this master piece
This track invented an entirely new genre - we used to call it Ambient Dub back in the day. Still going strong today - I'm off to see The Orb tomorrow night at Trinity in Bristol (plus Eat Static, but that's another story entirely).
I need to visit the U.K.
Avid '90s Hardcore / DnB enjoyer, you guys are elite when talking EDM 🤘
Cool..saw the orb on Halloween 92 in mcr...on e...one of the best nights of my life....
I remember hearing stuff like this back in the day and thinking THIS! THIS is how music is going to sound in the future!..... What happened?????
You know! I thought exactly the same, I could never of imagined that it was going to go downhill...
That was the future...we are now, unfortunately, regressing.
essenchial try environments 5 - fsol
Definitely. FSOL still sounds like its from the future!
Well that's the charts summed up but loads of old and modern gems I found recently here.
This is the only time I've watched a music video and genuinely started to tear up at the end and I really don't know why. All I can say really is that this song was truly a masterpiece.
Euphoric, otherworldly, transcendental.
this should be the national anthem of papua new guinea
+cs goh LMAO hilarious, you mean it isn't already!?
+NaiGee laks
You should have your anthems words in this music. Would be much better. But I like the lyrics of your anthem, simple and clever.
Lol..... yes. this has so much to do with that country..... lol
it's probably more like an old/ancient reference to britain's past
Lucy Beale is Dead??? For fuck sake!!
one of the best tracks ever made
I first heard this played late at night on Radio1. I was studying engineering at the time.
For some reason I think it's best to be looking out the window at the rain hammering down.
It's a special tune in a way that I can't really explain! :-)
What a scene that would be. Must try it the next time we have heavy rain, thanks pal
I im now 59 I dance to this track at many underground parties and I just want to take a moment to thank my lord for allowing me to attend to many underground parties it save my life looking forward every weekend to go to one
This is the one track you never want to end
So glad I was born in the 80s raised in the 90s👌
I’m from London but these amazing people were from Manchester so much respect people
*1991*
This track is timeless 💘🎶✨
Munich in 1991 I´ve heard this tune in the Park Café.... great times gone by... still love it great memories
A timeless masterpiece that left an infinite legacy on electronic music. I remember when I first stumbled upon a record of this amazing group. Till this day I listen to them very often
Never realised how amazing this track really is. Was wasted on me when I was younger. The older I get the older the music I appreciate gets.
neverending trip :) Fantastic.. even after almost 25 years (!!!)
+kajsonek1985 keep tripping sweetcheeks
Sexy bird with good taste in music. Love it!
1991 it was this track vibrating around in my head with a purple Ommmmmmmmmmmm
Wtaf. 30 years old now. Has anyone produced anything better in that time - despite the HUGE advance In technology available? I think not!! FSOL - take a bow! This genius will never grow old!
I'm 48 now and this was my house music when I was young...
immortal sounds !! 2023
I've just heard this again today and it's been 25 years since I last heard it.....and I was driving in the dark on the motorway late at night and it was good to hear again whilst driving .....
This sound recovers me from narcissitic abuse...millions of neurons are dancing now in my mind!!!
The Stairway to heaven of Trip hop/ trance , a one off never to be equalled, epic.
You wouldn't say this song hasnt aged, it sounds absolutely of its time. But thats what makes it so cool, its like a time machine. Such an epic track.
July 1992 Ealing Broadway,
Best years of MTV...
Badawca
MTV Party Zone with Simone Angel
MTV amp
and all you now hear on mtv is junk
Coming home to MTV chill out zone was the best
McM Tv😎
imagine as if you watching the night sky full of stars and listening to this magic sound.
Did that on lsd
My mom showed me this song that she used to listen to at clubs lmao! Music back then was badass
I could listen to this over, and over again. 25 years, and it STILL sounds as good as it did then....timeless.
Hardcore punk, speed, lsd weed n ecstacy...and all this techno shit...late 80s-early 90s...you had to be there...what a fucking time to be alive....and H n benzos fer the comedown...
Going to raves & clubs back in the 90's.. the best part of my youth.
I'm a granny in London,I love this
90s EDM is life
The best part of this track is from 0:00 to 6:49
i thought it was at 2:05
Erm.... the best part of the track is all of it!
@@ugandahater I share that meaning
@@ugandahater absolutely correct
Ikr
Even after all these years this track still sounds Fantastic.. still remember the very first time hearing this ..rave in local woods lights bouncing off the trees loads of people hit by the base line …..magic 👍👍👍👍👍
The video is so trippy as well I’m only 18 and I’m in love with the 90s dance/trance music scene
I heard that they named country after this.
Excellent!:)
You, sir, are a fucking legend
Brilliant!!! lol
It’s is their national anthem
not sure if dumb or refering to the England is my city shit
EDIT: oh you meant the title of the song not the artist! my bad :D
One of the most amazing pieces of music! I’m HONOURED to have witnessed it at the right time!
2021... still blown away like i was in 1991 ... Dream on and ... DANCE! (30 frkn years! OMG! Time! where did you go?)
the 90s techno and house music was simply the best music. Exhibit 1!
(Exibit from Pimp my Ride........) 🧡💛
People can trip on this video and this music for hours on repeat.
Late 80s into the early 90s was a fantastic time to be growing up as young teen!
OMG we used to roll BALLLLLLLS to this in the late nineties and I just found it now..... WOW
Glad you found it haha
This iconic track is legendary with us 90s ravers
2018 and this track still gives me goosebumps. Best driving song
I cant believe im this old. Seems like yesterday. All time favorites
Ahhhh yes. It was these guys, The Orb and Orbital that got me into making electronic music. So many layers, so much depth, such imagination. Yes, a masterpiece of the genre.
I’m listening to this in 2021 and it really doesn’t sound hopelessly dated or anything. It has managed to hold up really well over the years.
It’s timeless, a masterpiece. 😍 I don’t think it will ever age, unlike us mere mortals. 🙏🏼😊
Thats the beauty of music. As age is our curse, the music left behind doesnt fall to the same fate
Definitely a timeless masterpiece.
This lovely, sweet, seemless, inexplicable and excruciating nostalgia ...
FSOL, 808 State and the Orb turned me onto the electronica sound back then. Although I always favored the sound from the 80's synthpop era.
FSOL, AFX, Autechre, System 7, Sabres of Paradise for me.
years later and I still remember the name of this song off the top of my head. quite a unique song
The 90's haunt me all the time now! another forgotten nugget of brilliance. The music and were I was at back then feels millions of miles away now. I miss this so much!
I used to play this so much on my campus radio station slot in the 90s 🤗
Of the early 90s this and Atlantic Ocean Waterfall take me straight back. Oh how spoilt were we all throughout the 90s.
Early 90's music was SO advanced that we had such high hopes in what the future would bring and what a bloody letdown it was. Made fact that we failed to realise that it would be the 90's music that actually showed us how far music was really at at that time and we failed to recognise that because we thought that the 21st would've been such top sh!t but it was a major letdown! It was the 90's that was as far as music would've pushed and would've let us believe.....
Bad culture crept in destroyed everything
@@mickclarke5741 naw... just the inevitability of mainstream marketing jumping on counter culture in an attempt to be considered cool by the posers... because the posers are generally the ones with the disposable incomes.
That's the point tho isn't it, the believers amongst us, even tho shits fkd 😉
The respect this record deserves knows no bounds.....perfection
Since the early seventies, I’ve followed what one could call ‘advanced music’ bands who used the then latest technology; bands such as Can, Cluster, Egg, Kraftwerk, Neu, The Residents, Orbital, to name but a few, but this track is surely around the summit of technology inspired music. An absolute Classic.
This song is brilliant for gym and running, makes you feel invincible !
Every time i drive past Glastonbury tor i think of this track.....love it.
Omg memories. Serotonin I miss you........🤩🤩🤩
memories ...many messy memories
Remember them all, this is what keeps you balanced. Emancipation through rich experience ;)
It's early summer 2018 and a Saturday night at 9pm. I've got wife, kids, mortgage, life insurance, credit card bills, the hallway and landing need redecorating and the lawn needs mowing. I can't remember too much of the early 90's, but I do know that if I could wind the clock back to a summer time Saturday night 25-27 years ago, almost to the minute, then I can guarantee I'd have been nicely pilled and phet'd up and would have been having another bloody banging night. Life was so much simpler then. So much more carefree then. So much more fun then.
One of the best rave dance tune!
.......always sounds fresh.........will never, ever get old.....
Wow I remember owning the vhs tape of this called "future shock" It came with a pair of 3d glasses and had the most amazing visuals. Perfect for chilling out after returning from the clubs :)
I literally feel how my chest opens and pours out in an endless fountain of Love
So pure ❤
💜
Always loved this song. One of the very best pieces of music ever.
This was truly the sound of London back then. Wild parties, crazines, easy drugs... lots of cultural diversity: Brixton = Africa, Dalston = India, Peckham - junkies, Hammersmith - Poland.... Hampsted - Bevery Hills...Old street - White supremacist's... Oxford & Regents street - poshes places in the world... Piccadilly - tourists united... mix of everything...
My first joint 20 years ago. Peace and love 💗
Such an awesome, old favorite of mine.